Not sure exactly what I'm updating about, really. I'm pretty much in the same boat as before: trudging along with the works. my scene 2 is less inspired for some reason, I think I'll just wrap it up best I can and move the heck on.
Peace out!
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Scene still
For your viewing pleasure, here's a still from the first scene. All thats left to do in this scene is some touch-up inbetweening for the rougher transitions and a final color key, otherwise we're one down and 25 to go!
whaddya all think? i hope this is a taste of just how intense I like my backgrounds to be. thats why they're taking all this dang time. But I'm totally digging the intersection of a sketchier animation style to the fairly polished backgrounds. woo.
enjoy, and thanks in advance for any critique!
whaddya all think? i hope this is a taste of just how intense I like my backgrounds to be. thats why they're taking all this dang time. But I'm totally digging the intersection of a sketchier animation style to the fairly polished backgrounds. woo.
enjoy, and thanks in advance for any critique!
Overcoming Obstacles
Despite saving every few keyframes, Flash decided 45 minutes ago that it would no longer save my file. Apparently it was in use by another program that did not exist. I could not save it under another name nor in another directory, the temp file, or an external hard drive.
that file contained my completed first scene and the rough animation for my second. this is not the first time flash crashed on me. the first time it was "still responding", although was taking up 45% of the computers' operating power for no reason. it was unresponsive. luckily i only lost a few frames of progress and the original file remained intact.
when it stopped allowing me to save i was able to copy-paste the frames from the open scene into a new file and save it firmly in 4 different places, but i lost the entire first scene.
the entire file disappeared. it no longer exists and there is no record of it in my M space or the temp drive, which i was working off of. this was following a typical system crash which also wiped out internet use for the duration.
i have now lost cumulatively over 20 hours of work and effort in this project. Congratulations, Murphy. You almost had me. Now watch while I kick your ass.
that file contained my completed first scene and the rough animation for my second. this is not the first time flash crashed on me. the first time it was "still responding", although was taking up 45% of the computers' operating power for no reason. it was unresponsive. luckily i only lost a few frames of progress and the original file remained intact.
when it stopped allowing me to save i was able to copy-paste the frames from the open scene into a new file and save it firmly in 4 different places, but i lost the entire first scene.
the entire file disappeared. it no longer exists and there is no record of it in my M space or the temp drive, which i was working off of. this was following a typical system crash which also wiped out internet use for the duration.
i have now lost cumulatively over 20 hours of work and effort in this project. Congratulations, Murphy. You almost had me. Now watch while I kick your ass.
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Animation
OK, guys... that time has come! I started the frame-by-frame animation on the long pan (only finished background so far) and it is amazing to get back into '2D' animation. I did the blocking and am now going back in to do inbetweens. its all rough, uncolored, un-lined animation at this point, although I do kind of like the style so I may continue with it. The shapes are easy to work with and flow well, I guess I cant ask for an easier character unless I want to go with an oldschool flour sack, haha!
anywho, there's really no content so far except to be all like "ohmygosh, i get to animate again!!"
Just for kicks, here's the EXTREMELY ROUGH first pass of the long pan scene. the animation 'flashes' after the first half because i haven't gone in and done the rough inbetweening yet. this is not the final animation, dont worry. the greyed out background helps me see the character, it won't be like that when the movie is finished.
so this is what the next 35 days will be for me. animation! *dance dance dance*
anywho, there's really no content so far except to be all like "ohmygosh, i get to animate again!!"
Just for kicks, here's the EXTREMELY ROUGH first pass of the long pan scene. the animation 'flashes' after the first half because i haven't gone in and done the rough inbetweening yet. this is not the final animation, dont worry. the greyed out background helps me see the character, it won't be like that when the movie is finished.
so this is what the next 35 days will be for me. animation! *dance dance dance*
Backgrounds, Backgrounds, Backgrounds!!
Argh! So many backgrounds!!
Now I know why so many people choose to do minimalist scenes; every scene in my piece has to be cluttered in some way. thats a lot of background time. really there's no file setup involved since I'm not doing cutout; all my time is in rendering backgrounds and frame-by-framing the final animation.
luckily I got all the tutorials done over last weekend so I'm homefree with that. Now its all this project from here on out in this class. Coupled with the rigging class and I have a decent workload. Not that I'm complaining (I missed not having 12 hours of work a day), but after a few weeks of relative downtime its a bit of a chore getting back into the swing of things.
Now I know why so many people choose to do minimalist scenes; every scene in my piece has to be cluttered in some way. thats a lot of background time. really there's no file setup involved since I'm not doing cutout; all my time is in rendering backgrounds and frame-by-framing the final animation.
luckily I got all the tutorials done over last weekend so I'm homefree with that. Now its all this project from here on out in this class. Coupled with the rigging class and I have a decent workload. Not that I'm complaining (I missed not having 12 hours of work a day), but after a few weeks of relative downtime its a bit of a chore getting back into the swing of things.
Monday, April 20, 2009
Glurg
Ugh... backgrounds. so many to do, so little time to do 'em! these high-res texture based backgrounds are killer 'cause you have to recreate everything from a flat matte and shade it to create the object.
here's what i have so far for the big pan. its still extremely empty, obviously, and I'm working for the most part from the top down. its sad 'cause all the rat environments have to be cluttered 'cause he's a packrat. d'oy.
here's what i have so far for the big pan. its still extremely empty, obviously, and I'm working for the most part from the top down. its sad 'cause all the rat environments have to be cluttered 'cause he's a packrat. d'oy.
Sunday, April 19, 2009
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