Beginning Production time

Hey guys! So for the past few weeks I've pretty much gone RIGHT into production with my film. I've faced some problems and some surprising things! Either way, I'm having fun. I'm dead set on getting this film done. :)

Well first things first. I made a final version of my animatic


If you're notice, this version is 2 minutes, where as the other one was 3! so I'm really happy with the length of this animatic because I think it's possible to get it done!!!

I've been going frame to frame in my animatic to find out how many frames each scene is. I'm going to try my best to make my film sync up to my animatic.

I had a MAJOR PROBLEM last week. So i've been working on my backgrounds, getting a lot done a head of time, ect. Then I discovered that we were supposed to do our films in HIGH DEFINITION. Aye.. So i had to spend a good few days fixing backgrounds. :(

But after I fixed my bagrounds, I wanted to do a motion test. So I fully animated and colored a scene.


I really liked the way it came out. I discovered that I had a tone down the flicker a little bit. My film workshop teacher said that I could tone it down a little more. We'll see. If there's one thing i learned it's that it takes like...really long to do this. I learned a way to color quickly, which basically requires gapless line art. I've been trying to find some people that want to color for me. I found 2, but I dont think I'll be doing any clean up any time soon. Takes too long and i should focus on animation. We'll see.

I feel like I"m ahead of schedule, yet still behind schedule. Because even though I've finished a lot, there's still a lot on my schedule that I haven't. We'll see. I'm still trying to catch up. Doesn't help that I was sick for this entire past week. aye.

I'm determined to finish~!! Wish me luck.

Film Characters

Hair Flip Animation

Hey guys, Soooo, i thought I'd upload this. been working on it for a few days



I still haven't quite figured out how I'm going to treat the hair yet sooooooo we'll figure that out. I probably should do some solidified character sheets first. lol. :)

She runs

Really liking how these are comming out. In my film workshop class, we discussed how I was going to go about animating this with the textures over the characters. So I've decided to take a short break and feed my animation itch and started animating! I'm going to post some animation stuff up soon so stay tuned!!

She enchants

I've been really having fun with these. I"m surprised how many I got done in such a short amount of time! Still moar to come.

She appears

Wow guys, I"m in a crazy working mood. :) Getting so much done!! Let's hope it allows me to get all my backgrounds done!

Vis Dev and film Breakthrough!

Hey! Soo...that whole "Winter Break Vis Dev" thing didn't TOTALLY work out, but none the less, I got a lot out of it! My plan was to do backgrounds, but....well...aye. Not my strong suit! But I love doing them! I discovered a lot about painting and came up with a new direction for my films look.

This was my first try. Very much based on a photo I used for reference, so no go, but I started to get a feel for the sort of backgrounds I'd be doing.

This was my second attempt. I really liked this, but when I tried to work in the characters, something was off. I like it on it's own, but I really want to be able to run actions on my characters and have them mesh without he backgrounds seamlessly.

So i started playing around with a watercolor process. I really liked how they came out in the end. :)

Let me know what you think!