Horse run cycle

Run cycle animation, need to break it up so its not so "loopy"

Horse_Run_Cycle_spline from Aran Saunders on Vimeo.

Horse Walk animation

Had a go at animating a horse walking. Quite happy with how it turned out :)

Horse walk cycle

Horse_walk_Animation_Practice from Aran Saunders on Vimeo.


Horse walk added layers

Horse_walk_Polish from Aran Saunders on Vimeo.

Created some artwork in photoshop for a change :) It's been a while since I tried! I find mountain ranges are quick to do as I just wanted to try a colour and light piece!
Here was my first pass, wanted to add something in the foreground but was not set on anything at the time.



Here is the final piece, I decided to make it feel higher up so i changed the clouds and thought some mountain climbers would give it some more scale :)

Higher res below.

Render and Progression Reel

Excited_Girl_015 - Render from Aran Saunders on Vimeo.


Excited_Girl_016 - Progression from Aran Saunders on Vimeo.

Final Animation

Excited_Girl_013 - Polish from Aran Saunders on Vimeo.

Excited_Girl_014 - Polish from Aran Saunders on Vimeo.

Finished with this animation now, I could probably do another pass or change the run off, but I need to draw a line somewhere and move on to new animations :)

Excited Girl Anim - Splining

Trying out this body mechanic rig set I bought from Joe Daniels.

Really simplistic, neat and flexible rigs for body mechanics!

Continued progress on my animation :) I've actually finished it now, which you can see on my Vimeo account. But I will post the final stuff on here soon. I am planning on creating a progression reel for it :)


Excited_Girl_010 - Spline from Aran Saunders on Vimeo.


Excited_Girl_011 - Spline from Aran Saunders on Vimeo.


Excited_Girl_012 - Spline from Aran Saunders on Vimeo.

Life Drawing

Found a life drawing class in the area, really glad to be getting back in to it!


10 Minute study

45 Minute Study

Getting back in to sketching

Been inspired a lot by my Fiancée lately to do some more sketching and doodling. I'm way out of practice but here is one of the pages from my sketchbook of some of the scribbles and studies I did today :) Felt really productive!

Final Blockout

Think I'm happy with all the blocking out now! Forgot to post earlier ^_^


Excited_Girl_009 - Blocking Final from Aran Saunders on Vimeo.

Trying out this body mechanic rig set I bought from Joe Daniels.

Really simplistic, neat and flexible rigs for body mechanics!

Some screenshots of my workings;

Animation practice continued

Blocking continues :)

Got some good feedback and agreed that my animation was way too tightened up! It looked almost like the girl is getting ready to fight instead of being excited to see someone!

I'm happy with these more loose poses :D

Blocking 04

Excited_Girl_004 - Blocking from Aran Saunders on Vimeo.

Blocking 05

Excited_Girl_005 - Blocking from Aran Saunders on Vimeo.

Blocking to Spline - No adjustments

Excited_Girl_006 - Initial Spline from Aran Saunders on Vimeo.

Blocking to Spline - Adjustments to timing

Excited_Girl_007 - Initial Spline - timing adjustments from Aran Saunders on Vimeo.

Spline back to blocking - Adjusted timing

Excited_Girl_008 - Blocking revisit from Aran Saunders on Vimeo.

Trying out this body mechanic rig set I bought from Joe Daniels.

Really simplistic, neat and flexible rigs for body mechanics!

Animation Practice

Trying out this body mechanic rig set I bought from Joe Daniels.

Really simplistic, neat and flexible rigs for body mechanics!

Here I am trying out some character acting without any face animation for a change :) I figured it was important to nail the body language and move on from there.

Here are my initial poses in blocking.

Initial Poses

Excited_Girl_001 - Initial Poses from Aran Saunders on Vimeo.

Initial Blocking

Excited_Girl_002 - Blocking from Aran Saunders on Vimeo.

Blocking
Excited_Girl_003 - Blocking from Aran Saunders on Vimeo.

New updates soon

Been away from blogging my work for too long. I will add some updates that are either unfinished works, WIPs and even artwork! Hopefully this will motivate me to do more personal work as I have been severely slacking in that department.