The Cherry Red Shed - Screening Awards

Animation_Original_New Designers 2019 from Ruth Cann on Vimeo.

I am very pleased to announce that I was chosen for the screening awards for the New Designers Show Islington, where my animation was considered as highly recommended.

Animation_Shortened_New Designers 2019 from Ruth Cann on Vimeo.

Final Animation - New Designers - 2019

Final Animation - New Designers Show 2019 from Ruth Cann on Vimeo.

The Cherry Red Shed_Sene_1_Test

Cherry_red_shed_Scene1_test_01 from Ruth Cann on Vimeo.

The Cherry Red Shed - Myself - Turnaround

Myself_animated_turnarounds_vid from Ruth Cann on Vimeo.

The Cherry Red Shed - Grandad - Turnaround

Gdad__animated_turnarounds_vid from Ruth Cann on Vimeo.

The Cherry Red Shed - Myself - Rough Walk Cycle

Rough walk cycle and turnaround - myself from Ruth Cann on Vimeo.

I wanted to see how my character is going to move for my animation, so I have roughed out a walk cycle. There's still work to do on the hair movement and due to the cycling of the animation the legs are catching up to the leg swing, but so far this is what I have got :) It's wonderful to finally start animating her.

Character Design - Ninja - Lineart

Lineart Styles

I have been struggling for a while with how I wanted my Ninja to look like as I wanted to capture the essence of movement in her design, but also not to be totally abstract so her features would show up throughout the animation.

I looked into pre-existing animations such as "Thought of you - by Ryan Woodward" I liked the way in which he captured movement and fluidity and hoped I could do this with the expressive inked lines I created.

This is a quick demonstration of how I would have liked the animation to look, I used several of the lineart designs I drew from the image above and merged them to create my final look. All movements, would have been created more with the flowing ink to demonstrate movement and the stills would have been in a cleaner line style. 

Ninjas Gif from Ruth Cann on Vimeo.

CG Artists Toolkit: Animation and Character - Final Submission 2017

Animation Showreel from Ruth Cann on Vimeo.

Morph 

Morph Animation 
2 Coins - Ease in & Ease out
Pendulum Animation
12 Principals of Animation 
4 Ball Bounces - Bouncy, Bowling, Tennis, Marble
Lotte Reiniger - Review
Character 1,2 & 3 - Bouncing Ball - Fox Ball, Ball with Feet, Ball with Tail

Anatomy of a Walk Cycle

Walk Cycle
Walk Cycle Finished
Run Cycle
Funny Walk Cycle (Skip)
Jump
Throwing a ball/object
Halloween Animation
Christmas themed Animation

Weight

Box Lift - Heavy
Box Lift - Medium
Box Lift - Light
Flour Sack Animation
Pulling Object - Chair
Animating Life Drawings 1
Animating Life Drawings 2
X-Sheet
Lip Sync
Lip Sync with Animation
Abstract Shapes Animation
Maya Lip Sync - Jaw Bounce
Maya Lip Sync - Tongue & Eyes
Maya Lip Sync - Final Lip Sync

Animation Showreel

Animation Showreel from Ruth Cann on Vimeo.

Lip Sync - Animation Lesson - Completed

Completed Animation from Ruth Cann on Vimeo.

Lip Sync - Animation Lesson

full mouth movements (no body movements) from Ruth Cann on Vimeo.


full mouth movements (with blink).mp4 from Ruth Cann on Vimeo.

Dancing Girl - Animation/Life Drawing Finally Completed

I have finally managed to complete this animation, it's 105 frames long, each frame being drawn out by hand one by one. There are 24 frames between each pose. I feel as this animation has lost the flow that the drawing captured, otherwise this was a good experience trying out drawing an animation with 24 frames per second

Abstract in Rhythm Animation - Animation Lesson

Abstract animation matching sound from Ruth Cann on Vimeo.

Animating Poses - Maya (Continued)

Max jumping into air with inbetween frames from Ruth Cann on Vimeo.

Lip-Sync - Animation Lesson

First Video, done in class


lip snc Swan sketch from Ruth Cann on Vimeo.

Trying out Maya Lip sync - With song "Phantom of the Opera"


lip sync phantom of the opera from Ruth Cann on Vimeo.

Animating Poses - Maya

Max Jumping into the Air from Ruth Cann on Vimeo.

Reference image 1

Reference image 2

Human animated lip sync - Animation

lip sync with human from Ruth Cann on Vimeo.

New Beginnings Animation - Pre - Viz (so far)

New Beginnings - Pre-Viz from Ruth Cann on Vimeo.

Storyboard Animatic - With Sound

New Beginnings - Animatic from Ruth Cann on Vimeo.

Storyboard Animatic - No Sound

storyboard slides Animatic No sound from Ruth Cann on Vimeo.