Milt Kahl Pencil Test

Thanks to James Hull again for posting such amazing content!

Guillermo

Hey guys, sorry it took me so long to put stuff up here. My project with Billy "the bull" Williams didn't get done, so its on hold until our films are done with. So I didnt want to leave you guys high and dry, so here it is - A second year lipsync project I did. :) enjoy

Animation from the master: James Baxter

Someone on youtube kindly added the dancing self caricature that James had on his old site. Check it out:


I've been slacking in my posts here but hope this inspires people to pick up a pencil and keep animating regardless of their current medium. Orginally posted by James Hull on the seward street blog and reposted here with permission. If you'd like a quicktime, let me know and I'll throw one up.

update: I'm going to take down the video, on my personal site, since my bandwidth is hosed for the time being. If you'd like to grab it, try using podtube for mac or iTube or windows.

Some old Doodlez Shorts..

Hey.. Haven't had time to post anything new in a while.. But I found a bunch of Doodlez shorts on you tube.. here are some that I animated. These are bitter sweet.. as there are parts in some that i like.. and parts that i liked before they went through the cleanup stage. and parts that i really never liked.. but.. that's the way it goes... enjoy. warts and all!!=)..

The things we do for $....

Well.. There's not many people who can say that they've had to animate a character wipping his or her butt.. I'm one of them. This was part of a web project we did for Procter & Gamble's Kandoo line of childrens project.. There was alot of animation to do over a short period of time with me handling alot of the product related animation. and it was for the web.. so there were limitation there too.. This is my first pass of ruff animation.. before i went in and tied anything down.. The reason I didn't post the more tied down version is because i had to change the expression when he was wiping.. I knew this even as i was drawing it.. but it was more for me than anything.. So I like his one better... He's enjoying the wipe more. ahh.. and the thing is.. I see this kandoo stuff all over the place.. so I'm constantly reminded of this animation.. i'm thinking that I might use this as the start of my reel.. the frog presents the wipe with my name on it.. and then wipes himself with it and flushes it... classy for sure...

So there you go. Not great animation by far.. but an example of some of the things we have to do to pay the bills. And for any of you who might think that this was a low point for me.. ask me about the super heros that fight constipation bit i worked on... I'm serious.. I think I'm slowley being pidgeon holed into only feces related animation ;)..

Ben Stiller Lipsync

Still a work in progress and sorry about the clean up...

Another Marshall test

Here's another pencil test by kyle.