Two hand-drawn animations

Two hand drawn animations from a animation class I took at SCAD. They still have problems with them, didn't do them perfectly, but they are just some examples of my traditional cell animation work



In this assignment we were supposed to show weight, how a character would struggle with lifting a heavy object. I think I got the main idea of it, but the animation has a few little problems with it....



In this assignment we were supposed to do a lip sync test! I common assignment for cel-animators to do. This one still has some little problems with it..like in the beginning with the fist slam..it doesn't read string enough..and then there are some other little problems with the rest of the animation.

My professor said that some of the problems I have with my animations is that there are parts where the animation kinda sticks and dosen't flow right..and that I can't always get a consistent quality throughout the whole animation.

Doing hand drawn cel animation is a lot more difficult than doing it digitally. However, with this class I was sble to learn more about the principles of animation, and learned many things that I can apply to my digital animation work, even non-cel animation, the rules of animation apply to all mediums of animation.

Yet in the future I'm probably gonna just stick with digital animation; cut-out animation and cel animation. Sadly the need for hand drawn on paper cel animation is dying out in the animation industry, but I still think it is a needed skill for people who do 2D animation to have.

Two animations!

Here are two animations I have done.. the first one was done in a class I took..the second one I did on my own time..the second one isn't finished all the way as it does not have any sound....

Max and Polly

Here is a fun pic i whipped up of two of my special characters, Max and Polly....


also here is a short comic I did with the two of them...!

stuff for upcoming big project

Here are some character sheets and some "screenshots" of a up coming project I will be working on when I go back to SCAD in the fall....just some character sheets for the main charcters including some of the minor ones..and then there are two rendered hots of how the animation will look like.

Lots'o character designs

I got this pad of paper for doing character design/concept stuff..so I just drew out these characters of mine..a long with head shots..close ups of the eyes and other special features. I used copic markers for the colors..and I put the color swatches there just in case I would want to color them again....

More concept art/character designs

Some more random character designs..I have created a lot of characters over the years..some of them were originally created when I was a little kid and I recently re-drew them.

I'll post the pics of characters I have created more recently first...







Now here are characters that I created a lonnnnng time ago but I recently re-drew them....






big improvements yes? Here are a couple more..these are even older...




I can't find the scanned pics of the original drawings that I drew these from but they were pretty horrible. The one with the girls and cats was from a comic I did prolly when I was 10-12 years old..can't remember..but I was young..and I used to draw comics all the time and the Tri Cats was one of them.. these girls were really magical cats that had super powers and fought evil....The pic of the girl and the wee-dragon is from another comic I did when I was around the same age, maybe younger...I never finished the comic though.

So yeah I have come a long way with my art and drawing skills...!

Old animation

here is some old animation I did in a couple different animation courses at SCAD. They are not great but are still decent enough.


The assignment for this one was to explore the "screen space" of an environment


The standard flour sack animation every animator has to do in their life. The sack was supposed to react to a box. My little sack finds something horrible inside and freaks out...Some might think it is laughing but it's really supposed to be hyperventilating.


A 2-D cut out piece...This isn't my first time to do this, but it was A LOT of work..so time consuming and yet the final product is so short..but that's the way animation works! I had fun doing it though.