update sort of

Just stuff that I have been working on lately, just doodles mostly nothing really finished but i'm working on that...

just something for fun

When I was in Character Design class we did a group project that involved forgotten gods and a cursed hotel. Well I was looking through some old school files and found them. So I decided to try and redo/update them all. And this are the progress so far on some of the designs that I will be doing. Most are missing their, "human" forms and the hotel owner is missing her mystic self. I tried to stay true to the original idea with most of them but deviated some on others. I will elaborate more on this as I post each character new and old.  Some of the old designs were done by other people and I will be sure to credit them as well so no worries there.

so without further ado, here is some progress...

now everyone will be re-posted finished with their different idea sketches and some color variations in the next few days, just so you know that there is still more to come. There will be some new stuff too, not just old so be ready.

Still on the hunt for a  good but cheap scanner though...

Not Dead Yet

I swear i'm not dead. Things have just been hectic lately with my trying t make the move to California. But now I've done it and have settled in (had to move again to get a bigger apartment). So soon, once i find myself a scanner, another problem to work out on my path back to getting stuff done, i will see to posting the things i have drawn over the summer. And some short storyboards and the like. Not sure on the animation part till i get Harmony back up and running but that should hopefully be done in the next week or so.

So I promise i haven't died or anything, just moved across the country.

Progress

Some progress for my thesis project. 

i no good at posting

I've realized that i am horrible at remembering to post things up here.....
I should do something about that. So anyway there are things that i plan on putting up here before long. Stuff for portfolio and layout and timing and Animation classes. So for now I don't have much but i promise i'll get better about it. I may also have some sketchbook images if i can just fit them in my scanner...

For now i'll give you the slayers actual turn-around thing and Steve's will be up tomorrow(ish). I realized i forgot to put in the 3/4 back pose....smart i know.

Background updated

Backgrounds updated and two out of four characters

These are the random dancing woman (Steve) and teh Vampire Slayer who doesn't actually have a name...

Update

Ok so apparently the animatic didn't work the first time, or at least it doesn't work anymore so I shall just give you the updated version and some Backgrounds that I have been finishing.

Sorry about the backgrounds in some of the scenes, I accedently turned them off when I exported them.

Not finished yet but it's progress. Finding a stlye I was happy with was a little harder than I thought it would be but i'm happy with these overall.

Also I will be putting the character designs up soon. So check back later.

Soundtrack Grant

        
I'm not completely sure what we are to write for our proposals but here is goes.

My project is about a night of vampire hunting gone horrible wrong and then just plain weird. The mood is to be suspenseful for the first half then happyish towards the end with maybe some dramatic moments to aid with the overly dramatic scenes that will be happening.. It is a short that is really meant to be funny more than anything and full of violence and odd events. The beginning has a n overall more horror movie feel to it with a suspenseful chase scene followed my a gruesome death and the later half is meant to be sort of the opposite with odd characters starting to appear. These characters lighten the mood only to have it almost ruined then saved again. Sort of. To explain it a bit better for you, There is a vampire begin chased by an unknown adversary through a dark and misty graveyard. Once this vampire feels that he might be safe from his pursuer she strikes and after an overly dramatic death the vampire is left to rot on the ground. The slayer that killed him then leaves the scene only to see something that is completely incomprehensible to her. A woman dancing around in the middle of a graveyard where more of the blood suckers could be lurking. This strange woman comes to greet her and after a very short conversation thy are interrupted by an unfortunate turn of events that ruins the lightening mood. The slayer is slain and our poor dancer doesn't know what to do. But just as all seems lost and as the returned vampire goes to make it's move a great misfortune befalls our not so dead vampire and in the process saves the woman from certain doom. The woman overjoyed by the appearance of her savior rushes to thank him and then to celebrate proposes that they dance into the night. Which of course in this story can not be without some unexpected thing turning things upside down all over again.

As for my progress so far I have the first scene lined colored and finished except for the sound effects. I have six other scenes roughed out and once the others have also been roughly animated and all tested together to make sure everything is well done I will be ready to go in to line and color them as well. There are twenty four scenes that need to be animated and eight backgrounds that need to me made for this piece. one background is fully finished and two others are halfway done while the others are only drawn out and not yet colored.

The music that I had in mind for this piece was some simple suspenseful music to help convey the mood of being chased, then calming down once things seem to be safe and then having a dramatic point when the vampire is slain. Followed by a calmness then something a bit happier but not quite right for the introduction of the odd events that follow the vampire's "death". I was thinking it would be an odd sort of tense happiness in the second half but I am not sure how to pull that off at this point in time.

I would like to work with a musician so that I can add that extra level to my short that I feel it still needs. The music would be able to help with the mood that I am trying to convey throughout the short. I would hope that it would also help to make the piece more entertaining for the viewer as well. I thought of maybe trying to use one of the free sights to create something on my own but i fear that I am to musically challenged to be able to pull off what i am trying to achieve and would greatly appreciate the help of someone who really knows what they are doing and are up for the challenge.


The script is really rather short as there is only one scene where any talking is done.

This is the scene with the slayer and the radom woman talking after the death of the vampire.

Woman: hello.
Slayer: What the hell are you doing here! Don't you have any idea how dangerous it is!
Woman: I was dancing. Do you wish to join me?
Slayer: ......Are you completely stupid!
Woman: ummm.....behind you.
Slayer: what?

Then the slayer dies and that's really all that is said the rest of the story is told through the character acting and sound effects.



And this is the animatic.

Demo Reel

Needs more stuff in it but this is what I have so far.

Uhhh.....

Sorry for dissapearing for so long.

This is Collin, Sarah's guide on her crazy world saving adventure. I still need the side kick and maybe someone else, haven't really decided if I want  more than that for the main group. Side characters will show up soon. I hope.