Wednesday, January 18, 2012
a curiosity
Easter Egg! Ever wonder what these guys would look like with pupils?? A few reframes from the second scene. Thought it looked funny when I penciled them in for the first pic, so I just put a few more in for fun :)
Monday, January 16, 2012
this monday thing will never get through my skull...
5pm Monday always catches me off guard. Last semester it was because I went right from class to formal dinner at my sorority, had to be standing behind my chair at 5 o' clock on the dot.
This semester... I don't have class on Monday, so I get all day to work in the lab. I get in a groove and then suddenly: AHH! It's 4:50pm! Update update update. I'm still having trouble uploading files to blogger from my computer in the lab, but I can write with no problem. That being said, I guess you should expect a text update at 5pm followed by at edit around 7:30 (after chapter meeting) with any video clips / screen shots of the progress that I can upload once I get home to my laptop.
Anyway, the last couple of weeks I've bee working on integrating the suggestions made by the faculty review at the end of last semester:
*Need more of a "build"
*The beginning is abrupt
*Show frustration with communication she has when she cannot draw
*She looks at him- then tries to draw. Maybe not sound effects, but make it clear nothing is coming out of her hands.
*Could make pencils and pens for hands for clarity
Maye she draws a question mark?
*Show the reactions of the crowd
*At the beginning you show the boy first. Instead, you could show her in the foreground so we know the story is about her.
*Instead of drawing a crowd they could ignore her. The anger could cause the ink to stream from her hands.
I definitely agree with the vast majority of these. I really liked the visual communication bit so I've added that in with Penny's first 'conversation' occuring early on and demonstrating how their world works. I've added some bits to insert into the beginning and reframed a few shots to show Penny the most and people reacting to her inability. People are a little more confused at first rather than going straight to ignoring her. I'm not THAT mean...
So, those are all boarded and ready to be plopped into Flash for animating. Other than that, there was a little that we talked about during a sound spotting session last semester, too, about Penny's "flight" where she runs away from the crowd. I'm going to have her leave the city altogether, clearing the background away to make room for her own growth. That being said, I'll be adding more environmental background stuff to the rest of the beginning shots, i.e. the world that the city people have made.
These new inserted bits are a LOT stronger than the first pass, I'm excited to see it all take it's final (hopefully) shape this week.
edit: Also, I'm meeting my composer/musicial/all-in-one awesome dude this week to make sure he's still game to make some sweet, sweet tunes for this project and start getting stuff down on paper. Stay tuned!
This semester... I don't have class on Monday, so I get all day to work in the lab. I get in a groove and then suddenly: AHH! It's 4:50pm! Update update update. I'm still having trouble uploading files to blogger from my computer in the lab, but I can write with no problem. That being said, I guess you should expect a text update at 5pm followed by at edit around 7:30 (after chapter meeting) with any video clips / screen shots of the progress that I can upload once I get home to my laptop.
Anyway, the last couple of weeks I've bee working on integrating the suggestions made by the faculty review at the end of last semester:
*Need more of a "build"
*The beginning is abrupt
*Show frustration with communication she has when she cannot draw
*She looks at him- then tries to draw. Maybe not sound effects, but make it clear nothing is coming out of her hands.
*Could make pencils and pens for hands for clarity
Maye she draws a question mark?
*Show the reactions of the crowd
*At the beginning you show the boy first. Instead, you could show her in the foreground so we know the story is about her.
*Instead of drawing a crowd they could ignore her. The anger could cause the ink to stream from her hands.
I definitely agree with the vast majority of these. I really liked the visual communication bit so I've added that in with Penny's first 'conversation' occuring early on and demonstrating how their world works. I've added some bits to insert into the beginning and reframed a few shots to show Penny the most and people reacting to her inability. People are a little more confused at first rather than going straight to ignoring her. I'm not THAT mean...
So, those are all boarded and ready to be plopped into Flash for animating. Other than that, there was a little that we talked about during a sound spotting session last semester, too, about Penny's "flight" where she runs away from the crowd. I'm going to have her leave the city altogether, clearing the background away to make room for her own growth. That being said, I'll be adding more environmental background stuff to the rest of the beginning shots, i.e. the world that the city people have made.
These new inserted bits are a LOT stronger than the first pass, I'm excited to see it all take it's final (hopefully) shape this week.
edit: Also, I'm meeting my composer/musicial/all-in-one awesome dude this week to make sure he's still game to make some sweet, sweet tunes for this project and start getting stuff down on paper. Stay tuned!
Monday, November 14, 2011
Monday, November 7, 2011
Monday, October 31, 2011
The Shadow Knows
Some pics from the shadow sequence in act two. Still working on combining these two different looks. The colorful bits will probably fade/flash in a out out frame while the shadows (see first pic) remain constant in moving across the screen. Maybe the colorful creatures are in her head, representative of what she feels she's getting from society, and the shadows are reality passing over her.
Monday, October 24, 2011
Boom! Inky.
This one was tough to rough! Wanted to keep it very loose feeling, which is actually a lot harder than I thought it was going to be. But that's one angry face! This scene was brought to you by the insane desire for burritos. Really. Animating while super hungry is definitely helpful when you need the character to be especially full of rage. Rage for burritos.
Monday, October 17, 2011
a domani
Presenting in class tomorrow! I'll be showing the first half of "Ink" with posed-out scenes being the least common denomonator. I'm still working on getting the shadow sequence to look sufficiently artsy while also conveying the passage of time and what's actually going on in the world. TBD...
Little bits here and there are animated, but hopefully things make a lot more sense now that they're all strung together.
Nothing to upload right now, as I'll be working tonight on pulling everything together into one file to render out and show tomorrow. Want to get as many consecutive bits as I can into the clip to show tomorrow.
On the plus side, it's getting easier to navigate Flash and generally wield the Wacom pen without everything looking completely wibbly when I'm working in a program that doesn't have a smoothing function. Yay! Considering all of the new boards are being done layer over layer in Photoshop. Small victories, one at a time. :)
Little bits here and there are animated, but hopefully things make a lot more sense now that they're all strung together.
Nothing to upload right now, as I'll be working tonight on pulling everything together into one file to render out and show tomorrow. Want to get as many consecutive bits as I can into the clip to show tomorrow.
On the plus side, it's getting easier to navigate Flash and generally wield the Wacom pen without everything looking completely wibbly when I'm working in a program that doesn't have a smoothing function. Yay! Considering all of the new boards are being done layer over layer in Photoshop. Small victories, one at a time. :)
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