Rough start

Hm. Sorry for random post. but I thought maybe if i posted regularly it would motivate me to keep to my work schedule better. in 2 weeks from now I have a progress-report to present to the animation class on my thesis. I havent done any solid animation for it yet. so. Here is my test animation for my main character Farro crudely animated in Photoshop. and a little incomplete something i did on the side in my frustration with myself (inspired by my roommates new game). Hope the rest of you are not as blah as I am. ~CC

EDIT: okay so apparently animated GIFs are not working. anyone wanna tell me how to fix this? 

Problem with the private site.....

Okay, Brian has made me aware that the private site is to hard to log into too. I'm going to be reviewing why... but In till then our centralized files wont be available to you all till then.

I really have to apologize for how long it's taking to get this project up and running....

Status Report

So now there IS a spanking new private site where we can swish our work around in virtual "dailies" meetings. And as soon as I can figure out how to BREAK INTO MY OWN PRIVATE SITE, I'll be happy to upload the first story reel lol. Talk to Raf.

All current boards have been scanned in and sequence 1 is viewable as a story reel...MAN it's hard to put those things together...I fell asleep like seven times. As soon as Sequence 6 is made into a reel (or before), I'll hopefully start doing some REAL boarding. I gotta get myself into a 14-a-day workflow. Apparently, 26-30+ a day is the industry standard.

That's the way it be, right now. Anyone reading this?.......hello?......................*tears off pants and dances a jig to the Popeye theme*

Winter Break

As for this project, I've already started scanning in all the boards I've done so far. I have hopes of using the "MonkeyJam" pencil-test software (check my blog for the link) to make some kitchen-sink story reels.

Also I might add that I think those 2 may be the last sequences I'll be doing in ink and marker. The resulting work LOOKS cool enough, but I can only get about 7 of those done a night. In our situations, that is obviously not good. Working storyboard artists kill around 26-30 a day. They're also a real pain to fix if shot flows aren't working. I might use markers l8er, when we're setting the tonal values of the different sequences. Don Bluth I am not lol.

I propose we make an (additional) new PRIVATE blog between us all so we may post our collective work for viewing and critique. Maybe this move will get more of an active dialogue going between us. I've already gotten some feedback, but I'm mainly concerned with shooting it past you guys.

Comment back?

Organizing your stuff

Okay, so if you all haven't see the igoogle homepage yet, it is so awesome. It has an overview of all of googles services, such as reader, which sends you blogs or new sites your monitoring without you having to check them to see updates. I've subscribed to this and brians blog via it. It as if you getting emailed your favorite blogs, and it lets you know what posts are new and what you've read! Also, you should all check out Google calender, which would let us share our scheduals with each other and coordinate our group. They even have a document maker were you can upload word files, excel sheet, or make your own. It's a free Word on the web! Even Picassa let you image types upload pictures for storage, all connected on Igoogle homepage. Check it out here, This will really help organize your life, especaly if your a internetphile like me.

The sebatical

So everone, Rat Dog is having a little bit of delay. A delay I'd like to refer to as life unflitered. Hard stuff, this life- kinda like an ulcer and hangover in one. Brian and I have been rather busy with our education, our personal lives, and our struggle to keep thoues three in balance. Now, I know we said we would hit this as hard as all of us could, but considering how things sre going, all I can ask is we hone our skills instead. So, brian and I will be hosting information links that will furnish your brain. Now, brian has more of the industry down then me, but creative wise were about even(even if I can't draw as well as him.) So for now, here is my favorite link, the daily beast. You can get all the important news of your day here. Have fun!

Do you need ideas?

So I've been browsing the best of craiglist, and it hit me... you can't make up half the stuff. "Boyfriend lists, "how I quite my job", "or just %&*$ing %&*$ me already." Go to best of craig's list and enjoy.