Tuesday, December 25, 2012
Thursday, October 4, 2012
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Repackaged Energy!!
What a new way to think when creating art. Have to create, No design something that is visually creative, original, and stunning. Anyways.
Project: Packaging Project
Redesign package for an energy drink.
I chose the energy drink "Mother", marketed in Australia. I wouldn't say these are very design-y just very illustrative-y.
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Storyboarding Class
This semester I'm taking a Storyboarding class with the famous Mark Michelon!! This is our second assignment: Storyboard a kid who wakes up frighten in the middle of the night then runs into his parents bedroom to find a surprise. The SURPRISE is the last panel.
Thursday, September 13, 2012
My FINAL semester
My final semester has started!! Wait...WHAT? Wow, five years never felt so...evenly paced? It was nice living in this college bubble of having a schedule and having 3 day weekend after the first year. Soon I shall be in the adult world. Married and (hopefully) with a job. I want to make this one of the best well planned semesters.
My classes for this semester are: Storyboarding, Intro into Graphic Design, Special Studies, and Senior Program. Looks like this schedule will work out. I have enough time to devote to the completion of my student film. So, in December look out for "Silly" :D
My classes for this semester are: Storyboarding, Intro into Graphic Design, Special Studies, and Senior Program. Looks like this schedule will work out. I have enough time to devote to the completion of my student film. So, in December look out for "Silly" :D
Monday, July 30, 2012
First Test shot
Ha ha! The end of the summer has picked up speed again! I managed to complete a test of scene 01 from Silly. Take a look:
Test Scene_01
It's a small walk cycle where Debra walks through an angry crowd. Simple walk for now, must develop character's attitude soon.
I plan on animating my entire film in Toon Boom then compositing it in After Effects. My school's computers are an EXCELLENT resource. I could not do this with them.
Test Scene_01
It's a small walk cycle where Debra walks through an angry crowd. Simple walk for now, must develop character's attitude soon.
I plan on animating my entire film in Toon Boom then compositing it in After Effects. My school's computers are an EXCELLENT resource. I could not do this with them.
Layouts!!
Today, I shall share how far I've completed the lay outs for the film. There are about 6-7 layouts (35 scenes in total) to sketch and color. Then I need to finalize them in terms of line and color, which I'm not too sure about. I don't know if it's too bright or dark. I hope to get a second opinion on this soon.
**NOTE: SAVE OFTEN, no matter what the computer or program, SAVE OFTEN**
**NOTE: SAVE OFTEN, no matter what the computer or program, SAVE OFTEN**
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Sketches of background Characters
This week, I share the sketches of background characters from a scene from the movie. These character are shocked and angered that Debra is going to dance with Lewis. Soon, they will be lined and colored
Friday, June 22, 2012
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Layout
This month is layout month! I've started the layouts for scenes 1,2 and 6. 3 down, 32 more to go!
Monday, June 4, 2012
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Ink
My characters, INKED
As a BONUS here is a character size chart. Next for these guys is coloring and test animation.
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Character Turnarounds
The Spring 2012 Semester is over! I have a complete, Aubry approved animatic. Now on to step 2 PRODUCTION! For the end of May I want to get the characters designs down then for June work on the layout, by Mid June to July I will start animating. Here are the turnaround for Debra, Lewis, and the Bully (who still needs a Name)
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| Bully |
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| Debra |
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| Lewis |
Saturday, May 19, 2012
End of Spring semester...Start of FILM
The Spring 2012 semester is over! After a day of catching up on some sleep I will begin animating my student film. After three months of hard work here is the final (or close to final) animatic
By the end of this summer I hope to have a developed/completed film.
Thursday, May 3, 2012
Film Progress for the month of May!
Since my last update.I have developed a complete story!
The film will take place in 1954 at a little school in Maryland when a previously segregated white elementary school must now enroll black students. Enter Debra, a quiet and hopeful black student. On her first day she is bombarded by angry parents, students, and teachers. In the hallways, she is confronted by a bully who causes her to trip over herself, spilling all of her papers and books on the floor. The bully leaves laughing at Debra. Sad, Debra begins to pick up her stuff when Lewis appears and helps her gather her materials. They smile at each other giving Debra hope that perhaps Lewis is not as cruel as everyone else and will be he friend. They seperate and go to class. Debra is feeling sad, when Lewis sits next to her in class. They have a jovial conversation, when the Bully returns but this time with a group of classmates. The group scolds Lewis for sitting next to Debra and sneer at Debra for attempting to make a friend. The bullies then force Lewis to follow them and he is taken away. Debra is now in complete depression. when she looks down at her desk she see that Lewis has left a book on her desk with a flyer in the pages for a school dance later that night. She takes this to be a sign that perhap Lewis met to ask her to the dance and wants to be her boyfriend. It is with that hope that she goes to the dance. But at the dance she is a wall flower. No one wants to dance with her or even sit by her. Solemly she looks out onto the dance floor and spots Lewis dancing with the bully that was so mean to her earlier in the day. Debra closes her eyes, sighs, and realizes they were never friends. Once she reopens her eyes she see a hand extended out towards her she looks up and see that it's Lewis asking her to dance. Happliy she takes his hand and rushes to the dance floor. Everyone in the gym is shocked to see this happening. They dance a lovely ballroom dance when Lewis faces Debra and motions to give her a kiss. Debra does the same when all of a sudden, Lewis begins to fade and Debra realizes that it was all a fantasy. She is still sitting, alone with no one next to her, no one wanting to dance with her, and no one to be her friend.
