Rarebit wrote:
Selections from today's quicky storyboarding. Will be using my usual lasso for the final stuff, but the pen is quicker for putting together an animatic that will give me the overall timing and serve as a framework for filling in with finished art.
Are you writing in Arabic?!
Finished the storyboarding; here's another relatively spoiler-free smattering. There are about 90 of these little cartoons, ~1 per second of the final animation, in theory.
Now I have to start actually drawing that. =p
If your first draft sketches already look like that, I'm actually looking forward to the final product. ^...^
When I first starting looking at the earlier pictures, I started laughing and thinking, "Oh lawwd, he's going High School Loner who draws anime in his spare time on us." But these pictures look nice.
ZippyTheSquirrel wrote:
If your first draft sketches already look like that, I'm actually looking forward to the final product. ^...^When I first starting looking at the earlier pictures, I started laughing and thinking, "Oh lawwd, he's going High School Loner who draws anime in his spare time on us." But these pictures look nice.
I'm just concerned that he won't have time to do anything else but the cinematics.
10011 wrote:
ZippyTheSquirrel wrote:If your first draft sketches already look like that, I'm actually looking forward to the final product. ^...^When I first starting looking at the earlier pictures, I started laughing and thinking, "Oh lawwd, he's going High School Loner who draws anime in his spare time on us." But these pictures look nice. I'm just concerned that he won't have time to do anything else but the cinematics.
I think he already said that in a previous post :p
Hm well, probably gonna turn out being one of those things where the later parts have less animation than the earlier ones because I slowly started to realize I was running out of time to do all the drawing. ;) I am about a half-week behind on getting started on this cinematic, but eh we'll just see how it goes. So far it's actually going better than I'd expected, although that could just be fatal optimism talking. ;)
Speaking of which, I'm not at all sure I'll actually be able to generate a *full* gif version. Big gifs take a hellacious amount of RAM to compile--like, multiple gigabytes of RAM. At first I thought I could maybe be extra careful to save off just the tiniest bits of things that I'd need for compiling it, but from the methods I've worked out today I can already tell that trying to scrimp and save precompiled bitmap space like that would add way too much time to drawing this stuff. So I'll still try a full gif version, but there's a good chance all the bitmaps I'm going to have for the full animation will blow right past the 2 or 3 or whatever it is GB memory limit. Flash on the other hand is much more memory friendly to create, fortunately.
Storyboard vs final art:
Whoa :o nice
Finished the storyboarding; here's another relatively spoiler-free smattering. There are about 90 of these little cartoons, ~1 per second of the final animation, in theory.Now I have to start actually drawing that. =p
Planning on melting somebody?
I don't see what the big hubah about the .gif versions is anyway, I can't imagine anyone wanting to watch streaming video without Flash. Just stick to the .swfs and don't waste time trying to accomadate gigs worth of gif processing With that said, I'm liking the way these are shaping up. Everyone applauded your art style and work when you drew for the hell of it and now that effort and talent can actually be put to good use. Hopefully your experiences with time management this time round can help produce a more *fully* animated one next time round though
These are turning out really nice.
I'm really looking forward to being able to see the images posted above (when I get home at lunchtime) also if they are as good as people are saying, I can't wait to see the final released version!
*The Agent looks around and spots Wright.*
Agent: Oh, bollo-...
Now that looks cool.
deimoslvov wrote:
Counting days to the release!
Indeed.
Hey, that looks pretty good. Let's see what you got
