good news

I pretty much spent my weekend at montgomery but I'm nearly finished with my cell animation. I only have 2 more short scenes to go and a few tweekings of the two of the last scenes and I'm done. I should be done with these this class period and if not then definately done by tomorrow and I can't spend the rest of the time finishing up the rotoscoping and maybe title animation if I have time.

deni

not much

not much to say in this one. I'm taking 3 studios right now so unfortunately I didn't have time to work on my film since last class. But I did make good headway last class, scene 4 of the six scenes I have to animate is half done so I'm happy about that. I still have 1 and a half more rotoscoped scenes to do.

deni

sllllllloooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwww

Okay, everything's coming along super slow but at least coming along. I have 6 scenes to animate and 3 rotoscopes to do, I animated 3 scenes over the weekend and did 1 and a half rotoscopes. I still would've liked to have gotten more done but we still have a few weeks left and thats about all the time I need if that. I had a few questions about the scenes in two of my animations but I forgot to put them on my disk drive so I'll just bring them wednesday.

deni

done

okay i'm pretty much done with backgrounds. I just have to fill in some little things in the last one and I can start animating. I've already begun my rotoscoping and am halfway through. So I think i'm making good progress with some and should be making better progress with others but overall i think I'm doing okay. I have 6 backgrounds overall, I'm sure I'll realize I need a few more when I start animating but those most likely won't be a big deal.


Research
Visuals -done


Develop
Background
Sketch -done


Background
Color -done


Background
Film Shoot -done


Live Action
Reference
Research -done


Gather
Sound - done


Import
Sound -done


File Set Up

Animate
Rough
Drawings

Clean
Rough
Drawings -done

Color -done

Cleanup
Drawings





done

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

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

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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