Posted by Bernard
Having fun getting the animation up & running with T-Bob!
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
First simple Illustration EAR
post by Don
After the 27 hours of travel time to Cape Town I was surprised to be adjusted to the time change so quickly. And although I have been filling my days getting out to see the Cape, I do have to rest in the evening and was eager to get into the software that Bernard has been learning.
It looks like we will be able to import illustrations from Adobe Illustrator right into Toon Boom so I wanted to do some import tests and see what would be our best method of export to import.
While Bernard and T-bob have taken up the task of character design, I am eager to contribute by taking those hand drawn sketches and turning them into vector art. I have been using Illustrator for years and am pretty quick so drawing in Illustrator then exporting would be ideal for an efficient work flow.
Had a few minutes this morning and went ahead and did a quick line art based on Tbobs original Evil Asian Robot painting. Will be experimenting with best export / import methods later this evening.
Really excited to see Bernard has made some great progress animating. I hope T-bob starts feeling better - food poisoning is the worst!
Sunday, January 17, 2010
A Little Break, or so I thought.
by T-Bob
Don is off to South Africa for about a month for work. And I was a little worried that Bern and I weren't going to get much done with Don gone, because Don definitely is the big producer (because he's the one that makes us get stuff done even though all of us are producing this together).
And I came down with food poisoning or a stomach bug on Friday the 15th, the day Bernard and I were supposed to have our next meeting. We had planned to start sketching the basic body angles for the characters, but I was barely able to leave the couch, so that didn't happen.
So I was really excited to see what Bern had done with the animation- just to see that we're continuing to make progress without Don's push. Seeing what he did made me think that the animation is going to be a lot more sophisticated than we had originally planned. I was thinking it was going to be even more simple than South Park, but now it looks like we may be able to do more articulation and a little more detail. Of course, it may end up taking much more time than we anticipated so who knows which animation we'll end up going with. Only time will tell. But I'm glad that we're not taking a break.
Don is off to South Africa for about a month for work. And I was a little worried that Bern and I weren't going to get much done with Don gone, because Don definitely is the big producer (because he's the one that makes us get stuff done even though all of us are producing this together).
And I came down with food poisoning or a stomach bug on Friday the 15th, the day Bernard and I were supposed to have our next meeting. We had planned to start sketching the basic body angles for the characters, but I was barely able to leave the couch, so that didn't happen.
So I was really excited to see what Bern had done with the animation- just to see that we're continuing to make progress without Don's push. Seeing what he did made me think that the animation is going to be a lot more sophisticated than we had originally planned. I was thinking it was going to be even more simple than South Park, but now it looks like we may be able to do more articulation and a little more detail. Of course, it may end up taking much more time than we anticipated so who knows which animation we'll end up going with. Only time will tell. But I'm glad that we're not taking a break.
Saturday, January 16, 2010
Had to...
Posted by Bernard
Like a true junior director...
A dolly zoom is a cinematic technique in which the camera moves closer or further from the subject while simultaneously adjusting the zoom angle to keep the subject the same size in the frame. The effect is that the subject appears stationary while the background size changes (this is called perspective distortion).
The dolly zoom is often over-used by junior directors. Many film critics see it as a cliché.
Like a true junior director...
A dolly zoom is a cinematic technique in which the camera moves closer or further from the subject while simultaneously adjusting the zoom angle to keep the subject the same size in the frame. The effect is that the subject appears stationary while the background size changes (this is called perspective distortion).
The dolly zoom is often over-used by junior directors. Many film critics see it as a cliché.
Lets get animated
Posted by Bernard
B2 here. Guess it's time I weighed in...
I'm having a great time working with my brothers on this project. It's a very absurd concept, which is awesome, because i think we are all big fans of the absurd. With T-bob scripting and doing character development, Don doing scoring and production, and all of us bouncing ideas off each other, i think it's going to be fantastic and a half!
I'm working on character design and animation. T-Bob's original art is great, but I'm trying to take all the strong elements and translate them into a style we can more easily animate, without losing any of the tasty goodness. I've got some sketches I hope to eventually scan & post, but since i procrastinated long enough on that I already have a couple bits of animation. Keep in mind, I'm leaning new software & this is really my first shot at any kind of animation...
That said, enjoy!
B2 here. Guess it's time I weighed in...
I'm having a great time working with my brothers on this project. It's a very absurd concept, which is awesome, because i think we are all big fans of the absurd. With T-bob scripting and doing character development, Don doing scoring and production, and all of us bouncing ideas off each other, i think it's going to be fantastic and a half!
I'm working on character design and animation. T-Bob's original art is great, but I'm trying to take all the strong elements and translate them into a style we can more easily animate, without losing any of the tasty goodness. I've got some sketches I hope to eventually scan & post, but since i procrastinated long enough on that I already have a couple bits of animation. Keep in mind, I'm leaning new software & this is really my first shot at any kind of animation...
That said, enjoy!
Thursday, January 7, 2010
A Little Inspiration
by T-Bob
First of all I want to say how excited I am to be not only working towards bringing this story to life, but also to be doing it with mis hermanos! It's quite an adventure.
Now onto your irregularly scheduled blog post:
A couple years ago I created the two main characters as illustrations and figured they'd never be anything more. They're shown below. After seeing them, you may be wondering, where the hell did I get the idea for them?
