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.

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.

Playing around with shapes

Head Study

Head Study

Body Study

4 final designs for the Female Main Character

Character Development

I'm currently working on a turnaround for my original character Pankeikei, a Brazillian adventurous toddler!