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So I promised I'd upload some schoolwork and I figured this'd be a good opportunity to show some of the crap I've been up to. So far we've done three homework assignments for the class and are already working on the fourth. Here's what I got for ya:

Our first two assignments went hand-in-hand; they were exercises in character design, which I gotta huge kick out of. First, we picked an animal of our choice and were asked to draw as many designs as we could manage; typically around 10 from everyone. I had taken some photos of the cat often seen at our local art store and had them on hand as reference. So while a cat is usually a bit generic of an animal, I went more in-depth with it and tried to apply a specific personality to character. After choosing our favorite design of the bunch, we were asked to create at least ten different poses of them displaying as much of their personality as possible. I think I did about 16 or so and put my favorites in the final collage.

Our third assignment was the first piece of animation we produced for the class, which was to have a character carry a heavy object from one side of the screen to another. I went an extra mile and did two characters, with one of the two having two different animations. This was a good exercise for getting me back into the animation spirit, since I hadn't done any -real- movement in quite a while. Not bad for a start, I hope. Our next assignment is to make a fat character sit in order to display a sense of weight in appliance to the character itself, as opposed to them interacting with weight of another source.

In between the stuff such as this, I've been still working on a big secret project, which I've been applying some of the new stuff I've learned. It's not turning out too bad at all and I've got some good feedback, so I'm real excited about this one, oh yes. Also, mostly thanks to a certain class of mine, I've been doing some MAJOR networking...in fact I've gotta little meeting this coming Teusday I'm very looking forward to. We'll see how that goes. Still got other stuff in the pipeline and doing my best to keep track of it all.

Happy Halloween this weekend, kiddo's!

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Oct. 25, 2009 | 2:18 AM Mexifry says:

There's one frame with the hair that bugs the hell outta me cause it is so outta place.

Try using Doubles if you cant manage singles.

Oct. 25, 2009 | 2:25 AM Kirbopher responds:

Yeah I've been making use of combining one's and two's (singles and doubles) on some of the recent stuff I've been doing. Thanks for the feedback!

Oct. 25, 2009 | 2:24 AM zethire says:

I liked your character carrying heavy object thing, I got a kick outa it when meat ran swiftly behind him, and i can't decide whether it looks like your cat is trying to kill something, or talk, but I liked the designs anyway.

Oct. 25, 2009 | 2:26 AM Kirbopher responds:

Hariette was doing a lot of posing acting like she was a lil' model, so I went with a smarmy attitude to go with the cuter design I picked in the end.

Oct. 25, 2009 | 2:25 AM ikool says:

Awesome school work assignments!
Which class are they for? Character design? Animation? Drafting?

Oct. 25, 2009 | 2:27 AM Kirbopher responds:

My main class, "Advanced Animation Workshop".

Oct. 25, 2009 | 2:29 AM NeoMan67 says:

Hmmm....I like 'em.
Looking forward to the "secret project".

Oct. 25, 2009 | 2:33 AM Kirbopher responds:

YOU BETTA.

Oct. 25, 2009 | 2:33 AM FrozenFire says:

Cat drawings were great..animation was meh
Happy Halloween

Oct. 25, 2009 | 2:36 AM Kirbopher responds:

Meow.

Oct. 25, 2009 | 2:34 AM Mexifry says:

Practice keeping your drawing consistent.

A good book to learn from is The Animator's Survival Guide.

Oct. 25, 2009 | 2:36 AM Kirbopher responds:

Already got it.

Oct. 25, 2009 | 2:53 AM Skask says:

I love how mexifry is talking down to you.

Oct. 25, 2009 | 2:56 AM Mexifry says:

Im not talking down.
Im giving advice dipshit.

Oct. 25, 2009 | 2:57 AM GunBlazerNyte says:

Nice to know that your alive. Hope to see some flash uploaded sometime later. :]
nice cat drawings btw!

Oct. 25, 2009 | 2:57 AM Skask says:

WHOA are you mad bro?

Oct. 25, 2009 | 2:59 AM CooledSoup says:

Great stuff! Glad to hear you still alive, shame I'm half asleep and only understood about a forth of your post. :x
Anyways... cant wait to see moar!!! :D

Oct. 25, 2009 | 3:17 AM De-Line says:

the kitty in the 2nd set reminds me of a baby Ratchet ( & clank)

Oct. 25, 2009 | 4:04 AM CantflyRyan says:

Looks like someone had their paws full. Get it? GET IT!?

