painting class (again)

painting class
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from this weeks digital paintin class. This ended up being a bit dark and more monochromatic than I would like. I'll have to go back in and adjust the layers to add some more interest.

painting class

painting class
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This is a digital painting done in Sketchbook pro using a 4 colors.

ArtRage2

ArtRage2
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This is my first attempt at oil painting with ArtRage2 with my new tablet PC.

I haven't really painted since college, and boy am I rusty! (not that
I ever learned how to do it that well to begin with.) I wish ArtRage
had a "dry painting" right now it's really easy to muddy up the colors
without creating new layers. This was all painted on one layer, hence
the muddy colors.

ArtRage2

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3 min drawing

ArtRage

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Here's some images from drawing class done on my tabletPC.

I'm a slacker!

Man, I really need to get into the habit of posting to this blog... I've been so busy with everything lately... ooof.

I Bought a tablet PC a few weeks ago, and I love it! I'm using it mostly to do sketching in drawing class, and doodling at home. It's such a great way to be able to look through old drawings and weed out the bad ones without going through a huge stack of paper! I need to start posting some of them here, which I'm working on.

I'm learning a few different programs on it such as PAP animation, Digicel Flipbook, ArtRage2, and SketchbookPro2, as well as re-learning Painter a little bit. I'm really liking Sketchbook Pro and ArtRage for drawing with. They are geared more for tabletPC with easy to navigate interfaces to quickly change from tool to tool without interrupting workflow too much.
The animation programs both have thier strengths and faults. The drawing quality on PAP is really nice and it seems like the interfae, while pretty non-stantard, is easy to use. There are still some issues with Tablet PCs, as the cursor tracking doesn't quite match up to where you think you are drawing on different parts of the screen. Hopefully they will fix this before the final release of V4. Flipbook has a more standard interface,and is easy to use and fast, but the drawing tools really need some work. It was designed more for scanning in traditional animation, or capturing stop-mo from a camera, and consequently the drawing tools were never developed properly. It does let you do full on ink and paint of 2D animation though.

Oh, and Painter and ArtRage... I suck suck suck at painting.

I just started my second term as a campus mentor at Animation Mentor. I'm looking forward to seeing another group of students come in and start down this difficult path of becoming an animator. It's very inspiring to see so many people excited and dedicated to learning the craft, so good luck to you all!

Under Construction

Sorry this place is a bit rough around the edges at the moment. I'll be adding some content shortly. Stay tuned.

Old Reel

Here's a link to my old, old, old demo reel from 1998 that was the reel mentioned by Eamonn Butler on show 011 of the Animation Podcast

first post

testing testing.