I’m currently on a trip to somewhere that’d probably have me away from home all day and my setup definitely isn’t very portable. In the meantime, here’s a quick little sketch on my phone of Mr. Nutling (the squirrel character I don’t have a permanent name for yet)

I think I forgot to add his eye bags.

Credit to my friend for the totally original character design. You can easily find him on Twitter, he loves to draw Angry Birds and Nobel Nutlings.

Yesterday, I started working on my video for different kinds of layering and today I got a storyboard stitched together. I showed this to a friend and they liked it.

So, what happens in the video is that there's this nutling oc who really hates this blue thing with hair (currently my profile pic) so he chokes him

It's a little rough but I think that's what you'd expect from one night where only one person needs to understand whats happening. I think I'll start animating tomorrow.

Ok, that's it. Goodbye!

Edit: The Gif isn't working but I'll figure somethin' out later

I think it'd be nice to add a bit of color to my crappy art for once so I decided that today, I'm testing out different ways to color things.

I was trying to make a totally original character who looked "heavily inspired" by an existing one but I'm not so sure if it really looks that way anymore; I showed it to a friend and they didn't know what character I took it from. So far, I tested out two mediums I haven't done in a while.

The Character

This is a picture of the character without any color, drawn with a regular number 2. This was the second iteration of the character where I made the head just a little more oval-like in shape as well as made him shorter.

construction paper

I didn't really like working with construction paper but I believe I may find use for this in the future for it's cool layering effect. I was using a surgical scalpel instead of my usual X-Acto knife so maybe I'll use that to get a better feel for it next time. This is the first iteration of the character.

Watercolor

I liked working with watercolor very much, I think it looks very cool. I really liked how the third version of this guy turned out, so much so that I changed my profile picture to them. I might change my profile back later because I also like my external hard drive.

If you have any ideas on what to name this character, please comment. Ok, that's it, goodbye!

Today marks the start of my spring break and as soon as the final bell rings, I’m free to do whatever I want for videos. I’m so excited.

I’m going to try to get a quick video in within that time period but if I don’t, I will pluck 20 hairs from my pelvic area (ouches).

Although, I still have to study for my upcoming exams :’( (so sad)

I also explained my cool ideas to people like my art teacher, friends, and bro. My art teacher asked if I was interested in film school and in my head I was like “erm, does that really exist?” but the thought of a school for filmmaking sounds intriguing.

I’m gonna go contemplate if I want to go to film school or be a (insert doctor or other good job here) in the future, goodbye!

Hello guys, yesterday I came up with two cool ideas I’d like to try out. I think I might use idea number one for a quick video.

Idea #1

I don’t want to show my real face in front of a camera but masks are uncomfortable and overlaying individual drawings on 30 frame per second video is tedious and takes up too much free time. So, I came up with an idea to record myself and only keep frames of key poses with a few in-betweens. I then stitch the frames together to match with the video and dub audio over in Movie Maker (the camera microphone sucks)

Idea #2

I want to show clips of the real world through a screen on an animation but the clips don’t move in sync with the animation. I then came up with the idea to:

1. Take the video I want to use.
2. Make the video the frames per second I’m animating at.
3. Split it into individual frames.
4. Stitch together frames at 29.97 frames per second (color NTSC video frame rate because I live in the U.S.)
5. Record the video to tape.
6. Cut a hole in the paper to fit the TV image.
7. Place the paper in between two pieces of glass to hold it flat.
8. Setup a camera to take pictures of the the paper I’m using to animate.
9. position the TV so that the image shows through the hole while being in focus.
10. Use that feature on the VCR that goes through individual frames.

I’m sorry if the instructions on this one aren’t clear, I was writing this very quickly during class.

Hi guys! (SECOND BLOG, YAAAAAAAYYYY!!!)

Today, I followed through with what I said yesterday and scanned my little test animation for my new setup

I really liked the result out of my new setup, there's still a tiny bit of wiggle as you can see from the sides of the frame and the smiley I drew but It's a huge improvement from before and now the wiggle doesn't look like it'd hinder the viewing experience If I made a video with it.

Next, I'm gonna try a few different methods of layering things on top of each other. I have a few ideas.

Which method do you think I should try out first?

Ok, that's all, Goodbye!

Today, I've decided to make my first post here! (YAAAAAAAAY!!!) I've been here for a while since my friend introduce me to this place but it was only recently when I decided to start frequenting here. I'm thinking about sharing some videos I've made (if I ever finish one that isn't for school) and maybe a few drawings I have done that don't feel too embarrassing to share.

I hope it's okay with you that I'm going to start talking about my personal life.

My day today was super cool, my brother was teaching me how to draw SpongeBob and I think doing great.

My attempts to draw SpongeBob:

I liked my final one the best since it doesn't look too stiff and looks pretty good as a drawing for someone like me. Although, I think the shoes need to be a little bigger and I need to practice a bit on those hands.

I also finished up on a test animation for my new setup for animating. Nothing too different from my previous, just added a peg bar for extra stability and to more easily align papers. I'll probably get it all scanned then stitched together in windows movie maker tomorrow If I don't have too many assignments.

Ok, that's it now, bye guys.