Doodle Dump

I've forgotten to upload some of some personal drawings I've done over the last couple of weeks. I'm so used to only posting uni work that my mind completely blanked my other stuff. The premise behind these were that I wanted to practice and improve on my lack of Photoshop skills. Honestly, I am extremely chuffed with these and hope you enjoy them too! :)

Sweet Tooth - Test Shot

Yesterday we had a screening so that each film could show how much work had been done so far. We showed our animatic, complete with sound effects and music. No one had seen the complete animatic so far, so we were extremely excited to show all three year groups and the tutors and see their reactions. And they reacted how we hoped, they all laughed when they were supposed to and it was great to see that our hard work wasn't to waste.

We're not going to use the music in this animatic, it was just to show what type of music we wanted. It's incredible how well it was timed (particularly the metal/rock song), it was purely by accident, it's a shame we can't use the track though.

We also showed our test shot that myself and Grayling (the Producer) worked on. It took the the two of us 4 days to do everything, which ain't too shabby. It was good to show us how the pipeline would work. Anyway, have a gander! :)

Sweet Tooth Animation Practice

Some more animations I did that are loosely based on scenes from the animatic, I just wanted to animate some facial expressions and animate, basically. They're definitely not finished, one day I hope to come back to them but I was needed for more important business - the ultimate test shot. Enjoy! :)

More Cake

Treating you to another cake jump. This particular jump is a scene taken from the animatic, bear in mind it is very rough.

Cakes, Cakes And Cakes

I have been busy dealing with with cakes, unfortunately not real ones. To start I did a few cake concepts and then turned to animation.

 

Since Sweet Tooth is being made in TVPaint, a program I have never used before I thought I would do a few random, yet still valid, animations as practice. A cake jump, and a croissant that walks like a gorilla. 

In conclusion, I love TVPaint.

Restorative Justice, Again -_-

It wasn't over yet, but it is now.

Some changes needed to be made to the film, script and animation-wise. We have been struggling with the script since the beginning, as writing is not our forte. And I also had to change the arm on one of the silhouettes because it looked phallic.

Annoyingly we were given the wrong dates for the changes to be made by, so instead of a month to do this it was drastically reduced to only 4 days. And due to other commitments our group of five was decreased to me and one other person. Because of long, very long, hour days over those 4 days we finished it.

We even managed to get Dawn French to do the voice over, which is pretty cool :) Unfortunately I can't put the final version of the film on here as it has been nominated for an award. When I can I happily will.

Sweet Struggles

Because of the late go ahead on Sweet Tooth, we are about 4 weeks behind. Which is very precious production time! As the majority of second years have pledged themselves to other films already, we have ended up with the smallest crew.

Luis Cook, our animator in residence, came down to have a look at the films progress so far one week after Sweet Tooth got through. And from what I gathered, I don't think he understood or knew how far behind we were and that we only had a week to prepare for his meeting.

Although the meeting was a tad savage, we needed to hear what needed to be done and were given good advice in the process.

Sweet Tooth - trust, it can and will be done!