How I feel about my film

Week Q: Color test

I'm not sure when the color change should happen - when Rose peaks in through the door or when she actually steps inside. Opinions?

Week 8: Mar's Water Cycle

As promised, here is the full version of Mar's lecture!

Since I uploaded it to youtube already anyway, here's my animatic too.

Week 7: Numbers

My blog posts could get very repetitive from here on out since I'm going to basically be doing the same things up until the end. I'm going to try to break it up some though. Have some numbers!

I'm done with 95% of the backgrounds, 100% of the rough character animation, 88% of the rough effects animation, and 49% of the clean up. This doesn't take coloring into account since I'm getting help with it.

I've got 33 shots left to clean up. My goal is 10 shots a week completely done. I managed to do 10 last week and I've done 5 since Wednesday but I doubt that I can keep up this pace once I get to the more complex shots. Wish me luck.

Week 6: Clean up and colors

This week was about organization and clean ups. A lot of my PSD files were mislabeled because of the changes I made over Winter Break. It's not completely fixed but I've got a strategy down now.

As for clean ups, it's slow going. I've been focusing on effects shots for the most part since those are fairly easy to finish up. I want a break after all the group shots I did recently! I've also been working on figuring out the coloring since I've got someone lined up to help me with that.

The old colors for Rose in the real world were too grey. I still want them to be dulled down but it was too much. I've increased the contrast there and made her bow a slightly different red.

You can't see all of it but I also designed the magic door. It's mostly (but not entirely) bamboo.

Since I'm not very smart, I've decided to do colored lines on the effects. I like the softer look and never plan on seeing sunlight again.

Week 5: Establishing Shot

This is the shot when Rose first peaks into the restroom. The slow, even paced pan is going to change. I just did that to test how the character animation would look while the background moved. Later, I'll change it so the camera darts from one character to another. But, for now, enjoy!

(The headless blue guy is going to be chasing a snake.)

Week 4: Victory and Defeat

Rose's victory over the toilet is all roughed out now. It's .... something. It'll be much less "awkward" after I clean it up and fix a couple issues but, for now, I'm happy to check this off my to-do list.





I've only got 8 shots left to rough out, which sounds like so little until I remember that 5 of them are group shots, 4 have the tikbalang speak, and one is Rose laughing. My schedule has me finishing all my rough animation in week 5 so I've set myself up for quite a work week. I can do it though!

Update:

I wanted to work on the big establishing shot today but, when I looked at the background I drew at the start of last semester, I hated it. The perspective is wonky and everyone'd be so spread out.

Option #1 for the new background is a tweaked version of the sketch I use in my animatic. I'm not in love with it since Rose would have to be really really really really tall in order to see the bathroom at this angle.

Option #2 has a much lower horizon line. Rose would have to be a midget to see things at this angle but I justified it by saying this helps highlight how intimidated she is. The sink looks much bigger than the stalls though.

I'm not in love with either option but I don't know if it's worth it to draw another one. It's an important shot but it isn't the only big one left. I'm going to take a break for now and try animating something else.

Week 3: Lip sync

At long last, TALKING appears in my thesis. Once Careen helped me out, it turned out to be a lot of fun. I'm still intimidated by the tikbalang but a friend suggested studying Donkey from Shrek. Hopefully that helps.

For now, though, I'm just enjoying listening to Rose.

Week 3: Even MORE Water Effects

I've been working on Rose getting blasted with rainbow water for the last couple of days. I'm not done yet and I'm waffling about whether or not my latest bit works.





I am worried that, because the splash is so big, you won't be able to see Rose once I color everything. I tried having the rainbow narrow because, in my head, it was concentraiting in one place. However, I'm worried that it actually looks like the rainbow is slowing down and about to stop. Opinions?


If it helps to see shot 52 alone, here it is.

Week 2: Rough Animation

Earlier this week, I made a rough schedule. However, over the weekend, I finished almost two weeks worth of work so it clearly wasn't an accurate schedule. I'm going to make a much more intense one to help me push myself. Aim for the moon and all that jazz.

Here's what I completed this weekend.



They are some of the easier shots but, even still, I feel pretty good. I'm expecially proud of the "water" animation.

Hopefully, the monsters won't be too hard, although I am still a bit nervous. If anyone has references on how to animate a horse's head or a bat's wings, I'd appreciate the help.

Edit: Oh man, guys. The begining of this shot isn't good but I'm SO PROUD of the ending.

Week 1: Animatic

Since I've switched the order of a lot of the classroom shots, they don't quite line up. I'll fix that during clean up. I'm also going to go through all my audio again and pick better/the best lines. These are just the ones I threw in there as place holders.

At the end, Rose starts laughing at how ridiculous this whole situation is. I'm open to suggestions for better ways to show this.

Winter Break: Pee Pee Dance

Over the break, I've been very passively animating. My brothers started school today so I'm going to try to get more serious about my animation schedule.

Since I've been back, I've shown my animatic to people who hadn't seen it since summer. They had a lot of good suggestions so I'm going to switch some shots around and tweak the ending. The big after effects file with all my shots in one place is on my school computer though so I've been working on more rough animation instead. I'll make an updated animatic first thing once I'm back in LA.

A lot of people didn't understand that Rosalinda has to go to the bathroom during the classroom scene. Hopefully these updated shots will make it clearer!