working on animations

I'm trying to get myself to work on animating every day. In this way, I'll be able to finish a rough animated music video by mid-January (hopefully)! I'll be uploading .gifs of animation roughs I do.

Meanwhile, here are a couple things I've done lately:
A run:
and two kids entering a room and lifting the lid off a small piano:

In case that image doesn't work, there is an alternate location here.

Recent Sketches

I recently spent a lot of time networking openCanvas with a friend who is a fan of Touhou. Thus, Touhou characters were drawn. Actual words forthcoming.

Update: animation work

I've been incubating an animation for a long time, and I've hit many roadblocks. I haven't quite finished itemizing everything that's holding me up, but suffice it to say that there are many technical issues relating to my own skill level that hold me up.

Anyhow, I figured it's about time I sort of showcase what I've been working on up to this point. Here is an old character spread I made:
I have a sort of circular issue nowadays, where I am unsatisfied with my current abilities, so I say, "why bother attempting to complete it, it will be less disappointing in a rough form." Really, the only cure for this right now is daily training, so I'm going to try and come up with a rough sketch on a semi-daily basis. Hopefully this can be worked up to a daily upload, but we'll set our goals a bit more realistically for now.

Anyway, here is a redraw I made of the two main characters of my animation:

Technically, the male is the only main character, since the animation focuses on his daydream, but the female is sort of a partner of his. There won't be any romance or any romantic undertones in this animation though.

Alright, new blog layout. I don't feel like re-posting my old entries, so I'm just going to add the images that were posted do a new junk-image gallery. Stay tuned.