Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Sprinkles For Bravery

Hey there, been a while huh? Guess what? That animatic I've been flouting for the last two posts? It's Done! Hoo, I'm so excited! Want to watch the whole cartoon, minus sound, with only sketchy representations of the images existing somewhere in the hazy region between storyboards and keyframes? Well you're in luck!

Here's a proof of concept with the Kid Shift character running on endless loop.



See you next time!
-JoeW.

Thursday, September 17, 2009

Animatic Storyboard PART TWO! ftw.

Hello again, dear readers!
Thank you all, everybody who gave feedback on the new work! I've been putting this blog together in a vacuum for the longest time; it's great to finally get input from real-live humans and not just the imaginary ones.
Response was so positive, in fact, that I decided to finish up production on the second instillation of the story: what we will call Animatic Storyboard: Part Two! This one was a lot more work because I only had bits and pieces of the artwork finished beforehand, so I had to fill in huge gaps with new art.


Part Two; Second Act; Segment #2/3: this new instillation is many things but nothing if not a continuation. If you're reading this for the first time, I insist that you wait to watch this piece until you've seen Part One first.

-JoeW.

Saturday, September 12, 2009

Another Storyboard; this time better.

Well! I liked yesterday's update so much I decided to have another one! Here is another animatic storyboard for you to watch. I'm not embedding this one here, though. You'll have to click this thumbnail to be taken to a separate page to watch it there.


This storyboard was made a long while after the one in yesterday's post. Today's characters were derived out of those from yesterday, though I ended up making so many alterations that the only ostensible similarities remaining are that one is a girl, and the other is diminutive. I doubt I'll ever have the time or resources to take this short to final, but if I were to try, the characters would look a little something like this.

Neu and Kid Shift, respectively


Thursday, September 10, 2009

OKAY: you win. here's a giant robot.





If it isn't loading, just give it a sec. It's a big file, it takes time. It plays on a loop so if you want to start it over from the beginning just... um... refresh the page or something.

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Observation + Scenery = OBSCENERY


ballpoint pen each 20 to 30 minutes

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Rainbow Of Bleh

Well, it took a week to work up courage for it, but I've just finished coloring the first piece.



Happy with it? Not the word I'd use. Turned out better than it might have, that much reassures me. Some things work, other things don't It's good news, though, because now I know what to try and what to avoid for when I do this sort of thing again. I feel much better, more comfortable, about this method of working. I'm quite looking forward to the next one.

Friday, April 17, 2009

Who Drew Two New for You? [a Clue: t'was me!]

First, I've worked that Clinton sketch from the previous post.


Clinton

Also look at this other weirdo. It's about time things got uncomfortable, did anyone else feel that way? Just me? Here's something I noticed when I was a kid--if you ask people to describe what they think the Boogeyman looks like, every single person will tell you something wildly different. Some people see him with horns, someone I knew thought he was a businessman who wanted to bury her in the yard. We all know Tim Burton's sack full of bugs.
Anyway, when I was a kid, I always thought the Boogeyman would look something like this:


Boogeyman

I hope the things I draw aren't in some Freudian way cryptic expressions of what I have inside me, because I'm pretty sure this one would mean something bad.