Really, Really Short but Sweet...I think.

This week I did a rough pass at the big explosion in the guys house. My main goal was to just try and feel out the path and curvature of the fire and see how it looked and felt to me. Come time for the final animation, I think I'll add some more sparks and embers and what not, just to give it a bit more detail, but we'll see.

Another rough test sequence

Put this together from a couple shots that I did this week. It's nice doing shots in order sometimes because it really helps to give me a sense of the timing, seeing what works and what doesn't. Even in as rough a stage as it's in now, it's pretty neat getting a glimpse of my film.

*edit* Oh, and you may want to go directly to youtube and watch it. For some reason blogger cuts off part of the video when it's displayed on the page.

Technical Difficulties

Well, for some reason ToonBoom seems to just refuse to work properly. Everything I export comes out at 24fps, regardless of whether or not I had that in the settings. This is a huge problem because now everything looks wrong and there doesn't seem to be a way to fix it other than going in and changing the exposure manually on all of my shots. This is doable, however, it's far from ideal, and way too time consuming to do right now. If anyone knows how to get the program to cooperate please let me know. The last time I presented work that I exported I didn't have this problem, so I don't know what happened between then and now.

Rough Shot: POV bookshelf

Rough Shot: Taking out a book from Tyler Sandifer on Vimeo.

New post incoming

I'm going to post later tonight. I'm just waiting for vimeo to render out my clip. I didn't clack off, promise!

Another Animatic

Okay, I know I'm late getting this onto the blog, but this week hasn't been very kind to me in terms of work I needed to do, and After Effects decided to be really fussy on top of everything else. That being said, I still managed to get a new animatic out. However, it's not that different from my old one, so don't feel crazy if you can't spot that many differences.

Oh, I also made everything darker, so hopefully it wont look so washed out on your computer or on a projector.

Animatic 2.0 from Tyler Sandifer on Vimeo.