Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Crash and Burn

Things were going okay for my senior project until the past couple of days. Since Wednesday we're showing for the first time this semester, I really wanted to get everything together in a structured, comprehensible format so that everyone could finally see what I'm doing.

So much for that. Everything that could go wrong, did go wrong. And now, I have no chance of having something worthy of showing. I feel so comfortable as a character animator, and I work best on paper. But as a film maker... I can't get my drawings on paper to the screen. It's a hurdle I just can't seem to get over. All attempts at compositing it failed. Now I don't have time to make it work.

This is what one of the shots would look like... had I been able to composite it.

I guess... until I figure out, that's all I have to show anyone. That and a big pile of animation paper with drawings that don't make sense by themselves on it. If you can think of a process that would work as far as putting it all together goes, I'm up for suggestions.

UPDATE: I think I figured it out! It only took half the week and now that I have it figured out it's 7pm the day before showing... so yeah, I still can't show a whole animatic, but at least now I know how to make one.

2 comments:

  1. why not just shoot what you've done and throw it into an animatic? D:

    you could show that one shot as an example, but still have the raw stuff to show to go along with it.

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  2. the problem I'm having is that the pencil tests just don't make sense by themselves, without the background and without being 100% finished (none of the walk cycles are done and there are a couple shots with an interaction but I only have 1 character). And I can't figure out how to put the background and the character together, except in photoshop... but then how do I get from photoshop to quicktime?

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