The Final Day of Class

It is the final day of class. I have completed the task at hand so now it is time to move on. This class was fun and fulfilling. I had to work hard and be creative with the story and with problem solving.
Overall this class was fun and I learned alot from it. Thank you professor for all lessons learned.

I am finished

I am finally finished with my final. So here it is for everyone to enjoy.

Update

I have been working to complete this final. I am almost done hopefully I get everything done. Not to much longer now. I am having to cut some scenes out because of time. I will be adding sound effects and music tomorrow. I was on the net today and I same across this site of this photographer and is work was really nice so go and check it out. http://www.raydemski.com/

More Work

Here are some new backgrounds that I have been working on. These will be seen mostly at the beginning of the animation. These were made in photoshop. Most of them this weekend. So it is time to start animating.








This is then main character of my animation who is a martial artist who has lost his purpose for training and how he finds it again. The eyes are empty but I will put them in when I put him into flash so no worries.

Nice Video

This is a cool video that I saw in my survey of animation class and I really liked it. So when I found it on youtube I had to upload it. Here it is .

Character Designs and Storyboards

Hello, Everyone I have been hard at work creating these storyboards and the character for this production. And I finally have them done. The storyboards have been done for about a week but I just got my main character finished. Here are my storyboard




I thought I was going to have this up sooner but I have been doing more thinking than actual work. I am going to be starting the backgrounds tonight or tomorrow. I did one background already but it wasn't that good so I am going to redo it and start the others.



The sketch where I found the basic look for my character
The Turn Around for my character with some head shots.
Just some quick gestures to come up with the action poses for the character. I will be adding for head shots and action poses to these pictures just to work on the character poses.
This is what I have got I am moving kinda slow but I can do it as long as I stay focused.

My Schedule

This is my schedule for this production

Week 6 Feb 9-14
Finalize Character Designs
Start Work on Backgrounds

Week 7 Feb 15-21
Finish Backgrounds

Week 8 Feb 22-28
Start Animating

Week 9 Mar 1-7
Continued work on Animating

Week 10 March 8-11
Finish animating
Add Music
Add Sounds
Put into After Effects

Work Lately

Lately, I have been working on storyboards and character model sheets for this production. the storyboards were kinda hard to come up with the layout for it. So I wrote each board out and what the scene was going to be about. Now I just have to draw them out which won't be so bad now that I know what will be on each board. The Model Sheets are proving difficult because I don't want to go with a uniform that looks to normal or like street fighter or something I want it to have a different look from what as already been done but still look like a martial arts uniform. I hope that makes sense. That is what I am working on and it will be done soon.

Premise

Here it is my premise for my animation for this class. The whole idea is about pushing past your current level. It is about a fighter who trains everyday to become the best fighter that he can. But he loses focus of his goals and what he fights for. So he goes into deep meditation to figure out what he wants. I want this to not be about fighting but about the inner struggle of not just a fighter but the struggle that everyone has to deal with at some point in time. So that is it I will be uploading storyboards and everything else during the week. So I hope you are interested and will watch it when it is done.

Walk Cycle

Here is my walk cycle for all to see. This walk cycle was frustrating but I pushed through it. I decided to use a silhouette design for the walk cycle so that I didn't need to worry about color. I think I could have done a better job than I did but, it is not bad for a first attempt.

Rotoscoping

This is the first part my Rotoscoping. This project was surprisely fun to work on. The only thing is that it took more time than I would have thought that it was going to take. I am pleased with the result and I hope you like it.He is the first part.






The premise for my project I will be uploading later tonight. So just wait a little bit longer for it.

Ideas

Hello, Everyone

Don't have any new videos to show yet. I will be finishing most of the tutorials this weekend so I will be unloading a lot of stuff than so me looking out for it. I have been spending time coming up with the premise for my final project. So far I am happy with this idea and working to finish all the preproduction things right now so hopefully I will be uploading that soon too. This is going to be a crazy weekend but if everything goes well than I will be uploading a lot of stuff. So look out for all of it.
Later

Jumping Puppet

The second tutorial that I have done is a jumping puppet. I have to do another one but I will upload that later right now I only have one done. So this is it. This one was fun. I liked it a little difficult but good all the same. I did not use a motion guide for this one. I just tried to treat it like a bouncing ball for the squash and stretch part of the assignment. I think it turned out good and I am happy with it.


Hope you like it

Bouncing Ball

Ok, I haven't posted in like a week or two so it is about time for some new post right? Here are two tutorials from class. The bouncing ball was pretty easy. I did some flash in high school so it wasn't that bad just had to refresh my self on the old tools and functions. For this one I used a motion guide and keyframed the arcs and needed. It wasn't too hard. The second one I just put a keyframe at the beginning and at the end and used the ease/in and ease/out editor to tweak it the way I wanted it. But a lot harder than the first one.

Illustrations

I like this image for the feeling of dark that is present as well as the size relationship between the bug and human. It makes me think that what if one day the bugs were bigger than humans. What would we do then? Run away I guess.

Favorite Animation

My Favorite Animation



I really love the main character and what she represents in the movie.

Introduction

Hey Everyone I am starting this production blog for class. I don't know how this will go but it should be a learning experience and be fun. Who am I? My name is Phillip Pearson. I am from Stockbridge, Ga. It is a town 30 minutes outside of Atlanta. It is growing very fast because of all the people moving to Atlanta. I am an Animation major. I love animation and am just learning so much right now. Well I guess it is time to start working.