Monday 29 November 2010

Got to the halfway stage last night. Am pretty happy with results so far. It's very apparent that I won't place very highly in the actual contest but I am really getting a feel for how good this contest is for general practice. I am going to make a conscious effort to compete in the following months.

Sunday 28 November 2010

progress

the next shot is up and finished. Found the lip sync a bit more tricky on this one due to the limited movements of the small character's mouth. But so far this is going well. Hooray!

Saturday 27 November 2010

...And it only took 8 hours...

Graaaaaah!

Finally got the 1st section complete. only 5 more to go, though hopefully they won't require as much work as the establishing shot. so without further stalling for time:



and here it is with the lip-sync



Might miss my deadline but damned if im not pleased with myself...

Friday 26 November 2010

FINALLY!

Had some major computer problems lately, but they seem to have been resolved, though re-backing up everything has been very tedious.

Hre are the much belated vids from the expression changes.

Here is the facial expressions, I was shooting for surprised joy, which I think I captured well, however I think I need to try drawing at 24fps for my actual 11 second club submission.



And here is the final version (had a bit of trouble editing within flash and was in a bit of a rush to get this finished, but i think the general idea went off ok. It has some very obvious clunky moments which I will need to work on. The basic lessons I have learned here is to not rely on motion tweens as they look terrible.




Here we have a test animatic for my flower animation. I had a terrible cough while making this which made the whole process a lot more tedious and difficult than it needed to be. Also I couldn't work out how to fix the lighting (cameras not being one of my strongest points) but it gives the overall idea. I also realised that I needed to scale the images up.



Unfortunately this idea didn't pan out too well as I couldn't resolve the lighting and focus issues and the deadline began looming all to close for my comfort. So I decided to go back to one of my first loves of animation- Jan Svankmajer. In particular the film "table manners". I decided that I wanted to do my own strange animation. And so it was done!



This second cut was done in order to tweak the timing slightly as the brief mentioned heavily that the images on screen needed to sync up with the music. Aside from a couple of blurred shots that snuck by I was overall happy with the result, even trying to use the blurred image to my advantage by trying to time them with the music as well. Almost as a sign that reality has shifted within the film- though I could just be trying to be a bit arty with that one....




Now I have turned my attentions back to my 11 second club entry. If you want to find the rules and soundclips or enter then you can find it at www.11secondclub.com.

For the fire SFX and the subject of What could have been stolen I decdided on a nice shiney Cadillac. Can't say I know for why, but it just seemed right. Plus I've been wanting to draw one for ages...

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And here is the shinier version

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And here we have the background to my first scenelet. I'm thinking of taking the pixel ratio up to 1080 if only to show off more of my shiny caddy...

I am also going to have to find out how to stop random bits not being rendered properly...



Not much time left now so am going to have to hit the grindstone hard and hopefully this should all be in soon.
Have split the audio into it's individual sections for each shot. Will get dopesheets and storyboards up later.

Thursday 4 November 2010

experiemental project 1st animatic

Here is the first animatic of my experimental project to convey a sense of what I wish to do. I will be using stop motion and plant matter for the actual cut. I also have key frames for the large flower going from bud to full bloom. Unfortunately I haven't been able to get the soundtrack off of moodle yet but here's what we have so far.

Wednesday 3 November 2010

nothing spectacular

Here's just a few ods and ends I forgot to upload

This is half a walk. I left It at half because it was less an experiment in creating 'rigs' using the bone tool in flash. I think it worked well in essence but is a very time consuming way of animating. I think it would be useful for more advanced motions and gestures than walking.



This is the final shot of my emotion animation, that is currently waiting on me to finish one last section and a bit of editing before it's finished.

sketchbooky stuff

Finally got around to scanning my sketchbook, a couple of images were lost so i'll have to re-scan those later but here's what we have so far. I still can't work out how to re-size my blog layout in order to have the pictures in full view, in order to see the image in all it's glory simply click on it and you will be taken to the photobucket album.

Here are a couple of storyboards for the heavy lifting excercise.

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Here is the storyboard for the emotion to emotion excercise.

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Here are some of my character designs for the 11 second club project. I was hoping to create some characters that were crude but that still possessed a charm. I'm hoping to do some more detailed and coloured version in Illustrator (once I've gotten to grips with it) but in the meantime here's the concept art.

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medusa

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And here are some storyboards for a series of shorts that I'm planning. I realise the humor, like the characters, is crude and probably only funny to me, but it's my own brain child so I can do whatever the hell I like...

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