New Bear

I did a ton of Pre-Production today for the new 2D scene. I thought that I was ready to just start doing some thumbnails and than rough out and test a first pass. I was so wrong, but I am happy about it. I was able to catch myself, and later on reading an email from Sam I was seriously able to sit down and rough out what I really needed to get a hold of. So I will probably revise my thumbnails, but the boards can stay.
Anyways, I will post that later. Right now. Here is a new bear illustration I did, experimenting with watercolor. Thor was a big help in sharing some tips and tool lessons.




"Always Keep your Head in the Clouds"rtq

Pre-Production for my new 2D Scene

The theme of this internship has been mostly experimentation and learning through trying things out and receiving critiques on why certain things don't work or how to do things better etc... A lot of fun and a lot of learning. But, I have been treating each scene as just a learning experience and more of an exercise. So I have taken it upon myself to really go head first without fear and try to make this scene an actual solid piece of 2D animation. And it will also be my first 2D animation to any type of audio. I can't really call it a lip sync (spoiler alert-my next 2D scene will be) it is too more of a sound effect really.

To illustrate how serious I am about this scene I have done some illustrations (insert pun here). The studies I posted earlier were just the first part of this whole mess. As apart of gathering reference and studying it to have a better idea.

So these sketches are character design really. Trying to find an appealing design that works for animation. I am favoring a few of them, so as apart of some wisdom beaten into me by Kathy Blackmore (literally beaten). I am just going to make the decisions about the characters, and dive into the scene with some rough boards and thumbnails.

"Always Keep your Head in the Clouds"rtq

A Peview of things to come

I have been really stoked for the past couple of days. I have doing a lot, which means I have been experimenting a bunch and learning quite a bit. So, I want to post a teaser of something that I have seriously in the works right now, and something I am so excited about that I find myself fighting to not just sit down at it and not move from it. But, I have other projects to juggle so it will take a bit of time to complete. I hope it turns out well? If anything I know I am going to have fun with it, and most importantly I will learn so much doing it. Anyways moving on. Here are some samples that might give away what I will be working on. These are all in frame (first time I have gone the purest route with my photography in a while). Only taken into Photoshop to add a watermark and down res a bit. Hope you enjoy, I did.

If you knew me you would know that I love to research and practice before I dive into something. But, lately I have been diving right into projects and going with the flow and experimenting. A lot of fun to learn and fail, and keep learning.

"Always Keep your Head in the Clouds"rtq

Sticky Frank

I bought a little red paper board portfolio for some papers. And when I peeled the sticker off. The surface was all sticky. So I decided to make a sticker to cover it. And this is the sticker I made.







"Always Keep your Head in the Clouds"rtq

Moving On

Well, the last scene that I was working through has been killed (by me). The method of straight ahead is a tempting mistress, and she got to me. Without me even knowing it. I think that some parts of the scene were working out pretty well. But, when I was checking the frames I noticed that the volumes had changed, not the proportions so much (which I was happy about). Never the less though the character had increased in size by almost four times. So I decided to can it and move on. I did have a lot of fun working with my jellyfish character. Which I will continue to use.

I am going to just start jumping right into lip syncs, well ease into it a bit. This first scene will be more to a sound effect. And I am going to be redesigning or rethinking the jellyfish character a bit. What you see below are my studies of the reference I am pulling from. From here I am going to work on the character sketches, model sheets, thumbnails, boards, and for fun (but really for practice, I might do a conceptual previz painting).

Oh and I have another project slowly in the works. I will try to post a few things from that, or related. Try to stay up to date with all of this.



























"Always Keep your Head in the Clouds"rtq