Emotional?! Yes.
I worked on the storyboards and timed the animatic to the song Silly, by Deniece Williams. I love that song. It's what inspired me to created this film. When I showed the animatic to Aubry, during the many one-on-one sessions, he liked it but said I could not use the song due to copyright laws. He suggested either getting permission to use the song or use the orchestra on campus to produce a score that fit the mood of the film. He also commented that the Silly was to light of a song for this film. "Ok" I said, but in my mind, so many questions about what to do for either musical process came to mind.
With the mind set of creating a score for my film I talked to an alumni who previous had a score for his student film. He suggest that I find a song that fits the mood of the story perfectly and time the animatic to that song so when I show it to the composer they have a beat structure to work with. So, to get a better grasp on the film I changed the song/timing to go with Etta James, Fool That I Am.
Once again I presented the revised animatic to Aubry. He loved the new song. It really does fit better with the tone, mood of the film. BUT he critqued that with the new song the film had unresolved character probelms. For example "Why is the BULLY the only person with a problem with Debra?" "What happens to Debra and the BULLY? Do they have a showdown afterwards?" To resolve this he advised me to take out the bully and replace that idea with a telling story that the school is her conflcit and Lewis is taken away by a more attrative girl who just gives a look to Lewis saying "you should NOT be with her" I sighed a little inside. Gah, a large modification to the story, but hey, I did it. Even though I felt the bully was stronger.
Tuesday, I met with my special studies class for the final time and debut my revised animatic.Hands down my classmates and Aubry love the revised animatic. Some classmates felt so bad for Debra that they urged for some happy ending for her where as others were satisfied with the ending because that was the sitauation at the time(1950's racism, etc). Aubry even commented that I should get permission to used this song (which he doesn't say often) because it fit so well with this film. I was thrilled! At my classmate reaction and at Aubry approval.
Next step: Manage to get permission to use the song, finalized character designs, begin working on layout, and create a visual development board for Final Week. I'm really loving this process.
The film will take place in 1954 at a little school in Maryland when a previously segregated white elementary school must now enroll black students. Enter Debra, a quiet and hopeful black student. On her first day she is bombarded by angry parents, students, and teachers. In the hallways, she is confronted by a bully who causes her to trip over herself, spilling all of her papers and books on the floor. The bully leaves laughing at Debra. Sad, Debra begins to pick up her stuff when Lewis appears and helps her gather her materials. They smile at each other giving Debra hope that perhaps Lewis is not as cruel as everyone else and will be he friend. They seperate and go to class. Debra is feeling sad, when Lewis sits next to her in class. They have a jovial conversation, when the Bully returns but this time with a group of classmates. The group scolds Lewis for sitting next to Debra and sneer at Debra for attempting to make a friend. The bullies then force Lewis to follow them and he is taken away. Debra is now in complete depression. when she looks down at her desk she see that Lewis has left a book on her desk with a flyer in the pages for a school dance later that night. She takes this to be a sign that perhap Lewis met to ask her to the dance and wants to be her boyfriend. It is with that hope that she goes to the dance. But at the dance she is a wall flower. No one wants to dance with her or even sit by her. Solemly she looks out onto the dance floor and spots Lewis dancing with the bully that was so mean to her earlier in the day. Debra closes her eyes, sighs, and realizes they were never friends. Once she reopens her eyes she see a hand extended out towards her she looks up and see that it's Lewis asking her to dance. Happliy she takes his hand and rushes to the dance floor. Everyone in the gym is shocked to see this happening. They dance a lovely ballroom dance when Lewis faces Debra and motions to give her a kiss. Debra does the same when all of a sudden, Lewis begins to fade and Debra realizes that it was all a fantasy. She is still sitting, alone with no one next to her, no one wanting to dance with her, and no one to be her friend.
Emotional?! Yes.
I worked on the storyboards and timed the animatic to the song Silly, by Deniece Williams. I love that song. It's what inspired me to created this film. When I showed the animatic to Aubry, during the many one-on-one sessions, he liked it but said I could not use the song due to copyright laws. He suggested either getting permission to use the song or use the orchestra on campus to produce a score that fit the mood of the film. He also commented that the Silly was to light of a song for this film. "Ok" I said, but in my mind, so many questions about what to do for either musical process came to mind.
With the mind set of creating a score for my film I talked to an alumni who previous had a score for his student film. He suggest that I find a song that fits the mood of the story perfectly and time the animatic to that song so when I show it to the composer they have a beat structure to work with. So, to get a better grasp on the film I changed the song/timing to go with Etta James, Fool That I Am.
