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!