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updating again...right now I am working on scene 5 of my animation...which is a longer part... I will try to get scene 6 done and start on scene 7 over the weekend..sine the animation is taking faster to do than I thought I might add in another scene, or just go back and fine tune everything, making the animation in the other scenes more detailed? I'll see hoe it goes. I still am not sure what I am going to do about the audio.. well with the audio I'd have a ambient song playing in the background, or I'd make the music fit the mood of the scenes and have it being a fast paced song...I'll probably find something on Newgrounds because the audio on there is loyalty free..as for the sound effects..there are a million places to get those from but only a few sites have really good ones tha sound real....I'll have to figure all of that out soon......but for now everything is working out okay!

another update

Well! things are going pretty smoothly with my project....I've already animated 2 scenes..but they were short and simple to animate...at this rate if I keep animating so quickly I might be able to add in a couple other scenes that I had planned out into the animation..we shall see.. its just a little extra..it isn't too important to the story and wouldn't change it too much. SO yeah! the only thing I have to concern my self about are the sound effects...my animation will rely on them and I don't want to use crappy ones..so I'll have to figure that out.

other than that everything is fine!

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update time!

I was gone this weekend so I didn't work on my project, although I did manage to get some of the main backgrounds done for my project...I need to finish those up and then start setting up my scenes...laying out the main character puppets and parts..get everything organized so when I go in to actually start animating, everything will go a lot smoother....so everything is going okay so far...! I've finished all the tutorials so now I can put all my focus on my project.

Schedule

here is my schedule I plan to go by for my project...it is subject to change...I made it in a calendar like format.. its starts on the 20th of April and ends on the last day of class...Since the animation in my piece is pretty simple and since I can create everything in Flash I might have more time to do it...it really depends..but this is my schedule for now...I'll probably keep making changes to it as time goes on..

Lip Sync

I actually did this a while ago..before I did the walk cycle...I kind of used a different method for this tutorial..I still followed the instructions though..using the swap tool to swap out the lips was very useful....I used different mouths for each word, although toward the end I reused some of the lips..i figured if I had more lips the animation would look more smooth and convincing...in some parts I used 5 or 6 lips for one word so it looks like the lips move really fast... I probably didn't need to use as many lips as I did but I think it makes the animation sync better to the audio...as for the audio the clip I chose is a clip from The Dave Chappele Show, so I take no credit for it. anyways, here is the animation!

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Walk Cycle

So here is the walk cycle that I did..it is still not perfect but I tried to do my best...It was probably the most challenging tutorial I have done so far..making all the parts so that it looked like the figure was really walking was a challenge..I had to make a lot of tweaks before it looked right..the method behind it was pretty simple and easy to understand though. Making a walk cycle in Flash is a lot easier to do than done in other mediums though. I still had fun doing it and I think it came out alright.

so here it is!

storyboard

here is the storyboard for my project..It should be pretty easy to understand..I'll post the script again just in case....

Scene 1: The bird hops onto the screen from the left. A small red ball is hovering in the air on the right side of the screen. The chicken notices the ball and pokes it.
Scene 2: The ball suddenly floats back, and pelts the bird in the face fast and hard, the chicken is knocked back and hits the ground dizzy.
Scene 3: As the bird lies there dizzy, the ball transforms into a roof-like shape above the bird so when the bird recovers and sits up it hits its head on the roof part and falls back, dizzy again.
Scene 4: The ball hovers in the air above the bird as the bird recovers again and gets up. The bird looks angrily at the ball; the ball then morphs into 7 smaller blue balls; the chicken stares mortified.
Scene 5: the blue balls pelt the bird like hail as the bird miserably tries to dodge them, after the 5th ball the bird falls on its stomach and is pelted by the last two balls. The balls fade away each time they hit the bird.
Scene 6: as the bird recovers the red ball reappears. When the bird gets up it curses at the ball by shaking its fist at it. The ball then turns into three green spikes. The chicken freezes with its fist still in the air
Scene 7: the spikes then try to impale the bird, but the bird dodges them and is pinned in by two of the spikes. The two spikes that pin the bird in fade away and the third spike remains. The bird grabs the spike in an effort to attack the ball thing.
Scene 8: The spike suddenly flies in the air and proceeds to smash the bird against the walls of the environment. The bird does not let go for some reason and when the spike stops moving the bird slides off of the spike and hits the ground. The green spike fades away
Scene 9:the bird does not get up, the ball reappears in its original form and hovers around the bird; it then floats right in front of the bird’s head. The bird suddenly gets up and tackles the ball
Scene 10: The bird holds the ball between its feet and pecks the ball until it breaks; the broken pieces then fade away.
Scene 11: The bird is victorious! It cheers, all happy, raising its wings in the air. Suddenly a much larger, dark blue ball appears behind the bird in the air, the bird stares in horror with its wings still in the air.
The screen fades to black...

here is the storyboard






the reason there are no camera change directions is because the whole animation stays as a straight on mid close up... the world these characters are in is supposed to be very flat.

I have another scenes I created..but I may not have time to add it into the story so I left it out of the storyboard...it was just another scene involving the evil ball doing something else to the bird..but I think I have enough going on already...but If I have enough time I might add it in....

so the storyboard should be pretty straightforward!

character sheet

here is the character sheet for the main character of the story... I wanted to keep its design as simple as I could so i reduced its form to a ball with a face on it..so its head and body is in one piece..easier to animate..it'll be like animating a ball and having squash and stretch going on...the birds's head feather will move and also give emotions...and wings are just triangles that will rarely change shape/size except for a few scenes....the feet are just circles. Since my character is made up of such simple parts I will be able to create every part of it in Flash. This goes the same for the other character in the story, who is just shapes.


so there is my little character!

update update

Well I've finished all the tutorials unless I totally did the lip sync tutorial wrong.....

I've finished the character sheet and storyboard for my project which I will post up here shortly...I should be good to go and get started working on my project as soon as the prof goes over it with me...

so everything is going pretty smoothly! I am excited to start working on my project!

update!

well I have been doing the tutorials by myself and i've done all of them besides the walk cycle..which I will try and complete today...I actually went ahead and did the lip sync.. I hope i did it right though because it took me over three hours to do it and I'd rather not have to do it again! >_<.......as for my project...I finished up a character model sheet and next I will start working on the final storyboard for it..and after that....well I will start to piece things together in Flash...so everything is going pretty good!

Rotoscoping assignment

Here are my two rotoscoping assignments that I started on a while ago...Since I didn't know that we had to add our own features to the animation mine are pretty similar to the actual footage.


It was pretty easy to do frame by frame but at the same time it took more time to do it...but I didn't have any problems with it..rotoscoping is pretty fun!

for the second animation I just took my hand and did a little movement with it, nothing too complex....




and that's it really!

Critique from My Peers

In my little group we critiqued each others projects. Most of the people in my group still didn't have a complete idea of what they were gonna do...one person was going to try and animate to a poem, and we all agreed that that would be cool, another person had a pretty good idea of their story, and we all advised her that she should try to keep the animation as simple as possible because she had a lot going on in her piece. As for mine, I described to them how mine was going to be more abstract with simple animation and everyone agreed that it was a good idea to keep it nice and simple. We couldn't really think of that much else to say about each others pieces, but it was fine.

Puppet animations

here are my puppet animations....
just some simple animation, nothing too complex. Making the puppet jump was pretty easy..I tried to put some anticipation and secondary movements in both of them...As for the second puppet I just made the bird move all its body parts.

this is the clown jumping one.


this is the second one I did with my own puppet...


so that's about It I guess!