Dana Barnes

Some old personal work for a series pitch I decided to stop pursuing.

My compositor and I stayed up late one night developing this line treatment as an experiment.

While we never ended up making this, we did end up using the treatment on the Hyper Light Breaker trailer.

My animation for the last Hades II Trailer.

My old storyboards for The Owl House 115.

That 2mb file-size limit is killing me…

Learned a Lot doing this one, really improved my drawing skills in flash 8 (especially drawing muscles), and tried out some new tricks/methods to varying success. On thing I know i need work on is keeping he viewer from getting confused with scene changes, a few times here I end up having someone enter a scene in a way they didn’t exit the last one and its causing some problems, but w/e.

(Next time I’ think i might add hair..)

I’ve completed a few more shots from my Naruto vs Sasuke animation and figured it was about time to post another little gif of some of what I’m doing!  This time, I decided to show some of my process, for those that’re interested…

As you can see above, I have 3 separate animations at different stages of the process.  Here’s a breakdown:

[1] I always start out with a scribble test to get the general idea of what I’m doing.  It’s ugly, it’s dirty, but it’s a very important first step!  You never want to start out straight in to detailed drawings with animation.  Make sure you’re happy with the motion first, then worry about good drawings.

[2] I then did up a naked mannequin rough to figure out what I’m doing with the body.  No details on the face or clothes yet, just want to make sure I have my general proportions and anatomy where I want them.  I also worked out a lot more of the motion.  I made tweaks in the final, but I’m setting things in stone here.

[3] Finally, I dress it up, tie it down.  If you look closely, different parts of Naruto’s body are different colors.  This is because I worked in passes.  In cases with this many moving parts, it’s best to focus on one thing at a time for the best motion.  First,  I started out with his clothes.  This allowed me to experiment with how I had the cloth flapping around in the wind without worrying about the rest of what’s going on.  After that, I worked out the hands and face.  Getting the volumes of the face right can be a bit tricky when turning it in space, but there’s a few tricks I might do another little tutorial gif on in the future. Finally, I did the hair then bandana in a similar fashion as the clothes.

More animation from my Naruto vs Sasuke fan animation project!  You can see it full res up on deviantart here:

Steven Universe is one of my favorite shows currently running; I couldn’t help but to do some fan animation for it!

Some animation I did for the League of Legends Taliyah: Homecoming trailer

Everyone at Powerhouse worked very hard on this, especially the illustrators who had to go through and paint each individual frame during clean up.