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Me and my Dad

Background idea

Wolf

This is a wolfy for my film.

Background Idea

Some preproduction designs

Mike

I wanted to paint Mike, so I did :P

Late night Tortoro.

One of my favourite characters ever.

Life drawing week 2

Some life drawing, the top right image was the model hanging of something, reminded me of Trazan. I wanted to concentrate on the arms here because of the weight of him being held.

Bear Turnaround, or man in a bear suit turn around...

Some life drawing

Have to admit this is the first life drawing session for awhile since it's been stopped at uni, but I went along to this session at Milgi's and it was really cool.  A little rusty, but next week I can step it up a notch!

After Effects

First thingy done in After Effects. Followed a tutorial that was way(!) out of my depth, but I think it turned out alright...

Points if you can guess what the music is.

Also sorry about the quality, I think it has something to do with the uploading.

Pablo Navarro

Today I received an email back from Pablo Navarro,
his bio is here for anyone who wants to brush up on who he was and is today. It is really interesting and I think it had a lot of very good information for people to take on board...
Overheard someone in my life drawing session today say, ''You can never have too much information'' and I thought that it was very true.

So here it is, check it out, buy the book! There's more interesting people inside too.

http://www.squeezestudio.com/SStudiopress/

Some Pre Production

This was a princess design which is close to the final design. Obviously she needs tidying up around the edges. 

Some colour tests of the previous character

These were a lot of practice princesses, before I decided upon an Indian Princess.

More lipsync

It's half term so I came into uni but took a little break from my pre-production to do some lipsync practice with flash, because I will be doing my film on Flash it's probably always good to get a little practice in.

It's me saying, ''My pen!'' which is an in joke...

Lipsync

Here is some lipsync I did during our Flash project.

Amazing!

This film is called Nocturna and I didn't realise that one of my favourite Studios ''Headless'' worked on it also. Also the very brilliant Pablo Navarro, who is very inspiring.
You have to watch it, (if I know you then borrow it from Caela)

Inspiration! Mary Blair

Mary Blair is pretty amazing, I think because I'm doing my film in flash this year- so I kind of want to pay a little homage to her.


Here are some pieces by the genius,

Albot

Here is my clip- would've liked to make it a lot longer but it had to be roughly 30 seconds.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bu6sfff3awk

Sorry had to link instead of uploading because it was taking a silly amount of time

Flash Project

Some development work!
We had to create a 30 second clip through flash- I had'nt had very much experience in flash so this was a struggle at first, but once I got used to it I really enjoyed the project.
Here are some designs for my idea-

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As you can see my Flash clip is about a robot- it's to the song by Marina and the Diamonds-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_oMD6-6q5Y

                                        

Here are some background ideas- none of these really worked for me, you will see the changes when I upload the clip now.

Moovie

 Ready for next years film, which will be bigger and better! 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBY-RfJTILs

Sorry it's not up here- crazy uploading thing on here takes forever!

Richard Williams wannabe

Bit of Richard Williams, planning to do more. This needs inbetweens but I just did it quickly to understand what Richard was saying.

Film film film

Tomorrow is the deadline for the films! And well, Im nervous, although Im finished I think we all have that sense of first dread/excitment showing people our finished work.

Anyway here's a bit of my film;



Oh and there's no sound to these clips because this is not the final thing, it's just a scene from filming.

Some final finished background from film

Some final backgrounds from film. I hope you like them.

Title Sequence!

At first I had no idea how I wanted to do my Title Sequence. I was very stuck for awhile,
I thought maybe I could hand draw it like the rest of my film, but it just didn't feel right to me and I stopped halfway through because I didn't like what it was coming out as...below is just a test-

I decided to, for the first time in my film, turn to the computer! I went onto photoshop and messed around for awhile, looking at textures, filters, bits and bobs. Decided a way to make the background sort of look like dragon skin- using block black and various filters. I wrote with white to match, and try and look like the tipex in my film. Then I added some smoke - because, well, it's a film about dragons. :)

Parts of my film

Production Analysis

This was a difficult, problem filled project. I think I really wanted to try something unique and challenging, it turned out though, once I figured out all the problems within the film it was easier to arrive at the final outcome than I had thought.

During pre-production I sort of realised that I wanted tipex underneath the character, I liked the idea of a moving texture, and will be a bit bold as to say it's sort of like Stopmotion when you can actually get the animators (finger)print on the work and have it boiling. I've always loved this affect so really wanted to try and pay it tribute. Also with tipex itself you can get all sorts of lovely 'gloopy' like feeling to it, or a harshness, or even a softness. I think I went through about 10 bottles of the stuff and I'm still a fan.

Because I wanted to have the tipex boiling underneath the actual character, and because I've always loved rough animation tests I really thought of how I could have an element of this within my film. So in this respect I kept the characters to line work and nothing else. It was hard because I wanted to film it in a way so it looked like the white was moving with the character, but on a separate layer- I couldnt use a StopMotion program because this would involve possibly cutting out each character and putting it over the tipex (which would not have gotten the affect I was looking for) or doing it all on acetate sheets, which would have been nice to try but was too expensive.


So because of this I had to film in Flipbook, which as we know is a line testing application and not much else so I was worried about quality. I had to do a few tests and realised from this that not only would I have to set up HD lights and camera but I couldn't have more than 2 layers within the film, because it would cause it to go too dark, another problem... I had to put everything onto the same layer if I could- and have the tipex photographed along with the background, repeating photography the background layer under acetate, for every time a character moved and also for the 'boiling' affect. It was tough but I liked the final outcome, so went with it in the end. There are a few things Im not happy with within the overall film, I discussed with my tutors from the start that I should do ridgid, clunky animation due to time restriction; because of a lot of clean up work but also because it would compliment the boiling and style of my film.

There are things I would change now, if I could go back and do it all again; but I am glad of this because it means I have learnt a great deal and seen things I need to improve on for my next project. I hope you all like it.

Bobby Chiu SpiderPig

My version of this - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMdfOz9Rci8&feature=channel

Bobby chiu's spider pig- he scraps the idea eventually... I was like nnooo why! >< Any way. Going to try and do a lot more Bobby Chiu stuff, feel like I've learnt a lot from him already, so because of this (and now that uni work is all done) I want to do (or try!) to do one a day? or every other day. Of my own stuff and also watching his vids. :D

Character thing...

Not my character- but really wanted to draw her- It's chris's, http://chriszammit.blogspot.com/

:)

Hit Girl

I love Hitgirl from Kickass, the comic are amazing. Try and get a look at them and dont just watch the film that's coming out... :) It's sooo good!

Ideas of story boarding and backgrounds

Finals

Character Designs