Evan Minto

Drawn with Animation HD on my iPad. It’s much nicer to have a big screen when sketching this stuff!

Been reading an old Preston Blair animation book I had lying around. These are two walk/run cycles I copied verbatim. Gotta love that old-school fast run with the arms out in front.

The first animation of mine based on the Real Action Pose Collection, and the first drawn in Flip-A-Clip (Android animation app). I tried speeding up the frame rate for fast motions in this one, something I've never tried before.

I got this book of reference photography for action sequences from a friend about a month ago, and I've been making some short animations based on it. I'll try to remember to post them here as I make them!

Another quick walk cycle. This guy developed a swagger as I was drawing him.

More StickDraw fun.

For those of you interested in the recording details, songs 1-6 were recorded in my apartment using GarageBand, an Mbox 2 Mini, Samson C01U, Shure SM57, Taylor 110e acoustic/electric guitar, and Meinl Headliner snare cajon. The last song was recorded in my office’s music room using the same software and interface plus a borrowed electric guitar, bass guitar, and electronic drum kit (I don’t know the brands for each of those).

Pretty simple idea. I really like how this one turned out.

Sooner or later I was going to have to start doing some walk cycles (though this is more of a leap than a walk). Like the last few posts, this is made in StickDraw.

More fun with StickDraw! The nice part about animating on a phone is I can come up with ideas and roughly animate them on the train between work and home. Naturally this isn't a great way to get accurate drawings, but it's quick, fun practice. 

More animation exercises, this time with StickDraw, an animation app on Android! Again, because I’m on a Little Witch Academia kick, I stole a motion from the second film (this is Akko’s transformation scene near the end). It’s really ugly because I drew it on my phone, but I was mainly concerned with capturing the way her body compresses.