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.

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**

Layout

This month is layout month! I've started the layouts for scenes 1,2 and 6. 3 down, 32 more to go!

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.

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

I'm watching your lips

I’m too excited for animation! This week’s assignment is to do lip sync with advanced overlap. So immediately, all these ideas, characters, and sound bytes came to mind. It was overwhelming. I wanted to start NOW! I wanted to animate something EPIC! I felt my blood pumping. In my head I was thinking… “I will succeed!! Where’s a pencil? Paper?! LIGHTBOX?! OOOOoooH just let me animate!!” Ahem…yeah, thrilling!!!  I had to come off that comet of excitement and think logically. So, I found a sound byte that is 2 seconds and is very expressive. I’m either going to create a character or use a provided character model. Since I only have a week to do this…My logical side says, “Don’t make things difficult!! Just use the pre-made character.” But my slightly competitive and creative side says “DESIGNACHARACTER,FOOO!DOITNOOOOOWWWW!!!DO IT DO IT DO IT! And don’t forget to color it, foo…asdfghjjkl”

YEAH...!!! I’m going to calm down even more and focus on the technical, get that out of the way so I can jump into the animation. Remember, self, stay level-headed…ease into it…

Here is my sound byte…

http://portal2sounds.com/433#p=5&s=2 

My sister found in really fun lip-sync done for fun. This is apparently straight ahead animation, with minor clean-ups

http://youtu.be/5T4wvZiyWoA