The Art & Animation of Adam Knight "An artist’s style is … a continuous process of invention"

Goofy Run Cycle from Adam Knight on Vimeo.

I made a new avatar for myself! Woot! I originally designed this just so I could have a cool background on my twitter, haha, but it kind of evolved a little bit. I hope you guys like it, I had fun making it.

A Surprise test was given to us today in class, but it wasn't a written test like we all thought it'd be. It was an inbetween & clean up test of some Roger Rabbit frames. I'm not sure what Roger Rabbit cartoon it is from. I never got a chance to ask. I know my instructor worked worked on Somethin's Cookin' so I am assuming it might be from that. If you haven't seen Somethin's Cookin' you can check it out below. It's one of the best.

For my Traditional Animation 3 class, we are working on a lip-sync animation. I'm using a dialogue piece from, the black and white classic, Young Frankenstein. I designed this character, Anne, to go a long with the animation. Everything is pretty rough, but it gives you and me a good idea of what she looks like in different positions and a few expressions. I would like to do a lot more expressions, some better ones too, haha, and maybe clean things up if I have some time.

Today's my girlfriend's 24th birthday. I did a portrait of her as a birthday present. I had a lot of fun doing this one and it didn't take too long either. Usually digital painting takes me a long time. I used some new techniques and brushes on this one and I like the way it turned out. She loved it as well. :)

I'm Gonna Be A Mighty King from Adam Knight on Vimeo.

Here's another Disney Inbetween Test that my instructor gave us to do. This time around we had to animate Simba on one's, which means there's a drawing for every frame of the animation. The tests are suppose to show us what it would be like to work an entry level position at a studio like Disney.

One of my next assignments is to do the inbetweens of an animation of Simba, so I did a few studies to see how he's built. I might do a few more if I have some time.

I got around to going to the Drawing for Animators workshop after class on Thursday. I got a few good gesture drawings out of it. What's great about these workshops is that they're free and you can come and go as you please. It's really cool that AAU does this for their students to improve.