Animation &Animation Artifacts &Independent Animation &walk cycle 03 Jan 2013 07:58 am
Picasso
- When you run a studio in New York, and you’re an animator, there’s a good likelihood that at the quiet moments when work is slow, you’ll be working on your own bit of animation. Whether it’s a short film or a test of something you’ve always imagined animating, it’s hard not to keep pencil to paper (or stylus from the Cintiq.) Vinnie Cafarelli was just such a creature. After seeing a show of Picasso’s works he took the flier and started animating the image Picasso had done. It never got to completion; those were the days of the expensive cameraman and laborious cel process. But I can take Vinnie’s work and finish it in AfterEffects and Photoshop. Here’s my exosure of his basic animation. No X-Sheets were left behind. Here’s the art; here’s the QT movie.
This is the original flyer that got Vinnie going.
He built all his animation up from this printed piece.
The Background
The “character” drawings follow:
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b2
c1
c2
c3
c4
d1
d2
d3
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d5
d6
d7
d8
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e1
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e7
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The following QT movie was made of the
drawings above. Since there were no X-Sheets
For better or worse, I came up with the timing, myself.
on 03 Jan 2013 at 3:03 pm 1.the Gee said …
I know Picasso was one of those folks who appreciated Herriman’s strip “Krazy Katâ€. The background Cafarelli drew totally has the vibe of a KK background/ landscape. It is a nice fit to the character designs.