New Start

Woo! Finally getting back into the swing of things.

First, here's some animation for you!

  20130116 seq01 sc04 from Lis Savic on Vimeo.
The end of last year was kind of crazy, and as a result, everything got put aside. With the start of a new year, I've been able to get back to work on the film. I also got a chance to create a new workroom to animate in! No more pups wanting to sit on my lap while I animate, or running around, or barking. I love my dogs, but they were quite a distraction.

Here are some photos of the new workroom!

Tea station for late night brewing!

Clean Up Comparisons

No animation today; been a hectic week.

However, I figured it might help to see some of the differences between what I am doing now, and the old animation. Please click to see larger drawings. Also, each pair was scanned with the exact same settings on a pegbar, so they are all direct comparisons.

First up, here's Ellie:
A drawing from oh, about a year ago I suppose, vs one from last week, using the new pj's design:

And here's some with Celeste:

And the Phoenix:

So you can see it's actually pretty different now! Obviously the designs have changed, but the drawings are also more solid and have more volume. I didn't actually realize how much better the new phoenix drawings are than the old ones until scanning them tonight!

Animation Update!

Two pencil tests for today!

The first is the clean up for the rough scene I posted last week. It's finally done! (I did make a few edits after watching this.) And yes, the phoenix does have a body, but adding an extra layer made it too dark to see the animation.
seq01_sc02_CLEAN from Lis Savic on Vimeo.


The second was actually finished earlier, but for some reason I didn't post it! Either way, it's here now. I will be making a small change to this scene and adding the new pajama details, but otherwise it's also good to go.
seq02_sc07_CLEAN from Lis Savic on Vimeo.

Drawing Dump!

Here's a mid-week drawing dump! I post a lot of stuff over on my other blog, including TMGA-related drawings. I thought I'd go ahead and post all of those here too, where they belong.

Animation Update!

Hey, it's animation!

seq01_sc02_20120718_rough from Lis Savic on Vimeo.

Here's the redux animation for seq01_sc02. I suppose it doesn't look too different than the original, which is in part due to more-or-less just tracing over the old drawings. The new drawings, however, incorporate the new character models and, overall, are better drawn.

I'd hoped to have more for today, but due to an injured shoulder, I've been unable to really sit and animate. Hopefully that'll all be straightened out, so that next week there will be more!

Saturday Updates Go!

So here we are! It's already a couple of months into year three of working on The Many Great Adventures. And oh how things have progressed!

First, I've graduated! Completely! And since I'm no longer beholden to deadlines, I can make all the adjustments for all the things that were driving me crazy! This includes things like adding more detail to backgrounds, and updating character designs to reflect the growth of my art over the past two and half years from when they were originally "finalized."

For example (click to enlarge):

Ellie will still wear her other outfit, but her hair will retain some of this new volume. The phoenix and Celeste however, are actually being re-animated (if necessary) to reflect this new design.

Second, I'm no longer working at LMU at all! I've managed to set up a complete work station at home:

A camera hooks up to my laptop, where I use Adobe Premiere to test the animation:

Updating Phoenix animation in Seq01_Sc02.

Then I have a scanner and a desktop computer with Toon Boom Animate where I can color:

In progress toning/highlighting.

It's pretty exciting having everything I need in one place again.

My progress update next weekend will hopefully include less text and more drawings, and hopefully also an animation progression reel showing some differences between old and new.

See you next Saturday!

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