Redickerous Teaser

So, I just checked out Vimeo, and indeed, it is converted. For your viewing pleasure, we have provided a mish-mash of what we hope to make our film into later, a teaser of what's to come.

Redickerous Teaser

It's no where near as complete as we had planned due to busy schedules, laggy machines, and project files blowing up, but you can see a little of what we had in mind.

Agonistic

All good things come to an end. Well, we're still rolling, so it must not be good. Just kidding. Right now, Joe and I are a little behind in our work. Needless to say, we decided to be adventurous and take on something ambitious.

That being nice and all, I think we will still have something fun to show, even if not quite complete. You can find it on the classes server for the screening. I hope to see you all there.

As promised, here are some of our discarded methods using real pictures.

test1

As you can see, we considered using just a hinge at the shoulder in this one.

test2

We also tried a combination of a rotation about the shoulder and the puppet tool.

The puppet runs both along the arm and at the shoulders of the torso.

test3

And here we see multiple hinges, one at each shoulder and elbow.

Final Project Production Continued

So even though Joe's already done our update for the week, I'm going to post something about our progress.

As is with life, plans change. Right now, we've altered our original plans by a bit such that more animation will be done by hand. Joe's hand, specifically. That means he'll be doing more of the traditional hand animation and most of the syncing work while I will work more on the purty effects that are going to be in the final product. Both of us will work on editing, puppeting, collecting more assets, and other such work.

Alas, with that change, I will put up one or two of our abandoned tests in the next day or so you can see some of what we might have possibly done perhaps.

Massive Project Planning Hemmorhagging All Over The Page!!!!!!!!!!

Pitch and Proposal

Joe and Justin always thought that they were destined for greatness. Little did they know that they would find themselves in a situation filled with puppet animation, graphics effects, and massive Michael Bay-onesque type action.
Ben Bays, their professor, one day loses Joe and Justin in a horrible car accident. Going mad by the loss, he vows revenge. This is the start to the greatest love story ever told? A forbidden love between a normal bearded man and a wacom tablet.
All characters will be animated by a combination of photoshop, 3-d, puppeting, and the like.
The story of Ben's journey to reach his destiny involves the use of ?After Effects Powers? such as particles, matting, and teleportation.
This project allows us to use many of the techniques and abilities available in after effects in order to create a story of lovely daring-do that will make people bleed marshmallow peeps from their eyes and forever regret not knowing the name:
PROFESSOR BEN BAYS!

Assets

Photo characters (3)
Puppet versions of photo characters (3)
Photo backgrounds: road, sky, city, classroom, hallway

Photo mise-en-scene: tables, chairs, desks, computers, wacom tablet, car, tree
Effects: particle explosions, particle debris, time remap, matting

Schedule

Week 1: Plot, Script, Storyboard
Week 2: Gather Assets, Puppet Characters, Animate, Voice Recording, Begin Sound Design
Week 3: Add Sound, Lip Sync, Effects, Export for Editing in Final Cut, Edit that Ho

Holla at Storyboards!!!
Warning: due to the epic nature of the story, storyboards end here. Also, they're out of order because of how it got uploaded...

















So, that's the game plan with all the sensibilities of Ross Perot.

Ridiculousness, Ahoy!

Kimbo's Slice's Super Punch Out

Mmm.. Dystopia..

Censoring Unhappiness

Everybody happy!

If Ed Wood Kept a Gun..

Ronald Raygun

Space weapons make me want cake.

The Road Not Taken

I only had time and creative smarts to get through one verse of Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken". Oy. Animators is tough. I should have just used another path for the word bent..

Man is Not the Deadliest Prey

Man Cage

Gosh, throw a man in a cage and you take all the fight out of him.

Little man taken from my favorite of the folks at explosm.

Forgive the shoddiness with timing. After a while, you just can't afford to spend time rendering and exporting to check time anymore.. Also, I forgot to add dimension to the trees. Whoopsy.

An Even Perfecter Human?

Dancypants

Whoops. I forgot to adjust the levels on one of the tracks, so the audio is not quite as sexular as it could be. Cool, though, huh? Dancypants features the dance sequences of Jorgen Leth's short The Perfect Human. I just shifted the timeline for one over to create a mismatch and used a different luma key for each of those two layers. The furthest back layer is a van Gogh painting.

Holla to all my Danes and nether regions.


Dancierpants

Edit: Yup, I'm just posting it the way I had it before i screwed up me levels. You can figure out if you like it more with one voice than what I have in the second one. Me, I'm liking the repetition.

1969

Since the dawn of time, Man has yearned to know the mysteries of the heavens.


I Got Sole

Here is among the earliest backyard documented attempts since the televised broadcast of the Apollo 11 moon landing.

Lumberjack

Oh, noes! It shows not. Lumberjack sadness.. but if you download the avi, it's a big ol' 33ish megabyte file for 5 seconds of lumberjack goodness. So.. sit back for lumberjack.. funness?

Edit: Oh, snaps! Lumberjack is ready to attack so just sit back and watch the fixed track. Word. That means I uploaded a cruddier version. Clutch!

Ye Olde Photo Shoppe

This isn't so fancy or stylized as some things I've seen. That's right, peers, I looked at your posts. You're all big with your pretty colors and photorealism. Well, I'm sick of you all already, so here's my peasant's offering.
















Yeah, you think about that. If you flaunt anymore, I'll send my sister on you, and she's brain hungry. So you best behave. Nobody likes a braggart.

Introduce

Yes, the title of the post is a verb.

Before RTF, I was an engineering student for a year and a half. Well, I didn't get far before I decided I didn't like it. If you're doodling when you need to learn how to determine the forces and breaking points of materials you need to build with one day, you're probably going to get sued down the line.

So now, I'm focusing on working in the talkies doing directorial work one day. Whether or not that's where I end up, I'm going to work on increasing my awesomeness by learning different aspects of the moving picture shows.

My favorite things are cartoons, movies, and food, so if I can make movies to feed myself, how awesome would my life be? Very.

And so, as we say our goodbyes, I leave you with a little picture of myself from two years back.

Sextastic? I think so.