Open Happiness I

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.)

Tumblr

Because tumblr is is the place to be these days I decided to make an art blog in addition to my main one Fuego Philippe, where everything I post seems to drown in reblogs of really cool things that I didn't make.

The artsy fartsy one is Fuego's Sketchbook, where I will probably post a lot of the same things that I post on my personal blogspot, Fuego's colored pencils - except without the walls of rambling and text. The people of tumblr don't seem to have the attention span for that.

The Amazing Eyelamp

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.

ChickenFox

My blog has decided to hate my youtube today so I just have to link them instead.


ChickenFox_9A
This scene was a bit tricky for me as I had to do a run cycle with a basket, but without the basket since the prop wasn't finished. The director didn't like it too much the first time around, so I had to animate a run cycle on the spot and paste it back into the animation.
The bear wasn't difficult at all, and was given the green light the first time around.

ChickenFox_5C_wip
This scene was something I started, but didn't quite finish, so it mainly consist of keyframes, especially the tail since I like to do the individual movement on that later once I get the run cycle right.


Both of the backgrounds are the stand in version from the animatic as the finished version was not done when I was working on the scenes.

Chickenfox_test2

Something longer and better than last time. Still getting the hang of him, but it's easier than last time now that I understand a bit better how to move the parts about without breaking him. Also I know that the playback doesn't play realtime, so I rely a bit more on the dope sheet than anything else by now.

Chicken Fox_test stage

Doing some tests with Cel Action for a third year film I'm going to be animating for. It's just a quick thing to getting the hang of working the program and understanding the way the characters are set up.

It's a bit difficult dealing with a program that doesn't seem to let you view the video in real time and I have trouble figuring how to get frames duplicated over so that things go on a loop.   (；¬д¬)

Funny In 15

The final animation for the funny in 15.