More Video Editing YAY

     So the moment I got back from school I was messing around with my camera & eventually taking a bunch of pictures and recordings of myself(yes I'm a vain person, but that's not the point).
    If you don't know one of my new favorite shows is The Knick on Cinemax and it is amazing ,but one of my favorite parts of watching it is the countdown sequence Cinemax does right before the episode starts. It creates so much tension and anticipation for the show and that was the sorta kinda idea I had for this little video I did.
  
Enter The Frame: Visceral Look from Andrew J. Etheridge on Vimeo.

     My main problem with this is that it's too damn short. That was the idea because I wanted to make this long enough for Instagram(which is stupid now I think about it), but jeez I just wish it was maybe 30 seconds instead of 15.  I like what I have like the color correcting, text timing to the music and the slow mo thing going on, but I just want more( well maybe next time).


         I know I've been gone for a bit without any substantial posts but I have some more free time now that I'm on break so expect some more good stuff coming until Happy Thanksgiving and as all ways

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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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365 Drawings

If you don't feel like going through pages of pages to look at the 365 days drawings I did go watch the video I made a couple months back.
365 TedTalk from Andrew J. Etheridge on Vimeo.

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Birfday Drawing(AND MORE!!!)

So I just realized I haven't posted this drawing I did for my friend Alisha's birthday this past February. She gave me a list of stuff I could draw for her and rabbits was one on the list so I decided to draw Lola Bunny because she's a rabbit and I loved the Looney Tunes show(so everybody won).

Also if you don't remember(it's cool if you don't) I have a Vimeo account with some  cool stuff on their and one of the videos I did was just about all the stuff that happened during the birthday celebration.

Alisha's Birfday Adventure from Andrew J. Etheridge on Vimeo.

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That's Wicked

Such a freakin awesome ass documentary! Definitely go check out Joy Lee

Pendulum Animation

Pendulum Animation from Andrew J. Etheridge on Vimeo.

This is my very first animation project I did for class way back when January was still fresh in the new year. I think it took about three or four days to get this done & now that I think back at this i'm amazed that this came out well.

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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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