Tinman in Review - March 2012

Here's some of what I've been working on for the past month over at Tinman. My main goal early in the month was to start incorporating a lot more traditional stretch & squash animation into our work, along with more extreme poses. I watched a lot of Ren & Stimpy as reference, which you'll see reflected in the viking stuff in particular.

Next month will be great! We've got a really exciting job in that will take me back into much more of an illustrated space.

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Sketch Dump

Wrapped up a sketchbook. Thought I'd show some of the highlights. My sketches are generally a little messy, but I thought these ones stood out.

More Viking stuff...

This is a work-in-progress on a looping animation I'm doing. I'll come back to it in a couple weeks...

More Vikings! WIP

Here's the viking piece a little further along. I've got the frames drawn out for him to drink his mead, and for his chesty wench to pour his mead. The others will just be blinkers, so they won't take too long. The BG is still just a sketch at this point. Not sure if I want them to be on a ship, or in a longhouse.

Viking Chewing!

Robot Apocalypse

Here's an illustration I did today. Fire is one of those things I've always avoided drawing because I was never very good at it. Same with backgrounds. I've been making an effort over the last couple of months to work on things I'm not entirely comfortable with.