Now With Extra Catty Goodness!!!

No new footage this week, I've been working on the design for the cat which I've put into the first scene. Should have some more footage next week.

Facts of Life Part Two

Here is the first scene of my film so far. It's not complete. There will be a cat somewhere and I think I will refine the animation a bit more. Gonna start work on the next scene this week. As for this blog, I'm going to try to update at least once a week.

Facts Of Life Part One

First Scene Part Six

First Scene Part

This is the first fourteen seconds of the first scene of the film. This is how the film will look in its finished version, though the animation may be tweaked slightly.

New Test

This is a re-working of the previous test using Toon Boom instead of Moho. As this is a flash version, the textures are much clearer and sharper than the avi version. Now that I don't have to worry about tweening now, I think that the movement of the character is much better now.

EDIT: Looks like the video wasn't working. Fixed it now. The sound is slightly out of sync, but I may be able to fix that later.

New Version

I have decided to use a different program to produce my film. Rather than use Moho, I will now be using Toon Boom Studio 3. I have more experience using Toon Boom, so although I don't think I will be able to make the film faster, I do now feel more at ease doing the animation.

Life Drawing

Life Drawing picture I did for SketchTavern.

Fact of Life Animatic

This is the animatic for the first scene of my film 'How To Talk To Your Kids About Almost Anything'. I made this before Christmas as I wanted something that I could put the actors voices into in order to work out the best set of voices. Comments and Criticisms are welcome.

EDIT: Just a note. The file is quite large (11.6mb) so it may take a while to load.

Facts Of Life

Just finished building the first scene in Photoshop so I can export it into Moho. The hands are photographs of mine and my sister's hands, with a cutout effect put on them. I'm not too sure how well they will look in the finished product, so I'll have to wait and see.

More Sketchbook Stuff

More early stuff from when I was trying to create the characters for my film. The film is progressing smoothly so far. I worked out the lip sync for the first scene a few days ago. Now I need to build the characters up in Moho and I should be able to start animating in a week or so. I may put up the animatic for the first scene as soon as I get a chance.

Test for Film

A test to see how easy it would be to animate in the style I have chosen and also to learn how to use Moho. It's not perfect (bloody tweening) so I need to play around with it to stop it being so smooth.

Kitty!

There is a cat in the last scene, but I realised that I don't know how to draw cats properly. One Google search later= cat sketches.

Sock Puppets

This is a short Animation that I made last year towards the end of my 2nd Year at University. It was hand-drawn on paper and scanned into Premiere. I was really happy with the way this turned out as I was animating without too much planning for most of it.

Nearly At The Final Version

The Nearly Nearly Final Version

Ignore the stick arms and legs, I'm not using them. But the characters do basically look like that.

Early Sketchbook Stuff

Early designs for the Child Character

Experimenting with different Hair and Eyes

Nearly the Final Version

Doug's Two Old Bachelors

A quick post to point you towards my friends blog, which is in the Links list, and also here. Doug is also on my course, and is using an Edward Lear poem for the basis of his film. Go look at it. He needs the encouragement.

The Beginning

Welcome to the start of my new blog. This blog will initially be used to document the making of my 3rd year film, titled 'How to Talk to Your Kids About Almost Anything'. The script/story was written by Wendy Molyneux, the original of which can be found here. This film will form the final film of my animation degree, which I am doing at the University of Central Lancashire in the UK. Hopefully you will enjoy my work.