Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Background time

I was doing my background yesterday in flash when I realized halfway through It would look better and more consistent in the line tool and in black and white. So I deleted the color background done in the brush tool and restarted it in the line tool and made it black and white. It does look better and took me about 45 mins to an hour to do, I'm almost done I just have to fill in nightstand and the floor. I think thats pretty good considering the detail and everything and all the lines being manipulated line tool. I'm pretty happy with it overall. This is the opening over the first scene. I'm going to put the husband and the other woman in the bed. The main animations will be him smoking a cigarette and her cuddling up to him. I also want to animate the smoke. I haven't gotten too animating yet so I'm not quite sure how to estimate how long it will take but I should know by today.

Considering this background took me about an hour, and I have 5 other backgrounds, if I to do backgrounds a day I'll have all my backgrounds done in about 3 days, but I also have to add in time that I need to devote to other classes especially since I'm taking 3 studios this quarter I'm going to round my background time off to about a week.





deni

Monday, April 28, 2008

Char sheets

here are my character sheets. They are in silhouette so the 8 different emotions kind of had to be 8 different head shots because most of the emotions will be expressed through body language so most of the emotion is all in the action shots.

Here is the husband.




here are the action shots





here is the wife.



here is the wife's action shots.



here is Cici, the other woman.




here is cici the other woman's action shots.






The husband was inspired by the character "Father" from the show "Kids Next Door" and the mother was loosely based on the mom from "Dexter's Lab." I kind of made Cici's 3 quarter shot's head too small in the turnabout by accident. I like the how the char sheets turned out, they actually ended up taking a lot more time than originally thought. I used the line tool in flash to create them and it ended up taking roughly 30 mins to an hour each.

deni

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Hustlin

here's the lipsync we had to do. Its the same little alien only now he's singing "hustlin", just a joke I thought was funny




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Monday, April 21, 2008

Animated alien

I had forgotten to do the own animated character that we had to do with the jumping puppet. But I did it and here it is. It was done using the squash and stretch and motion tweening.




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another update

Right now I'm changing my character sheets. Not my characters or the concept just instead of the brush tool I want to use the line tool in flash , it just looks cleaner and I kind of want that clean sleek kind of silhouette. The only tutorials I have left to do are the lipsynch animation, the walk cycle(which I'm almost done with), and that one part of the puppet animation where you had to animate your own character.

deni

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Favorite animation website

I don't really have a favorite animation website. I've seen some but none have really struck me. But hopefully I'll but my own up and that will be my favorite. I'm updating my character sheets and just making them better. I'm also adding some rotoscope to my film so that'll be cool. Thats it!

deni

Monday, April 14, 2008

Rotoscope

Here is the rotoscope project we did. I didn't come out as smoothly as I wanted but it did introduce me to a method I really enjoy and will be employing in the future.




Some editing may happen to my script also and I'm considering using some rotoscope in it too.

deni

Sunday, April 13, 2008

My script

TRUE ROMANCE


INT. WOMAN'S APARTMENT – DAY – SONG: TRUE ROMANCE BY SHE WANTS REVENGE plays on.

The scene opens with a man in bed with a woman. The comforter covers all intimate parts. The enjoys a cigarette while the woman holds onto him.

INT. WOMAN'S APARTMENT - DAY

The scene cuts to the man and woman at the door. The man bids her goodbye and leaves.

INT. MAN'S CAR - DAY

The man is driving in his car.

EXT. FRONT STEPS OF HOUSE - DAY

The man steps up to a house and walks in. He greets his wife and child. He kisses his wife on the cheek and pats his child's head.

INT. OFFICE BUILDING - DAY

A man walks into a large office, presumably his and there are flowers on the desk with a card attached. He walks up to his desk confused and opens the small card, inside is a racy picture of the other woman. He closes the card uncomfortably and pushes it with the flowers into the small rubbish bin next to his desk.

INT. OFFICE - DAY

The man is going over papers at his desk with the phone begins to ring. He ignores it. Close up of the ringer id reads Nicole.

INT. WOMAN'S BEDROOM – SCENEBUBBLE - DAY

The other woman lays on her bed in lingerie waiting patiently with her phone against her ear.

EXT. FRONT OF HOUSE - DAY

The man is driving home and pulls into his drive way.

EXT. DOORWAY OF HOUSE - DAY

The man walks up to his door and opens it inside the walls are covered with red writing.

INT. LIVING ROOM - DAY

The man is inside and a swoop around the room shows several messages, 'You love Nicole','Nicole is your life','Nicole is your home','Call Nicole', ect. The man turns to see his wife and child coming to the door with groceries he quickly intercepts them.

EXT. FRONT OF HOUSE - DAY

The man is now ushering his family away from the house anxiously and the wife looks at him confused.

EXT. ROAD - DAY

The man is driving alone to work.

INT. OFFICE - DAY

The man arrives at his office to see the walls covered in pictures of Nicole. He stops stunned and drops his briefcase.

EXT. PARKING LOT - DAY

The mans walks to his car only to see Nicole sitting on the hood.

EXT. PARKING LOT - DAY

The man attempts to get in his car but Nicole attaches herself to his leg.

INT. MAN'S CAR - DAY

The man is driving alone, his body language is nervous and stressed, he is hunched paranoid over the steering wheel.

EXT. DOORWAY OF HOUSE - DAY

The man walks up to his home and steps inside but there Nicole is posing provocatively in the door way.

EXT. DOORWAY OF HOUSE - DAY

The man holds his wife and child protectively as Nicole is escorted away by policemen.

INT. POLICE CAR - DAY

The police pats Nicole's hand sympathetically before closing the door. The door shuts and Nicole smiles.

Monday, April 7, 2008

Clown Animation

This is the jumping clown animation. We had to separate each part of the body and animate them separately with their own individual key frames. The head, jumping cord, and feet were separated.




deni

Bouncing ball animations

For some reason it takes forever to process a video from this computer I'm not sure why. But hoping this works here are some bouncing ball animations.

This one was done by editing key frames.





This one was made using the ease in and ease out method.




sorry it took so long to get these up I didn't know it was supposed to take a good while for a video to upload so I kept giving up. But now i know.

deni