Animatic

I've been working diligently on finishing my animatic for our pitches we had to present last Thursday. It definitely gave me an idea of how music helped keep the story going, which I hadn't even considered. Also it easily showed me ways to cut down a lot of the dialogue. I especially liked how some of the cross fades are going to look when switching from animation to the live action stuff at the beginning, middle, and end. I really look forward to the cross dissolve from the old, wooden look of the bull fighting gate to the dressing room. Since it's just an animatic, I used myself and my flatmate Sophie as the voices until the actors are hired.



Oh. I've also gone with the title of the film, One Leg At A Time.

Style for Hand Drawn

Been working all week trying to make an animatic and start getting designs for the clay animated section of my film if I want feedback on how to improve. The clay animation will be the biggest risk and will take the most time. I have the central style for how I will do my hand drawn stuff. I want to have the colorful splatter backgrounds that I saw a lot in Ren and Stimpy.



I want the background to be so colorful and detailed so that when the characters are simple black and white drawings like Don Hertzfeldt's work, they are more noticeable. I will do the opposite process for flash, by having simple backgrounds and colorful characters. This way it has a mixed style so everyone can have something they like. Or possibly hate.

Don Hertzfeldt's "Billy's Balloon"


I will be hand drawing the entire section of 2d animation over my Spring Break, so since internet is scarce I want to stay as far away from computers for this process. Instead of loading each image into After Effects to recolor it, I want to draw the simple characters on paper, then cut each frame out and animate it in front of the colorful background. The process of cutting each character could take just as long as After Effects, I would just prefer to have as little work on the computer because I know how much time will go into attempting flash.

Jose Line Test

Did my first practice animation of the 2-d hand drawn stuff for one of the scenes. In the scene Jose is pounding on the glass of a family photo album so this was a way to practice it.

Flash Story for Jose

One of the three different animations that the film goes into is the life path where Jose makes millions by selling aged burped tupperware to rich men. It's done in flash and I attempted the final outcome of Jose with his money in flash. Definitely will add more depth and layers so it doesn't look so cartoonish.

Hello Me.

Finally got going on my Blogspot after having it for quite some time. Thought it'd be a great way to organize the incredible amount of work I have and can see my development along the way. I'm working on a trousers/life film about a boy shopping for clothes but ultimately he ends up trying on different lifestyles instead. It's going to be live action up until he tries new life styles then it goes into different animations. I've made more work for myself because I want to get the most out of animation and take what I learn into my final year.

Thinking of ways to save myself time on animating and Mary helped me immensely today by showing me this Marmite ad with Paddington bear. It will save me building sets for my stop motion stuff and still keep it looking pretty cool.

Here's the commercial:

Here's how they made it: