• I recently was accepted as a student designer for my university starting next academic year, pretty big news as its technically my first job in the industry, even if it is for my uni, at least im getting paid!
• I ran an animation workshop for my university, was a new experience and had some fun doing it. learnt a lot about teaching considering i hadn't done it before, and was pretty interesting to see whether i was successful in teaching people stuff, turns out by some miracle they understood my ramblings :)
• I passed my second year of uni with flying colours and am on my way to graduating with a first class degree in animation, just gota keep pushing forward.
So its been a pretty busy yet positive few weeks, but for now, back to the short film progress. Ive been animating non-stop for the past month and all the rough animation is almost finished. Just over half the film has been cleaned up and about a quarter printed ready to be shot in the sets.
Ive decided on a title for the film and it will be called 'Tunnel Vision'. All credit goes to my dad for the title idea, mine were terrible.
Also, ive managed to get a sound designer on board to produce a soundtrack for me. I was majorly worried about the audio and thought id just let the entire film down by creating a piece of poo soundtrack. luckily, my lecturer knew id make a hash of it and recommended me a previous student who had a strong interest in sound design. Its quite fun sitting back and being the director if im honest, its nice to tell someone to do work and not do any yourself haha well, working with sound anyway, while he's tinkering with sounds im busy animating.
One of the first scenes has now been shot ready for the final film, so its all coming together, just rather slowly. But heres a couple images of whats been going on including a screen shot of the final look that ive made into a movie poster. i could have just kept it a screen shot, but wheres the fun in that?
7 seconds worth of animating works out to a LOT of paper...
Hand drawn animation can get very messy as well, but a graphite covered hand is a sign of a successful day.
A couple frames from one of the opening scenes.
Animating a hand is one of the hardest things ive done in the animation world, there is way to many joints and muscles!
With all this hand drawn animation, you didnt think it could get more hands on, but ohhhh no, even the lighting is done on set. these are christmas lights attached to the ceiling of the set using paper clips cut in half.
And lastly, heres the first screen shot/ film poster, im loving playing around with lighting and textures and hopefully that'll show on the final animation, but for now, back to work.
