Just a update

Firstly, I would just like to say that I think the project is going well, especially considering all of the dissertation work. Everyone is posting good things on their blogs. Just a couple of things.

Firstly I would like to see everyone's work the last week of term so we can prepare for the presentation to Mike.

Secondly, over easter we need all backgrounds completed and all rough animation must be done.

If not we won't get the project completed.

Okay guys.

Let's get our dissertations over with.

Flash Coloured Practice

With all the dissertation work it just feels like term just began. It was suggested to me that we use Toon Boom Studio. Simon and I tried that but couldn't make no heads or tails of it. Then we use illustrator, hopefully using the live trace tool, but that came out fuzzy with broken lines, and it's difficult to colour. I just spent the last few weeks colouring all my frames in photoshop with no luck. Finally Simon discovers that flash will do it just fine. What a colossal waste of my time! Oh well, least I know how to make the film now.

I decided that it would be useful for me to practice flash, so using the coloured frames I did, I used them to do a bit of this Mort scene in Flash. Because they were coloured in photoshop it is a bit fuzzy. Also for some reason the frame rate a bit weird. That may have happened when it compressed the quicktime video. Gotta go two weeks to dissertation deadline.

Tutorials for 2D Animation

Harry sent me a link to this website that has tutorials for Digital Inking and Painting for 2D Animation. Hopefully, it can help, because I'm worried that my current method is taking too long.

http://www.expertvillage.com/video-series/8173_digital-inking-painting-2d-animation.htm

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Cleaned Up drawings

I've cleaned up the drawings. I am hoping to start colouring them real soon. Hopefully Simon, will help. When parts of the characters are not moving, I drew them up on layers. I think we will either colour them in Toon Boom or Illustrator.

Prof put on gloves test animation

Well, here is the prof puts on gloves test animation scene. It's without the dialogue at the moment, but I hope to fix that. I noticed a couple of things I would like to change, places where it jumps. Hopefully I can see what it looks like with dialogue soon. I pretty happy with the change of expressions and the arcs.

Amendment

Here it is with the tweaks and the dialogue. Their are a few minor lip-syncing issues but overall I'm happy with it.

Brand New Completely Final Animatic

Well, here it is. Finally the final version of the story. All it needs now is the music and sound effects. Hopefully our sound guy James (aka Jason) can do that for us. Actually, I think all that work paid off. It's much snappier now and it flows much better than before. Great work Smiling' Simon, for getting this done.

Report and R.A.M Animation

Well, it's taken a little while but I finally finished animating both those scenes. It took longer than I thought as well, I only just finished today. I'm hopefully going to shoot the pencil test tomorrow, boy my hand hurts, but I can show you the R.A.M scene right now. I am quite pleased with these.