Weak as Dough

I've been putting off a big research paper all semester to work on my junior piece, so I've taken a break from working on clean-up (though I do have this shot), and have dedicated most of this week to my paper. 

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Kyle sent me some sound yesterday.

 It's not what I'm looking for. It sounds "too spooky" to me. 

So I made him a map of the film with commentary of what sounds should be used. 

I'm looking for some more atmospheric/ethereal/horror-ish. 

I also sent him some examples of sounds I like:

Hannibal Theme

Coraline - You Know That I Love You

Suspense Sounds

Curvy, plain, bald

I mean..

Oh! Guess who's done animating?? Hahahaha!!!!

Ha... it's like.. I don't even need to work anymore.

Ugh, but I have to clean-up that walk cycle... that thing has like 60 some frames in it!!! WHY DID I DO THIS TO MYSELF??!! ugh..

Oh well.

I'm going to send this video off to Kyle so he can start putting some sound to it, yuess.

Holly's been working on the title:

We agreed to go with a sharper look to contrast the visual that the word "flower" usually gives a person, which is soft and gentle. 

Since I will be doing clean-ups soon I've been drawing a lot of doughboys..

Yeee

I also checked my colours down in theatre and they look superb!

Umm.. I guess that's it!

Anything rolls with him

I mean, just incase you were wondering about the titles.

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I don't have too much to show for this week since I doubled my work load last week so I could have a freed up Spring Break.

I asked my friend Holly to help me with the type for my piece. For the credits I'm thinking of something along the lines of how Over the Garden Wall did theirs. Nice and centered. 

And for the title I want something like this:

Holly and I talked about Art Nouveau and old carnival type faces. She's going to find a pre-existing type and tweak it a bit for me.

She sent me these choice types and I circled the things I liked. I still want the F and L to swoop, and I want to keep the goopiness. 

 It took me a while to find the PERFECT shade of red/pink. I settled on a colour that's somewhere between electric crimson and folly. I'm veeeery happy I found this colour :-)

Illiterate Doughboy

So before I left for spring break I checked "Key CheckOut" (my school's way of letting us use certain programs off campus) to see if ToomBoom was one of those programs I needed to sign out before I left for break. ToomBoom wasn't listed so I assumed I'd be able to use it off campus. 

I was wrong.

But it's ok. I got done most of this week's work before break even started, because for once I wanted a normal break!!! art schoool whyyyyyyyyyy!!!

Also. Good news:

I ONLY HAVE FIVE MORE SHOTS TILL I'M DONE ANIMATING!

One of them.. no, two of them are practically stills!

Any ways. Here's what I got.

Timing's a bit off. Needs to hold longer for most shots.

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I hope you were all able to get your bread and milk before the snow hit!

He's soft, and stupid, and scared.

Yooooo!

I've been punching out shots LIKE A BOSS.

I didn't know I could animate this fast.

I'm literally half way done my animation!

loook at thattt ^^^

I found out how to loop my walk cycle for those four shots too. I didn't bother to add the loop to each shot yet since I don't know whether I can expand and contract the exported file in AE or if I need to expand and contract all the keys themselves in ToonBoom.

Blood is easy. I don't worry about it anymore. I still have to pick out the perfect shade of red/pink. I'm debating on wether or not I should also add highlights and shadows to the blood to make it more goopey. I can definitely lay down flat colours and then experiment on one shot later. 

It's literally all in the guidelines. Make your timing chart and you're set. I find making literal guidelines really helpful. If I have a head turn I'll sometimes draw a guideline for the nose and make etchings where the nose should be for each key, and then all the other body parts just follow suite.

I just really like this shot