Howdy. It's thesis time. Here's a bunch of stuff I did to explore stuff for my thesis film. Some of it is super rough and doesn't have much to do with the film as it is now (scroll down for more pertinent stuff; the pictures are in chronological order).

Hey all! Just a quick update here before I turn in for the day!

Here's my most recent animatic, I'm almost done inking!!!

AND here's another pass at colors. This time they're almost final. I have to determine them now because I have to consider background transitions and everything like that:

Until next time!

Another animatic is here! It's week 10, and the double digits of week numbers now is frightening, hoo boy. Anyway, here it is:

Also I was testing out colors, and none of these are final. I was just messing around with color style (I still need to determine the color that will stay in all of the vignettes aka the eternal color):

I also have both a composer and sound designer now, yay! Till next week, see you later.

I'm a tired potato.

Anyway:

I went to the artist's call meeting for RIT, Eastman, and other students for collabs and need to send a couple emails off to possible composers. I also think I've managed to nail down a sound designer too, yay.

So for today I have another pass with some scratch sound thrown in. Not all of the sound is covered, but I wanted basic stuff for my more "prioritized" shots. I also took a couple shots out, so some of the transitions either don't exist, or are weird in between.

I also low-key am afraid I'm behind, but I don't know if that's just me being paranoid or not. It is week 7 and we have 15 weeks, so it's pretty much the halfway point by now. Maybe I'll ask tomorrow about it. Anywho, cheers, y'all. Until next time.

Bit late, but here's this week's animatic! It's got a more upbeat and jazzier soundtrack, so some of the visuals would have to be taken out if I go this route (the breakup for example).

Also the Ottawa International Animation Festival was super fun and I saw some super cool stuff! I also won a silent auction for vintage merch, so now I have a sweatshirt from '94, so it's older than me (I'm also currently wearing it; super comfy if you're wondering). It was nice to see new animations and see the range of what people come up with. I gotta remember to take a step back and watch other people's stuff more often. 

Until next week!

EDIT: Hey! Just wanted to quickly add a keyed out shot, since some of the shots as they are now don't covey the level of stickiness I need to aim for:

I tightened up my animatic and added more transitions (obviously still need to do a couple more, so I added placeholders for timing's sake) Also I found some really cool, royalty free music for the animatic. It's made by Fantasy Crisis over on SoundCloud and it's definitely the vibe I'm going for in terms of music. It also just fit by sheer luck for the most part haha.

On a side note I might be getting sick, or I'm just allergic to something somewhere. I've been sneezing all day and have a nasty headache. But I must power through. TO VALHALLA.

Since my film is pretty visual, I tried to throw together a first pass animatic for timing and pacing for the images/"story". I'm still open for switching some things around, so some of the transitions either aren't around or aren't very developed. Although, the ones at the beginning are even keyed at some parts to be more representative of what I'm trying to aim for.

Also for fun here's the sticky note madness I have on my desk that I used to try and plan the order of the sticky vingettes:

What a journey.

Still need to do a coloring with shadows animation test. Didn't have time to do it this week. If I'm being honest it's only week 3 and I'm already starting to feel the grindstone scrape my nose (I'm probably going to look back at this week 13 and be like,  "You don't even know, buddy, pal." Hey, future me seeing now me in memories, hope you're getting enough sleep and stuff, also good luck in your final stretch.)

Anyway, onward I forge, but now I gotta go to bed. See y'all later.

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.