CTN expo

CTN expo was great.

Perhaps I'll post some thoughts about the event for those who were on the fence of making a trip to Burbank.

Life Drawing

1/1/15/20 minutes respectively.

Death Buy Lemonade Leica Reel

Leica version 7. October 21, 2009

OIAF

Its been a while since I updated (relatively speaking)

I've been busy catching up on the work before going to Ottawa International Animation Festival.

The festival was great. My highlights were Disney's Tangled presentation and The Illusionist.

(Mark Mayerson's two cents on The Illusionist can be found here.)

Meeting new folks in the animation industry and awkwardly attempting conversation was a great experience too.

Due to overload of excitement I had at OIAF, I've decided to attend CTN this year.

Should be fun right?

Don't party too hard.

3 Hours - Photoshop

I swear, one of these days I am going to go to the bed early.

vrooom

4 Hours - Photoshop

Jack and the Scarabs study.

I've been watching quite a bit of Samurai Jack again and been rediscovering it's cinematic brilliance. I usually leave it on when I am drawing or about to sleep. Though this particular sequence from Jack and the Scarabs episode kept me awake for a good while because it was so emotionally intense.

So I decided to analyze the sequence a bit and see if I can learn the magic of storyboarding the amount of intensity that kept me awake at three in the morning.

I apologize in advance that the thumbnails might be too small and I used auto capture so I missed key poses and actions in some scenes.

Here are my notes and findings:

1) The sequence begins with jack traveling from screen left to screen right. most of the shots are pretty horizontal and even when the shots change to vertical, there is plenty of time in between so the intensity is still kept very low.

2) Jack is shocked to find that the tomb that keeps the minions of Set is opened. The intensity here is not visual but more character based. Throughout the series, Jack is usually calm and rarely scared of anything from the get go.

Then Jack gets punched by off screen threat even before he knew the punch was coming.

3) Jack is in kept in close up shot and in the middle. Middle is most vulnerable position to be in since there is no definite direction to defend an attack from. The attacks are still from off screen and from both direction sporadically at a very fast pace (4-8 frames).

4) This is the very first time Jack lays his eyes on his attacker(s). You see death before you die they say..

5) Relationship. Jack is in the bottom left corner and is moving even deeper while the minion of Set is coming into the frame from the upper right position, eventually dominating the frame.

6) Jack is retreating to the left. Left is where he started his journey and also the direction where he found the opened tomb of the minion of Set. It's not the direction he would want to go.

7) Jack is still taking beating from all directions. This cut is interesting because the scene with Jack ends with him looking screen left. However, the next scene, we see a minion of Set also looking left, indicating it is right behind jack and jack is unaware of it.

8) Bit of breather for the audience. I left the similar framed undeleted for you to get an idea of how long Jack blocks the attack for. The direction he is being pushed away is left.

9) This is first long shot in a while. At first, Jack is alone in the frame with no threat near him.

10) but that quickly changes as all three minions of Set overwhelms the frame.(but always two at a time to emphasize that there is always one lurking somewhere else) Also, note the difference in size between Jack and the minions of Set.

11) Size relationship in the frame.

12) Similar deal as 9,10. Still in the middle and surrounded.

13) size relationship

14) This one is interesting. Jack manages to cut off one of minions's arm and minions weapon flies to the screen right (15) and gets impaled on the wall. (cont. at 17)

16) Bit of breather as Jack manages a vital attack on a minion. The minion rises upward in pain thus setting the vertical direction but quickly heals and reaches for its weapon to the left along with a camera move that changes the screen direction to horizontal.

Also note, exaggeration in size relationship for mood.

17) Minion's weapon we saw in (15) which was on the right is now on the left. This makes complete sense in terms of the locations of the character position and the environment but visually, switching what was left to right by changing camera angle also adds to the intensity.

18) Jack in the middle attacks coming from off screen again.

19) Jack gets pushed to the right and finally gets a solid direction to travel to. This is assisted by the fact that the next scene, (20) the minions of Set is fairly far away and not coming from the right (where Jack is running towards)

20) All three minions of Set are in the long shot and they even get into extreme long shot in the later scenes thus finally giving Jack and the audience a moment of relief.

Commute is a Peach

Preliminary character design for a film idea.

Storyboarding is next.

..I should really get a scanner.

Sarah Test Finished

Here is the translation:

"I don't know. One thing is for sure. When you live together, you get bored of each other."

This is where I'll leave it for now. It's not perfect by any means.

The hair looks bit too flashy and the right hand could definitely use some finessing with drawings and I wanted some swirling motion with the cup.

With this exercise I set out to accomplish two things: Testing the character rig and construct decent lip sync. The lip sync came out to be better than I expected.

Any criticism will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Something random in between readings.

Favourite Thing

My favourite thing to draw when I sketch girls from no reference is the hair.

I love how much difference a single strand of hair can make.

Geordie Millar's Anatomy class at cartoonist workshop.

This week's focus was proportion.

Dr. Sketchy

Went to Dr. Sketchy session today for the first time. It was pretty amazing.

Breaking Ice

Something for Corus Family Day

Sarah pose test

The blog is titled "girls and animations"
So finally, some animation.

I'll have subtitle once I finish it.
The language is in Korean.

Lie to me

cast of Lie To Me television series

Succubus

Aw man. This was supposed to be an innocent fawn girl

Animazing Spotlight Festival

This weekend, 2nd annual Animazing Spotlight shorts festival is held in Burbank (September 4th & 5th 2010)

Death Buy Lemonade will be screening on Sunday
Nomination screening #3 under Best achievement in humor category.

For more information, visit their site by clicking the image above.

UPDATE: Death Buy Lemonade won the best achievement in humor category

Waahh

Something different.

or much of the same

Story concept/ inspirational sketch.

hanbok

baby

stewardess

It's been a while.

Animation Block Party Official Selection

Death Buy Lemonade made the official selection at Animation Block Party.
The Festival runs from July 30th to August 1st 2010 in NYC.

For more details visit their site.
http://animationblock.com/summerfest2010/


UPDATE: Death Buy Lemonade has won Audience Award at ABP.

Thank you everyone for your support.

World cup

And so, it begins.

Death Buy Lemonade

Saaaafe

An update!

The Film is almost done. Couple more days left.

goldie locks

wish

Hmm. not very pleased with combination of colours here..

Agent

Photoshop - 3hrs

Taking a break from film stuff.