More Final Frames

4 more scenes done for film. A lot of these were really small, and only took a day. But they have a bit of lighting to composite for.

I doodled this samurai while I waited for my movie to finish.

Re-animation Scenes

I showed a few compositing tests for these scenes a little while back. Now they are fully completed! I decided 1 still each wouldn't be enough to show off all the lighting changes so I made this handy dandy chart to match the colour script panels I used to design the effects.

Enjoy

Spoilers: The frog doesn't make it... but he was already dead to begin with.

Film Update Jan 10th

I'm almost finished rough animating the reanimation scenes. Which meant I had to finalize my frogs design today. So new model sheet!

As well I've already finalized two of my graveyard scenes. Here are some stills of finished film. Complete with 2-tone, cast shadows, rain drops, and tears!

I think I'll be posting 1 still from each finished scene as the year goes on.

Previs - Frog Zapping Scene

Sometimes you have no idea how your going to do a scene until you just dig in and try it. This particular scene involved a background with 3 different lighting cues, that also has to pulse with lighting to create the backdrop for the surging electric display.

The colour script was painted to increase the feeling of power as the frog zapping seems more and more like it's going to work, until the frog bursts, and the lights come back on.

Here is the base Layout I made, to do all the lighting effects on top of.
First I took the colour keys, and cut them together, trying to see what effects were available to me in After Effects. This includes, creating the cast shadow behind Lloyd as the electricity gets intense.

Once the colour blending technique was solved, I used the real layout, with different lighting passes for blending to create the visual notes I needed. Slugging in the coloured storyboard poses to feel out the layout.

Now all I have to do is animate the scene, and plug it all into AfterEffects, reusing these techniques.

Here's a lean archer lady, cause I got bored of compositing.

Opening Pan

The first scene of my film has a lot going on. There will be rain. There will be lightning. Dissolves, Multiplanes, Character Animation, Cloud movement! All together I believe there is about 14 layers of things that go into the final. Here is just the painted background artwork. Another 20 layouts left to paint!

Sometimes I get bored, and sketch non film things.

Evil Sphinx

Some sort of Beaver-Elephant-Aardvark-Rabbit-Deer. Or B.E.A.R.D for short.

Title Design, and Random Anim

Here is the Opening Title Design for the film. I took the old design, and made it more 3D, and homemade, in a sense.

Yesterday, I didn't feel up to working on film, so I did a rough animation. It's just a straight ahead piece, done without a model sheet.

My Film Holiday!

School is finally on break. I will be at school painting backgrounds. :D

I got to draw my characters enjoying some christmas fun, for my coop christmas card!

Here are some of the backgrounds I've painted so far.

Inside the Science Fair:

At the Graveyard




More to come later!

Extra Film Designs

These are the extras in my film. The father and son combos.

I also redid some of the main characters hands. New zombies, and new Lloyds, guess who's is who's. lol

Judge and Zombie Model Sheets

I worked all hard and stuff, and now I got 2 more model sheets done. I even tackled hands and stuff, which apparently I learned how to draw sometime between last year and now.

Here's Principal Judge. Aka. adult Charlie Brown, or the human incarnation of a Number 2 pencil.

Zombie Dad!
I'll do another crack at Lloyd before the weekend.

Lloyd model sheets and a sketch

Animation begins next week, so model sheets are gonna be important. Here's my process.

First I took the best poses from my storyboards and cut them all together.

Then I drew up some heads and rotations to clarify his design.
Then, I had to check if my model works, so I did a little sequence of Lloyd trying to skip.

This last things just a sketch topic me and a couple friends were doing. The topic was a kid learning to joust.