030211_color_fun

Playing around with some colors I've been using lately plus some really neat photos of ice. Lots of subtle stuff that I only wish I was capturing here...

45 min in painter before going back to painting Robo-san scenes...

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022511_ speedie

Just a little doodle. 30 minutes I think? I wasn't counting this time. I wanted a break from the usual and I haven't really tried speed painting in a long time. I feel like...I understand it's use now. Anyways, more to come, I guess.
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021111_Accomplishment

Rather miraculously, Ben, Stephen and I made our KickStarter goal in 3 days, about 57 less than we expected to accomplish that feat. Our project was even made Project of the Day on the Kickstarter homepage! It was a pretty spectacular moment in our short project's history, but made us all very proud and grateful. So here we are.
This is one of t the cards we printed on Wednesday to match the Robo-san one as a way of creating interest in our project around campus. It was typical meishi (business card in Japanese) size, and had our blog info on the back side of it. Oh, by the way Wan-chan is saying "wan wan" which is a Japanese onomatopoeia for the way a dog "speaks." Essentially, "wan wan" instead of "woof woof." I hope you all learned something today!

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020811_KICKSTARTER

Hey everybody! So the Robo-san and Wan-chan animated short film is still trucking a long and we're making great progress with it every day. We'd really love to send the film to different animation festivals and film festivals when we finish it, as well as produce an art book for it, but we need YOUR help!

Check out our Kickstarter page below and you can watch a video about what we're doing and how we're doing it and then you join the fight to share Robo-san, and get cool stuff in return!
Thanks for reading and for your support!


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020411 ending shot color key

Color key for the end shot! Super-colorful since it's some kind of emotional climax in the movie. It's a challenge to learn how to use colors this vibrant and bold. Don't think I captured the distance quite as well as I could but that's something that I'll mess with when I go to final. The extreme verticality of this color key is so that we can make the shot scroll upwards so that the short ends where it began, in the stars.
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012911_anatomy

I picked up Barcsay from the library earlier this week and I've started studying, not in the way that I have in the past, just drawing and trying to remember, but really looking and taking notes, trying to understand how things work. I really like how Barcsay has orthographic drawings and detailed things. More to share soon enough!

012511_color key

This is something I've learned recently. If ever I'm stuck on how to paint a particular background for a shot. I try painting it from the opposite direction. This doesn't mean it is uncomposed, it just seems to me that I tend to put all of the interest right in front of the "camera" so to speak, and everything behind it is rather simple. This is really great when I'm struggling to figure out how color is going to work in a scene, or something like that.
If I've learned anything from the Robo-san project, it's that nothing is simple, nothing is easy, unless you really make it so. You could paint a completely barren desert landscape and it could still be intensely complicated if you were really trying to construct a believable space.
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011911_cloudy_background

More background painting. I love how good of practice they are for learning to create space through shifts in hue and value. Fun times.
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011711_sketching...

I've been enjoying a little bit of freelance illustration here and there lately. This is just a sketch...a little "children's" book project.

011611_scene_6

Here's what I end up with...

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