Simple Walk Cycle
This time I attempted to animate a simpler walk cycle but still maintain a little bit of character in the walk. I started off with drawing the contact poses, then added breakdowns and inbetweens until the spacing felt fluid enough. Stay tuned, there are more to come. Nato, this is for you mate. Allow me to introduce you; “Ryan” a short film by Chris Landreth (who won an academy award for his effort in 2004)....
Read MoreMazal Tov Oren and Laurie!
One of my best mates in the world just got engaged recently and I got so happy that I made him and his future wife a little doodle. Congrats guys!
Read MoreWalk Cycles
When I started to work on the JR walk cycle tutorial I really felt like I want more, much much more. Once again I was amazed by how much character can come through the way we walk. I was so intrigued and inspired by it that I went on a sketch crawl to observe different walks and characteristics of people. Apart from that I looked at another great resource (before I actually set down to work), a 1969 short animation by Ryan Larkin called “Walking”. Anyhow, this is the result of my...
Read MoreFirst Melbourne Sketch Crawl
Below are sketches I have done while walking in the streets of Melbourne. They are very rough and basic, but their intention was to captivate a moment. Most of the people I was drawing became uncomfortable and moved once they realized I was drawing them. Each of those stick figures didn’t take me longer than a couple of minutes to draw. Anyhow, that’s the first out of many sketch crawls I intend to...
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Hi, my name is Avner, and I am addicted to animation!
Welcome to my work in progress animation workbook. Feel free to share ideas, thoughts, feedback or anything else that can help me evolve and further my learning. 
