final

Here is my final animation. It is of poor quality, because I'm still unclear on how exporting and importing between programs works. But here it is, finally after going back and forth between ideas, and finally settling on one. Then trying to figure out how to use the program, and making a ton of mistakes along the way. I can safely say, I have got a good portion of my crap work with this project, and am ready to step to the next phase of the learning process.

moving along

Completed the background design, and clapboard. Now just focusing on making character costumes and syncing the lip movement to audio!



Here is an exported image of my current progress. I have all the lip movement done, and some characters fleshed out. Centuar is the most hilarious so far.

Something new.

So I have completely scrapped my old idea. It will take toooo long for me to produce, and will not be completed at the end of the quarter. So I decided on something very simple.

This image is some characters I quickly knocked out. My new simpler idea is to have a character modeled after myself doing a scene in a movie. In the scene his only line is to say "I say you he dead!" but the director wants to try a whole bunch of random things with it! So the clapper board is going to be the mark of a new scene/new gag, in which this character will be himself, in a bunny suit, in anime style, or a skeleton, or whatever random thing that will be totally unexpected.

Story idea (finally).

I've finally settled on an idea. It is going to be something short. It is a small tale of how a cheetah got the streak under his eyes, and a horn on his head.

Scene 1: Looking up through tall grass we see a tree. From our surroundings we can deduce it is in the plains. A cheetah's head pops up and looks around.

Scene 2: The cheetah notices some impalas in the distance.

Scene 3: The cheetah creeps up a little bit.

Scene 4: The cheetah is in the distance moving forward slowly. The impala's head comes up in the foreground after picking up some grass to chew on.

Scene 5: The cheetah starts to run.

Scene 6: The impala notices and as a smart tactic runs towards the cheetah a bit, forcing the cheetah to make a sharp turn, and slowing him down.

Scene: 7: Pan with the two as they run along the planes. The cheetah gains on the impala.

Scene 8: From the cheetah's view the impala is close enough for the final pounce, but at the last second the impala dives off to the side, revealing a tree in front of the cheetah.

Scene 9: The cheetah tries to slow down, but can't stop or turn.

Scene 10: Looking down on the scene there is nothing but dust in the air. Dissolve to evening.

Scene 11: The cheetah opens his eyes. We can see now the dark red streaks under his eyes that weren't there before, and a small lump on his head.

Scene 12: He gets up and walks off. Dissolve to next scene following his movement

Scene 13: A small group of cheetahs (3 most likely) come into view. They all have horns and eye streaks.


Nothing to complex here, just something seemingly fun. I might be omitting scene 3 for the sake of time, and blending a couple together.

Movie dump

Uploading the last of my projects here.



This walk cycle turned out looking funky. I still have a bunch to learn about flash! T_T






Some roto-scoping tests using muybridge photos.



And finally this is my first try at lip syncing animation to audio.

The weird things.

So I been working on making these guys jump, and on my second animation, I ran into this funky problem with the motion tween, so right now it looks like a step animation.




and the weird one...

balls!

Just finally uploading my first attempts in flash.