March 30, 2013

Process Weekly

Filling in more breakdowns and whatnots. Think this short is rekindling my love for animation, something about just going at it w/o really knowing what you're doing and hoping for the best is exhilerating.

Dunnoo what the future holds for me (filling out some government job applications for now) but, whatever happens, I really think I'd like to continue this animation thing. Not just storyboarding for the sake of trying to get a job at a studio, but making films and making stuff that people can relate to and hits them right in the feels.

Been listening to a lot of The Moth's podcasts and man...the stories there are just so...great.


March 28, 2013

Chavant father

Probably won't be able to work on this more until the semester is over, so for now I will just document this wip incase I step on it or something. Really enjoy the chavant clay, it's very malleable when it's heated (with a very inefficient incandescent light bulb!) but gets very tough when it cools down so you can really get in there and sculpt some hard edges.

Will totally do the son next- lotsa fun.








March 27, 2013

Birdman jr.

Thing about this character is he was brought in from a very passive role in the story to represent something a little more substantial to the overall narrative- funny how small ideas can really come center stage.




March 25, 2013

Story Portfolio 2013

New story portfolio up and running. Tidbits from some "boardadays", a short I've been working on with a buddy, some thrown out scenes from my current short that was more plot than anything- but I still kinda liked the staging of it. Miscellaneous stuff here and there. Good luck to everyone applying- especially those graduating




Bottles, bottles everywhere

very rough thing I'm trying, whoooo! 


March 20, 2013

March 19, 2013

Faux empire

Pickin' apples...



March 18, 2013

Running up that hill

Clip from some things I've been working on.

No idea if I'll be able to finish this film, but just gonna keep runnin' with it


The Long Goodbye #1

Taking a break from animating. The scene transitions in these are sooo good.

42 days!




March 17, 2013

Short scraps #1

one of many scenes that I've had to cut- it's especially kinda painful when they're past the blocking stage, but...it's for the best

March 12, 2013

The Homecoming

Ray Bradbury's story of all Hallows' Eve.





Mindhack

We've been using conte again in bodies and motion, and I totally forgot how fun it is to use. I stopped using it though because I was getting too comfortable and it's really not a useful thing to know if you want to get into storyboarding...or so I think.

Was talking to my senior project teacher about the "style" of my film and was explaining how it's actually easier for me to animate shapes than animate a line and then fill it in with color. She said something that's been on my mind for the past week:

"If only you could lay in the shape and then outline, huh?"

That's just the ticket! 

Then on top of that, Nathan Fowkes (who kind of draws the same way I do, except...better) has just been on two interviews, here and here, where he recounts an instance in which Glenn Vilppu ALSO makes that distinction between "Tone" and "Line" drawing.

Glenn Vilppu: "You're a background painter aren't you?"
Nathan Fowkes: "Well I am a background painter, how did you know that?"
Glenn Vilppu: "Everyone else in here are animators and they're all drawing in line, you're the only one who is drawing in tone- you have to be a background painter."

Which has actually gotten me thinking on whether I should get into boarding. I really love boarding, thinking about the editing, the camera, continuity and really polishing a story to see what's needed or not, etc. However, it feels like I'm going against my "natural" way of seeing and mark making, which could probably be put to better use doing something else (background painting???).

I do want to stick with making storyboards since it's a really fun process, and would like to eventually use a pen, sharpie, or wacom the same way I do a conté. So, I've been trying to trick my brain to think the same way it does when it's got a conté in its hand which I have noticed is indeed very different. Something about holding a stylus just flips my mind around.

For now it's really annoying because it does become something of a two step process. With time, hopefully, I won't have to think about how I would draw something in conté first and then think about how I would relay that motion into drawing with a stylus- it'll just be focused on how to visually tell the story.

Anyway: