Bryce Knudtson

Woman design.

2011-11-18T22:46:00.002-06:00

I cannot for the life of me figure out how this woman is supposed to look. She's meant to be a rich housewife living in a Beverly Hills mansion. She's fake, big hair, big knockers, vacant stare, and as easy as she is drunk. I just can't suss her out. Anyway, here are just a few attempts.

I tried a few different things with eyes here. I started with a wide eyed look that was meant to look like she had a thousand facelifts, but she ended up looking too cute, even with hamburger lips on the bottom left.

Here, instead of a tall thin head, I tried to contrast the dog's design and do a wide football head. This worked alright, but I couldn't get the neck size, or the posture right.

Getting closer here, I tried to move away from wide eyed, and tried to move into full on retardation by trying to give her lazy eyes, but it's difficult not to make them look seductive. Very fine line.

I think this is the closest one by far. I like the giant, round crossed eyes, and the ridiculous expression. I also like the cheekbones and the strained neck muscles. My only issue with this is that it would be much harder to animate than anything else. I find it might be too complex.

Character design.

2011-11-18T22:36:00.000-06:00

So I've given myself a bit of a deadline for this film project I got goin' on. As I previously expressed, I have the tendency to abandon projects before they're completed. I want ONE thing completed, so I can say at least I did something in my life.
Anywho, here are a couple designs for a dog character in this film.

First head rotation I've done in a long while. Ended up not quite liking this design though.

Thought it looked too fox-like, so I changed the cheeks a bit to not stick out so much and make the eyes bigger, as you can see below.

Working out the quarter angle a bit.

The body design on the right is the one I ended up going with.

I'll be doing a full character rotation this weekend I think.

Some more sketches. I think my first succesful up angle drawing at bottom right.

The happy one, as my fiance pointed out, is far too happy. He's supposed to be dumb and yappy.

Sketch of the day.

2011-11-18T22:25:00.000-06:00

A while ago I was given an amazing present. It was a sketch a day book. I was meant to put in one drawing every single day for a year. And of course, as I go, I fell behind and I abandoned it entirely, fool that I am. But up to that point I did manage to squeeze out a couple nuggets of expression that I thought were not too bad.

Boards

2011-11-18T22:19:00.000-06:00

There's a film idea my fiance gave me that I've been working on for a little while. I have a few preliminary drawings, as well as some practice I've been doing.

Boarding a couple scenes from "Slings and Arrows". Great Canadian actor Paul Gross' masterpiece.

Some concept drawings for my lip sync that I posted earlier.

Preston Blair.

2011-11-18T22:11:00.000-06:00

I've been reading the Preston Blair book - Advanced Animation, and it's so educational. Just copying the drawings gives you such a sense of form and expression. I've never learned so much from one drawing, (or several).

They're so simple, but they have so much life to them as well.

Obviously a Tom, and a suspiciously Bugs Bunny-esque character.

First post in a while.

2011-11-18T22:00:00.000-06:00

Holy crap, almost 4 years since my last post? My word. Alright, well let's put some stuff up. Here's a lip sync I worked on a bit, but as with most things, never actually finished. But I got a few expressions in there that I'm pretty happy with. Of course, this is Chris Farley, from "Tommy Boy".

LIFE

2008-02-20T03:51:00.004-06:00

Recent life drawing.

2007-12-13T21:58:00.000-06:00

2007-05-21T15:32:00.001-06:00

Gorgonzolla the conceited.
Eyeball buttons.
Sasparilla the chicken faced.

Stuff that's newer than old.

2007-05-21T15:29:00.001-06:00

Some early concept sketches for potential film
Crazy ridiculousness
Character design for a goat.

Life drawing.

2007-05-01T19:17:00.000-06:00

Stuff I did tonight!

2007-03-22T01:08:00.000-06:00

Head rotation for a character design assignment.

Expression sheet for that same character design. I think I made him look too much like Helo from Battlestar Galactica.

Layout, yikes man. I thought high school would be the end of watercolour type art.

Crazy stuff.

2007-03-16T17:12:00.000-06:00

Planets gettin' their emotion on.
And a crazy dude.
A crazy dude and a thing.
Some crazy dude.

Some more life drawings.

2007-02-15T16:42:00.000-06:00

A leg study.
Some gesture action.
Some more gesture action.
A sequential drawing.

Just some more experimenting.

2007-02-05T23:28:00.000-06:00

Nothing too fantastic you see.

More!

