Onto the main stuff, I have here a small gallery of sketches done in preparation for "Is Your Fridge Running?" that were done over the summer and in September, leading into the production of the film.
Ok, so there's a lot going on to talk about at the moment! Firstly, quick note, "This is Normal" is still updating on schedule, so the most recent comic went up yesterday. Go check that out! Onto the main stuff, I have here a small gallery of sketches done in preparation for "Is Your Fridge Running?" that were done over the summer and in September, leading into the production of the film. So the "Is Your Fridge Running?" short should be finished by the end of the week - and depending on how the search for a music track goes, we could be done well before then. My hope is that it'll get done by either tomorrow or Thursday so we can post it online ahead of the Monday deadline.
Keep your eyes peeled for it! So I've been working on the Fridge film for the past few weeks, and am at a point now where I just have one more of the shots assigned to me left to do. Maybe I'll take on other shots to help speed things along, but it's not clear at this point. We'll basically play it by ear to see how it goes. Here's one of the five shots I've done so far: So yeh, awesome background by Xinyi Guo, fridge symbols by Lie Yandi Leonard, runner symbols by Lewis Rogers, animation by me. A truly collaborative shot right here. On top of this, a doodle animation I did while working on this has been expanded and submitted to The Sketch Collab 2014 on Newgrounds, so that should be pretty great when it comes out. As well as those, I've been brainstorming ideas for my major project this year. The main one that seems to be winning out is an idea about the grim reaper accidentally reaping someone he shouldn't, and having to go into the afterlife to bring them back to life. I've already started some warm-up doodle animations to work out how I want the film to look. I want it to be straight ahead animated, but I know that with limited time and resources, that may not be entirely practical. I'd still love to give it a shot, make something that really feels fluid and alive. Ironic, considering it's about death.
So the animatic for this year's first animation project is done! Xinyi Guo is working on the backgrounds at the moment, and me, Lewis Rogers, and Lie Yandi Leonard are working on various symbols. Ok, so the website for mine, Lewis', and Yandi's film, currently working titled "Is Your Fridge Running?", is up and running. At the moment the About Us page is still a work-in-progress, but now the blog's ready where you'll be able to follow the production more in-depth than I'll be posting here.
If you're curious to see the bare bones of a site that's there at the moment, head on over here. We've yet to dole out specific jobs between us - with the exception of symbol building and storyboarding (Lewis on symboling, me on storyboarding) - so that probably goes to show just how early days it is at the moment, but I'm fairly confident we can come out of this with something worth watching. At the very least, we'll get some new animation for our respective showreels. So, the new uni year starts Monday, and in the first 5 or 6 weeks, we'll be tasked with putting together a one-minute short. I'm teamed up with Lewis Rogers for our film (title pending, working title: "Is Your Fridge Running?"), and to give us a little head start on the time we have, I'm starting to put together the storyboard/animatic for it now.
The story follows a runner who discovers that the energy drink he bought has brought his fridge to life, and must chase it down through the city to get back his precious drink and the fridge that contains it. We're aiming to try and have it symbol-based, as that's what we've been told to expect from the industry (doesn't explain why all the CalArts films are still frame-by-framed, but still), which'll help speed up animation and keep things as consistent as possible. Experience on "Under the Weather" tells me that the head/face symbols will be the most important ones to get consistent. |
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