Oct. 25, 2009 | 8:16 AM Kirbopher responds:

Um.

Oct. 25, 2009 | 5:04 AM Cambo says:

the weird thing is, no matter how secret your secret project it, as soon as someone finds out what it is you just have a regular project.

Oct. 25, 2009 | 8:16 AM Kirbopher responds:

SHHH.

Oct. 25, 2009 | 7:33 AM bocodamondo says:

oh (;(...
i hope you can do parodyrangers Movie 3 soon

Oct. 25, 2009 | 8:17 AM Kirbopher responds:

Gonna aim for December to work on those.

Oct. 25, 2009 | 8:37 AM Thundaboom16 says:

I hear that if you listen to poop you get bettah ZZZZZs

Oct. 25, 2009 | 10:59 AM VidGameDude says:

so what's this i hear about a weeabo special Omah keeps talkin about in the pm's hmm?

plus it's great to hear everythings workin out for yeh man.

l8s

Oct. 25, 2009 | 1:24 PM icecold128 says:

i liked the flat and retarded cat the most..
altough that says more of my mental state then your choice of style

Oct. 25, 2009 | 2:02 PM Ukinojoe says:

Cats are generic? What?

Oct. 25, 2009 | 4:05 PM Kirbopher responds:

Cats, dogs, birds and horses feel like the four most "stock" animals to me. The animals all of my classmates chose were cooler and more unique. I wanted to to give myself a challenge with one of those basic four, hence why I went more specific with it as opposed to JUST simply doing a cat.

Oct. 25, 2009 | 3:26 PM GrapeHogwash says:

do you live with a bipolar cat at home for inspiration?

Oct. 25, 2009 | 4:07 PM Kirbopher responds:

No, it's based on a cat that hangs around the local art store here.

Oct. 25, 2009 | 4:42 PM Ukinojoe says:

I can't see how it could possibly be difficult to make a cat unique, I could write a book about my cat Charles

Oct. 25, 2009 | 11:20 PM Kirbopher responds:

I didn't say it was necassarily difficult.

Oct. 25, 2009 | 5:08 PM Mini763 says:

Meow :3

Oct. 25, 2009 | 6:22 PM WordOfHate says:

".in fact I've gotta little meeting this coming Teusday I'm very looking forward to."

Spelled Tuesday wrong bro. Just thought I would point it out.

Oct. 26, 2009 | 3:32 AM lenkobiscuit says:

for some reason blue's second cycle looked a lot better than the first. i think you got the whole weight thing across a little better there

Oct. 26, 2009 | 8:20 AM RYNOL says:

So... What's this secret project about? You can tell me. :3

Oct. 30, 2009 | 3:12 PM zerogranger says:

will you start workin on parody rangers the movie 3 soon? i hope so

Oct. 30, 2009 | 9:23 PM SassyCatMan says:

You a teh cool gansta of ma time.

Nov. 1, 2009 | 10:41 PM dudegiga says:

i hope we'll hear more of this secret project of yours. i i DO hope its either the last part of the super parody rangers or a fourth season of TTA

you rock man, keep it up

Nov. 4, 2009 | 2:19 AM ClaudiaKitsune says:

Sounds really interesting, Lucky your an animator and not an electrician like me ^^' However that does sound fun to use your imagination and get somewhere in life with it. a random animal out of nowhere would have been awesome. Like a kohala [however its spelt] or a Panda :D but keep up...and no your not dead.. your a god xD

Nov. 4, 2009 | 8:57 PM Liljoegi says:

PINGAS!!!

Nov. 8, 2009 | 3:35 AM bbhacker says:

if looks could kill ur cat would b a murderer...were u aiming 4 evil?

Nov. 8, 2009 | 7:31 AM Woudy says:

wow the drawings r amazing! good job Kirb!

Nov. 8, 2009 | 7:17 PM DarkLink28 says:

Oh man I love the brawl taunts they are the best! XD And if anyone here has brawl let me know and email me at s.nara16@yahoo.com. Because I currently don't have my ssbb friend code so yeah. And nice brawl taunt vid! I loved it. =p

Nov. 18, 2009 | 7:05 PM CrazyAsianMan says:

liked the retarded cat

Nov. 22, 2009 | 7:09 AM NGFreak7496 says:

have you ever thought of remaking the mario rpg:rawest forest fight
kirbopher

Nov. 22, 2009 | 7:13 AM NGFreak7496 says:

will u marry my sister karina she's the same age as you are please