New reel and portfolio work has all been posted, as well as some other updated information and a new about me page! I'll be of course continuing to update with more of my work. I plan to do more posts of projects I have in progress here on my blog, so enjoy this storyboard of a sort of TV show "opening" I'm working on. I'd like to utilize this space more to show my work process, and for this to become a more living portfolio space.
Hello! It's been quite some time since I've been able to update this blog, but I do have some things I'd like to say. After graduation, I've been taking time to work on my health, and working full time to save up money so that I can move. Now that those personal goals are coming closer to fruition, I will be updating this website with all the new porfolio work I've been creating and finally applying for jobs in my field! I hope to have this website fully refreshed by next week, and I do plan to write a blog post upon it's completion. In the meanttime, I'll be working on more projects to display on here as well.
Talk again soon!
The film is done! I've uploaded it, submitted it, the whole nine yards. My hand hurts and I still have some weird lingering stress, but it's complete. I'm happy with it, and it's absolutely wild to look back at where it started and where it is now. Now to finish other coursework I have leftover, fly out to Rochester, and present the film!
I'm not going to post it on here yet, I'll probably wait until after presentations. If anyone reads this and wants to see it, comment below this and I can send the unlisted link to the youtube video of it.
Thank you to anyone who followed along through this journey, thank you to my professors and peers, and special thank you to my roommate and best friend, who created London and Val and developed this very special piece with me. We've been working on stories together for years now, and I really hope I did justice to telling this one.
Lots more in progress, but here's some stuff to upload for now, It's not everything I've done but!
A test on how I'm going to do lighting / shading (If I have time). I've got time off work this week so expect a lot of progress!
Some more updates! I didn't have time to edit all of the things I've done into this, the roughs are all done at this point and I do have some more things I've been working on lining, but this is a good chunk of stuff I've done.
Uploading some shots - I want to edit together a new rough cut of everything I've done soon but I've been really deep in the process of just animating. Here's some stuff! At this pont, all the roughs are done and line work / coloring is where we're at. For the underwater scene - I do plan on adding some effects in after effects on it, I played around with it today and found some stuff I like. I am going to finish all the linework and color first, to see if I'm going to have time to add on highlights / shadows before doing after effects stuff. Just need to get the most important work done first. I also want to do some after effects stuff on the flashbacks and Val's voice, but again, prioritizing.
The first shot I still got some stuff to fix and color but I wanted to show the progress on that too
It's been just consistent animating at this point. Here's some finished line shots! My roughs are done at this point, and I have a lot more line work I've been working on, but I didn't have time to edit it all together into an animatic. Ended up getting incredibly sick over spring break (and losing my wifi for a couple days, that's a whole other story), but I got a lot done and should have an updated full show of progress for Wednesday.
Fixed some stuff that was bugging me with the sound and added in some more of the roughs I've been working on!
Backgrounds are all complete! Music is done, I did a first pass on editing it in today and added some more roughs and edits in there. Just grinding away on roughs at this point, planning on having them done by Wednesday.
Progress!
Update: Backgrounds are almost completely done! I have two left, but I should be adding those to this post tommorrow
I'm still chugging along, all my roughs should be done by Friday night. I should also have an updated pass on the music, and a rough title card by Sunday too! Here's a line test on Val, with some updated movement.
Just some more roughs progress!
After a little emergency vet visit as a set back, it definitely came down to the wire with finishing this, but here it is! Got my roughs worked in there, audio re-edited and the new voice acting lines in there too. Also got over half the backgrounds complete - here's an updated shot list progress as well.
More Roughs to show! I'm planning on finishing one more shot and then editing the animatic to reflect all the updates tonight
Done with sounds for week three, done with (more than) half of the backgrounds, and working my way through roughs. Here's some more updates to the roughs, and an updated chart on my progress!
Just some updates on what I've been working on. I've got some more backgrounds done, some roughs to show, and the new voice acting lines have been recorded! I plan to have an animatic with these changes edited together and uploaded on here by Wednesday night.
Updated planning for my timeline, shot list, and what I want to have completed by week 3! I'll be planning to finish 50% of my roughs, 25% of my backgrounds, and updated the voice actor lines in my animatic.
Once all the roughs are complete, then it's on to getting that next pass on the music done from my composer.
And so it begins - I'll be back to weekly posting as I settle back into the Spring semester. I've worked on some roughs as much as I could during break, and I've also locked down on dialogue. I just need to contact my voice actor for Val and get her to record a few extra lines, but mainly I want to buckle down on roughs and line work for the animation. It's time to really get working now! Here's a lined clip of London from that first scene!