2007-01-26T19:07:00.000-06:00

More pictures I draw.

So I was on acid this morning...

2007-01-26T18:08:00.000-06:00

I just kind of painted this...

Eric.

2007-01-01T19:25:00.000-06:00

My first actual attempt at using Painter IX.

I got a wacom tablet!

2006-12-29T23:48:00.000-06:00

Hand designs and choppy figures.

2006-12-12T11:27:00.000-06:00

Hands and Feet.

2006-12-05T16:37:00.000-06:00

Random precursor to hands and feet.

2006-12-05T16:35:00.000-06:00

Screaming snail and the sub thingy.

2006-11-21T16:33:00.000-06:00

I really really wanted to draw a screaming snail for some reason.

Screaming Terry.

2006-11-21T16:32:00.000-06:00

Nature and that one thing.

2006-11-21T16:31:00.000-06:00

Weird Japanese Kyle

2006-11-21T16:29:00.000-06:00

What the french call a certain... I don't know what.

2006-11-21T16:27:00.000-06:00

Pictures that haunt me.

2006-11-21T16:25:00.000-06:00

Effing haunt me.
Like seriously.

Some character designs.

2006-11-07T13:01:00.000-06:00

Brittany

2006-11-07T12:59:00.000-06:00

Quick 10ish minute portrait at the Living Room.

Halloween Drawing Jam.

2006-11-07T12:58:00.000-06:00

Quick sketches because Chloe wanted me to.

2006-11-02T17:48:00.000-06:00

Aaand an eyeball.

Interpretation of a classic Spider-man movie scene. Is this before or after they kiss? I forget.

Life drawing w/ Keili

2006-10-27T22:37:00.000-06:00

The only one of these I like.
35 min.
Keili, if she were 12?

A cross contour and a couple 10-20 min. sustained poses.

2006-10-27T01:28:00.000-06:00

Some 2 min. gestures.

2006-10-27T01:24:00.000-06:00

Some 1 min. gestures.

2006-10-27T01:16:00.000-06:00

Maia.

2006-10-27T00:02:00.000-06:00

The girl I think MJ would be if she were alive in real life.

The latest.

2006-10-26T23:42:00.000-06:00

Cute characters.
Mmm... Yeah.

Last month.

2006-10-26T23:40:00.000-06:00

Is that the Eiffel Tower doing jazz hands? Is it!? Tell me!

Ever want to see a movie about anthropomorphic cutlery?

2006-10-26T23:38:00.000-06:00

Screaming leaves.

2006-10-26T23:36:00.000-06:00

Zombie, bus man and swirly face.

2006-10-26T23:33:00.000-06:00

Once again, don't really know what to say. Reminds me of that one bad guy from Batman Beyond, what's his name?

Random sketch crawl drawing of some crazy guy at the bus station.

My third and favourite zombie. I said beforehand I was going to draw a sympathetic zombie, and I think I succeeded!

Random oldness.

2006-10-26T23:29:00.000-06:00

Second zombie ever, and some crazy ass designs.
Joel again? He was certainly my favourite subject to draw last year. Must be the hat.

Some early character designs for a comic type book/thing.

Some crazy faces.

2006-10-26T23:27:00.000-06:00

Hey, who's that on the right? Is that Joel? I think it is!

Stuff from last year.

2006-10-26T23:23:00.000-06:00

Note the blood. I think that's what I'm most proud of in this instance.

I really don't know what to say about this one.

Life Drawing stint.

2006-10-26T23:17:00.000-06:00

Random old head designs.

2006-10-26T23:16:00.000-06:00

1st year layout pays off, Jared sleeping, and an angel

2006-10-26T23:13:00.000-06:00

The old stuff just keeps coming...

2006-10-26T23:10:00.000-06:00

2006-10-26T23:01:00.000-06:00

What gets credit as my first zombie picture ever. Unbeknowest to me. Is that weird? I'm like that guy from Heroes who doesn't know what the hell he's painting until it's too late.

Still don't get this. I was flipping through a long time ago and I came across this. I don't remember drawing a tiny Jesus. Ominous, no?

2006-10-25T15:30:00.000-06:00

Megan and Kayly. Vanished to obscurity, apparently.

2006-10-25T15:29:00.000-06:00

Just some random crazy stuff from a million years ago.

2006-10-25T15:28:00.000-06:00

What can I say? I like self portraits.

2006-10-25T15:27:00.000-06:00

More self portrait action.

2006-10-25T15:24:00.000-06:00

Some self portrait yes?