My New-Fangled Film!

Here it is....GUMS my final film for my course. It's been a hell of a time making it, from ten weeks of animating to two weeks of hand-cramp while colouring but it's all done now and for that I am grateful. Enjoy :)

Coming to a Degree Show Near You...

Gums!

To celebrate almost begin finished with Gums here's a poster I made for it today that I hope to get printed for our degree show later this year.

Also here's another update of the animatic - aaalllmmmoosst there :)


Gums - Animatic from Jacqui Davis on Vimeo.

Gums Update II

A long awaited update for Gums. The animation is mostly finished now and I've moved onto colour and compositing. After that it'll be mostly fine tuning and tweaking. It's good to see the light at the end of the tunnel let me tell you.

Enjoy :)

Hmmmm

A quick 10 min pre-bedtime doodle to remind us that not even vampire kids stay cute forever. I'll give you a clue who he is: in about two months time he'll be the co-star of his own animated short ;) 

Gums Backgrounds II

Here's more backgrounds for you. I've only got four left to go before they're all done. Now If only I had some coloured frames to put on top of them...well we can't have it all ;)

Gums Backgrounds I

After a long hiatus on updating here's a couple of backgrounds for Gums. I'll also attach my updated (mach3) animatic for you to take a gander at. I'm now almost two thirds of the way through animating. Yay! Then I get to see all those frames again as I colour. Good thing Solomon is so cute ;)

These are the backgrounds for the first three shots and are probably the final look for the film. Sol and the Count will blend in a tad but considering they're vampires I figure they probably prefer it that way.

And now the animatic....

Gums Update

Here's an update on my final film for this semester. It's an update of my animatic, now with a mix of pencil line tests, coloured but backgroundless Animate Pro renders and two finished shots.

You'll notice that the coloured shots all have liens that are either dark purple for Solomon and the Count and dark red for Sid unlike the initial pngs I posted earlier this month. This change is mainly due to the amount of time it takes to fully colour the lineart but it is equally an aesethic choice. I found that in the case of the two vampires the dark purple actually worked better than the original palette. Time wise it was taking me between 5-7 minutes per frame to colour prior to changing to the single colour plan and now I've cut that down to 3-5 minutes. This may only be two minutes but when you're optionally dealing with 1080 frames this starts to make quite the welcome difference.

Enough of my ramblings. Enjoy :)




As you can see I've done a bit more colouring so here are some more pings for you to see featuring the new lines.

Pings

Here's a sample of some frames from the shots I coloured today which I've done in Photoshop and saved out as PNGs which will then be composited in Animate Pro. You'll notice than the lines are still sketchy and rough. This is because rather than ink my completed animation and then colour in Animate Pro, (my usual pipeline), I have chosen to try and keep the freshness of my pencil line-tests by colouring underneath them directly and therefore forgo inking, which often seems to deaden 2D animation I've found.

I'll not upload every frame but I'll try and upload an example from each shot as I go. Here are shots 3, 5 and 22.1

Gums Layouts

Sticking with the layout theme here are the layouts for my short film Gums. They may look a bit boring with all the trees, and somewhat flat, but again colour should fix this. These took me a day to produce but will be very helpful when it comes to putting the scene together. Normally I wouldn't put this much detail in layouts, Tafti's where much simpler, but I in putting the thinking in here, as it where, I am hoping to save time in the painting stage.

Solly

A concept pic of the main character for my final film this year...

Yes he is a bit...strange....