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Slept all night last night, too. My nose is much less stuffy. I actually trace this sudden improvement in my condition to yesterday when my landlord came by to do the whole annual 'let's change out the furnace filters' thing and suddenly I could breathe 80% of the time instead of 20%. THANK YOU MR. LANDLORD.
But my brain is trying to make up for all the lost sleep. Last night I dreamed an injured kangaroo showed up at the door of my old house in Carrollton with a wallaby in tow, and my mom suddenly went all vet tech on me and checked its pouch to see if it was infected. Guess what was in there? Cirque du Soleil. The little performers somersaulted/backflipped out of the pouch to boisterous music reminiscent of Mystere.
Oh god, spare me from random kangaroos with circuses tucked in their belly pouches. I'm crazy enough as it is. At least Sable wasn't in it threatening to turn me into a zombie. WHAT AM I SAYING. JUST FOR THAT HE MAY SHOW UP AGAIN AND TRY TO DO SOMETHING WORSE.
ART DUMP. (Still doing art and not botany. Surprise!)
Gild redesign ^
Mari ^
SPINE TUTORIAL ADVANCED STUDIES: Gestures from the mind
I only erased to correct positions. Guess what I had to erase the most? THE HEAD. Yet again another reason to always leave the head until last. Look closely and you'll see my basic ball-line skeleton that I started with. On most of these I started from the spine going down to the hips, or I started from the shoulder if that's where the most expression was going (aka the most tension or visually dynamic part of the pose).
Why no, I don't follow my own advice. I probably should, though. Pfah. Anyway. I want you to take note of what shape the backs of the models are forming as they do their stuff. SPINES IN ACTION!
THIS, my lovelies, is a set of keyframes (lawl animation terms what) for a basic maneuver Michel is performing with the help of some sort of box/desk. His weight is shifting from his legs to his arms in frames 1 and 2.
As you can see, as Michel's shoulders take the weight of his upper torso and he moves his legs, he flexes his back to get his legs up in the air, which bows his back and makes him lean forward a bit as gravity starts to take effect and bring him swinging back down. In the theoretical fourth frame, I would have his shoulders and rib cage stay in that same position while the rest of his lower body falls down and joins them. Recall the way I split up the torso/spine in the second part of the spines tutorial, and see if you can locate the various parts in those frames. :D
...so that was just a little bit of what I've been doing in my sketchbook.
But my brain is trying to make up for all the lost sleep. Last night I dreamed an injured kangaroo showed up at the door of my old house in Carrollton with a wallaby in tow, and my mom suddenly went all vet tech on me and checked its pouch to see if it was infected. Guess what was in there? Cirque du Soleil. The little performers somersaulted/backflipped out of the pouch to boisterous music reminiscent of Mystere.
Oh god, spare me from random kangaroos with circuses tucked in their belly pouches. I'm crazy enough as it is. At least Sable wasn't in it threatening to turn me into a zombie. WHAT AM I SAYING. JUST FOR THAT HE MAY SHOW UP AGAIN AND TRY TO DO SOMETHING WORSE.
ART DUMP. (Still doing art and not botany. Surprise!)
Gild redesign ^
Mari ^
SPINE TUTORIAL ADVANCED STUDIES: Gestures from the mind
I only erased to correct positions. Guess what I had to erase the most? THE HEAD. Yet again another reason to always leave the head until last. Look closely and you'll see my basic ball-line skeleton that I started with. On most of these I started from the spine going down to the hips, or I started from the shoulder if that's where the most expression was going (aka the most tension or visually dynamic part of the pose).
Why no, I don't follow my own advice. I probably should, though. Pfah. Anyway. I want you to take note of what shape the backs of the models are forming as they do their stuff. SPINES IN ACTION!
THIS, my lovelies, is a set of keyframes (lawl animation terms what) for a basic maneuver Michel is performing with the help of some sort of box/desk. His weight is shifting from his legs to his arms in frames 1 and 2.
As you can see, as Michel's shoulders take the weight of his upper torso and he moves his legs, he flexes his back to get his legs up in the air, which bows his back and makes him lean forward a bit as gravity starts to take effect and bring him swinging back down. In the theoretical fourth frame, I would have his shoulders and rib cage stay in that same position while the rest of his lower body falls down and joins them. Recall the way I split up the torso/spine in the second part of the spines tutorial, and see if you can locate the various parts in those frames. :D
...so that was just a little bit of what I've been doing in my sketchbook.