JKCartoonCollege: application

Monday, May 10, 2010

Book Revue - Big Bad Wolf study

This is one of my favorite scenes from this cartoon! The animation is incredible! Especially when he swings the axe around and the axe gets right in your face. Looks amazing! Really inspiring stuff!

I got this image from John's blog. I think this was a key pose in the cartoon, but I'm not sure. I still think it was pretty good to copy from.

So here we go! Verbal analysis:

*His snout area really sticks out
*Long torso
*Big wolf feet
*Big bushy tail
*Right arm longer than left arm
*Big foreshortened axe

I tried emphasizing those observations a bit more. Trying to make the pose more expressive than the original.

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Eisenberg Tom & Jerry Study

Here's my verbal analysis for this study:

-Opposing lines of action on each character
-Tom has a backwards "s" curve line of action at almost a 45 degree angle
-Jerry has a backwards "c" curve for LOA
-Tuffy has a regular "c" curve for LOA
-Tom has a surprised look (not just in the face, but in his body as well, like raised shoulder's, big surprised eyes, raised eyebrows, raised knee, raised foot)
-Jerry has his eyes closed and Tuffy's are wide open looking directly at Tom
-Jerry is immensely happy to eat some fried chicken and Tuffy is happy with his cupcake
-Tuffy is raised higher than Jerry inside lunch pail
-Tuffy's on top a higher stack of sandwiches making him higher than Jerry
-Jerry is slightly bigger than Tuffy
-Jerry and Tuffy's torsos are each 1 and half heads long
-Tom's torso is 2 heads long
-Lots of space between ears and eyes in each character
-Lots of space inside each characters ears (very big ears)

I wrote down the analysis on my paper, but I thought it would be best to type it up here rather than for you to struggle through my handwriting.

So I first put in the lines of action of each character...