Mikero's Artflows

[Mikero]

The thread formerly knowns as Mikero's Junkland.
Back In Black.

Just getting this going before I get home 'cause I can transfer what I posted on Zetasphere directly here on campus. So here's an update on my stylings lately.

OBLIGATORY CLAIMER/DISCLAIMER/DISCLOSURE FORCLOSURE FOR CLOSURE: I'm a student animator in my [as of fall 2007] second year of Animation at Algonquin College. I draw and breathe (although I don't believe in it) and look at stuff and have hairs and other such marvels to astound and bewilder.

ANYway here's some new stuff since school started again and since the triple M house was in reno.


Wash
^New DeviantArt ID.

Lebel Ladies' Weekend 07 Monkey
^A monkey logo/emblem/thinger that I designed for my mother's annual Ladies' getaway.

Goofy Head Rotation
^Goofy Head rotation, 2nd Animation assignment of the year. 'Goofy is the hardest character [we] will ever animate.'

Two Person Dialogue - Micky and Goofy
^ Leica reel for my 3rd Storyboarding assignment this year. The sound is some of my professors...

Run cycle animation
^ Run cycle.

And...


The new Indo. We had a discussion about it at Zeta, so I'm just going to reiterate here that; A) She's not fat, turn up your brightness and/or look closely. But she have cheeks. B) She's not emo, I just drew thick eyelashes because I felt like it and she doesn't wear loads of mascara or anything. C) Because of issues I had with the outline (which you might not see but I can) her nose is kind of faint/subtle and I accept that it might make you think her face is wonky.

Essentially I just felt it was time to grow her up from that old picture I did of her which has fangorious anatomy problems. If you know the character then that's good, if you weren't around for her; Her design isn't up for debate.

I will be posting a breakdown of different stages of this, including the sketch, just the flat colours, and such.




»» Later tonight; More animation(s) PLUS a storyboarding assignment leica reel of a fight between Wolverine and Sabretooth!!

[Captain Sanoguchi]

...Indo didn't used to be scary, but still, great job Mike.

[Mikero]

She's not really scary.


She's just bad (in a good way).

[Captain Sanoguchi]

I mean scary like, something about the face, kind of making Indo look like a crossdressing Male.

[Mikero]

...

I'm just gonna blame it on the subtle nose and thick eyelashes.

[Captain Sanoguchi]

I'm going to blame the lips, the purple heart and the eyebrows.

[Chron]

Good animation work.

[Mikero]

Thanks.

And here's some more Goofy and...

X-Men Unlimited Wolverine fight with Sabretooth storyboadring leica reel!

[Yubi Shines]

Baaadass.

Personally, I think the Indo picture turned out excellently, the only thing is that her eyes don't quite face the same direction. One of them is looking subtly towards the left.

[ChaosVortex]

Wow. The X-Men theme is stuck in my head. I kinda miss watching it.

That's pretty good Mike.

[Mikero]

Thanks!

Here's so more animation.

Some basic flash animation. But not in Flash. In Harmony (ToonBoom), an animation software they use for TV.

Bouncing Ball - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=665-mlnyxFw
Multiple Bouncing Balls - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWe5f2APVV0

And my final from animation class. A space run thing. I didn't animate the ship, it was provided.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3U-dksjLDg

I have to go use a computer on campus to get scans from sketchbook off it. Expect that stuff sometime in the future.

[ASR]

Bouncing balls seem a bit off, but I love the spaceship bit. I expect you animated the guy entirely? Very nice.

[Johncarllos]

Goddam, that's high quality.

[Captain Sanoguchi]

Mikero, I love your balls.

[Mikero]

Thanks guys!

Bouncing balls seem a bit off, but I love the spaceship bit. I expect you animated the guy entirely? Very nice.

Keep in mind that the bouncing balls are different kinds; The first is a ping-pong ball, the second is a bowling ball, and the third is regular. I forgot to mention that earlier.

I did animate Papyrus (the character) in the space bit entirely by myself. The jump is a bit too quick but I didn't really have time to work on that more.

Mikero, I love your balls.

I bet you say that to all the ghouls!

[ASR]

I figured out that the balls were all different, but the very last one on Multiple Balls seemed to be very off. Looking back now, the rest of them look great to me. I dunno, you're the animator.
I still really like Papyrus's animation, as you call him.

[Mikero]

I don't really call him that, that's his name. He's from some bad french show apparently. And I hate him.

[ASR]

You should've made the ship explode with him in it, then. Think, Mikero. Think.

[Mikero]

And fail the semester? OKnextimeuhohhotdog.

[ASR]

You get free time for a reason! Spend it doing what you normally do all day anyway!

[Mikero]

Spend it doing all I've been doing for monthsssssssssssssssucky!

Posted on: 20 December 2007, 20:09:48

I did this before Christmas and I had a whole large thing planned that couldn't come to fruition because the Holidays got like the Holidays get... But yeah. Just a quickish sketch.

[preventerWIND]

Look's crazy good. But the back of the jacket looks a bit mis-shaped.

[Mikero]

Heh, it is and it isn't. Dynamic lines for the sake of dynamic lines. I was going to go back and fix things later, this was mostly to get the pose and some other crap :-P

[preventerWIND]

Overall it looks kickin'. I think somethings wrong with the foot though.. it's reminding me of how I snapped my leg.. gettin' bad vibes Mikey, baaaad vibes D :

[Mikero]

It's angled wrong, yeah. Was on the list of fixes, I didn't even bother with it's details haha.

