MARCH 2019

"MAKE IT HAPPEN"
~ animation challenge.

Last month I asked you to explore the value of observational gesture drawing to bring your animation to life . . .

You were required to create gesture drawings, based on real life observation - for an animation project you would personally love to animate, but have never been able to. This month you have that chance!

The April 2019 challenge is to use the observational gesture drawings you produced last month and bring them to animated life! No you don't have to do a great and extended animation sequence ~ just give us a quick glimpse of part of what you learned from your previous drawing research. Maybe just inbetweening some of your gesture drawings and working out the timing will do it for you?

If you didn't do the observational drawing assignment last month, it's OK. All you need to do is create a couple of observational sketches for your submission, then do the animated action you've been researching. When you submit your animation video, also submit the gesture drawings (on one file please) that you made when researching the action you're choosing to animate.

Remember that your gesture reference does not have to be extensively drawn or rendered. Many of the best gesture drawings can be done in a minute or two, just like the ones illustrating this challenge announcement above.

Anyway, "good luck" with your animated action this month folks! (And don't forget to add a single image file of your new gesture drawings if you didn't do them last month!) The winning entry will be the one that best interprets through movement the gesture drawings they did first! :)

Click HERE for full details of submitting to the ANIMATOR'S SKETCHCLUB.

Deadline:

Submissions must be in by midnight on MONDAY APRIL 29th (Pacific Time).