why are all the "next blogs" in french..trashy french...like pug dog appreciation sites...all of them.
and why can't I easily scale down my little movie and post it up.
and why I am wasting time writing to myself.
Thursday, May 17, 2012
the sequences
I totally forgot about another series of images I had exhibited in a "Drawing & Animation" touring exhibition - starting at Gympie Regional Gallery - last March (more than a year ago)
I mean where did this year GO????
The title was actually "DNA" - a sense of the fact that Drawing is the foundation of all Art, and of course Animation...no matter what kind of fanciness a computer can do these days.
I also gave an artists talk about the exhibition, and about my own practice.
I like doing that stuff
I've been working steadily away on this thing...the more work I do on it, the more I love it...and the more I hate my day job
Promise myself to do No More Whinging
as I now have links to some excellent motivational blogs like 'Zen Habits' (the business of being a creative writer - close enough to what i do), who had a great little (quite a ot of pages actually) booklet called "Un-Procrastination".
Now if I could get around to actually Reading it, it might help :_)
anyway,
a couple of pics from the "9 months in One minute" sequence - where i also screened the updated intro animation line test....
I mean where did this year GO????
The title was actually "DNA" - a sense of the fact that Drawing is the foundation of all Art, and of course Animation...no matter what kind of fanciness a computer can do these days.
I also gave an artists talk about the exhibition, and about my own practice.
I like doing that stuff
I've been working steadily away on this thing...the more work I do on it, the more I love it...and the more I hate my day job
Promise myself to do No More Whinging
as I now have links to some excellent motivational blogs like 'Zen Habits' (the business of being a creative writer - close enough to what i do), who had a great little (quite a ot of pages actually) booklet called "Un-Procrastination".
Now if I could get around to actually Reading it, it might help :_)
anyway,
a couple of pics from the "9 months in One minute" sequence - where i also screened the updated intro animation line test....
some new concept art images
More scenes underway...
I've found that developing a decent 'concept art' image helps me to get going on things.. feels like i have something more concrete to start me animating - not the least because it's a slightly better drawing than the scratchy 'blue pencil' lines in the animatics.
It took around one day per image to complete these...at this rate...the film will be done in around the year 2024, given i have so little time to devote to it.
Having said that, the thrill of seeing them printed (on high quality rag paper), with the intesnity of the colours and simplicity of the lines was such a joy and spurred me to continue...keep this struggle going!
These were exhibited in Poland last November (and continue as a touring exhibition) - I went to Wroclaw ('vratslav') for the Opening...
It was AMAZING
more to come
I've found that developing a decent 'concept art' image helps me to get going on things.. feels like i have something more concrete to start me animating - not the least because it's a slightly better drawing than the scratchy 'blue pencil' lines in the animatics.
It took around one day per image to complete these...at this rate...the film will be done in around the year 2024, given i have so little time to devote to it.
Having said that, the thrill of seeing them printed (on high quality rag paper), with the intesnity of the colours and simplicity of the lines was such a joy and spurred me to continue...keep this struggle going!
These were exhibited in Poland last November (and continue as a touring exhibition) - I went to Wroclaw ('vratslav') for the Opening...
It was AMAZING
more to come
Coalition of the Willing
I am getting back into it... there is So Much To Say..
but first...i just found this - thanks to another awesome fella over at "Stumpy Pencil" who makes brush presets for photoshop, and this was a collaborative effort that he worked on a part of...
Coalition of the Willing..
http://coalitionofthewilling.org.uk/
I am in awe.
but first...i just found this - thanks to another awesome fella over at "Stumpy Pencil" who makes brush presets for photoshop, and this was a collaborative effort that he worked on a part of...
Coalition of the Willing..
http://coalitionofthewilling.org.uk/
I am in awe.
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Monday, February 21, 2011
a bunch more books
I have been having a great time with Amazon...great to be able to search for very specific books and get them delivered within a few weeeks - i am a patient gal...
but not quite the same as browsing in bookshops...but sadly the bookshops don't really have the kind of books that i want...we are still a Specialist industry as such..
and of course Now, Borders and Angus&Robertson have gone into receivership.
sux actually..
anyway...
some new books:
"The Sharpest Point: animation at the end of cinema"
is not too bad - a couple of very interesting papers etc, and a few rambling personal notes --seems to be from a conference collection (Ottawa??) so has been a useful one in my readings lately
also bought Hayao Miyazaki's biog when i found it in a fab book/comic store in Oslo (of all places!)..
havent got stuck into it yet...
hoping to go to Studio Ghibli museum when i get to Tokyo!!
also bought the next Chris Robinson book...the one showcasing indy (famous) animators...was good... great to read about these people...as good as Unsung Heroes of Animation..
he is great when he is talkig about people he admires...very interesting and positive...he's awful when he's very cynical and snarky (aren't we all), but guess it's important (and we all do it somewhat!)
anyway...more books to follow
but not quite the same as browsing in bookshops...but sadly the bookshops don't really have the kind of books that i want...we are still a Specialist industry as such..
