Summa Summa Summa Time

Yes, classes are finally finished. Dreams is probably 70% done and looking good. I bought a 300gb VelociRaptor HDD and 4 more gb of RAM for a total of 8gb and a copy of Win 7 and did all that stuff yesterday, gearing up for the summer. Going to be animating my ass off this summer, so I needed the equipment to do it faster. Cosmic Chase will be going into full production within the next couple of weeks once things settle down. There really isn't a whole lot left to do on CC, so I definitely want to finish that this summer, no excuses. I have the capabilities to do so and hopefully nothing gets in my way.

After CC, which is my highest priority, I want to finish Dreams and release that. After that's done, I want to start on my senior film and get that going for next semester. Now that I'll have ample amounts of time, I'd like to release more screenshots and maybe animation tests of Sonic while the wait continues. Hang on just a little bit more!

Dreams Update

I've been cleaning up and coloring shots and will be posting some new stuff really soon. The audio mixing has been cleaned up and is complete. Special thanks to my friend Brad Giorio for doing the song for me; I'm extremely pleased with the results.

A couple backgrounds needed some additional elements and I finally got them in and they're looking nice. Thanks for those, Monica! I'll be posting those momentarily as well. Overall, the movie is looking good and will probably be finished over the summer. As for CC, that is a top priority as well and hope to roll that out also over summer.

Compositing

Nothing new to post just yet, I've been compositing what I have as far as roughs go and have been concentrating on tightening down the timing. Over Spring Break, I plan on finishing the remaining shots so to the point where all that is needed is tie-downs and cleanup. Once all the animated shots are roughed, I'll finish compositing and send it to my composer for him to take a look at and make any adjustments to the musical track as needed.

Posted Roughs

Here are some rough animations for Dreams. Hope you guys like them!

Nothin New

I've been in a slump over the weekend and haven't produced any new material. I will be posting some roughs this weekend.

Roughs

Production for Dreams is going good. Here are a couple roughs for the character, Billy.

EDIT: Blogger video likes to not work so I'll be using a different method for animation videos in the future.

I Deserve a Gold Star

Not much going on but I've been working practically everyday on Only in Dreams and am starting to devote spare time to Sonic to get that project over and done with. It's not easy juggling projects but the one with a due date takes precedence. I will post some rough animation of Dreams within the next week so you get the feel for how it'll look.

Sonic is still in the coloring phase. Taking time before school or before bed to color a few frames here and there will add up in the long run, so that's the current plan.

Backgrounds

Between hanging out with family and friends, I've been coloring backgrounds here and there. Here is one of the last few shots of the movie. This background is 99% done, I just need to add one last thing in it but otherwise it looks good.

It's a Bit Nipply Out

School's out for a few weeks but the work doesn't stop. Besides coloring my backgrounds and possibly getting some animated keys done, I spent 10 hours with my music composer over the weekend recording a song from scratch that would fit. He's got a little studio set up in his house with guitars and keyboards and whatnot. The song is a little over 3 minutes in length and contains recorded guitars, bass, drums, and strings. I'm really happy with what we've done so far just recording rough stuff which doesn't sound rough at all.

Basically, I told him what I was looking for and what should happen where and then we'd play the animatic and he'd just start jamming on his guitar while watching the movie and then we'd chop it up into pieces we liked went on from there, layering each instrument on top of each other; it sounds pretty professional. We used Pro Tools to record and put the track together and I'm really excited about how the final mixed product will sound.

New Stuff On the Way

I've been working on backgrounds and just started to do some animation for Only In Dreams. I will be posting some finished work soon. Semester is wrapping up so I will finish coloring all of my backgrounds during the Christmas vacation and have lots to show.

Continued Work on Only In Dreams

I've been working on painting backgrounds and setting up organizing and composting layouts. The movie has 49 shots total so that's really not too bad. I'd like to start putting in some key animation for some shots so hopefully that will happen within the next couple weeks.

Only In Dreams

Only In Dreams is the title of my school film project which I have been working on for quite a while now. It is about two boys who interact with each other in the dream world and don't realize whatever happens in the dream world can have consequences in the real world. It's about 3 minutes in length and will be completed in the Spring of 2010. I'll be posting weekly updates for this film (on top of the usual) as a requirement for the class and also to document progress throughout the project.

Here's some bad concept art for you guys to take a look at: