Im slowly colouring in my film, shot by shot. Im working on shot 11 its taking about 3 days so far to colour this shot and there are 2 more characters to colour. Once this shot is complete it will be the majority of the film,so there are about 5 more shots to colour
I've been colouring each shot using TVP. I've been trying to get a water colour texture to the characters. This shot shows all the market stall owners fall out the frame with the main characters running away. I've currently have 15 of 18 shots fully animated and all others started, and coloured 7 of 18. TVP is a really nice programme, its easy to animate in and creates really nice textures. After going to a demonstration on the software last week i'm looking into buying the software to work with after uni.
Last weekend I went up to Birmingham for Flatpack festival where I ran a workshop on 'how to make a cyclotrope. We had lots of people come in throughout the day and draw there own animations and attach them to bike wheels.
We has a camera set up with a live feed which ment we could watch the animations live as the wheel spun round. here is a compilation of some of the films that were made.
Over the last few weeks ive been working on some maya models for a local artist who is making a film to be screened at an exhibition in the ukrane. He wants a lo-quality 80s style wire frame graphics mixed with google sketch up look modeled spaceships.
I made the following two tests in maya and used after effects to comp them together and add glow.
this week I have been working on some new lino prints, the first one here of the woman with head in hands is for the last shot of my film. it is the close up which will have a tear animated down her cheek. The bckground needs to be taken out , ill probably do this in photoshop. I also need to colour is using water colour. Below that is a reprint of my tree cut, done in a new yellow ink.
this week I animated shot six, that involves the family coming out there home and looking happy. I did this shot in 1 afternoon. I need to add the background in and take it into TVP to colour it. the production stage is going well, only having a few problems with flash and switching files between cs.5 and cs.6.
Also this week i have been working with a local artist who has a residency in the Ukraine, He is working on a installation that focuses on space travel among other things. I am working with him to create some low-tech looking space graphics using Maya and aftereffects. here are some models i have made and some tests i did
