Music + paint

I've been shooting more paint... I also resized my entire stop motion to fit the 1280 x 720 size. While doing this I color corrected and finalized the first section... taking out rigs etc. I made an X sheet for the music and I'm timing my compositions to it... it's been very helpful so far. Painting is going well... I need to pick up speed to finish on time. I realize how much roto I need to get done and actually start on.

I'll post something before next week!

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.

STOP-MO DONE!

I was up til 7am animating yesterday but it was all worth it. Everything stop-mo is done. All that needs to happen is compositing and tweaking and eyes.

Problems I had was that the set kept moving around, and also setting up always took a long time. One thing that stressed me out was my puppets were getting destroyed. So it's a relief that I no longer have to take care of them. The heads and paint are cracking and the cloth is getting ripped...

The footage still needs to be uploaded but I think I'm on track.

Now, onto oxberry times!

Dadada DAA! transitions are thought out. also, list of bg and chars.

transfer
bg: base color, exploded brain

chars: blob guy, music notes, clouds expanding

transition - blob guy turning into boy

intro

bg: yellow? and clouds

chars: boy, rooster

transition: pan up, clouds turn weirder

cloud pass

bg: blue, clouds slow swirling
chars: man running, rooster running, boy running

transition: man runs into ape mouth, eats, grabs his tongue and pulls it out. monsters join the fun slowly.

tongue

bg: plain yellow

chars: ape, ape's hand, ape's tongue, blue happy tongue, big green tongue, big beard, john lennon, big green's hand, boy, rooster

transition: tongue slowly forms into stairs

stairs

bg: watery dark paint

chars: falling fire men, blue leafy things, maniacal dog, rooster dog

transition: rooster disappears, boy flies and lands on a spikey thing

desert

bg: yellow

chars: lizard body, lizard head, mud monster, mud monsters arms, spikey walking things x 3, boy, rooster, shadow

transition: rooster flies away, mud monster picks up boy and throws into air

flowy test shot

bg: yellow

chars: boy

transition: the blue flips over, starts walking, cubes start falling

juggle walk
bg: yellow subtle

chars: arms x 3, box head, feet/legs x 3, cubes with roosters x 5, boy

transition: zoom into cube head's arms, change colour and folding hands then, tiki face build opn top, then the hands open for the chase

tiki

bg: light green or none, subtle

chars: teeth, hands, faces, tiki hair, tiki eyebrows, silhouettes of rooster, silhouette of boy

transition: follow into the mouth of the right tiki face and the boy trips and falls

lose rooster
bg: canal

chars: boy, rooster

transition: LIGHT fills the screen (like realization)

last rooster shot pan out

bg: swirling color, another layer of splash

chars: lots of blobs, rooster's beak, roosters monster hairs, boy, wattle