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Problem Five: Bringing the Fox Down (Part 3)
Adding the Fox HimselfLast time we saw the fox, he was nothing more than a rough stand-in looking like a bad drawing of a stuffed toy. Let's see that again:Scene 13_3Thinking about what the fox might...
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Problem Five: Bringing the Fox Down (Part 4)
The AnswerIf you haven't figured it out, the problem to which the Director was referring was the spacing of the drawings. Specifically, the fox images in drawings 87 and 89 did not overlap each other...
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Well, it has happened again. My Director (me) has just come by and dropped onto my desk all the drawings from the end of this scene with the fox. All he said was, "You can do better than this."At...
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Problem Six: Fox Bites Nose (Part 2)
The Most Creative StepAnimation is a strange artform. The process of production is so complicated, and the road to the final result so long, that it seems that the ember of inspiration might darken...
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For the pencil test of the drawings shown in Part 2, I have created two versions. Version one is the entire scene comprised of all existing layers and drawings, so that the first part includes the...
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Drawing Problem 1: The Eccentric Breakdown Drawing: A Drawing Challenge for You
The Eccentric Breakdown DrawingBefore I will be able to post Part 4 of Problem Six, I must create lot of drawings, so it may be a long time before that post. In the meantime, I thought I would ask...
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Drawing Problem 1: The Eccentric Breakdown Drawing: A Drawing Challenge for...
There is a Part 2!Well, one of my guesses was right: I had one person ask to do the drawing. His name is João and he lives in the UK. Here is his drawing:It has a lot going for it. The character is...
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A Reminder:As this blog is focused on detail and the small decisions that accumulate to make a larger picture, in these posts we will often examine short sections of a scene instead of the whole scene....
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For the next couple of weeks I will be working on my website, bradrick.com, to update it, make it easier for me to change by using Wordpress.org, and increasing its search engine optimization....
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Scanner Trouble, Part 2: My Solution
If you recall, I had complained here about the fact that my upgrade to Mac OS 10.8, known as Mountain Lion, had rendered my Mustek large format scanner useless: no drivers available!My scanner was, in...
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Drawing Problem 1: The Eccentric Breakdown Drawing (Part 3)
My Own SolutionBack in April I challenged my readers to create their own eccentric breakdown drawing to go between two of my extremes. [Here is the link.] I had one entry, and it was a good one. Now...
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Jim on a Limb: One (Part 1)
Jim on a LimbThis is the first of my posts in which I am attempting something difficult, a piece of animation not in the books, and where I am not completely sure of myself. Plus, I am letting my...
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One Year of Acme Punched!
What if you could be Acme punched...literally?Just a brief message to note that this blog has been running for over a year now; my first post was on May 13, 2012. As of this writing I have had almost...
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First AnimaticHere is the animatic I created using mostly just the drawings posted in Part 1. An attempt was made to suggest the timing of the entire segment.I invited the Director (me) into my office...
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Jim on a Limb: One (Part 3)
Digging DeeperLast time I determined that something had to happen before the man lowered the fox; I needed to show the man coming to the decision to do that: in short, I needed to show him...
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Hollywood Cartoons: A Disney Cel Puzzle
Time out for a little fun that came my way the other day when I was contacted by a man named Wesley Miller. Mr. Miller has an interesting collection of animation art: it consists of cels or drawings...
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No. 47, Hollywood Cartoons: A Disney Cel Puzzle, Part 2
I have a little bit to add to my piece in No. 46 about Who Killed Cock Robin.One objective is to give due credit to the great Disney animator, Ham Luske. Like Norm Ferguson, Luske was an early star...
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No. 48, Jim on a Limb: One (Part 4)
Six weeks since I have posted. Partly it was this and that, an illustration job, a couple of commercial jobs, the re-designing of my website, a busy late summer. But also it was the difficulty of the...
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No. 49, Jim on a Limb: One (Part 5)
Note: I have now numbered all my posts chronologically, in addition to having series and subject headings. I think this will make it a little easier for me to refer back to previous posts, and for you...
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No. 50, Jim on a Limb: One (Part 6)
Animating the scene shown and described in No. 49 was a matter of trial and error. For the most part, the poses worked and it was just a matter of working out the timing. For example, the two changes...
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