Worked on the surfacing shot… the underwater stuff isn’t different yet. Working on that…
>.< Poor time management!
Well I am a slacker on my animation this week, click here to see where it was at... which hasn't changed since my last post, shame on me. Poor time management, I gotta stop taking design jobs... but I do need to pay the bills somehow...meh.
Anyway I did finish up my Maquette, she's ready to bake pending one more once over for minor imperfections.
And a character turnaround to help with animating her, I think I was stuck on working on the animation the past few days because really needed to make this before I continued on. I also need the proper chuncks of time to work, noone of this 1 hr here...1 hr there which was like my whole weekend... 
Anyway things will flow more easily for me know that I have a clearer vision of what she looks like and how she moves. I guess I'm still figuring out what the best work flow is... and stop doing thing backwards... model sheets first... then rough animation... then work it to perfection...
Story idea for next semester
Sealy: A short film about a little girl named Michy who doesn't fit into the usual classroom mold, and finds her own way of learning through her "imaginary" friend Sealy.
I will be using the swim sequence I'm working on now in it, as well as attempting many other fun things like surfing... this is adapted from a children's book my mom wrote and illustrated me in 1985.
Swim timing
Awk so much work I didn’t get done on this that I wanted to before Monday. Had to help my cousin move into my place so she’s not out on the streets this weekend… I also still can’t figure out why my last keyframe is not exporting >.< I will have to make up for the lost time on Tuesday.
Well I got a rough of the timing better, although it needs work. I’d like to have her tread water, I want to make that into a cycle so I can have her do that a bit longer. I Also might do a different shot at the end of them surfacing.
And I also have to make sure I keep her head consistent, I see some “growing” happening…
More blocking ideas
I'm working on getting a connection down with Michy and Sealy... I think I may cut to a close up or different camera angle to show emotion in their faces... and/or have a shot of them surfacing above the water. I'm still undecided....
Maqette - Michy
Well I had to tilt her up for balancing purposes, I may need to drill a new hole so and move her to get closer to the position in the drawing. I also have smooth it out more and finish hands & feet.
Studies or final animation
Here are some studies I've been doing, the character turn around sheets and stuff lower I've been drawing through the semester so far. I do need to do new turn around for the girl character, she needs to be simplified. The movement studies are recent, I've been swimming a lot trying to get a better feel for the movement. I have my keyframes drawn and will be posting them shortly =)
Voltaire!
Check out my friend Voltaire’s website, he’s an awesome animator, musician, comic book artist… sheesh there isn’t much he doesn’t do. I was a fan of his since 1997 since I’m a former goth child (even though I am quite happy all the time), and got a chance to meet him last summer when my friend KTUH DJ Nocturna brought him out here for a show.
His comic book is going to be made into a feature film! =)
Remote Power!
Whew 120ish hours later… lost track of time working on this. But I did accomplish the look I wanted, now I see I forgot one KEY thing, adding the “snap” sound effect at the end. But I think the 11 second contest rules say not to alter the sound anyway… so I guess that should be ok. I’ll add the snap sound in when I put it in my reel. I also wanted it to crop from the bottom more and not the top… but my technical skills in premiere are not that fabulous yet so I lacked time to troubleshoot that before the deadline. – another thing to fix for my reel…
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