so much work.

starting to ‘color’

its been slow going but at this point i am already entrenched in the ‘coloring’ phase…

animation sure is a humbling endeavor.

this is the video i shot for my rotoscope

i also just picked up a wacom bamboo pen tablet for $58 on amazon, it looks like it is basically the same as the small tablets we have in the lab. (a little side note if you buy one (because this confused me), the bamboo pen is not the same as the bamboo touch. the bamboo touch is just a big multi-touch trackpad, like on the unibody macbooks. there is also a bamboo pen and touch which allows you to use the tablet as a multitouch trackpad surface with your hand as well as a pen controlled tablet. there is also a relatively higher end bamboo tablet, but that one is silver, so you should be able to tell the difference. i believe its also possible to buy just the pen or tablet alone, so make sure you get a package that includes the pen and the tablet. this was really confusing to me)

A man slips an envelope into a pocket. He gets off an elevator, slips a note under an apartment door and walks off.

I’ve got it all planned out.

im super stoked on project two… this looks like floyd pepper, the bass player for dr. teeth and the electric mayhem

here are my shapes

well its 2am… the skull minus the antlers is done and i think it looks pretty freaking sweet! scoring my folds with a butter knife really helps maintain structural integrity!  the cardstock i got from staples is really helping too! i figured out the pleat for the back and i think that reusing the two outer thirds of the back template will make the back really come together with the skull, then i can just figure out the antlers! aside from the new extra side parts, something weird happened in illustrator and i really screwed up the measurements for the pleats and i have literally spent the last 3 hours fixing it. i eventually resorted to physically writing the grid numbers on the last partial back i had. currently i am using a butter knife to score folds, scissors, an x-acto blade, regular scotch tape, double sided tape, a mechanical pencil and some paper clips. check out this sweet gallery thing: