Monday, February 21, 2011

Abbey Road - The beginning of a Journey

This animation is practically titled Abbey Road. It is the first part in a three part series of animation that took me most of the semester last year. The total project has over 80 hours invested into it.

The premise is that it is the Beatles walking across abbey road only to be hit by a bus.  I came up with this concept by bouncing ideas off my father when he gave me a ride home from work one day.

Part one is what is called a line animation.  It is just black lines on a white piece of paper.  It is colored in with colored pencil but it is still far from the finished project. Not even all the elements exist yet.  So for now we have the Beatles walking across the road, and then they disappear.  In the next segment we will introduce the bus.

Monday, February 14, 2011

Mr. Fox

Just a short blurb today.

My next adventure took a step away form the traditional. This is lovingly titles Mr. Fox, it was the project I did for my 2D computer animation class. It is about a Fox who has a hard day, and all he wants to do is get home to his wife. However, he is finding the unreliable bus system difficult.

My wife drew all the images for this because she is amazing, and I put it together with After Effects, and composed the music in garage band. So here is Mr. Fox

Monday, February 7, 2011

Stanley the Weiner dog

Here was my first attempt and claymation. I ran into some trouble with this one.  First the clay I used wasn't the best so, after being under stage lights for a couple hours he began to fall apart.  I didn't really have a story to go along with this. I had little idea of what I was doing.  However, I have learned from my mistakes and am planning on doing a bigger production this semester. As for Stanley; while he was a good projector I don't see him making a reappearance in any of my future work.

To make Stanley I had to build a skeleton (called an armature) out of metal wire and cover him with clay.  He is setup on a large table  and a bunch of still shots are taken.  There isn't much complexity to this one so once again enjoy.