Animation &Hubley &repeated posts &walk cycle 09 Jul 2009 08:12 am
Recap – Georgia walk
– Having posted a piece about John and Faith Hubley‘s Cockaboody yesterday, I thought I’d take the opportunity of showing off another older piece from Aug ’07. This walk cycle was animated by Tissa David. The drawings are partic-ularly rough – her first shot at the walk designed for her eyes only.
Tissa is careful not to use too much paper. Hence she reuses old paper for her very rough preliminaries as she figures out her animation.
It’s frequent, when visiting her work space, to see lots of pages featuring characters on both sides of the paper upside down as well as sideways. She doesn’t often let these rough roughs out of her hands before she throws them out. I guess I was there at the right time and talked her into giving me these drawings.
She animates the walk, here, on top pegs bacause that’s all she has left of space. Tissa nomally works on bottom pegs. Actually, since this is going to be a sliding cel, it would have been done top pegs anyway.
Georgia, the younger girl, leaves the bathroom and moves to the floor to play with a doll (whose head she accidentally pulls off).
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(click any image to enlarge.)
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The walk is heavy and a bit flatfooted. She doesn’t come down on her toes but plants the entire foot.
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Her arms are high because, a baby, she’s still a bit off balance.
Click the very lower left to put the QT into motion.
Click the lower right to watch it a frame at a time.
on 18 Jul 2009 at 9:51 pm 1.Steve Brown said …
Thank you for yet another example of Tissa’s beautiful work!