Skullairy Ink & Design

  A little early in a Posting but the last couple of weeks I went on a full sidetrack when it came to Storyboarding. I was noticing how my frames, though showing the progress of the sequence, still looked.. Off. Going through the masters and Mentors list I have come up with. I have realized I need at least a little understanding of animation for my frames to look more alive, especially these more action-specific scenes.     This leads me to a Shout out to AlanBecker and his youtube tutorial series on the principles of Animation. Credit to Frank Thomas & Ollie Johnson. Armed with the following principles. -Squish & Squash -Anticipation -Staging -Straight Ahead/Pose to Pose -Follow Through & Overlapping Action -Slow in & Slow Out -Arcs -Secondary Action -Timing -Exaggeration -Solid Drawing -Appeal     Armed with these principles and adding them to my sequential storyboard Practices along with a solid understanding of Keyframes, the true m...

  I have to say after a month of watching Master Animators like Aaron Blaise and then finding my next SHout-out artist Mark Simon. I began to see a massive benefit turning thumbnailing practices into storyboarding instead, since it was just adding additional skills to be practiced simultaneously, thus being effective for muscle memory control. Aaron Blaise's fluid animations of a flour sack were something to aspire to. My fundamental perspective blocks were no match for a well-armed flour sack! Storyboards use all the fundamentals and incorporate other exercises such as sequencing and gesture sketchings. I saw it as a way of moving from one big Idea to another without being tied down to its permanency. Just as the chalk was to the pacific northwest rain. It demanded me to be brave and forgiving of every stroke I made. If I was to ever make the “perfect” routine course to maximize my life potential in this profession. It’s clear Storyboarding needs to be an Artistic Ritual.  ...