Once again I presented the revised animatic to Aubry. He loved the new song. It really does fit better with the tone, mood of the film. BUT he critqued that with the new song the film had unresolved character probelms. For example "Why is the BULLY the only person with a problem with Debra?" "What happens to Debra and the BULLY? Do they have a showdown afterwards?" To resolve this he advised me to take out the bully and replace that idea with a telling story that the school is her conflcit and Lewis is taken away by a more attrative girl who just gives a look to Lewis saying "you should NOT be with her" I sighed a little inside. Gah, a large modification to the story, but hey, I did it. Even though I felt the bully was stronger.
Tuesday, I met with my special studies class for the final time and debut my revised animatic.Hands down my classmates and Aubry love the revised animatic. Some classmates felt so bad for Debra that they urged for some happy ending for her where as others were satisfied with the ending because that was the sitauation at the time(1950's racism, etc). Aubry even commented that I should get permission to used this song (which he doesn't say often) because it fit so well with this film. I was thrilled! At my classmate reaction and at Aubry approval.
Next step: Manage to get permission to use the song, finalized character designs, begin working on layout, and create a visual development board for Final Week. I'm really loving this process.
Sunday, April 15, 2012
Color, Color Bright, Intense color!
I am getting close to finding my characters for my film. I have also named them. The black girl's name is and Debra and the white boy's name is Lewis. Since last, I have complete my storyboarding and have moved on the creating an animatic. This Thursday I will have Aubry critique my work. Next to character design, storyboarding, I have started creating color swatches. This has helped to get the emotion of the film out through color. I'm not going to use any dialogue or SFX through out this film. The background music for this piece will be De niece Williams Silly. It's the song from which I got the inspiration to make this story. Anyways, the acting will be all in the animation. And that's something that is really emphasised in animation. The portrayal of GREAT ACTING. Here are some samples of my color work.
And I still have a quite bit more to do and more to post.
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| These are the colors I'm going to use through out the film |
And I still have a quite bit more to do and more to post.
Sunday, March 4, 2012
Progress on my Film: Silly
Since my last post I have met with the CSULB Director of the Animation about twice. I have storyboarded 3 scenes for my film. I found a great book to assist me in my research about UPA studios. It's Cartoon Modern. (blog located here: http://cartoonmodern.blogsome.com/) Where am I now? I believe I have found my main characters. I still need to name them. I've storyboarded about 3 scenes and have done tons of research. At first I thought the design theory of UPA studios was simple and easy to grasp. I was entirely wrong. In the process of designing a character in a 1950's graphic cartoon style, I marvel at how the designers of Unicorn in the Garden or Rooty toot toot designed their characters. What i thought would take minutes is really taking hours of studying, drawing and redrawing. I have to understand the elements of design to really capture the essense of the 1950's design style. I started by playing around with shapes then moved to doing head studies. When drawing the heads, I had to remember to NOT to build a character based on circlar soft shapes. That was a challenge, especially with designing the body. Im happy with the Male characters body, not so much with the female character.
I'm in the process of naming my main girl and guy.
I'm in the process of naming my main girl and guy.
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| Playing around with shapes |
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| Head Study |
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| Head Study |
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| Body Study |
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| 4 final designs for the Female Main Character |
Monday, February 20, 2012
Story and Style development of film
Hello World,
Alrighty, so I have chosen a story for my student film. The theme with center around 1950's intergretion and love that one can't have. As for the style I'm going to model it after 1950's cartoons such as UPA Studios: Gerald McBoing Boing and A Unicorn in the Garden. For this week I have to have some rough storyboards done. exciting, YES!
Alrighty, so I have chosen a story for my student film. The theme with center around 1950's intergretion and love that one can't have. As for the style I'm going to model it after 1950's cartoons such as UPA Studios: Gerald McBoing Boing and A Unicorn in the Garden. For this week I have to have some rough storyboards done. exciting, YES!
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Pitch Delivered!
I pitched to the Department Head today. He was impressed with what I presented to him. Out of my about 9 ideas we selected the top 4, so for next week. I shall have those 4 stories, just more developed.
Pitching my student film
Today, I have a meeting with the Head of the Animation Department at my university to discuss what I want to do for my film. I have several ideas that I want to pitch to him. Hopefully, the idea that we settle on will be challenging but not overwhelming.
Friday, January 27, 2012
Student Film
This year I will be producing a student film. Yeah! I will keep this blog up-dated with happenings of the film. First hurdle: have a SIMPLE idea
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Updated Portfolio
Hello!
I have updated my online portfolio: http://drgammage.daportfolio.com/
Take a look! :D
I have updated my online portfolio: http://drgammage.daportfolio.com/
Take a look! :D
Thursday, January 5, 2012
Character Development
I'm currently working on a turnaround for my original character Pankeikei, a Brazillian adventurous toddler!
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
A New day
It's a new year! New projects and new adventures. I have a complete ideas to draw out for the start. I'm very excited for what will come of the new year!
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