Roughs - Davi

my first tries of the exercise.

I can see some proportions that are not right... and I lost a lot of the negative space...

I will try to correct this.

Chris and Anne... your studies look good. It helped me a lot to look at yours first.

abraço,

davi

Rough Setup Test

Step 1) Block out BG and poses- get it approved by John (rough!)

Try to make one background setup work for both these scenes

* you might have to make the BG a bit bigger to give more room for the characters, because there are other poses later that you would have to add, that will take up more room

watch for negative shapes (don't shrink them) and lines of action in characters (don't straighten them out)

Step 2) Once it's approved, then start to tighten up the poses to make them stylish and gutsy

Setups done in Layout - Rough Blocking

I went through all the scenes in the last setup and blocked out the spacing for all the poses and the background.

I haven't committed to any finished detailed drawings yet, because I wanted to make sure all the actions would fit into the scenes.
I had to push and pull shapes around to get the best possible positions.
all these poses have to register to the same BG as in the first pose.

The next step would be to start tightening up the drawings to make them look good.

Setups 1 - planning for multiple scenes to use the same setup - long shots

when you read through a storyboard, you look for scenes that use the same angle and same camera distance

http://jkcartoonstories.blogspot.com/2009/12/slabs-first-fist.html

when you find them, you try to design a layout that can use the same "setup" for all the scenes



In other words, one master Background that all the action can take place in

That means you have to plan how much space you need around the characters in order to be able to draw all the most extreme poses

Like all these images can use 1 setup:

This is a "long shot" That means the camera is far away enough to show the whole bodies of the characters.


so you have to plan all the drawings to work on the same background, and the sixes of the characters have to make sense from pose to pose

if they are on the bed they are smaller

if they are on the floor in the foreground they are bigger

if there are consecutive poses within a scene, the poses have to "flip" between each other

This lesson is to draw all these poses, so they use the same background, and that the consecutive poses flip.

You also of course have to remember everything from previous lessons - like negative space, style, not toning down the poses etc.

Questions?

Using the same background setup for multiple poses and scenes

Here are a bunch of drawings of Kaspar doing things next to the dresser. When you are doing layouts, it makes sense to find all the scenes that look like they use the same setup (background and camera angle) - and draw just 1 background that will work for all the poses.
This complicates your thinking because now, not only do you have to do a good drawing, you have to make sure all the drawings work together and in the exact same setting.The reason to do all this planning and to just use one background if you can for multiple scenes - is to save work for the next guy: the background painter. If you draw a brand new BG for each scene that looks like a similar camera angle, then the poor painter has to do all this extra work painting multiple shots that are hardly different.

This unfortunately happens in animation quite a bit - in every department. If an artist doesn't plan his work to help the next guy or gal in the production line, he will cause problems and extra work for others. Those others will hate you for doing it, just like you would hate the person before you if he caused you extra needless work.


(ignore the top closeup below, it's a different angle and camera distance;it needs its own setup. Just draw the pose below that)
As an exercise, try taking 2 or 3 consecutive poses from this post and draw them so they all use the same BG setup. This one:

You have to now flip each drawing against the others so that they move smoothly between poses.

How to make one good pose and setup

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