Last Drawing for 2015

      It's almost time to start counting down til the BRAND SPANKING NEW YEAR!!!  Last Drawing for Highly Animated is going to be of my dog: Blue.

 

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Random Drawings(But with a Jedi OOOHHH)

      Some more aimless directionless drawings but this time I drew a Jedi(incase you couldn't tell) along with some weird lookin girl.


















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Her name is Dinah

     Back when I was in my principles of 2D animation class we finally started the character animation portion of the class(YAY), but in order to do that we had to design our own character for it.

      Very early on I wanted her name to be Dinah, because A.) It's fun to say B.) Black Canary's name is Dinah( for a long time I thought it was Dana) & C.) I found out the Din
ah is Hebrew for Judgment.
   This was the first set of designs for me trying to figure out how I wanted her to look. The one on the far left looked way to much like Eva Green so that wasn't right. The middle one was to rocker chick with the bangs, but the one on the right was the closest to the design I was looking for.

Finally after looking through references like Showcase & Conceal, the beautiful Golshifteh Farahani & some Robert Valley love I found the look I wanted

So hopefully by now you guys are aware of the way I draw(Because I felt like a piranha when I showed the designs off in class). I'm the only one who didn't draw something that looked like it could've been in a Disney cartoon(Very awkward but I still stuck with her design).

 The first thing we did was make them walk which was fucking difficult to do because I couldn't find any good references to model after because most people have more "ANIMATION FRIENDLY" designs, so the closet I got was a walk cycle from Tron Uprising. Not too bad right.

  

 

 

Dinah Walk from Andrew J. Etheridge on Vimeo.

Then it was time to do the character acting & I wasn't happy how it came out



Character Acting from Andrew J. Etheridge on Vimeo.


    Wasn't my best work at all and definitely helped me enforce the fact that I don't want to be an animator, but rather an animation artist (you know doing anything else except making them move). After all of that I'm still proud of the fact I kept with my design and did something that wasn't like everyone else. Well that's about all I have to say about this so as always

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4 Years BABY

    I really have no idea how the hell I forgot my own anniversary for my blog (shit this is new). I blame Vixen for making me forget ( CW making me download a app to watch a 3 min episode). It's been a week since the anniversary and Highly Animated is still going strong. More stuff to be posted soon

       Hope You Enjoy Another Year!        

The Seeker ( can't think of a better name)

   Just a design I wasworking on.  I was working with inspiration from Queen Amadala's look from Star Wars Episode 1 Phantom Menac & the character from the Nu52 Superman comics; The Oracle.

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BATGIRL

    I don't give a flying(you know what) what anyone thinks about the movie but Batman & Robin is one of my favorite movies from my childhood. And most of all hands down the COOLEST MOVIE BATSUITS EVER( Nolan Suits are the second best)!!!
        Also this is the only movie where I can see Batman, Robin(who in this movie should be Nightwing) & Batgirl all kicking ass in style. So yeah that's my 2 cents on the subject.
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HIGHLY ANIMATED ON VIMEO!!!

I finally did it, finally made myself a Vimeo account and uploaded a shitload of projects I was working on these past 10 weeks going from animation to film.

So go there and check out all the projects. https://vimeo.com/highlyanimated

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Some Art Goodies

Hey everybody, here's a little something to share for you guys.

Some doodles done at a restaurant one night(This is not Mickey Mouse, I repeat This is not Mickey Mouse).

 

Once again trying to get Chris Sander's AMAZINGLY AWESOME STYLE under my belt & I must say this is pretty dam good. I really dig how her hair came out; kind of reminds me of 80's style Starfire.

 

                                                            This one I just felt like doing a pattern and drawing a very Rocafort style ship.

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First New Year Drawing!

 
    1st NEW DRAWING OF THE YEAR(YAY)!!! So it has been a whole year since I started the 365 sketchbook & I'm Fu*%ing glade that's over with. So as I said before in the GraphicArts post; this year i'll be posting more drawings and other artwork like this that will have more thought and effort put into it along with stuff happening at school.
        The idea for this drawing started with just drawing the lovely lady in the one piece outfit, but after watching Homeland I eventually did a  street ally background that could be in Islamabad(hopefully) . The design was inspired by the new Gwen Stacy Spider Woman costume & I think it came out great especially the leading ladies face( not to girly & a killer hair cut).
     
        I think the only things I would work on are making the lines a tad bit more darker and adding more value, but other than that I did an amazing drawing. So until later
                                            
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