Quadruped Walk

So we've not moved onto quadruped walk cycles, and I chose to use a giraffe. Haven't named her yet though. A giraffe has a very unique walk, and it was interesting trying to get it to look right. I'm fixing the back leg closest to the viewer because it's still a bit off, but the rest is working well.

My second assignment for Traditional Animation II was to take that same character from the walk cycle (in my case Dale) and do a 10 second pantomime. It's not the best it could be because I was trying to get work done on my ball bounce for CA, plus I had already done a pantomime last spring so I didn't want to do it

Dale Walk/Run Cycle

Our first assignment for Traditional Animation was to design a biped character and make them walk. I chose to use my anteater Dale again for this, and he must show a change in emotion in the walk. Here's Dale!

Final Animation

Completed 1st Pass Animation

Here's the finished first pass of my animation with Dale and the pinwheel. This seriously took hours and hours. Now I still have a few hours work left this weekend adding the details for the second pass, but here ya go!

Final Animation (Process Work)

Here is some of my process work for my final piece for Traditional Animation I. In case you're just NOW tuning in... my final assignment for my TA class is to animate a 10 to 20 second animation with my anteater character Dale



The first pose test with just the preliminary thumbnail drawings of the golden poses




Second pose test, a little more in-depth than the first. I had to check the timing and the spacing so I added in the key frames between the golden poses




Here's the entrance of Dale for my scene, it's zoomed up so I could see the details (this section alone is about 105 frames (approximately 50-something drawings)

Final Reference

Here's the video reference for my final piece in Traditional Animation. It's me acting as my anteater Dale. The homework assignment criteria are as follows:

- must be between 15 and 20 seconds (not under or over)
- have to fill out the x-sheet and/or time charts and COMPLETELY plan beforehand
- character must jump
- character must display a change in emotion (so two emotions minimum)

The time code at the bottom was added in Premiere Pro, and is set for 24 frames/second. In animation, it takes about 12 drawings a second if you shoot the drawings on "two"s. That means I'm probably looking at close to 200 drawing for my final piece. Yikes!... but it's a fun yikes :D


Reference Video from Alex Boatman on Vimeo.

Oh yeah!! And pretend that the leaf in the video that I jump and grab is a pinwheel. Hence the blowing... lol

Stale Dale

Here are my animation walk cycles with my anteater Dale :)

*If the videos don't loop automatically, just right click the video and click on "loop is off"


Dale Walk Cycle from Alex Boatman on Vimeo

Sry, still a few glitches to fix in there



Dale Run Cycle from Alex Boatman on Vimeo.



Dale Stalk Cycle from Alex Boatman on Vimeo

Character Model Sheets (rough)

Here are my model sheets that I turned in for my character design. His name is Dale, and he is an anteater, a VERY unsocial anteater. They aren't as good as I would like them to be because of time and such, so I'll probably be resubmitting them at the end of the semester.

Character Designs

Some sketches from when I was designing my character, and at the top is the basic shape of my character from different views

Animation Sketchbook

Traditional Animatin I

Right now I don't have any good videos of some of the animations I've been doing in my TA (Traditional Animation) class. Right now they're only about a second or two in length, so by the end of the school year I plan to have them all looped and here on my blog for your convenience.

We've just gotten our animals for character designs tho, and here's what I have so far:

Here are a few drawings from watching giant anteaters on youtube

Different arm designs, exaggerating different parts