and of course Now, Borders and Angus&Robertson have gone into receivership.
sux actually..
anyway...
some new books:
"The Sharpest Point: animation at the end of cinema"
is not too bad - a couple of very interesting papers etc, and a few rambling personal notes --seems to be from a conference collection (Ottawa??) so has been a useful one in my readings lately
also bought Hayao Miyazaki's biog when i found it in a fab book/comic store in Oslo (of all places!)..
havent got stuck into it yet...
hoping to go to Studio Ghibli museum when i get to Tokyo!!
also bought the next Chris Robinson book...the one showcasing indy (famous) animators...was good... great to read about these people...as good as Unsung Heroes of Animation..
he is great when he is talkig about people he admires...very interesting and positive...he's awful when he's very cynical and snarky (aren't we all), but guess it's important (and we all do it somewhat!)
anyway...more books to follow
welcome back sparky
incredibly crazy past six months or so...
no place her to start documenting this..
will just deal with the NOW now..
am back at the drawing board - YAY - (after a long hiatus)
essentially got too busy to get down to my studio and DO anthing, but at the same time, did quite a bit of critical reflection on the project...also gathered some more reference materials for another conference paper etc...
was wierd coming back to the first animated sequence - the one that is most fully animated so far....
i wanted to toss it all out and change it completely...if only i COULD do it five times over... like a Pixar animator who produces nary 1 minute of footage in the space of an entire year or two for each feature...now There's luxury!
anyway... adding more inbetweens, re-timing, adjusting some dodgy looking keys..
remmebering where all the buttons are on the software!!!
and starting to get the colour treatment locked down...playing with gradient fills and textured brushes, textured papers, crayons and pencils
thinking about lighting throughout..
and what kind of background??
it was originally just a simple textured sky-blue..(azure) backplate...
maybe this background business needs to change/alter to add some depth..
and i need some SHADOWS...urghhh...haven't even got that far yet!
anyway... major panic for this is to get the sequence finished for the Gympie Regional Gallery group show which starts on April 5th...
that gives me five weeks of FLAT out work to get it done....which doesn't include all my teaching and service load at the college...huuuuurrrrrrrrr
it will be a hard call...
It is aproximately one minute.
today i need to finish the inbetweening (all cleaned up)
friday morning, finalise the colour treatment and get started on it!
am being diligent with my two days per week to work on this...but it's gonna be hard in the next few weeks of start-of-semester stuff... BE STRONG girl!
and meantime, writing another small paper on Issues in Animation Education for the trip to Tokyo in three weeks... a side-track i know...but a part of my job i spose...and is interesting!
but the main game will be for the paper i am presenting at PCA/ACA in San Antonio Texas at the end of April... it's the Pop Culture Association conference...huge...3000 people...and quite a few hundred papers...
should be fun--and at least get a section of my thesis out there Properly this time and PUBLISHED!
more to come!
busy beaver this year.
back to drawing..
NOW
no place her to start documenting this..
will just deal with the NOW now..
am back at the drawing board - YAY - (after a long hiatus)
essentially got too busy to get down to my studio and DO anthing, but at the same time, did quite a bit of critical reflection on the project...also gathered some more reference materials for another conference paper etc...
was wierd coming back to the first animated sequence - the one that is most fully animated so far....
i wanted to toss it all out and change it completely...if only i COULD do it five times over... like a Pixar animator who produces nary 1 minute of footage in the space of an entire year or two for each feature...now There's luxury!
anyway... adding more inbetweens, re-timing, adjusting some dodgy looking keys..
remmebering where all the buttons are on the software!!!
and starting to get the colour treatment locked down...playing with gradient fills and textured brushes, textured papers, crayons and pencils
thinking about lighting throughout..
and what kind of background??
it was originally just a simple textured sky-blue..(azure) backplate...
maybe this background business needs to change/alter to add some depth..
and i need some SHADOWS...urghhh...haven't even got that far yet!
anyway... major panic for this is to get the sequence finished for the Gympie Regional Gallery group show which starts on April 5th...
that gives me five weeks of FLAT out work to get it done....which doesn't include all my teaching and service load at the college...huuuuurrrrrrrrr
it will be a hard call...
It is aproximately one minute.
today i need to finish the inbetweening (all cleaned up)
friday morning, finalise the colour treatment and get started on it!
am being diligent with my two days per week to work on this...but it's gonna be hard in the next few weeks of start-of-semester stuff... BE STRONG girl!
and meantime, writing another small paper on Issues in Animation Education for the trip to Tokyo in three weeks... a side-track i know...but a part of my job i spose...and is interesting!
but the main game will be for the paper i am presenting at PCA/ACA in San Antonio Texas at the end of April... it's the Pop Culture Association conference...huge...3000 people...and quite a few hundred papers...
should be fun--and at least get a section of my thesis out there Properly this time and PUBLISHED!
more to come!
busy beaver this year.
back to drawing..
NOW
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