Kotmale Concept Arts

Kotmale Animation BTS

BTS of 2D cut out animation from Madushan on Vimeo.
character animation done for a Sri Lankan TV commercial during Covid-19 pandemic crisis to encourage the people.

Digital Portrait of Myself

S.I.Madushan

Comic Stripe Gig #03

Comic Stripe Gig #02

Are you familiar with these faces? They were the pioneers' politicians who started Left and Right wings in Sri Lanka.

Comic Stripe Gig #01

Grease Pencil Logo Animation

Adding Sounds bought our Logo Animation to the next level, Music was Composed by Dimithri Rajasinghe from Odlo VFX (Pvt)Ltd.

Female Character - Mandy

Digital Art

Pencil Drawn Art 

One of my own Character design for the assignments. Spent many hours to complete the final artwork, but it was a good start to take out my imagination in head into paper/digital or to any art form.

Weight Push Pencil Test

Hand Drawn animation test done in Digicel Flipbook & Adobe Flash. Took a long time to finish this one, Actually this was started as some thumbnail drawings for a 3D weight push animation but it went all straight ahead.

Thumbnail Sketch for the Animation

Live Action Reference thumbnail drawings

Storyboard for an Animated Short

This is our Story board for the upcoming Animated short called 'Cowboy & The Sheriff. Whole Animatic was done by My self & Mithun Ram (Classmate). I did the Entire drawing process & few camera framing, & Mithun did most of the Camera Compositing & Foley sounds. So we were plan to finish the short movie before 2016 Jan.... 

Character Design for a Short

Illustrated by S.I.Madushan

Quadrupeds Analyse

Before jumping straight into Maya, I thought I just want to get some idea about movements & behavior of the creature that I'm going to animate. therefore i read some books related to these kind of creature animations, example for Eadweard Muybridge's books, Force Animal Drawing, Survival Kit...etc. And I Sketched few poses that useful to get the idea.

Posing Characters with a story

Phy.Strength

Sport

Climbs/Jump/Drags

Relaxed/Sports

Plan & Thumbnails for new animation

Animatic 

Key Poses

 Inspired from Monsters.inc Scaring sequence. 

My new Logo

My LOgo

This is my new logo, i created with my name initial letters with the adobe illustrator.

Vanilla walk Planning

My Thumbnail Sketches Vanilla Walk 

-Walk is Lean Forward with our Upper body & throw out a leg just in time to catch ourselves.These are the things that have to keep in mine when animating walks,
-All walks are different. 
-While walking body is moving forward evenly, there is no ease in, ease out.
-Mostly Up & Down poses give the weight shift in a walk.
-Arms & Torso Oppose the legs & hips

All walks are start by deciding on a tempo, then the Contact positions, where the Foot touching the ground their is no weight on it yet.
Setting the Tempo,
4 frames = Cartoon run
6 frames - Fast run
8 frames = Normal run
12 frames = Normal walk
16 frames = Leisure walk
20 frames = Tired walk   

Best way to boost up vanilla walks & stylized walks is reading the best book about walks Animator's Survival Tool Kit. 

(Sketch) A Run in Dumpyard

Run in Dump yard 

Actually me and a friend of mine (Ruchith) sketched this drawing long time ago. yesterday i saw this drawing and i had some ideas to add some light-ups and gradients to the scene. after adding all together i got this.

Obstacle Course animation planning

I'm trying to do a Obstacle Course animation like animation students are doing. cause it's brilliant exercise to understand more timing & more spacing.

1.very first the planning process.

2.after that i modeled the set by my self.

3.then the animation

Obstacle course planning

Obstacle Course modeling

Modeling the Set is the easiest part with the NURBS. Just added a GI Light for look nice.

When the animated shot comes, i planed to render with Maya Software Render, Because Mental-Ray doesn't support image planes. several times i try to render the image in the bottom with a image plane but it's didn't work.

Hand Drawn Obstacle Course BG 

This is the Background that i liked to put in my Obstacle Course Animation.I draw this Image with Photoshop. This is the first drawing that i draw with the Photoshop.