Came across a brief on replicating icon giffs today. Didn't use the conventional AE to create and animate but more.. Toonboom drawn, then animated on AE. I'm still not confident in drawing custom made shapes on AE just yet..

Found out about one minute to win games from a client today. They are many mini games you could do in a household; like throwing playing cards into half watermelons, stacking cups with balloons and many more.

In this project I found, I had to create illustrations to clearly represent these games.

This particular illustration took me a while to complete. The shading was poor but I rushed it near the end as I wanted to submit it into a proposal for a post I viewed 2 days ago.

I asked the client for feedback in exchange I give the final illustration to her free of charge.

I got invited to a project this morning. To create an anime based music video. I agreed of course but have yet to receive a reply.

During the rest of the day I decided to work for yet another interesting post I viewed; to create a realistic walk cycle digital cutout style.

I did horribly by the end of the day so I didn't even bother submitting a proposal..

I have much to learn in using the animation program Spine. =.='

A few more work produced for posts I've found from upwork. Sadly still no responses.


Client needed a cut out of a phone unlocking a door with a device. Took the time to animate it as making the cut out didn't really take me that long.

Another post I saw wanted black and white illustrations of past musicians like Jimi Hendrix

No reply from the client I hoped to work with on the last illustration I posted up. ;(

I decided to push on and find more projects to work on on upwork. Saw this post about animating Silhouette characters. I got to work right away!

Brief; to animate 3 silhouette characters:

Juggler
Tapeze artist
Contortionist

Worked on the juggler. Took me nearly the whole day but it was great fun.

Found a freelancing site called upwork where people with all kinds of needs from artist post their requests up.

As I've lost alot of confidence with myself and my abilities to work fast, I signed up for this site claiming to work for free.

Here are a couple of free work I've responded to requests I've found on the site.

The request was to work off the clients thumb nail sketches and create illustrations with no more than 3 colour pallets.

They've also requested the colours be; beige, red and white.

Although it was a fun experimental project, it took me 12 hours to create two of these pieces.. I really need to speed up if I want to carry on pursuing this line of work =.='

Bramble Idle

Unlike Ruyven, animating Kaori was a much bigger challenge. Alot of aspects in this animation still needs alot of work; The hair, body rotation and skirt rotation did not turn out as I wanted it to.

I only wish I started this sooner for you to see. 

Experimenting with spine to bring Ryu to life. Wasn't happy with how the sword rotates but overall it was an exciting project to work on. Hope to improve this style further.