I just finished about a week's work of reanimating Clyde the duck violently waking up to Percival yelling. I was underwhelmed by his first take. The first attempt wasn't dynamic enough, didn't convey the extreme reaction I was looking for. So I animated it again, and this time I had him stay up in the air and flap his wings through to the end of the shot. Lastly I add a camera shake. I liked it much better!
As I was was finishing up the in-betweens I happened to look at the first take, which I hadn't seen in a week. It's perfectly good. As a matter of fact, I love it. There was really no reason to redo it, except to add a camera shake.
I might be able to use some of the 2nd take in a later shot. But not much. Good thing I don't have a deadline.
Lesson: Walk away from it for a week next time.
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
Wednesday, July 10, 2013
Has it really been 3 years?
since I added anything to this blog? Whoa.
The storyboards haven't changed much since my last post. What I have been doing since then is designing characters, recording dialogue with Byron Wagner and Kate Michaud, learning ToonBoom Animate Pro software, making model sheets and a Clyde Sculpey maquette, animating Percival, Clyde and the multiplane camera, and incorporating background art from Rhonda Conley into the scenes.
And as of today 7/10/13 I have the first 2 minutes of the film rough-animated including minor dialogue, all layouts and camera movements finished. The multi-layered backgrounds by Rhonda for this first two minutes are 90% completed, and are beautiful.
I'll add some of preliminary drawings to the blog one of these days. Until then, enjoy the first 2 minutes of "The Adventures of Baxter & Clyde" Episode 1, in progress:
https://vimeo.com/69946203
- John
The storyboards haven't changed much since my last post. What I have been doing since then is designing characters, recording dialogue with Byron Wagner and Kate Michaud, learning ToonBoom Animate Pro software, making model sheets and a Clyde Sculpey maquette, animating Percival, Clyde and the multiplane camera, and incorporating background art from Rhonda Conley into the scenes.
And as of today 7/10/13 I have the first 2 minutes of the film rough-animated including minor dialogue, all layouts and camera movements finished. The multi-layered backgrounds by Rhonda for this first two minutes are 90% completed, and are beautiful.
I'll add some of preliminary drawings to the blog one of these days. Until then, enjoy the first 2 minutes of "The Adventures of Baxter & Clyde" Episode 1, in progress:
https://vimeo.com/69946203
- John
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