Little Hog (LHFH) was inspired by one of my best friend's and my favorite pastimes; singing songs and changing the lyrics. One day we were singing Roxette's "Listen to your heart" (of course) and we changed the last line of a verse to "A little hog from heaven in your dreams!" Obviously that character we were singing about had to be brought into the world
The originals were done in literal layers (as opposed to Photoshop [PS] layers). The bottom layer (background) is water color. The top layers are done in pencil which I went over with colored marker, then cut out with exacto blades and glued onto the first layer. And let me tell you those curly Q's in LHFH's name were not easy to cut out! The exception is that EAR was put together in photoshop even though I cut out the pieces. Also part of his name was drawn in PS, but I can't remember which part now.
First of all I want to say how excited I am to be not only working towards bringing this story to life, but also to be doing it with mis hermanos! It's quite an adventure.
Now onto your irregularly scheduled blog post:
A couple years ago I created the two main characters as illustrations and figured they'd never be anything more. They're shown below. After seeing them, you may be wondering, where the hell did I get the idea for them?
Little Hog (LHFH) was inspired by one of my best friend's and my favorite pastimes; singing songs and changing the lyrics. One day we were singing Roxette's "Listen to your heart" (of course) and we changed the last line of a verse to "A little hog from heaven in your dreams!" Obviously that character we were singing about had to be brought into the worldEvil Asian Robot came by us in a completely different but equally ridiculous way. Anyone who knows me, knows that I'm a huge fan of Joss Whedon. Well in his show 'Angel', Daniel
Dae Kim played an evil lawyer who was not very threatening, or emotional but was still technically evil. He was so uninfluential in the show Zabeth (my bestie) and I began to call him Evil Asian Robot (EAR). So I went about creating him.
Dae Kim played an evil lawyer who was not very threatening, or emotional but was still technically evil. He was so uninfluential in the show Zabeth (my bestie) and I began to call him Evil Asian Robot (EAR). So I went about creating him.The originals were done in literal layers (as opposed to Photoshop [PS] layers). The bottom layer (background) is water color. The top layers are done in pencil which I went over with colored marker, then cut out with exacto blades and glued onto the first layer. And let me tell you those curly Q's in LHFH's name were not easy to cut out! The exception is that EAR was put together in photoshop even though I cut out the pieces. Also part of his name was drawn in PS, but I can't remember which part now.
LHFH Theme Song
Post by Don
Since the beginning, we have really wanted a theme song that contains the story of how LHFH got to live with the Evil Asian Robot and explain why he is named Little Hog From Heaven. It could act as a title and front credit song.
I had written a simple little verse-chorus-verse-chorus back when we first started playing with the ideas in 2008.
I have been a really drawn to acoustic Americana recently. I got to see Ralph Stanley live (of O'Brother Where art thou fame) a months back and am a really big fan of the Cold Mountain soundtrack, both of which have lead me to discover some great Americana.
Reflecting back I think these as well that the Beverly Hillbillies and The Dukes of Hazard theme songs really inspired us.
On Tuesday January 5th, I refined some of the lyrics and settled on producing it in a Folky - Early Americana style. Bernard and I started to record a demo for the theme and we really liked it.
T-Bob look a listen when we met the next day for our production meeting. He really loved it but felt it was way to long. It was almost 1 minute long. So at T-Bob's suggestion we cut extra beats and removed some lyrics and tightened it up and got it down to 46 sec.
We were still laughing when we played it back for the last time that night, so it has passed the bench mark.
Here are the lyrics we are working with now.
Little Hog from heaven
was a curious pig
so he snuck out the fence to see what he could see
hit by a tractor
dead by 4:11
and that's how the piggy became
Little Hog From Heaven
Little Hog From Heaven
Little Hog From Heaven
waiting in line
at the pearly gates drank to much
and he just could not wait
followed Evil Asian Robot
to the bathroom door
and little hog from heaven
weren't in heaven anymore
Little Hog From Heaven
Little Hog From Heaven
spends all of his days with a robot friend
the adventures continue .. . .and they never ever end.
Since the beginning, we have really wanted a theme song that contains the story of how LHFH got to live with the Evil Asian Robot and explain why he is named Little Hog From Heaven. It could act as a title and front credit song.
I had written a simple little verse-chorus-verse-chorus back when we first started playing with the ideas in 2008.
I have been a really drawn to acoustic Americana recently. I got to see Ralph Stanley live (of O'Brother Where art thou fame) a months back and am a really big fan of the Cold Mountain soundtrack, both of which have lead me to discover some great Americana.Reflecting back I think these as well that the Beverly Hillbillies and The Dukes of Hazard theme songs really inspired us.
On Tuesday January 5th, I refined some of the lyrics and settled on producing it in a Folky - Early Americana style. Bernard and I started to record a demo for the theme and we really liked it.
T-Bob look a listen when we met the next day for our production meeting. He really loved it but felt it was way to long. It was almost 1 minute long. So at T-Bob's suggestion we cut extra beats and removed some lyrics and tightened it up and got it down to 46 sec.
We were still laughing when we played it back for the last time that night, so it has passed the bench mark.
Here are the lyrics we are working with now.
Little Hog from heaven
was a curious pig
so he snuck out the fence to see what he could see
hit by a tractor
dead by 4:11
and that's how the piggy became
Little Hog From Heaven
Little Hog From Heaven
Little Hog From Heaven
waiting in line
at the pearly gates drank to much
and he just could not wait
followed Evil Asian Robot
to the bathroom door
and little hog from heaven
weren't in heaven anymore
Little Hog From Heaven
Little Hog From Heaven
spends all of his days with a robot friend
the adventures continue .. . .and they never ever end.
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