Toon Boom Choice

Here is a digital animation I made for my toon boom assignment.
First off I'd liek to say that I enjoy toon boom a lot more then flash. Not sure why, but it has an approach to animation that I feel I can comprehend better. Unfortunatly it seems a bit out of my price range and a student like me wouldn't have much of a use for it at the moment. I hope to become better friends with it in the future.

Many of my peers say they really dislike Toom Boom and digital animation in general. Which is a shame I think because I feel like I've learnt so much from it. There are a few things as to which I am getting used to. Overlapping action is one of them. As I animation my key poses, recoveries, and antics, I'm having a bit of diffaculty animating things like the hair settling and the scarf because those key poses falls on different frames then my main animation's key poses.
I also think I need to spend a bit of time and put a little bit more care into my drawings. The hands annoy me in a general note, some with a few of the mouths. There is just something not smooth about them that I think I would like the time to tweak and smooth out.
Now that I completed this animation I now know what I would like to do as far as building characters. As well as good mouths and hands, I can understand why someone might like to build characters with one piece for the arm or two. I can think of a lot of different ways to build eyes and feet that I think I should of tried. Or that I still plan to try.

All in all I enjoy Toon Boom quite a bit and I am excitied to hone my skills on it.

Self Portrait

This is a digital painting I did in my first year at Seneca college.

It was my first successful digital paint I ever did. I say successful loosely, as in - it did not look like a total mess on the screen. A lot of things needed work here. My expression, that gosh awful hair, the cheek and forehead area; the lips and teeth for sure. I bet you do not even look at that ear.

There are a lot of things wrong, but for a first painting it has a few things that I still rather like.
The cheek is well brought up and the eye detail is quite nice if you wanna zoom in that far.

It kinda looks like me. Much like an apple that looks like a banana. Oh well.