Ball playing on a slide

For my next animation experiment I wanted to give some personality to a simple shape that would explore a basic backround. Ideally this would be a full obstacle course with the ball jumping over fire, sharks, and lava, but there are only so many minutes in a 1 hour mentor session. ;)

Penguin Slide :)

Whats going on with the aspect ratio on this gif? Looks like it is 0.9 instead of 1.0.

Ball Bounce Variations

This ball is far too gelatenous to be water, but it was a decent attempt - should splash a lot faster. :)

Mitosis.

Fireball test

Another Photoshop Test

Another Photoshop lesson! This time a rotoscoped paint test.

Photoshop mentoring

I mentored a high school student on some basics of animation inside of Photoshop. While Adobe has improved some aspects of the program for this, it is still very clunky and very cumbersome to do simple things like holds, shift frame rate, or even drawing on twos. All complaints aside - it's still a lot of fun and I look forward to teaching a few simple techniques and created some short exercises to go along with each lesson like this: a simple ball jumping with some overlap, squash-and-stretch, and secondary animation.

Life Drawings - Drink N Draw

Many life drawing meetups (this one at Drink N Draw Omaha) end up being a giant pile of papers that never get scanned. Here is an attempt at categorizing and organizing some of the best.

I have to draw the face

Poor angle, but decent sketch

There is never enough time

Peacock feather (One of my favorite drawings I have done)