Beating the Bunny
Apr. 5th, 2003 08:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pasitheaI am beating this bunny. It will not be an unfinished project and it will no longer eat all of my time.
I figured out the thing with the hands a few days ago and start and end key frames, but then began procrastinating on it. This bunny project has lived long past it's life expectancy. Usually when I get this frustrated with a project I cut my losses and move on toa better project, but this one has other people involved in it so I have to finish it. I hate the bunny. I loathe the bunny, but the bunny will not beat me. (Am I sounding psychotic here)
I have about 30 frames to go to complete the bunny now. Then I can move on. I should be able to knock out 30 frames in about an hour (They're pretty simple frames, just facial close-ups) then I just have to ink all the new work I've pencil-tested and I canf inally for honest and real pass the bunny off to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
centauress for ink and paint. There's a little video editing at the end, but that should be a nice change-up.
I've disliked this animation project more than any other I've ever done. In fact, all the others have been fun. This one was just a mess (Mostly because of the staticness of the shots due to not the best planning on my part with the video synch up) On the other hand, I feel like I've moved a lot closer to being a real animator because of it. A few minutes ago, I pencil-tested a Close-up of the two characters holding hands, then the girl suddenly pulling hers away. I GOT IT RIGHT THE FIRST TIME! Animated on 1's, it has poise, tension, and drama, their hands interact, there's good screen direction motion, the poses are strong, AND I finally got around the stupid jump-cut versus a weak pose problem. HANDS! I animated HANDS at full-screen 10 fields! At the start of this project I could barely DRAW hands, let alone go in close on them, show two people's hands interacting, or animate them! I feel like I can probably animate just about anything now! :D
In other animation news, (I know, I'm obsessed and this is all I ever talk about) I'm not 100% sure yet but I'm probably going to pass on the compound. I really don't have a spare $150... Well, I do, but I'd rather spend it on clothes. Also, I was offered a (broken) animation disc and I got to thinking that it would be easy to buy/find a crappy scanner like an old Mostek or something and take the optical glass out of it and build a lightweight compound onto an animation disk. I don't actually need a huge amount of motion capability since I can do most of that on the computer. I just need to flatten my cels for photography and hold the weight of a tiny digital camera. So... This is looking like a better path, perhaps, though I'm still pretty tempted by the 'real' animation stand. I'm going to go price the rest of the materials I'd need tomorrow.
I figured out the thing with the hands a few days ago and start and end key frames, but then began procrastinating on it. This bunny project has lived long past it's life expectancy. Usually when I get this frustrated with a project I cut my losses and move on toa better project, but this one has other people involved in it so I have to finish it. I hate the bunny. I loathe the bunny, but the bunny will not beat me. (Am I sounding psychotic here)
I have about 30 frames to go to complete the bunny now. Then I can move on. I should be able to knock out 30 frames in about an hour (They're pretty simple frames, just facial close-ups) then I just have to ink all the new work I've pencil-tested and I canf inally for honest and real pass the bunny off to
centauress for ink and paint. There's a little video editing at the end, but that should be a nice change-up.I've disliked this animation project more than any other I've ever done. In fact, all the others have been fun. This one was just a mess (Mostly because of the staticness of the shots due to not the best planning on my part with the video synch up) On the other hand, I feel like I've moved a lot closer to being a real animator because of it. A few minutes ago, I pencil-tested a Close-up of the two characters holding hands, then the girl suddenly pulling hers away. I GOT IT RIGHT THE FIRST TIME! Animated on 1's, it has poise, tension, and drama, their hands interact, there's good screen direction motion, the poses are strong, AND I finally got around the stupid jump-cut versus a weak pose problem. HANDS! I animated HANDS at full-screen 10 fields! At the start of this project I could barely DRAW hands, let alone go in close on them, show two people's hands interacting, or animate them! I feel like I can probably animate just about anything now! :D
In other animation news, (I know, I'm obsessed and this is all I ever talk about) I'm not 100% sure yet but I'm probably going to pass on the compound. I really don't have a spare $150... Well, I do, but I'd rather spend it on clothes. Also, I was offered a (broken) animation disc and I got to thinking that it would be easy to buy/find a crappy scanner like an old Mostek or something and take the optical glass out of it and build a lightweight compound onto an animation disk. I don't actually need a huge amount of motion capability since I can do most of that on the computer. I just need to flatten my cels for photography and hold the weight of a tiny digital camera. So... This is looking like a better path, perhaps, though I'm still pretty tempted by the 'real' animation stand. I'm going to go price the rest of the materials I'd need tomorrow.
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Date: 2003-04-05 09:46 pm (UTC)And whether it would work to dremel out a circle in Paka's drafting, with a clear plug for animation work, the solid original plug for drafting and sink holes to put peg bar and clips into.
Or nawwwwww.
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Date: 2003-04-05 09:47 pm (UTC)*blushes*