The Bat Returns

Here's the finished pencil test of my little Bat vs. Golf Ball animation!

I've had this sitting around for about a week, actually. I plan on taking this to full color. This is probably the last WIP I'll post until it's done, but I may put up some color stills as I work on it...? We'll see.

A Very Short Short About a Bat

About five or six years ago, during a high school summer animation thing AAU was doing, I animated my first...anything, really. It was a bat character reacting to a bouncing ball. I don't know where the actual animation went at this point, but over the weekend I decided it'd be interesting to revisit the idea.

So, this is me just mucking around in Flash. The whole thing took about two days of work and a third day to fix up some of my roughs. Cleaner roughs make a whole lot of difference!

I plan on cleaning this up properly and coloring it further along down the road.

Silmarillion Concept Sketches

I'm a big Tolkien fan, and the Silmarillion has way more stuff going on than the other books. I've picked it up off and on over the years, and I've never really had time to finish it.

This is a sketch I'm in the process of turning into a painting. I don't normally paint, so it's...an experiment. The scene is High King Fingolfin's one-on-one duel with Morgoth, Sauron's boss back in the day and more or less the Middle-earth version of Lucifer. If you're interested and brave enough, I'd suggest checking the Silmarillion out.

More concept work after the break!