Finally done with the flour sack

Flour sack from Tarun Lak on Vimeo.

3D design

An interesting class we have this semester is 3D design. It definitely isn't my favorite, but useful nonetheless. Clay is yuck btw. Sticks in your nails. So far we've done 3 projects. Wire gestures, human muscular system ecorche and a live model pose ecorche.

Figure drawing

Reductive drawings (same pose with lesser and lesser time to draw them - 20 mins to 30 seconds)

followed by miscelanias gestures/sequences

Overlapping action

Trying to learn the 12 principles of animation one by one. 

Here's overlapping action of the Indian flag waving for its Republic day celebration on Jan 26th.

Character turnaround

More personal TA work. I'm getting the hang of seeing things in 3 dimensional volume.

Head turnaround

I've been having some free time on my hands lately so I decided to start doing some personal work to learn more in animation. Here's a test I did of a character's head turnaround. The design is pretty crappy, but I wanted to keep things simple so I could get a decently smooth result.

The flour sack

One of the basic assignments in the entirety of character animation is the flour sack assignment. 

The 3/4th filled flour sack represents a simple torso of a 2 legged character without a head. the four end thingies of a sack acts as limbs enabling animators to show almost a full range of emotions through pantomime alone. 

This is the 1st part of my 2 part flour sack assignment due next week.