Animation

A couple of keyframes from work in progress...

So Celaction may be a really amazing(probably the best) software for cutout animation but what do when the costs are pretty prohibitive for low budget/no budget personal work?Find an alternative I guess. So I started  experimenting with toonboom Animate Pro's ability to create cutout animation and here are the results...

More experimentation with toonboom...

Now this isn't cutout, obviously...

 

 

Tinga Tinga Tales

From 2008 to 2010, I worked at TigerTinga Production/Homeboyz as a character designer,layout artist and  an animator on Tinga Tinga Tales, a 52 episode children's series based on African folktales. I always wanted to do animation and although I majored in Graphic Design at Uni,this was  by far the most  amazing learning and working experience.

Sketches of some of the characters and layouts I helped design:

TingaTinga Tales_Guinea Fowl     

TingaTinga Tales_Lizard 

TingaTinga Tales_Wildebeeste

TingaTinga Tales_Wildebeeste

TingaTinga Tales_Vulture

TingaTinga Tales_Impala

 Some of the layouts...

TingaTinga Tales (Why Cheetah has tears )

TingaTinga Tales (Why Skunk Stinks )

TingaTinga Tales (Why Puffadder sheds his skin )

TingaTinga Tales (Why Cricket Chirrups )

TingaTinga Tales (Why Cheetah has tears )

TingaTinga Tales (Why Squirrel braids her tail)

TingaTinga Tales (Why Meerkat is alwyas on the lookout )

Some Animated scenes I worked on from the series...