Stormin' on through

This is more or less of what the background will look like on where the creature will sit...not very exciting but you know~

Song of the Day: Tesla Boy- Electric Lady

OKKK okkk

Here is the little creature~ 

I still don't have a name for this little critter..I am usually really bad with names : (, but perhaps I can ask my sister for some suggestions or help me out. She is kind of smart, haha! 

(I know you read this blog and you know I am only kidding!)

Anyways, now that she is done, I need to think about presentation. Honestly, I thought this would take a lot longer than I had thought, but nope..took less time than I thought. I don't have many ideas now, but I can list some I do have...

I can create a background for the .gif creature. I might create a background with the critter in its environment or just some sort of landscape kind of thing.

perhaps I could make a quick web page using Dreamweaver since I do have some experience in that...but IDK the website will probably look pretty simple :/

Create another .gif with this one? mehhhh

ADD SOME KIND OF MUSIC? I like music...

The critter does have a preliminary story to it. I storyboarded it a week ago, but it will probably be for another animation...an animation I will do on my free time :p

On a random note, I think I am going to enroll into this class. It looks like it will be worth while since I am thinking about creating a demo reel.

Song of the Day: Always - Bon Jovi (I know...)

Not too much...

This was supposed to be posted yesterday:

Work day all day.

Today, I am going to be messing with after effects most all day, figuring out things.
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This displays:

So each part of my creature was a different file
within each file, there were many layers
the layers will act as frames
I will be using Adobe Premiere instead of Adobe AE (phew!)

Song of the day: 'Digital'- Joy Division

Yeah,yeah today is the 3rd!

Today was rather slow..or perhaps, I am just a slow worker sometimes, lol.
ANYWAYS,
Today, I completely sketched out(filled in color and distinguished the shadows) the tail, the head, the ears, the wings, and the feet. The eyes and some of the head are still in progress. Tomorrow there is no class!; however, I do have After Effects on my computer so I might mess with that over the holiday. I will be mostly alone on the fourth, so yeah, there is time to do stuff~~

I really didn't wanna take screenshots of everything until they are more refined :).

End of the update...
and I can't tell jokes to save my life, hahaha!





Song of the Day: Van She - Beat of the Drum

Progression of second project!

Oh boy, so this is gonna take longer than I thought! hahaha but it will all be ok in the end :)

so far, I have most of the wing (right wing)done. Then I am going to try and knock out the eyes, face, and ears tonight as homework. Wooooo, staying up late!(or waking up realllllyyyy early. I will probably do the latter). I am excited to get this finished because there is only one week to do all this! oh my goodness...HERE WE GO!

starting of the head...

WING! yeahh

I did quite a bit of research on the way bats fly. 

Bat's wings are more slender and light. There wings consist of an arm bone and 4 fingers (unlike birds where they have arm w/ one finger).

They have a thin membrane instead of feathers. The membrane extends from the tail to the neck-note: I need to add membrane section right above the arm!

Bat's wings do not synchronize with each other during flight unlike bird's wings.

Whoaa..it has been awhile

I can't believe it has almost been a week since I posted!

A friend of mine from class let me borrow this informative book about animating. He has some good notes and good resources to help out with my project...

However, I am still thinking about getting the Animator's survival kit because that is far more in-depth

Here are some steps I have been taking for my new project....

I currently have TWO/DOS/NI/ZWEI(2)...lolz...IDEAS!
The first idea was creating a stop motion(probably clay motion more than anything),but It probably would take way too long to do that. I remember rushing through a stop motion and it wasn't so good..like at all hahahaha! anyways
or
I was just gonna do a 2d animation of this new character I created above and animate a story..however, this will probably take too long as well.
So I have to a conclusion that I will just make an animation out this character (who has not been named but will be soon!)


Coraline reference http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlMmBCei6h0

song of the day: Nine inch nails- Came back haunted

  TADA! ta-da
Tadah?! Tuduh!?? whateverz.

The painting is pretty much done! I am somewhat sad that I can not print it out(yeah, I was a dumb dumb for not checking everything beforehand) because it would have looked better printed out. Oh well, life goes on and I am actually excited about the next project we will be doing!

I will probably post about my ideas after the critique tomorrow. Oh man, I am already feeling a little sick to my stomach, but everything will be ok...okayy.


Song of the day: 'Clarity' - Zedd feat. Foxes