00:03There are plenty of reasons to dance.
00:05What's mine, Pa?
00:06The only way to find out is to try it.
00:10That's it!
00:12G'day, I'm Tim McEwen, and I've been working in the art department on Happy Feet 2 for a while,
00:17and before that I helped do the storyboards for Happy Feet 2.
00:21So I've drawn a lot of penguins in the last few years,
00:23and I'm going to show you today how we draw Eric,
00:26who is one of our brand new heroes, one of our brand new characters.
00:29Come on, son, let's shake this world!
00:39I use a piece of equipment called a digitizing tablet,
00:43and my digitizing tablet is built into the screen, which is great.
00:47It means I don't have to scan anything from paper.
00:50Eric is a toddler penguin, so he's a baby,
00:54and he's about three heads tall.
00:56That's how we usually measure characters when we're drawing them,
01:00how many heads tall they are.
01:02And he's got very much a pear-shaped body.
01:05I usually quarter his head like that.
01:07He's got a little bow tie, like his father does.
01:11He's got little flippers.
01:14I don't worry if I make mistakes,
01:16because they're always done in such a manner
01:20that I can rub them out if I want to.
01:23And a curve's a dot!
01:25He's chewing on his flippers!
01:28Very simple shapes for their flippers.
01:30There's a curve on the top, two curves on the bottom.
01:35These are his feet.
01:38These are his toes.
01:42He's got one foot in the air.
01:44He's probably kicking up some snow.
01:50I'll continue to do this a little bit rough.
01:52I'll put on his smiley beak.
02:00Nice and rough.
02:02Put their eyes just above the line.
02:04All this stuff I'm drawing now is rough
02:08because in a minute I'm going to go over them again
02:11with a much darker brush
02:12to do the final part of the drawing.
02:16And the shape of the markings on his face go here.
02:21The other part about Eric
02:23that most of the other penguins don't have
02:26is that he's got a shaggy mop of hair on top.
02:29So you too are mocked and misunderstood.
02:32So that's pretty much
02:34my rough kind of indication to myself
02:37what the final drawing should look like.
02:40I'm going to go over that again.
02:43Now if I was drawing this on paper
02:45I would be using a brush with ink
02:48or a felt tip pen or a texta.
02:53And now is the point where I don't want to make mistakes
02:56if I can help it.
02:57Come on guys.
02:58Let's pick up the pace.
03:11Eric, like most of these toddlers
03:13he's really furry and fluffy.
03:16So I do lots of furry fluffy lines.
03:20He's got his feet here and I'm going to curl his toes over.
03:26Put his toenails on top.
03:28He's got claw-like toenails.
03:35Now I'm going to use a few grey tones as well
03:40to show a few more details.
03:42It's one of the marvels of doing this on a computer
03:45rather than paper.
03:46You can zoom in.
03:48Check what you're doing closer.
04:06Nearly finished.
04:09It's actually a reasonably simple character to draw.
04:14So I'm sure you can all do it yourselves.
04:18You should all have a go at it.
04:21It's a head.
04:24Hair-shaped body.
04:28Two feet.
04:31Two flippers.
04:33And there.
04:35You have it.
04:37Done.
04:38Well done, you.
04:40Well, you did it!
04:45Now, I'm just mad.
04:45Here we go.
04:49.
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