Drawing!

Well, first here's a photo of a clean-up scene I'm working on. It's a MUCH better drawing than the old one. (Which, apparently, has vanished from my project folder, so I'll have to update with a comparison later.)

Also: I will have some pencil tests up later! Probably tomorrow sometime. I was hoping to have this scene finished to upload, which is why this post is late, but it's still not done. I guess that's what happens when I take 10-15min per drawing, as opposed to 3-4min per drawing like I was doing before.

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!

Witch Final Model

Since I did a drawing of the Witch as a kid over on my other blog last night, I thought I'd post the final model sheet of the Witch for the film here! I could have sworn I'd already posted it somewhere, but I couldn't find it!

The color is the base starting point. It will be adjusted from here depending on the various lighting situations.

Animation Test

This was today's work!

As the description of the video says, it was an experiment to try out a new workflow using Photoshop instead of ToonBoom Animate Pro. Well, after spending the better part of a day on just adding in the mum, I can say that I wish I had access to ToonBoom. There are lots of things that would be easier. Guess I'll just have to work something else out.

Color Line Test

It is far past time for some new posts around here!

First up, here's a color test I did today. The top frame is a re-draw, with colored ink lines, and some extra filters thrown over the top. The bottom is how the frame appears in my film today. Quite a difference a year makes!

Also, I realized that I never actually posted the more-or-less complete first act of the film:


The Many Great Adventures: Act I from Lis Savic on Vimeo.

Enjoy!

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: