Captain’s Log #14: Animation Update!

Week 14 is over really quickly and as per usual, i feel that i did work but also no work at all.

This week i focused on colouring the cleanups from the previous animations i have done, animating a new shot and sending it to the cleanup artist, and also editing the new animation into the animatic! Here is the updated version of the animatic / animation!

The colouring process for the title card was a little troublesome, because during the colouring, my ToonBoom Harmony kept crashing and refused to work, and i still had the shading to complete. So i uploaded the file as a zip to the studio’s shared folder, so Dana can complete the shading in my place, while i figure out how to fix the Harmony issue.

Thankfully, i just had to download a newer version of the software and was good to go for the next cleanup. But Dana wanted to send me back the original file for that title card shot, because the frames for the boy’s skin were not in frame, apparently. I believe she accidentally shifted the frames and that caused everything to shift. I would have just worked on the original file that i uploaded, but she already completed shading for most parts of it, except for the skin, and she deleted the frames for majority of the skin. Which means i have to re-do the base colouring again *cries*

Nonetheless, i still managed to complete it in a day, thankfully, and i edited the completed title card into the animatic! So far, we are doing good but i wonder if we are able to finish the animation in time. A bit worried, not going to lie.

Anyways, this is your Captain signing out for this week. See ya!

Captain’s Log #13: START: PRODUCTION!

Week 13 marks the official start of the production! That means it’s time to start animating.

I am in charge of the character animation, basically the keyframes and in-betweening for our character – BOY. He has no name, just boy. And apart from the POC, I have already started working on the first 10 seconds of the animation.

I actually really enjoy the colouring process, not going to lie. It’s quite therapeutic, especially when I listen to podcasts, audio stories and music while colouring the animation. Thankfully, our character is not too complicated to colour and shade so that’s a win for me.

Apart from that, I also completed the colouring for the POC sequence where the colours were missing.

I am currently colouring the title card of the animation and things seem to be going fine so far. Since it is whitespace week, I am hoping to be able to finish half of the animation by the end of the week. Is it a stretch? Hmmm, maybe? But I know there are more assignments to come in the next week and I cannot handle the workload no more. Fun.

This is your Captain signing off. Good bye!

Captain’s Log #12: THE POC RUSH

Week 12 of Production. POC is due this week, and oh boy guess I’m not getting sleep.

Because Dana was working on the colour scripts for the animation for the past few weeks, she didn’t have a lot of time working on the line art of the animation, so she pretty much did it in the past week, and I had to do a bunch of colouring, with some more animations to work on. *sweats*

A lot to work on in one week and I had to rush some work to make sure that the POC looks, at the very least, decent.

So here is the POC! Hope you like it! It’s a mash with the animatic, so the film looks cohesive.

I am continuing to work on the animation for the film as a whole, so I’m starting from the first shot. Thankfully, Dana is working on the line art of the animation, because I tried doing it, and my hands are so shaky XD

Welp, see yall next week for more! Captain signing off!

Captain’s Log #11: SPEED SPEED PANIC

Week 11 of Pre-production (or is it production already?)

Over the past 2 weeks of break, I have working on animation tests for the Proof of Concept for our animation. I accidentally spent a bit too much time working on the pen drop animation, and I neglected the other animation that I was supposed to work on, because I tot it was working on the POC fully by myself, since Dana hadn’t finish her colour scripts, and Natasha was working on the environment layout.

But then I quickly whipped up some animation keyframes and in-betweens to send to Dana for outlining, so she can send them back for me to colour.

So these are some of the animation test and keyframes that I did for the POC video.

Not gonna lie, I am a bit worried about the slow work pace we have because I am not a very quick worker, so im worried that I will slow the team down, and with the team being slightly behind schedule, it is not looking too good.

*sweats* and POC is due next week too. Not a lot of time so, I gotta hurry and polish up the animation and colour too.