New animation!

Well for all those interested, I have yet another new animation for you.  This one is coming to you a bit late because our teacher was out sick on Monday.  Actually, that's not why it is late.  It's late cause I procrastinated and then tried to make up for lost time but ended up only finishing one project, and not the other... Moral of the story... don't put off today what you can fail tomorrow.
LUCKILY for me, my teacher was sick.  Not that I think it is a good thing to be sick.  I hope he feels better in time for the next class, and wish him the best, he really is the coolest guy.  But God put his hand in when he saw I was working so hard to catch up for bad judgments, and I was able to finish the animation for the next class.  So here it is!  I call it... The Great Sack Escape!... not really...  It is about a sack of flour trying to escape the bakery, only to get... well...  watch and enjoy.

So there it is!  Hope you enjoyed it.  Short yes...  I am not satisfied with the truck... didn't plan out the movement well enough.  But the sack turned out great!

So what was the other project I finished?  A storyboard... which I may or may not be able to show you.  it is big and glued together...  We'll see what happens.

Other than that, I have a new toy, but I'll go into that one later.  I will be doing a new episode of 7th Row center with Alex "da movie guy".  Should be up this weekend.  Also, if you have any suggestions of movies or genres or anything else you want to talk about, let me know, and I'll gladly bring it up with Alex!

Till next time

CHEERIO!

Behold the animator's pencil!

Weak 1 Update part 2

Here I am with part 2 of this simple update.
If you haven't guessed by now, I am planning to call each project a "weak", so this is week 2 for weak 1.
I have finished scanning in all the cards for the storyboard, and I am starting the next phase or 2.  The next 2 phases involve drawing the actual images and scanning them in, and compiling all these storyboard cards into an animatic.
An animatic, for those who don't know, is a simple and dirty animation that uses the storyboard cards to show a basic idea of what the final scene should look like.  Often, there are many tests between the first animatic and the final product, and these are also sometimes called animatics, and sometimes just called test scenes.  I am not going to be doing any test scenes for this short, since it is very simple.  However, I will probably explore tis idea later for a future project.
For now, I am going to draw more of the images I know I am going to use, as well as putting together this animatic.
I will try to make the animatic by the weekend, so I have something animated to show.  This will let me feel better about myself, get a better sense of the timing and length, and also set up videos on this site (probably through youtube).

So now I am off to pick up my sketchbook, which was accidentally picked up by a friend and is still at her house.  I have a lot to do, and little time to do it in, but what else is new?

Next, I will post a review of Monsters Inc. on Blu-ray.

Weak1 update

Well, this week, I was a little behind.  I had birthdays and parties to go to, so I didn't get everything finished in time, but I am still working on this and I have something to actually show this time.

I just finished hooking up my scanner again, so here are some very sketchy and weakly-drawn storyboards for your enjoyment.

I have a total of 35 cards, but I will only upload the first 5 for now.  Also, these are early storyboards that probably could use some better direction.  I am keeping this animation limited in terms of complexity, such as camera scanning and movement, and animation.  However, if there are techniques and other tools I should use to make these better, please let me know.  I will be researching more into this on a later project, but for now I will try to get through as much as I can.

Here are the first 5, enjoy:

I may post more of these later, but I will probably put together an Animatic to test the timing and to make sure all the scenes work out.  The actual drawings I have finished for the animation itself are looking really good so far, and still have more work, but I am excited that this project will actually get off the ground.
As always, I am open to constructive feedback and criticism, but do keep it helpful. :)