This week I am posting a much earlier shot from my film ‘The Lift’. In this shot the main character is leaving for work, or what ever she does. As you saw from one of the other later shots I posted she doesn’t make it to where she was going.
Something I haven’t really talked about yet, and I am always asked, is when will it be finished. I am looking to complete this film in early 2010, actually the end of January. I am attempting to submit this film to Annecy which is apparently celebrating its 50th anniversary. If you are interested I took some pictures when I was there in 2003 (Annecy Animation Festival Pictures).
Enjoy!
So thus ends another year. Okay so its a little short of New Years. That said I have finished my annual Reel. The new reel has many things my old one had, however I have made it now almost 70% my yet to be finished film “Automatic Doors.”
“Automatic Doors” is not the real name, it was only a holder name until I could come up with something catchier. Currently I am liking “Once and Never Again”. My film is about an elevator experience gone terribly wrong. A young woman neglects to hold the door for an older woman, that older woman then seeks to teach the young woman a lesson.
That said enjoy some fresh rough animation from my film.
Happy New Year, for that matter Happy Chinese New Year! It has been so long since my last post. Well I did post, about my store, but then I took that down as it fell through. I learned a lot from the experience a lot which I will apply to something similar in a few years. So for now I am keeping all of it to myself including the idea ;)
In the meantime I have been working on my film “Automatic Doors”. Its never really a good idea to have your whole work in progress online, so instead I will post out of order 1 minute chunks of rough animation online. Currently I have a little over 50 seconds done right now.
So here is the latest render. I have finished the rough animation. Yay! It only took me 3 weeks! Argh way too long. Also the whole shot was initially spec-ed out to be about 6 seconds, the final version here is now at 8 seconds. It was moving way too fast. I still have one major thing I have to evaluate, is the pho pan that I did with the character here any good or should I do some sort of syncing thing in Blender?
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I received this email the other day and wanted to post the answer so I don’t have to respond again, not that I mind, its just easier. What tools did you use to create “I Am”?I’ve been surveying tools to try to make a sensible choice for myself…Thanks!- Daniel J. I made “I Am” back in 2003 so some of what I did is a bit outdated. That said the my setup at the time was as follows: In one shot I would use most of what I just listed. The whole film was created in 1080p also known as fill HD. The resolution is 1080x 1920 and the frame rate was 24 fps using square pixels. The nice thing about 1080p other than it looking amazing, is it transfers t film really nice. Also what is nice is it converts really well into almost any other format, DVD, 720p, 1080i or web. |
Above is a test shot that I have made for my film “Automatic Doors”. In the shot the main character is preparing to leave her apartment. I have the camera pan with her as she leaves the room and heads out into the hall. I wanted to do something different that would be more interesting than the usual static background, yet something more interesting than the common 3d background.
 Its been a week since MOCCA. For those of you who don’t know what it is and instead went to The Big Apple Comic Con, this is the really deal, down and dirty with the artists. It has always been one of my favorite conventions to go to every year. |
Another year another dollar… well I hope for more than one dollar. I have been working at a fever pitch on my film, “Automatic Doors”. You can look at a clip on the home page of this site. I wanted it to be a view of the process that I use to make the film. Otherwise the 3.5 second shot seems a bit anti-climatic for almost a months worth of work.
Also I am still working on the comic. Though that has taken a back seat for the past month. Ill post some images later from it once I get more done.