http://www.adammcmahon.com/blog Fri, 21 Nov 2008 01:33:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Sorry for the long time lack of posts.  Work has been busy lately as we try to get through the crunch time on Ice Age 3, and also I moved into a new apartment which kept me busy for a while and I guess the creative mojo just hasn't been ... http://www.adammcmahon.com/blog/2008/11/20/inking/ A rather quick exercise, compared to the last one.  This one is dealing with weight and primariley how it affects timing/spacing.  The circle is meant to represent a bowling ball.  The quick fall, following by a very small bounce and the object coming to a rest shortly thereafter gives the ... http://www.adammcmahon.com/blog/2008/08/17/brian-lemay-lesson-12-weight/ Okay, another animation lesson.  This one proved to be tax my brain a lot more than I anticipated.  I had to deal with Timing, Anticipation, Action, and Reaction, arcs, Slo-in and Slo-out, and overlapping action.  The idea behind it is the seaweed I animated earlier is now sliding left to ... http://www.adammcmahon.com/blog/2008/08/17/90/ http://www.adammcmahon.com/blog/2008/07/09/random-doodles/ http://www.adammcmahon.com/blog/2008/05/21/face/ Just having some fun with color. http://www.adammcmahon.com/blog/2008/05/10/crazy-color-wheel/ Here is a quick sketch I scanned in and added some value to in Painter. I might just have to go back and paint this one in full color, oh yes... I just might have to. http://www.adammcmahon.com/blog/2008/04/21/quick-sketch-monochromatic/ [HTML1] If you didn't go see Horton Hears a Who! (shame on you!), then you missed the trailer for Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs that played before it.  Well, Fox has officially made the trailer available online now.  You can watch the youtube version of it above, or you can go see ... http://www.adammcmahon.com/blog/2008/04/14/ice-age-dawn-of-the-dinosaurs/ Admiring his sweet new 'doo He has no connection to the 80's punk scene though, he just wants to look like his idol, Foghorn Leghorn. http://www.adammcmahon.com/blog/2008/04/06/mohawk/ Here are some loose rough concepts for a story idea I've had rattling around that empty space where a brain should be for the past few months.  It's an idea that I keep coming back to, which I'm starting to think means something.  I may be developing it further soon. ... http://www.adammcmahon.com/blog/2008/04/05/rough-concepts/