#creature animation

Before I forget - honse WIP

this is the CGI creature shot from Hysteria! that impressed me so much. what made me sit bolt upright and hit replay like ten times is how the demon uses his wings like an actual animal with bat wings, ie, like arms. notice how he puts his weight on the wrist and then finger joint to haul his body upright, and then if you look closely you can see he's not only using his wings to do a pushup, but his feet then entirely leave the ground and he balances on his wing finger joints (while swaying as he achieves the upright posture, and the leather of the wings sways too) to make his threatening gesture. it's really good, i dont think ive ever seen an animation choreographed quite like this for a winged humanoid creature. i also really like his design, the entwined horns are great, the face is genuinely scary and gross, the dead eyes and so on. he's in the DOOM genre of demon designs, which is correct for the setting since the show is about heavy metal satanic panic. this is only episode 5 and he's shown up briefly a handful of times but this is the best and longest shot of him so far, i really hope they dump more screentime into this guy because the animators were CLEARLY allowed to actually flex, someone who knows anatomy and biomechanics worked on this and put their love into it and it shows. the rest of the show is alright

Context: So before, I would watch animation greedy memes and when I do I imagine a lot of stuff so I, decided that I would try to animate my imagination. There is no coherent story to this animation, but much rather based on what comes to my mind when I make it. I wanted to be more experimental in animating nowadays. I get tired with sticking to one artstyle so I have different artstyles.

This shot was a labor of love, so happy I got to flex my creature and FX animation skills in this shot along with the character animation!

"Fish-bird flying" animate study

Also hear is a terrible WIP of one swimming.