It's Just Life. Just Live It.

It's been so long since I've written on here, I have, to a degree, had time but drive to write on here about work? Nope, no drive whatsoever. I've done a fair bit of work, drawing's n' stuff, but my blog just feels lack-luster lately, bare... Well, because it is.

So, I handed in my work from the last module, the group work, y'know, the module I never spoke about... And I did pretty well... Despite the fact that the CD I handed in didn't work. Typical. So for this current module, AD206, we have to prepare for a presentation next Friday and I can only say how absolutely enthralled I am about this... What's more, the proposal and treatment that need to be written up, the treatment has been written up twice and there may be a final third draft, I need to come to a conclusion over this weekend, as well as reproduce updated Character sheet's, nothing too fancy, I wouldn't mind producing something along the lines of this...

 

See, what I particularly like is how the page isn't over crowded with information, the main character takes centre stage, both facial and bodily elevations with small miscellaneous annotations evenly spread throughout, plus I need to be realistic, this style of elevation is easy to achieve and I need to have it done for next week so I need something effective but achievable. 

The character's have been redesigned, simplified with there being an apparent influence from animator's Chuck Jones, William Hanna and Joseph Barbera as well as Jim Henson. These are a couple of sketches I recently did, Piper the Rat still retains that name, Piper, I really like it, Snorre however, has a new name in relation to his diminished IQ and Neanderthal persona, Hapless and instead of a weapon such as a club or mace, he uses his life long friend and toy, Wishes the Bunny of whom is fed rocks. Magnus is now, Bolt-Gabbro of whom I need to produce a new model for, the silhouette doesn't give much of a clear indication as to how it looks, but he's more cartoony and allot more pissy. In comparison, Piper is now a coward, intelligent but a coward none the less. Hapless in comparison to his previous incarnation is less violent, and more involved in surviving, he's just hungry... And stupid... Mostly stupid. Bolt-Gabbro is hostile, he doesn't like being disturbed and lashes out in retaliation to being attacked. All of this takes place in The Middle of Nowhere which is also the animation's new title.    

So, this weekend what I want to achieve is to just knock the proposal on the head, it's nearly done, produce new, up-to-date character sheets, finish the storyboards and begin the animatic, I don't have much to do and I have a fair amount of development already.

Finally, I've agreed to work with someone on producing a book, we know how to go about publishing... It might have something to do around this really rough image I drew up... But if things go to plan, it should work out pretty well!! 

I need to back track, talk about my previous work in greater detail and just update my blog, it's not much to do, I just to make it look appealing and every time I delve into it... I get bored of it, plus I wouldn't mind learning about the coding aspects of Blogspot, you can achieve some really nice results presentation-wise. So that's that. 

Thanks for reading!

  

Life Is "Trying Things To See If They Work"

Whatever...

To be completely honest group work is taking its toll, it's getting to the point where it's more of a necessity than an actual project. Starting from the B Movie project and ending at the Ident work hasn't exactly been a walk in the park, there's been ups, downs, overs and outs and come next Friday, I'll be pleased to see it end so I can get to work on my own personal work, of which has changed quite allot. This isn't because I hate group work, but it's just dropped in the middle of the personal animation work. Within the next week I need to finish the last couple of frames for my storyboard for the treatment file, finish the development work and by the end of today have the last 2 animation's inked, leaving me with about 30 of my own animations to colour, thankfully it's decided that we're using basic tones so the use of shading isn't required. Given that i'll be just knocking out the white of the frames, and whacking in the colour this reeaalllly shouldn't take too long... Fingers crossed. I keep worrying, I shouldn't. As long as I don't procrastinate throughout the week... I should be pretty good in the end.

Besides, come assessment week, me and Bruce Wayne have some crimes to solve in Arkham City.

Blogging on the go!

First of all, happy new year, second of all, i know... I'm behind on blog content, third, i now have a decent phone which allows for internet access and in turn, blogging. It basically means i can use a touch pad to write essays on the go, such as like now... I'm on the train... £51.20 for a monthly pass!! Anyways, I hope everyone is alive and well!