Some end-of-the-year videos

Here is an animation assignment (Panda) and the results of my layout and timing class, an animatic for Amphora, a potential short animated piece (When it goes black at about 1:05 minutes, it's over; the rest is just black. Bad editing.).

Lots of Amphora Stuff

Amphora is the name of my senior thesis to-be. Here is a ruff animatic along with the accompanying set of storyboards. Exciting to me! Already re-working things, but I wanted to post an overall update of the project.

And the boards...

Project Dunc-nasty

Sooooo... here is everything I have for the last animatic. I apologize that it's not totally done, but I think part of my lesson for this class was learning how much time particular things (like nice-looking animatics) truly take.

Anyway, I will take my lumps. I am happy with the look and feel of the project.

Here it is:

Escape from Crow City

This is the animatic for my final project in my Animation One class at CCAD. Actually pretty excited about it as I'm starting to get a grasp on Storyboard Pro. Yay.

Project Duncan Proposal

Okay, so after the long fight of finishing a rough animatic for my animated short, "Tom v Squirrel", I very much considered using this project to try something different. However, after some time to consider (and Charlotte's advice) I have decided instead to push the animatic to the next phase for project Duncan. In short, the proposal is simple: clean up, beautify and refine.

Below I have included a Gantt Chart for how I intend to break down my workflow.

After working in Storyboard Pro - and frankly struggling mightily for a few weeks - I found the way I like in the program, namely drawing the images in Photoshop, saving them as .png files with translucent backgrounds and importing them into Storyboard Pro. Then I can have a look I like while using all the bells and whistles of the storyboarding program.

Here I have included some stills from my Animation 1 animatic where I used the aforementioned method. I'm much happier with the aesthetic of the project and think I could use it to create a portfolio-worthy animatic out of Tom v Squirrel. 

Project Ron Saks = done

So....continuing from last week's entry, I stuck it out and actually finished a VERY ROUGH version of the animatic. But it's done, so without further ado....

And here is the link to the pdf:

https://dl-web.dropbox.com/get/Public/TvS_animatic.pdf?w=c813c7d3

Project Ron Saks: update for Oct. 27

Sooo... after a general feeling of disinterest had crept over me regarding my animatic (it was, in general, too static), I went through a massive overhaul of the story:

 

That was the scene last Thursday evening in my work room. I hung a bunch of sheets on the wall and re-drew my entire piece with the help of my lovely wife (who added invaluable suggestions).

I then thumbnailed it out in my sketchbook, then went to Charlotte for help with one final iteration of the thumbnails.

The good news is that I finally feel like I have a piece with enough movement and comedic punch to satisfy me, the bad news is that the following animatic and storyboard pdf are not quite finished (but they do cover about half the piece).

Here is the link to the pdf:

https://dl-web.dropbox.com/get/Public/TvS_102611.pdf?w=dcfbd1df

And here is the animatic:

Project Ron Saks update!

So, this time I planned ahead further and got a Quicktime movie exported of my animatic. Soooo ... here it is:

"Kaku" - I guess it means "antler" in Japanese

This was my "storyboarding" class final. I won some and lost some on this project, but I wanted to show it to you anyway. Enjoy (maybe)!

Save Polar Bears

This animatic is the most recent project from my storyboarding class. We had to create a public service announcement.

First Motiony Thingy

This animatic is my very first. Did it for my Time-Based Media class. We got the subject matter/dialogue from our teacher (who got it from a book). I did the drawings, editing, added music, etc. Everything was done on Final Cut Pro. Exciting....