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...

Amphora Thumbnails Redux

Here they are again, but better organized and hopefully more "viewable".

Thumbnails

I didn't post a lot over my winter break, but I did thumbnail out what I hope will be my entire final project/senior thesis (it took me a lot longer than I thought it would, even with itty bitty sketches). The project is called "Amphora", and I'll probably post on it a lot over the next year and a half or so. Anyway, I wanted to get a first round of storyboards done to include it with my "junior year" portfolio. I plan to clean it up in Photoshop later, but here are the thumbnails.

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:

My Sad Sad Project Duncan Update

So here is my update....namely a number of backgrounds. To re-hash, I will be (hopefully) finishing a bunch of the assets (backgrounds, character expressions, drawings, etc.) and then putting them all back together in a much fancier version of the animatic from Project Ron Saks. Sigh...here they are.

Project Duncan Update

 So, I settled on a look for my final iteration of the "Tom V Squirrel" animatic. It's not quite black and white but it's definitely not full color either. I've also been cutting some things down, namely the long walk through the woods at the intro. I am also considering one last change to the hunter character, a before and after is included below.

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!

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

Project Saks: update no. 2

So, this is an opportunity to show some of those "ninja art skills" that Charlotte is always encouraging. I was down on campus and meant to upload my storyboard for class only to discover that I left my flash drive, and subsequently all the necessary files I needed, at home. So.... luckily I have (not that I have returned home) jpgs of all my individual scenes. It's not the exact same as a storyboard, but it's kinda close.

There is an opening sequence before this particular scene, but I started here because its the first scene involving the characters: