Day: April 4, 2021

Inspector Barnaby

DCI Barnaby

Yes, he has turned out looking rather like Ralph Vaughan Williams in my drawing but this is rumpled Detective Chief Inspector John Barnaby, Neil Dudgeon’s lead character in ITV’s Midsomer Murders.

Four Lions
poster

Hopefully the good inspector won’t have any trouble from these characters, Riz Ahmed’s Omar and Kayvan Novak’s Waj, the hapless northerners in Four Lions who attempt to train crows as bombers. I love the expression on the crow’s face.

And I’m sure that no crows were harmed during location filming in the hills around Sheffield.

Sanjeev Bhaskar and Prof John Wright

These were all drawn from photographs in last week’s Radio Times, as was Sunny, played by Sajeev Bhaskar, another character from Unforgotten. Professor John Wright is a clinician and epidemiologist at the Bradford Royal Infirmary.

Easter Bunny

rabbit animation

Step 2 in my attempts at Dermot O’ Connor’s LinkedIn animation tutorial.

frames from the animation

There are 32 frames in this 24 frames per second animation. I like the way the rabbit’s expression changes with just a few changes to the lines. The blue and green shapes in frames 1 and 4 are a feature called onion-skinning. Blue represents the previous frame – as if seen through tracing paper – and green the next frame. By drawing an ‘in-between’, halfway between the two, it should be possible to get a smooth movement. The difficulty is keeping details consistent.

roughs

O’Connor suggests starting off a simple animation with a beginning and an end quick sketch of the action and one at the halfway stage.

action arc

Once you’ve drawn those key frames you get an idea of where the action is going and you plot arcs, so that things move smoothly.

I plotted an arc for the rabbits right ear but thought that I wouldn’t need one for the left. As a result it flops about aimlessly!

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