I have found abandoning Photoshop and work in Sai gets everything done faster for me. I like rotating my canvas and flipping it at a button rather than dealing with clicking X amount of buttons before I can do any of that. SAI I love you, why are you not an industry standard?
I have gotten around to finish the costume changes for the main character. I am not entirely sure about the dress though. I need it to be white and simple, but still keep her overall shape and not have it look like her coat. I figured it had to have the fuzzy part since the rest of the film is put at autumn, and the funeral part is having a completely black and white environment it would be weird if it was summer dress.
I finally got the Character sheets done, some help from Darren to color one of
them.
I also did this test image using a background that Likem did to see what the style would look like. I got an overall better response on the one that didn't look fuzzy, like one of my tutor put it "looks out of focus"
I have been in contact with a second year that was initially going to be my producer, however she was unable to take it all on so I will have to find a new person for that job.
I finished the animatic for FALU
It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, until it was about an hour left before hand in, because the hand in site wouldn't let me upload anything which was a real pain.
I got the drawings of the umbrella done so that it could be modelled as a 3D model by Conner, just like he did with Birger's scooter.
I have done a test background just to see if I could emulate the looks
of watercolor. I find it is quite easy to do in Paint Tool Sai, though I
am not quite sure how smart a move it is to use this program since most
people use Photoshop. However it is the program which makes it easiest
to deal with the effect I am looking for. I know the tutors would prefer
industry standard programs, but I wouldn't see the point if photoshop
takes two days to finish something that could be done in four hours.
I
am having Darren doing a rough little walk of Lia on the background so
that I can see what it would look like when I put something on it. I
will try out different ways of animating on top of it, I might end up
going into photoshop with it if I can't find another way of doing it.
Flash has such a distinct look to it unless you -really- know how to use
it, so I will look into using TV Paint. However there is the issue of
our studio being deemed a less important course by the university and we
don't have enough licences at crunch time. So all in all I will try to
do a draw over in photoshop instead to see if I can make something that I
like. I think I will do that first, and just use it as an example of
what I want the style to actually look like when it's finished and pick a
program based on that. Or just be one of those weirdos that decide to
do roughs in flash to get the time right, import it into Photoshop to do
the clean up and coloring in there. At least I know we have enough
program licences for those two programs when the deadline is coming up.
I
have also gotten a start on the character turnarounds, noticed I am
missing the 3/4 view so I think I might have to go and do that one next.
Crocodile Tears Darren was told his original concept didn't
seem to make the environment sizzling hot so I decided to do butt in and
do a quick color test with what I have learned from watching CSI:Miami;
drown everything in an orange filter at all times.
It was approved by Darren and I did a proper background for him based on the layout he provided me with.
