Hoo boy do I have stuff:

Here is a mood chart with concerns to brightness/colors. Then I kinda did some beats so there's coherence, and then sorted the sticky things into those 5 categories to roughly put them where I want on the timeline. The categories are super rough, I just wanted to get a basic idea of what sticky stuff could go where.

These are coloring tests the "lineless" style I want to go for. Notice there's also a paper texture applied to make it a bit more fun to look at. I think I'd try to have the texture do a loop so that the texture is active too. I'm really leaning towards going the shadow definition instead of doing just lines where things overlap. I need to consider if doing the shadow thing would be within the window of time I have, but I really wanna try doing it. I should do a test for it this weekend or something to see if it's doable.

And then we've got some sticky squash/stretch tests. We've got 3 flavors: front on, with perspective, with perspective while moving. Obviously I need to work on the 3rd one, but I'm glad I tried it so I can keep going. I also plan on trying to do some reference videos with the silly putty I have sitting at my desk and other things around the house so I can get different references for sticky stuff. To say the least I'm excited.

Anyway, that's it for now, but I'll be sure to post the reference videos for everyone's viewing pleasure.

Wow, here we are again. Crazy right?

Anyway, for this year's film, I was thinking of doing a film with little vignettes/animations that all have to do with a theme. My theme is going to be sticky. I have a huge list of stuff that I could consider sticky, and I'll keep building on it to see what I think is the most solid.

Here's a picture of the growing list of things that could be considered sticky:

I also thought I'd set up a mood board here for look/style/etc.

Look:

I'd love to achieve the smoothness of Tako Faito, or at least the coloring style. I would really like to focus more on the animation since I'm doing more something like vignettes than anything else.

The transitions would be metamorphosis definitely, but the question is what kind of metamorphosis. There's the Black or White music video metamorphosis (skip to 5:26):

 

Where stuff recedes and adds as necessary, but the base is still there. Or the metamorphosis where the transition is something coming out of the previous object/thing:

Or it goes from identifiable shape to identifiable shape with splotches/other shapes in between:

I think I'm just going to have to assess what type I'll do based on production time and the look I'm going for. As for coloring, I also kinda wanna go with the styles seen above, the "lineless shapes unless they overlap" style.

Speaking of production time, I need to make a schedule/work log. So here it is for now, I'll be sure to change the page link for the log soon. Anyway, that's all for now. More to come soon.

After class if I need to make tweaks I will and then I'm turning this in for screenings holy crap oh my god see you on the flip side

Whose got two thumbs and is still alive somehow?

I'm in the final stretch of tweaking a couple things on my end, but the music and sound are done, and I could turn in this film if everything went to hell in the last week before screenings. Amazing.

On another funky note while I was doing this Premiere Pro wouldn't output the audio? The input was there, because the meters were going, but like????? And then when I exported it the sound was there and was fine?????? What a conundrum

I hope none of my classmates are experiencing this because it's really weird and could really screw you over if you're trying to do some final audio stuff in Premiere. Anywho, good luck everybody, the hell is almost over.

So...
I've never really composited before, so there's some mistakes in this one. I put my backgrounds in in After Effects, which worked much better that with TVPaint. I also tried doing the suit shake off in TVPaint, but that turned out funky, so back to the drawing board.
Also the credits appear in the corner for some reason? Just like don't look in the bottom left corner. HEY I CAN SEE YOU LOOKING

Anyway here it is:

Oh! Also my sound and music person, Marc, is about halfway through with the sound! Here's the clip he sent me:

There's like 17 days left and I don't think it's sunk in that I'm close to done making my film, but then again who knows maybe I'm not. Who knows what's real anymore amiright? My film has been kickin my butt since week some-number and I still feel like it's winter, but like Springfest is this week??? I just????

See y'all next week.

Still going. Talked to my awesome composer, and we've got some stuff nailed down. I have to re-animate some small things for him, but that's okay. I also managed to figure out what my crowd will look like, and did some owner sketches here just in case:

Also here's my updated animatic; I wasn't able to put the timecode on this one, but I'll be sure to when I send it over to my composer:

ONLY 4 WEEKS LEFT GIVE OR TAKE, I SCREAM.

I keep having this feeling that I'm losing steam, but I gotta keep going. I just gotta keep making those boxes on my shot list green.
No audio again on the animatic this week, but I'm talking to my composer tomorrow to iron out the small details, so a score should be coming soon!

Honestly though, why doesn't SOFA have a cathartic scream day every semester, because I'm just like

Let SOFA scream 2k16.

So, I haven't sacrificed my soul to a demon yet to animate my film faster, so that's good.

So anyway here's a little update with all the inking and coloring I've done. I really want to go into picture lock this week, so hopefully that'll happen. Any who, here it is. There's mp sound on this one because it would just be the same as all the other takes:

That's all for now. We're in double digit numbers for weeks now, so welcome to hell fellow classmates.

May the fire only burn you slightly, and your soul be quickly repented.