[MOX]

It's cool that you're learning animation so you gradualy learn how to draw from a bunch of different perspectives, which isnt easy (oh man). Nice dynamic pose on the guy.

[Mikero]

Thanks, and actually Animation is just one class of the program. There's also design (character and layout), storyboarding, life drawing, drama, and computer animation. Or at least those (with animation class) were the classes I had in the semester that just finished. The upcoming semester is the same except we're doing an elective course in the place of drama.

I'm gonna try to see if I can get my scans from my sketchbook for design class off of the campus computers tomorrow.

[Johncarllos]

Yeah, the drawing overall is great, really awesome in pose, sensation of movement etc, BUT, the sunglasses seem odd on the other side of the face seem wonky, and the back of the coat is silly, like, if he zipped it up, it would stop above his belly botton, expose his chest, hang down to his knees on the back, and make his ass look huge.


I wish I had a coat like that.....

[Mikero]

Even smunched up it goes lower than his belly button... It would zip up around his crotch, but whatever I already said it doesn't work.

Posted on: 31 December 2007, 17:27:53

BIG ART DUMP TAIMU!

Back to class today and I got the stuff I handed in for my on going sketchbook assignment in the end of this past semester. A bunch of stuff from different stuff. Some was done extremely quickly.

Part 1 - Anatomy Studies






Part 2 - Landscapes and Nature



Part 3 - Everyday People



Part 4 - Buildings and Vehicles





Part 5 - Creative Design




And last but not least this is the thing I've painting in photoshop. I just got my Mac to stay on long enough to put it on my jumpdrive so I could bring it to this computer so I can continue working on it either here at school some time. I wanted the painting of it to be done by yesterday but because the laptop is mucked up I couldn't do it, so it's going to take much longer to finish now that I've got school.

Anyway I'll post the painting progress later but here's the sketch. It's a styled drawing for and of my best friend. Really it's for Christmas because she said I wasn't allowed to buy her anything but I've had a lot of complications with it. She does this cute thing where she puts her finger on her nose when she's thinking, if you're wondering about the pose.

I'm posting this nowhere else, for now, as it's a surprise.

[Someguy]

Damn. Nice job Mikero, love your work

[ChaosVortex]

Skills, Mike.

[Mikero]

Thanks guys. I edited the post because I realized the JPB image was too big to upload, so it's actually there now.

Oh, I'm already far into painting it but if you guys have suggestions on colour or painting style that I might be able to do in Photoshop I'll take them. I already have a direction I'm going in but I'll take suggestions. It's too late the change the lineart though.

Edit: Also, if you want to know about something just ask, I could describe some of the images but it would time I don't have right now, so ask if there's a story behind one if you want to know.

And the girl in the attached image at the bottom is also up in the Everyday People section, the difference is the one up there is more of a life drawing from a photo.

[ASR]

I love it all. Particularly the monkey making the "L for Loser" sign.

[Mikero]

That was for my mom. Every year the women in her family go on "The Lebel Ladies' Weekend" and every year there is a theme. This year was monkeys and I was asked to make the logo.

Forgot to post the coloured version on MMM;



The L is for Lebel!!

[Jakey]

I really like that dude with the pick in his hair and the belt buckle.  Hahaaa.

[ASR]

Haha, me too. Nice colouring on the monkey. SEE I USED YOUR SPECIAL SPELLING OF "COLORING" JUST 'CUZ I'M SO NICE.

[Voulnet]

That's awesome, can you make a live version of that? I need a new pet.

[Mikero]

Haha, me too. Nice colouring on the monkey. SEE I USED YOUR SPECIAL SPELLING OF "COLORING" JUST 'CUZ I'M SO NICE.

You mean the correct spelling?!

[ASR]

Pretentious whore.

[Mikero]

It's not pretentious because that's the right way to spell it here. A kid would get it wrong on a test if they spelled your gross way!

[Johncarllos]

I always love what you do, I can't look in here and not be thoroughly impressed with your ability to put your mind on paper.

[ASR]

I wonder if I'd get it wrong if I spelled it your way? Seriously. If some grade schooler did that... I mean, huh.

Anyway, yeah, I know. I'm messin'.

[Captain Sanoguchi]

Damn, I love the way you draw feet.
You sure do draw feet often, don't you?

[Mikero]

About 4 times a year max...

[Captain Sanoguchi]

Well, for some reason I just love the way you draw feet.

[Mikero]

Well thanks man. And now, some more Toon Boom Harmony animation! (Harmony is a flash animation program and is about eighty billion times better than Flash for animating).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5CDrocRMO8

[Captain Sanoguchi]

Sheriff Baby Bean kicks so much ass.

[Mikero]

Deputy Diaper...

I've never seen whatever show it was from, but we just took the old Harmony builds Mercury studios ages ago. But they're making new builds of new characters for us to work with this year :-)

The dialogue is from Ghost Busters.

[Majikn]

The way that hat moves freaks me out but it seems cool otherwise.

[Captain Sanoguchi]

Deputy Diaper...

Whatever, you need to make a high resolution pic of him doing his bug eyes face at like near the end of the 2nd second.