Sneaky Peaky

Draft version of the opening - NOT FINAL

Quick Update 21/04/2013

Long time, no post... 

    Work on the film is running tight with only 4 weeks till deadline. Feeling confident I can finish, but it'll certainly require many more late nights than I'd like. Most of this delay is down to me being pretty seriously ill and bed-ridden for about 3 weeks. Definitely not what you need to get work done.

     It was impossible to work in the condition I was in and so I find myself in the position I am in now.

     At this point I would have liked to have been over half way done with the film, with little animation left and only post production left. As it stands I have 15 to 20 seconds done with tweaks needed. Still though if I carry on at the work rate I'm at now I can just about finish...

    Here's a short 3 or 4 second clip to show how the finished product will look.

 

 More coming very soon

 

Quick Update 10/3/2013

Haven't been so up-to-date with updates recently, mostly because I've been going through the rigmarole of preparing each character to be animated in flash. This means I've been staring at Illustrator for the past couple of weeks, separating everything out onto layers and creating hand and mouth shapes...

... things are beginning to progress nicely though, even though time seems to run away from you at every possible occasion.

     Tomorrow I shall be recording some voices with an actor and beyond that I hope to get the majority of the animation done within the next 3 to 4 weeks, assuming I won't run into any major obstacles along the way.

  A screenshot of how my desktop looks at this moment... for proof

Also here's one last layout test. I'm going to do these after the bulk of the character animation now. The time it takes for each to render is a bit deflating so I'd rather get the characters moving and have static backgrounds if I'm short for time. That shouldn't happen though.
 

Layout Tests

A few test shots for how the layouts may look and move, nothing set in stone at the moment

 

 

 

Still problems to tweak with. Islands look like they're floating on the water effect I've used etc, but this gives you a rough idea of final look.

Under The Weather - Sound Pitch + Animatic

Under The Weather - Sound Pitch + Animatic from Ted Oliver on Vimeo.

The final animatic is now complete! Took a little too long to figure out the story but it's pretty much set now. In need of music an sound effects now...

  Anyone who has known me for a while will know a thing I have for this Cloud character. Something that's been in the pipeline for a while, but never going to return to after this is over (there seems to be an infinite amount of films with cloud characters now that I've looked).

If any aspiring musician or sound technician reading this for whatever reason is interested in producing anything for this film please feel free to message me anytime.

2nd Year Final Film - "Under The Weather"

My final film for this year is entitled "Under The Weather" (originally "Blown Away").

The plot of this film will revolve around the two characters pictured above and how they get on each others nerves. There's The Cloud and The Volcano, and needless to say they're not going to get along.

These are the initial character designs and the expressions used in the animatic (soon to be posted).

Coming Soon...

Watch this space...