Well kids, its been a good run but ive finally finished what i needed to finish. with a 24 work day under my belt i can now say that i really want to go into animation, sleep is for losers anyway. i had a great time in this class and really learned a lot. So with my great pleasure i present to you Pajamas.
Week Fourteen
Its one week before presentation week and i am stressing! I have a lot of work ahead of me so lab hours are crucial. Ive been staying til closing but it always doesnt seem like enough time. To make myself feel like the amount of work im doing is nothing i saw this behind the scenes clip of paranorman. Its ridiculous how much work goes into stop motion. I think im doing chump work compared to these guys.
Week Thirteen
Im starting to get nervous about the completion of my animation and one issue ive encountered is the sizing of his body. After a while of drawing frame after frame, for some reason my monkey’s body would increasingly get smaller. Ive fixed the current frames by editing multiples and enlarging but it takes production time away when trying to size everything up. Ive fixed future issues by placing grid markers where the top and floor should be and i think its sucessful.
Week Twelve
OOOO boy its crunch time. Ive actually missed this lab week so im kind of in a jam, but lukily the campus has lab hours i can spend. Ive started to become a usual and the tech office does not even ask for my name anymore. “Headphones and Drawing Tablet please, il return them in a few hours”.
Week Eleven
Deadline is coming up and the animation is going well. i still have not finished the entire animation but a few scences are fully colored and completed. This link is to a 3d animation i thought was cool. Im a sucker for superheroes and ive watched all the others leading up to this one. what i like about this animation is that is shows the importance of camera angles. They really add to the move.
Week Ten
This is another ridiculous link i found. The fact that technology is going this advanced is just amazing. the only fear of this is that this might take some jobs away from animators. If this is now so easily done with just a $5 app animators might become obsolete. Its still cool.
Week Nine
This is ridiculous. Thats all im going to say.
Week Eight
I was looking for some cool animations for inspriration and this one seemed pretty cool. What i found extrememly cool was this is all hand drawn and hand inked. The backgrounds are watercolor and the 1930 theme is actually pretty cool.
week seven
Working with frame by frame is exhausting but has been rewarding. By finally finishing some of the coloring , my animation has really been coming together. I am really proud of the way my throws have turned out and they seem very fluent, Im really excited to see the end result.
Week six
I was trying to find a useful way to make pajamas’ head turn fluently and what i did discover was making a 360 degree rotation was that tool. In a separate symbol i made pajamas head and made about 4 key frames, 1 for each 90 degrees. I then went in and added the inbetweens. This has been extremely helpful for marking the lights and darks and inserting the head as a different layer.
Steve Hertzel 