Just having some fun with a voice clip from my friend I found on my computer. I don't know if I should aim this to get finished at any point or whatnot - at least not with my major project going on. Though it would be fun though if I could have a little part of it done.
Not sure if I should bother with a pattern on the guy. It looks okey when he's just standing around but I'm not really wanting to animate patterns, and I can't stand cheating by having the pattern on a layer which is static under the animation. Also it might be needed at all in an animation where he's moving around anyway. He just looked a bit boring all flat colored.
Revisited the animatic as I got some feedback saying that some parts were a bit off.
Another tutor made me change the colors so that they all went along with one another, as well as making new costumes for the castle scene so it would look more like a party. I didn't want to confuse people by changing the outfits around too much, so I decided to not change the colors and overall shapes of them, also unfortunate as it is I do not have the luxury of spending a long time on doing pre production and play with things in a grand fashion unless I plan to kill off my animators during this production. I know they could be capable of animating something more complicated but we simply do not have the time to play as much as I'd like.
I managed to re color all the sheets I previously had as well as making a new one that is for the marry go round horses because I realized that I didn't have one.
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.
I'm on it again.
Attacking animation with photoshop.
Think I'll end up making the globe into a flatter oval-ish map instead, the way it looks is bugging me....
Anyways, was told to do "a personal animation" something "that represented me".
I didn't really know what to do in the beginning, but after an unhealthy amount of hours listening to Monkey Majik songs I found that I'd do one of their songs in a style based on anime openings/endings. I went with the English version of their song "open happiness" not only because my teachers would have no idea what the text is in Japanese and I don't want to subtitle it, the English version, although sounding the same actually have a different text from the Japanese version which fit better with what I was doing.
If anyone argues at any point this animation is not personal just because I say it's based on anime and I picked a song by one of my favourite bands...they simply don't know me well enough to find the personal meaning in it. ù_ú (and I have no intention of explaining it to you if that is the case.)
Uni decided to give us a project to practice making short movies for our third year. I went with the option of picking a picture and making a story out of it.
I came up with the idea of eyelamps.
Because that is totally not a recipe for creepy things. At all.
Somehow this ended up a bit more violent than what I initially wrote down. I guess that's what happens when you don't really have it fully structured all the way.
I chose not to add sound to this for a couple of reasons:
- I didn't want to do the voice over for the news reporter/commercial commentator myself. I felt like my girly voice would kill any kind of gritty mood this thing has.
- I don't actually have a music track in my head for this one. Just the squeaky sound of metal joints moving and "I have been running too much" breathing.
- If they don't understand the story from this...then I don't think sound adding would do anything for it.
