Storyboard & layout
Once the story and the character design was set I moved into storyboard stage and right now I’m finishing layout. Storyboarding part is extremely fun since I am just visually exploring certain parts of the story and see how it will play. I’m not so much worried about how will I technically achieve this or that, camera is not so furiously locked and I can produce a multitude of shots quickly since I just draw quick sketches and see where I am going. I am definitely not worried about artistic... Read The Rest →
Initial sketches, design…
The idea behind ‘Rhapsody with James’ required a different character (design wise) and I was a bit in doubt whether it’s gonna work or not. It took me a while to get things on their way but the sketch below was the one that got me thinking that this might actually work. It’s a very small sketch but it somehow clicked and it was easy to finalize him from there on. After that I created a few situation sketches (like the one below) so I get a better feel of... Read The Rest →
Baseball pitch animation test
This was an animation assignment I did in Animation mentor class 2. The main focus was body mechanics. Share → Tweet
Short film: Rhapsody with James
About two months ago I’ve started my work on ‘Rhapsody with James’ which I’ll be doing as my class 5 and 6 assignments at Animation Mentor. I’m really excited about it. It will be about 1 minute in length and I’m currently in the layout stage. The animation should be finished by fall 2007 and then take a few months to texture and render. If I’ll be lucky the whole thing will be finished by christmas! I’ll post some sketches and layouts very soon! Share → Tweet