First test run of the first scene. I'm probably gonna put a hand holding the pen to make it look, you know, not like crap. Put too much time into the juvenile jokes in the classifieds.



This will obviously be the easiest part to animate.

By request, the script in a non-.doc form.

Well, here it is. I copy and pasted the script from this post. Now you don't have to download the file to be able to read it.

Speaker	Sound Effect	Action
		Hand with red marker moves its way down the “classified” section of the newspaper. It stops at an ad about a nice house that is available.
	Marker squeaking	Circles ad with pen
		Brandyn walks down street with a slip of paper in his hands. The houses behind him are huge, upper middle class homes.
		C/U: slip of paper reads “722 Locust Ave.”
Brandyn: Hmmm..		Brandyn looks at the addresses. The house he is standing in front of says 720, and the one to the right says 724.
		Brandyn looks down to see a cardboard box with the number “722” sloppily drawn on it.
Homeless man: Looking at the house? Please, come in.		A homeless man stands up from inside the box, with the box still dangling on his head.
	Box falling	Brandyn reluctantly sticks his head under the box, and it falls down to the ground again.
		Brandyn is sitting very constrained inside a cardboard box with an unsightly homeless man.
Homeless man: Let me show you around. Here’s the kitchen, here’s the bathroom, here’s the foyer, here’s my room, and this is your room. If you need me, I’ll be in the bathroom.		The homeless man is pointing around at random corners of the box
		The homeless man shifts his body away from Brandyn and sits in the same way, only now at an angle.
Brandyn: Well, thanks for showing me around, but I don’t think this is really -		The homeless man gets a relieved look on his face.
Brandyn: Eww! Homeless man: (yelling) Get out of the bathroom!

Schedule

Week 6
Week: Storyboards and animatic. Animate Blocks 1 and 2.
Weekend: Recording voice acting and placing rough audio. Draw backgrounds.

Week 7:
Week: Animate blocks 9 - 14
Weekend: Lip syncing

Week 8:
Week: Animate blocks 3 - 6
Weekend: Animated blocks 7-8

Week 9:
Week: Cleanup
Weekend: More cleanup

Week 10:
Week: Profit
weekend: Sip on Gin and Juice

It's been a while

Hey, sorry I haven't updated in a bit. I've been sick. Anyway, here's out rotoscoping assignment. Instead of using the jittery walk, I used a sick dance from Youtube.



I'll have more news or stuff or updates or projects or whatever soon.

Lip Sync

This is my first run through with lip sync. I had a lot of problems making the chin move alongside the mouth. It's not my fault, it was Flash's. I have a love hate relationship with Flash. Sometimes I want to make it cookies, sometimes I want to punch it in the ovaries.

Anyway, here it is (Edit: Holy shit, it's loud. Turn down your speaks before pressing play.):

If you are curious as to what the audio means, so am I. About six years ago, even around the time TBD first started, this audio message appeared on John's answering machine. We had no clue what it meant, but it survived on my computer since. So I lip synced it. Sorry it soudns like an answering machine, and not someone talking.

Character Sheets.

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The new character sheets are being worked on this very moment. Here's a preview - Brandyn in a 3/4 view.

The complete turn around will be completed shortly. After that, I'll have an animatic with the vocal track up by the end of the week.

Also, the lip sync and walk cycle are also part of the character sheets. The walk cycle will be up after the turn around, and the lip sync is coming along. Here's Brandyn mouthing some incoherent babble.

The rest of the character sheets - John, Phillip, Tom, Tamara, and Stefan will be completed in the early summer.

I'll be updating www.tbdcomics.com soon. All of the comics are uploaded, but I haven't made pages to view them yet. Also, it might see a slight overhaul in the web design. It needs it, it looks so 2000 right now.

Latest Flash tutorial

The latest Flash tutorial I did for Digital Cel:




It's a puppet that we had to make jump. It was pretty fun.

Quick announcement.

Well, still no globcoreproductions.com Whoops.

On the plus note, expect story boards AND character sheets for TBD by Monday. It will be glorious.

More news, and the script.

Unfortunately, globcoreproductions.com is still not up. I was sick over the weekend, so I didn't get anything done. Expect it up by Tuesday at 10 PM I swear to you this time.

Also, here's the script for the short animation:
http://www.globcoreproductions.com/phost/script.doc

By the summer, I'll have the full script (in standard screenwriting format) up.

Business cards, beginning of first TBD animation.

New business card. Subtle off-white coloring, tasteful thickness, and it even has a watermark.


Look at that first guy, he's adorable, isn't he?

Also, the first (technically second, but let's not talk about the first one) Twisted by Design animation is about to begin. I'll post the script in the next couple of days. It's a short segment from the pilot episode. Much to my eventual embarrasement, many of the name are staying the same. At this moment, the main characters' names - Brandyn (my name, I know, but haven't you ever seen Home Movies?), John, Tom, and Stefan - are all staying the same. Ashli's name is being changed to Tamara, but that's it. Maybe I'll change some of them later. Keep an eye out.

Ball Bouncing

Here's a ball bouncing in Flash. Check that out.

Internet killed the video star.

If there was ever anything that you were ever in your life curious about, then I'm sure the Internet will tell you. Hell, it's even answering my questions that I never knew I had. Did you know that, if I was in a fight with a gym full of five year olds, I could take down 25 of them? Neither did I. But really, it's good to know. You never know when this information might come in handy.

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