AGH! Completely spaced... like an alien.

I've been shooting and compositing and I will try to finish another 2 scenes by next week. Thankfully I've figured out how to roto which I will tackle this weekend. I'm going to also get my friend's eyes for stop-mo this coming Wednesday.

I have sized all my scenes wrong so I have to deal with that before continuing anything else.

Groovin'

Here's the poster I made for the screening. Woo!

Anyway, thesis is coming... I've been shooting a lot of things under the oxberry. I've composited a first pass which I still have to roto. But I think it's looking okay. I think the roto will make it less chaotic. I will have to take care of that transparency problem. The pink dude is going to turn into the 2D boy when he fades. I'm contemplating flash more and more. I have more assets I have yet to composite... like the running scene in the clouds. We'll see if I can get it up before tomorrow's presentation.

I also fixed the light pops here and composited a background on the green screen.

I work best with blasting music cause then I don't think about my distractions and can just paint forever. So yeah! I'm stoked to keep going.

PS I hate these blogger columns that don't show anything fully.

Stop-Mo For You

Here's all the stop-mo approximately timed in After Effects!

Still working on oxberry things. This week I've had trouble getting to work because I've been trying to take care of job stuff and the application to stay in the US post-graduation. Also, I've been running a mile and a half every other day with my roommate as a pact. It's a lot of time and energy... I don't know if I can continue cause thesis is already such a huge commitment.

Anyway enjoy these goodies:

Oh hi again, Oxberry.

It was a slow start on Tuesday... I guess because it was hard to just dive in again. I forgot how to set-up quickly like before and I forgot my ipod speaker system which helps motivate me. It took almost 2-3 hours to get going... and start loving it again. But once I saw one thing start moving, I felt a bit better... yessss! Self-preservation.

I got the majority of elements of the first scene animated. It was a brain cramp to figure out how the transition should go on the fly but I feel that my animatic helped a lot. Also breaking down each element to the smallest possible movement.

A problem has come up though - someone booked the oxberry for 6 hours every week on Tuesdays - MY BEST DAY TO WORK! So I'm going to have to figure out a way around it. I'm thinking Monday and Wednesdays.

I'll post some tangible things soon but I'm having exporting issues left and right.