Walk Cycle 1

Walk Cycle 1
Pencil Animation Test
Runtime: 5 Seconds
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This is my Character Flintlock Jones  and his walk cycle. I did a lot of experimenting with it. I tried to make him seem confident in the motion. Hopefully that shows through.
Im also in love with the fire loop I have. I wish it was a little longer, but its pretty cool for only 12 frames

Weight and Impact Exercise

Weight and Impact Exercise - Made 2011
Pencil Animation Test
Runtime: 20 Seconds
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Assignment I had to make for my principals of Animation class at KCAI.
For this assignment we were to animate 3 separate objects of different weight. We had about 2 weeks to finish and there is a lot of secondary animation to it. mostly smoke and the feather through out the clip.

I really like how the feather sort of developed into the main protagonist through out the animation. Sort of a David and Goliath tale.

N64 Controller

N64 Controller - Made: 2011
72x52"
Chalk and Pastel on Butcher Paper
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Made during my Large Scale Drawing Workshop here at KCAI
Probably the only piece I'm extremely proud of my freshman year. I spent over 2 weeks working on this. and I feel the work shows.
The hardest part about the piece was getting the proportions of the curves right, and capturing the opaqueness of the controller.

CvE - WIP

(PREVIEW IMAGE)

http://wakman111.deviantart.com/art/CvE-WIP

Cody Vs Erika WIP - Made: 2011-2012

Flash Animation

Runtime: around 30 seconds

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A fan made animation for my childhood game Pokemon, and my friend Erika.

While this animation is still a work in progress, yet I feel that it is an important staple to shown how much I've grown since the release of ERROAR. A 4 year difference and I feel I have improved immensely.

V's Resurrection

V's Resurrection - Made 2009
16x12
Ink and Watercolor on Paper
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Yet another concept piece for my Flintlock Jones Universe.
This is picture of the main bad guy finally being resurrected after about a 100 year slumber. he is surrounded by his 3 faithful minions who have been taking care of business while their boss was away.
V is just a working title for him at the moment.
I really love watercolor and Ink, and I wish I had more resources to play around with it more often.

Crispy

Crispy - Made 2009
Still Life
14x10"
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Nothing really much to say about this. Made during my senior year of high school.
Very murky. The picture does not do the piece itself justice.

ERROAR

 (PREVIEW IMAGE)

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/493189

ERROAR - Made: April , 2009
Flash Video
Runtime: 2:07
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This is my first finished animation. This was submitted to Newgrounds.com, a flash website and community. The animation was given Front Page Honors as well as a Daily Second Award. Both are very prestigious to an aspiring animator.
I did not expect the animation to be such a hit to the community. But the amount of attention it gained definitely validated what I wanted to, and inspired me to push further.

Eventide: Al's Diner

Eventide: Al's Diner - Made: 2009
10x10
Ink on Paper
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Concept art for my fictional city Eventide. Part of my Flintlock Jones universe. A quirky story about a Paranormal Investigator searching for his identity in a 50's Cold War Era Eastern Coast City.

Header Designs

Typographic Inspirations

-Bambi

-Big Noodle

-Trash Hand

-Karmatic Arcade

-Badaboom

Goals

I dont really want to reach out to anyone. I welcome people who stumble upon my blog, but I will mostly be referring people here for my work, or others could refer/network people here for those who may want to commission or hire me.

I mostly want to express my aesthetic/humor/style/timing/process/etc. Really any variable that pertains to my personality or work.

I also want this blog to act as an archive for inspiration for possible fans and a my future self.

• Animations
• clips
• animatics
• storyboards
• pencil tests

• Illustrations
• concept art
• doodles
• digital paintings

Artist Bio/About the Artwork

My name is Cody Hawley
I am currently studying animation at KCAI as of Sept. 2011.
I have been animating for over 6 years now, and I have been drawing for much longer than that.
My first comic was made sometime in 3rd grade, featuring two very simple, geometric brothers: Spike and Archie. One wearing blue and the other orange, respectively. They were heavily inspired by Bill Watterson's "Calvin & Hobbes" comics, with a  pinch of Danny Antonucci's "Ed Edd n Eddy" and Genndy Tartakovsky's "Dexter's Lab". Spike and Archie begat my longest running idea baby, the Chaos Chronicles (which was inspired from Spaceman Spiff). The Chaos Chronicles is my most well known series between my oldest and greatest friends.
After Chaos came an explosion of creativity, and a great need to fabricate every idea's world. The amount of creativity generated increased tenfold when I started collaborating with my friends, and taking my own creations further by actually giving them movement by teaching myself Flash.
I would love to start an independent studio with them all, and share with the world what we are capable of creating.

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Most of the artwork is geared towards making a TV show or even something as small as a Flash series. Concepts to fleshing out their universe, understanding how they interact with one another, and generally try to create something original and pick at it and feel where it can pull the entire idea of the universe in different directions. I have hundreds of ideas, and I constantly add and subtract from each one to fine tune to perfection, and hopefully have a masterpiece from the foundation up; from start to finish. So its not about the finished piece as an end product, but a finished piece as a whole. Its about the processes and steps I took to reach a polished and desired creation.