#animatik

ANIMATION DAY

Except ain’t nobody take me out of it that easily (like in gif)  😅😜

It’s (not surprisingly) difficult to get substantial progress done with only small patches of time during the week after work when I’m too exhausted and stressed out to deal with anything, let alone what’s supposed to be “passion” project. And by the weekend I’m just SO done, I need to take a break.

With that said I did, get something done, though not as much as I hoped I would. The main reason I’m having such hard time getting this new version of animatik off the ground is that I haven’t decided what my objectives for it are.

When I said I want to “tighten it up” visually, I accidentally put too big expectations of how close to the final I want it to look, which took me away from what should actually be the point which is acting and base sound design, not backgrounds.

Seeing as they are based on actual location, I’m already familiar with what I want in it. I can get away with just written notes for now. I don’t really need to come up with anything “new”, just find the best way to interpret it, and to me that’s....Not as important right now xD Another thing this animatik is supposed to do is help me figure out techniques and ways in which I will put together the final product — final compositing. Which I plan to do either in DaVinci 15 or Blender. I have feeling I might pick up Blender much faster, but DaVinci may be more suited for my needs? And also, I may be bit masochistic, because I started trying to figure out logic behind node system in fusion, and by brain is melting through my ears and I love it xD

I find Casey Faris channel to be very informative when it comes to DaVinci resolve 15 and Skyline Motions has some neat tutorials. His accent may be confusing at times and he goes fast and doesn’t really explain often why he does certain things, but if you follow along (he does leave resources for that) surely you can pick up the logic behind it as you go. In fact, that’s one of his tutorials on the left monitor that was closest to what I need in the workflow I remember from my animatic-making days in After Efects. And this tutorial from Casey really helped me understand the logic behind nodes better. You really can explain everything with cookies 😜

Other than that I scribbled some character designs on my breaks at work, again, no special stylization in mind. Probably some generic-ish anime, perhaps bit more cartoony, idk, we’ll see.

My strategy (lol “strategy”) for next week is to get up few hours earlier before work and get stuff done then, but that’s a tall order since I sure do love my sleep hahah...But I’ll still try.

The first moving steps on the long road to our intro for STELLGA.

You see the Mondspringer (”Jumps from moon to moon”) and Captain Denford in the space above Stellga.