Podcast animation summary

Here are some screen-shots of the roughs and some cleans for my capstone project. this one was pretty awesome to make. I changed the idea of have the guy in a toga to markiplier cause I think thats funnier. I was going to use full animation for this but ended up using rigs instead. the style i went for was a really easy cartoony vibe. I didnt want to add shadows or anything that would slow down the production process. I think this animation turned out really well.

LateWatch

hoowee this is a well overdue post. So a few weeks back I finished the podcast animation I was working on. heres a link to that one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkjowKaicwY

Recently I've been working on an animatic for an overwatch animation. it's about the art director dude in the payload on the hollywood map. working on that took a while, to try make it perfect. unfortunately I don't think ill be able to finish it by the deadline. heres the animatic:

I separated the animatic into individual shots to put it into Animate CC. Then I'll animate on top of them.

week 6 and week 7

Week 6

This week I done a few backgrounds for the podcast animation they're simple backgrounds I spent about 20 - 40 minutes on each.


I was starting on the animation and then quickly got very bored. So I decided to put this animation on the back-burner and start on another one I'm more interested in.

Week 7

I started working on a No Mans Sky parody which I find more funny. I went straight into an animatic/animation type thing it's really messy and doesn't make sense at the moment. I haven't been able to put heaps of time into it because I've been working on other projects to meet deadlines. I'll hopefully have a better update to the NMS animation later in the week.

Week 5

I finally finished the first animation here: https://youtu.be/L9VVxzodw_8

It took two weeks to put together and a week to edit, which is why it looks so bad. I was really running out of time.

Well, I can move on with other animations now. This week had been mostly editing the first animation, but while I was working on that one I was looking at a podcast that I really like called Sleepycast and decided to animate one of their many funny scenarios. I've done a rough animatic and because I've only given myself three weeks to finish it, it's going to be a challenge.

Week 1 and Week 2

ive done this backwards. im doing some blog catch up here. The first two weeks had been dreadful. I made an animatic then scraped most of it cause it wasn't funny. I have some screen-shots from the animatic.

this is the establishing shot. I changed the sign from poodle corp head quarters, (which is like this hacker group on the internet that troll youtubers and take down game servers) to Grandmas house.

the first two screen shots are still apart of the animation but the last one was going to show that they kidnapped a dude and were doing tests on him to enter his brain. I also had a lot more dialogue in the first animatic. the workload was starting to get to be too much though, thats part of the reason why I scraped it.

you may have seen this guy in the earlier post but I was messing around in flash and trying to find a style that could sorta split the workload in half. well this hybrid style of symbol animation and hand drawn kind made it faster but also made it a lot harder, because I was still trying to figure it out. Im liking how this is coming together.

Week 3 and Week 4

Ive forgotten to update this thing again. so ive been working on making some short animations for my youtube channel. ths video is a parody of h3h3's time to stop video, where ethan in my animatons is hacking to find the location of another youtuber he talks about in his video. this has been a challenge because two weeks of work I did wasn't really funny (neither the current animation), so I scraped it and was rushing to get something done over the next two weeks. here are the animations that I did.

There was alot of experimenting going on during the making of these clips. th animation style is not one I would usually choose. I like hand drawn animation over using symbols but I find using the symbols, while pretty restricting is way faster they hand drawn, but im still new to process and getting better at it as I play around in flash.

the floating one is my favorite. im currently compositing the video together in after effects. im pretty sure this video isn't going to be that funny but I want to finish so I can start on a new animation.

Flash Game Progress

Here are some Screen shots of a flash game ive been working on. It's based off Karens IP "Whisper". Ive changed a lot of things on this game. you may notice the look frames I did a few weeks ago have been botched. This First one is the Training screen. you tap "Z" to boost the bar and complete a rep, to get the gains.

This Is the Character Stats screen. you can change your head and check you stats and stuff.

This is the Jobs Screen. you choose who you wish to fight. they randomize when you start the game. you can fight thiefs, bank robbers, car jackers, and much more.

This is the Fight Screen. you can fight the bad guys in pokemon-esk battle system. still working out the kinks in this one. but it'll be the hardest one to finish I reckon.

This is the Select Screen. you can choose what option to go. the computers take you to the job screen, the mirror in the middle takes you to the Stats screen, and the metal door takes you to the Training Room. I have a ton more to do and keep forgeting t

Look Frames

                            Look Frame 1                                                             Look Frame 2

This week I've been working on some look frames for a mini game of Karens IP, Whisper.

Look Frame one will be the main mini game that I will get to a working and polished state, while look frame two will be finished and put into the main game if The first mini game is finished.

The first challenge in the mini game will be the punch test. It will test your strength and be crucial to your grades on the Hero test.

This weeks work on the short

This week has been pretty hectic. Ive been animating this 8 second shot and it is brutal. I have maybe 30% roughs left and will try finish in the weekend.



we have been putting the first shot together and the way its going is dope! Dane came into the class to check it out and share his FX knowledge. I have high hopes that we will make it in before the deadline.

One of those weeks

You know those days when you do heaps of work, but you get nothing done? Well its been those a week of those. I don't have anything to show, but this week has been full up son. I started work on animating Shot three. Ive done the background for shot two and rough a background for shot three. actually it feels like nothing at all. that will be today's post, Flanders butt.

Animatic Changes

I uploaded the wrong video in the other post. Here is the same shot with a few changes. The FX were a BLAST to work on.

Storyboard panels

This weeks work

I forget to post stuff to the blog. So I'm just going to have one post for the whole week and say how I felt about the weeks work. This week was pretty cool, a little sleepy, cant come up with ideas. Brain.exe has stopped responding. Anyway, I'm really happy with the crew and how far we've come. 

Cityscape Thumbnails/Concepts

Here are some Cityscape concepts that I made. We chose the top right one, which is good because it has the cool power poles that lead the eye to the focal point. We were going to have an explosion come out from the city, but the director wanted us to stick to our original idea of a hand bomb thingy.

Animatic of hand bomb (hope this uploads)

Here's an Animatic of the hand rising up through the city. I think the timing feels a little fast, I might need a second opinion on it. I like how it turned out, Just need to see if the team likes it as well.

This is the first shots background. I still need to create a few more alternatives. This has a simple style, monochromatic colours with an article copy and pasted from Al Jazeera along some paths in photoshop. looks pretty neato.

Short Film Concept art

The Team came in early to do some concepts and to flesh out the story. This is going to be a fun project!