PerryCreates Art + Animation

Today, I'm attending the funeral of a friend who was suffering for a long time with mental illness. And while I sit at the train station to make the journey to the service, I listen to that song, and don't ask me why, but it feels relevant. Maybe it's seeing past my friends mental health problems and knowing it didn't define him. It's what took him, but it wasn't what he was. He was a great, kind, intelligent person, who overcame prejudice. Maybe I'm writing this here out of partial anonimity.

Rest In Peace Anton. You weren't heavy. You were my brother.

Backgrounds are finished, nearly all the rigs are together!

An update! (finally)

I’ve been a bit dormant with working on my flash rigs, so to jazz things up, I’ve started to actually animate one of them in the final project

Upon importing the rig into the master document, I encountered a few problems. One of them being animating.

Because the rig has all the assets embedded in it, the music layer sits on top and makes lip syncing convoluted. Another problem was having the arms and neck move without the mouth/jaw going walkabout.

FLASH RIGS

In the past week I’ve begun the progress of creating my Flash puppets, or rigs.

I’ve decided to take immense advantage of Flash’s symbol system in terms of animating my main character. I’ve used the system on the arms, mouth and eyes on Mick’s rig. All of the layers of each symbol are embedded in one main symbol, and all reside on different layers inside that symbol. The layers are stacked in a fashion for different reasons such as the front arm being in front of the rest of the assets.

26th August: Colour Palette Test

An aspect of my project that I was really nervous about was the colours I used in both my main character and the backgrounds. For this reason, I tested out several different colours for Mick.

I colour picked from several different photos that were pixellated using photoshop. Photos included paintings of 1950s paintings of people, 1920s fashion drawings, and other random photos that I liked the colours in.

26th August Update

As I am using Adobe Flash for ‘Lazing On A Sunday Afternoon’, I will be taking advantage of the symbol system that most Flash Animators use, particularly with lip syncing.

While most front on mouths can pass without the jaw moving, a side on mouth requires it to move in order to give the illusion of speaking. This is an example of symbols being used to make lip syncing easier. Unfortunately I do not have access to plug ins such as KeyFrame Caddy, however this process is quite fast when you have been using Flash for nearly 5 years ahaha.

This is a quick test of the technique I will using, hence the scrappy mouth symbols. However, when cleaned up, this will look much more polished. Each symbol is a different phoneme. In the clean up, I will have at least 15 different mouths to use in lip syncing. I can make symbols for both happy and neutral, and even any crazy ones I might like to have Mick make. 

A second post regarding my production!

So far, I have worked one mostly 3 things

- finished the storyboarding

- made significant progress on the animatic

- nearly gotten a model sheet for the main character, who I’ve named Mick

The progress I’ve made so far puts me somewhat on schedule according to the set production schedule. However as this is early pre production, I am confident in catching back up.

WEEK ONE - STORYBOARDING