The bunny inked.

Since several people have expressed curiousity, here it is. I photographed and composited the inked drawings so that they can be loaded into Flash to be vectorized and coloured, but here's where I am right now: The Bunny Inked

You can see my work has gotten a lot better since I started this project. (The wide shots are the original movie) Anyhow, the first parts of the movie take place in the background behind the video, so I think it will be alright.

I'm happy with most of the new parts (the wave is a little shakey but its during a fade to black so I'm going to let it slide. My favourite bits are: The turn to look, and the hand being withdrawn.

Shamefully I must also admit that while I'm not into the furry thing or the transformation thing, I do now sorta find this sexy. Though that could be because I have a weird quirk in that I get sorta turned on by doing artwork. Especially when I feel like that in doing a piece I've made some advancement in my education.

Anyhow, its way way way way way way way past my bedtime! Night!

Deep Hating

Grr. I LOATHE Windows. I had a really keen entry for the Artist's Ambush tonight which I'd done in Flash (I still don't have a tablet for my Mac so I'm stuck doing tabletly things on Windows) But no. It crashed. it's gone. Eradicated, wiped out. So I thought, 'Ohwell. Flash just sucks." So I decided I was going to work on some homework and do an animatic for 'Free as a Bird'. I'd scanned the stuff to the PC (scanner isn't hooked up to my Mac) and so I opened the GIFs to work with them in Premiere. WRONG-O! Windows (having already crashed on my 4 times in Flash) decided to crash SIX MORE TIMES every time I tried to open a SIMPLE FRIGGING 1500x1000 GIF IMAGE Okay, so like I've opened LOTS of GIFS on that machine and I've opened LOTS AND LOTS of them in Premiere, so what gives? Who knows? Anyhow, after wasting 2 hours of my valuable creative time with Windows and getting NOTHING to show for it, I gave up, burned the GIFs to a CD (stupid because it was only 60M of stuff, but it was 50 files and surprise surprise, Windows 98 is too incompetent to talk to SAMBA properly too) I took the CD to my Mac and LO AND BEHOLD The GIFS opened fine... In the same version of Premiere. Wow. What a concept. In addition, it didn't crash every half hour like my PC does. In fact, I used Premiere for about 6 hours solid on Sunday and it didn't crash once.

*sigh* Unfortunetely, Premiere is the one place that my 450Mhz Mac is noticably slower than my 1.8Ghz pentium. When doing the raw brute number-crunching to composite full-resolution DV video, it's slower than my PC. On the other hand, the PC can render the stuff but can't play it worth a hill of beans and the Mac plays it just fine. I obviously just need that Dual 1.4Ghz G4. ;) Foo. very unproductive evening. Eventually I gave up and went to Kinkos to make more copies of my storyboard pages. Hopefully tomorrow will be better.