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.





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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.

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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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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.

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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!

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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.

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