Playing with Flash Bones

Don't know what happened with the tail...It turned completely black when I linked it...anyway, it's getting a little easier to animate with flash now, but there's still a few things that elude me like how to remove frames from the last part of an armature timeline...

Finished Sean's turning sequence.

Now to Ink&Paint and put it in...Next is pulling the string.

Tweaking scene 1 - sean turn

I'm retracing around 60 frames of sean turning around to mulder. I've added a few subtle movements which I hope will give a better illusion of life but I'm noticing that there's some dire need for follow through in the stops...Well..scratch it up to experience.

CoyoteVille - Flash #1 - Current progress

I've completed the second pass in scenes one and two and am now getting further into the meat of scene 3 with creating the different lip-sync mouth expressions. This is taking *way* longer than I originally planned but still hope to get this finished by next week.

Princess Melusine Updated Character Lineup

Animation Layout & Design: Characters & Background

I recently got Sherm Cohen's book on character design and decided to try a new look for this next assignment...

Princess Melusine




Pookie the morbidly obese dragon




Sneady the covetous evil knight




Snively - Sneady's goblin henchman.




Premise: In a magical fairytale world where almost all story possibilities have been exhausted, a princess must rescue a dragon from an evil knight.
BackStory: Princess Melusine is celebrating her 33rd birthday and is holding a party with all her human/animal [experiment] friend rejects she befriended/kept/stolen from the local wizard guild’s animal control shelter – her being still single, she began getting the nickname, “Crazy Creature Lady” by the local peasantry) including her beloved pet dragon, Pookie when all of a sudden, the evil knight, Sir Sneady the Covetous and his evil darkling henchmen picked up from the local Hold Depot crashes in and kidnaps Pookie and takes him to his timeshared dark castle in the forbidden forest/protected monster sanctuary. The game will involve her adventures throughout various landscapes and fighting various types of darkling creatures while rescuing her animal friends from the party on her way to rescue Pookie. She will also encounter NPC friends in the form of witches, goblins, and other fantastic creatures that will give her clues and special powers to defeat the enemy.

Character Model Sheet - Dirk the Daring

Dragon's Lair Drawing
Originally uploaded by Scott Weston

An excellent example of how to create a characters model sheet. If you want to know how to draw Dirk the Daring, then you can print this out and use this for reference. Now to find one for Singe the Dragon...