Ellie and Celeste

I'm not dead! Just working hard to finish the rough animation for my film ASAP so I can make sure to screen on time.

Here's a drawing from a scene I'm working on today!

I'll try to upload more rough drawings as I go through the animation, to keep this production blog more up-to-date.

-Lis

Post-It Animation!

I'm currently working on compiling all the dozens of pencil tests I have into something that actually looks kinda like a movie. As I was doing so, I came across this little bit of animation I had done on post-its!

Check it out!


Also, here's what my timeline looked like after I got rid of all the repeats. Out of 18 minutes of capture:

TMGA in my Portfolio

Well, I've been updating my other blog a bunch with my portfolio, and this one was starting to feel a little lonely. And since the first four pages of my portfolio all involve The Many Great Adventures, I figured why not post them here too?

The first two pages are the (significantly pared down) storyboards for sequence 2, where Ellie is first tucked into bed, then sneaks out and opens a magical door...



This is just a composite page of a bunch of drawings I've done of Ellie and Celeste.

And here are some pretty-much-done stills of the film!
Alright. And now I really ought to get back to making more animation!

-Lis

My Workspace

I took a few pictures of where I work when I'm animating! I just forgot to upload them 'til now...

This is the traditional animation lab, room COM 118, where I have spent far too many hours over the years:



And here's the desk I've taken over. There's an in-progress clean-up drawing I was working on:



There's the pencil testing equipment. Fancy, isn't it?



A close-up of the all-powerful lunchbox! That was the frame count at the end of January when I actually took these pictures. It's closer to 24000 now.



Yeah! So that's where I work.

-Lis

Ellie's Posters

Well, I was looking at the backgrounds that involve Ellie's room, and I realized that the walls were very bare. So, I made a poster!



I can't remember the girl's name, but these were the characters from my freshman year film "Frog Hunt." It was a 33~second traditionally animated film, painted on cels, and shot under camera.

Also, this is a sample. Does anyone else want to help decorate the walls of Ellie's room? Let me know! I'm only looking for maybe 2-3 more pieces to put up.

-Lis

Witch Final Design

I realized that the witch wasn't intimidating enough. So I asked my boyfriend to swing by after work and help me make the witch more awesome. This is what happened. (Still experimenting a bit with color.) Comments are welcome!

-Lis S.

Character Sheets!

Hey!

So I recently went through my sketchbook, and made these character sheets! Poor Witch... I didn't do any drawings of her like she is in the film, just doodled what she looked like when she was younger, and also what she'd look like if she was a looooot older.

Check it out!

-Lis