Week 8
Character Turnaround Ink & Color Fills
Clean Line Inking, Color Silhouette Fills
Clothing, Drapery,
Heads, Hands, Feet
Texture, Clipping Masks
Vector shape fills and strokes
Embedded Files
Introduction
Introduction
This week is all about finishing the Turnaround Model Sheets in Fine Ink/Line, and Color
Supplementary Activities: Photoshop Color Fills, Texture, Masks, Shape Tools, Clean Line, Clothing, Drapery, Heads, Hands and Feet.Before Class
Before Class
Jazza - Character Turnaround, 23 min
Clean Line Inking - Bam Animation, 11 mins
Digital Painting / Color - Jazza, 38 min
Digital Painting / Color - Laura Price, 8 min
Drawing Fundamentals: TEXTURE - Jazza, 21 min
Pre-Class Weekly Task List
Pre-Class Weekly Task List
^^^ Check out the above videos ^^^
Digital Drawing: doodles, practise, and warm-ups
Put ALL Project 2 work into your Project 2 GDrive folder, and Project Page, for in-class feedback.
Character Construction Turnaround (Simplified Skeleton, Basic Shapes, Head Grid, due last week).
Character Ink Turnaround (Line)
Character Color Turnaround (Color Fills)
Character Poses Model Sheet
Character Expressions Model Sheet
- Photoshop TIF layers for everything
All of Project 2 is DUE IN CLASS for feedback this week, and is due for submission @ end of this week.
As usual:
- Practise Digital Drawing and/or Traditional warmups
- Borrow/bring:
- A drawing tablet and/or drawing equipment, as per Week 1.
- Headphones/earphones for viewing videos at your workstation.
- Use your own credentials for borrowing, thank you.
- Complete last week's Post-Class activities.
- Prepare updated GDrive files and links.
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During Class
During Class
During Class
Project 2
Resolve any remaining feedback revisions on character Construction Turnaround (due last week)
Feedback & continue working on character Ink Turnaround (clean line)
Feedback & continue working on character Color Turnaround (filled color)
Feedback & continue working on Poses & Expressions
Students choose to work on a specific aspect of their projects, and/or select from this week's subjects to study.
Optional - Clothing & Drapery lecture slides
Adobe Photoshop - demo
Selecting, moving, transforming (adv)
Color fills (pixels)
Vector shapes and lines, vs pixels
Vector shapes and lines, with color fills and strokes
Layer masking, extract, refine edge
Placing images vs dragging and duplicating layers, Smart objects vs pixels
Layer blending modes.
Clean Line Inking techniques (video)
Choose - Heads, faces, hands, feet (videos, activity tutorials and cheat sheets)
GSite maintenance - mid trimester
See also:
- Project 2: Construction Turnaround and Technical Drawing (due last week)
- Construction Drills (National)
- Model Sheet Examples (National)
Clean Line Inking
Clean Line Inking
Check out dat Ink!
from BAM Animation Check out dat Ink!
Clean line, line art, ink, and/or tie-down means the same thing. Work in an ink layer over your construction guide lines. Clean ink lines should have line weights with tapering ends, support dynamic shape flow, and suggest overlapping 3D forms.
Eric Goldberg - Character Animation Crash Course
Clarify decisions, and changes of angle/direction, within curves
Clarify decisions, and changes of angle/direction, within curves
Glen Keane
Shape and Silhouette Fills
Shape and Silhouette Fills
Create a fill layer behind the ink lines.
Use the Lasso tool to draw the selection areas to be filled.
Or, use the Paint Bucket tool (with All Layers option [on]) to fill the areas within the ink lines.
Alternatively, use the Magic Wand to select areas within the line layer, Select > Modify to expand a few pixels, swap to the color layer, then Edit > Fill.
Fills must be opaque / solid, unless partial transparency is requested for a specific effect (magic, natural forces, etc).
For storyboarding only, silhouette fills are typically some shade of white, grey or black.
Color
Color
Digital Painting / Color - Jazza, 38 min
Digital Painting / Color - Laura Price, 8 min
Drawing Fundamentals: Texture in Color - Jazza, 21 min
Color Texturing
Color Texturing
Optional
Texture is a surface description: e.g. rough, smooth, spikey, furry, shiny. See the earlier weekly exercise: Draw a Page of Textures, before attempting color texture layers.Have a go at color texturing in Photoshop with painted layers inside clipping masks in this exercise.
View Jazza's video - Texture in Color
Click to download both exercise files and open them in Photoshop. The texture reference file is a completed exercise from Jazza's video, above.
Look at the reference file to refer to how Jazza accomplished his texture looks and then create your own in the provided exercise template file.
Draw/paint your own texture layers.
Put layers inside the sphere shapes.
Photoshop > Layers Panel > select the top layer of a pair of layers you want to group > Right Click > Create Clipping Mask.
Body parts: details
Body parts: details
Choose at least 1 activity
Heads
Optional, Draw 3 poses Heads
Human Realism, simplified head construction, 6 min
Faces
Optional, Draw 3 poses Faces
Faces, Slightly Stylized, 17 min
After Class
After Class
Weekly outside-class-time is 6 hours per week.
Use a calendar and schedule your recurring time, with access to tools, software and equipment.Please do any in-class exercises and Project work due, whether you attended or not.
- Digitize any traditional work.
Save all files/images to
GDrive > My SAE Studies > Trimesters > [Tri] > [Unit]
- Students are responsible for keeping their data safe and accessible in an agreed, shared location.
Insert/embed images for web display
- Ensure your GDrive link is well-displayed in your unit home page.
Publish your web pages
- Whenever work-in-progress changes, finished or not.
Complete Project 2
- Construction Turnaround
- Ink Turnaround
- Color Turnaround
- Poses model sheet
- Expressions model sheet
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