This is going to be the first of many posts on this project but here it is. Rather than nitpicking other people, you guys can nitpick me for a change. I recently started working seriously on my animated short set in Zambia, Africa called "Scout 2793." The short tells the story of an alien scouting robot sent to earth to prepare for it's master's mass invasion and the Superhero he comes into conflict with. The short is mainly set in 3 major locations which are the mothership, the outskirts of a zambian village and finally a large city. For this short i'm animating full character movements for the first time so i've been practicing character animation quite a bit and the robot transforms twice so this will be a lot of trial and error on my part but i'm having fun with it. Other things i've had to practice are my effects animation skills with a major focus on lightning and explosions effects. Storyboarding is going fairly quickly since i learned a lot about this during a filmmaking workshop i did at university so thats not an issue. I hope to have it done before summer's end because last years summer animation project was left unfinished because i wasn't used to flash and i got annoyed doing it. Here is a video of everything i produced for that little project.
The nest major thing i got around to generally improving on recently was using editing software to do a lot more complex stuff such as this end of year video i edited with vegas alone and without using any animation software. The race at the start took the longest as you would guess and the rest was fairly straightforward. It turned out quite decent nevertheless. Here it is below.
This time i want to produce something truly memorable so i'm avoiding day shots because they are too easy and boring and i want to use a colour palette that suits the atmosphere one gets when out in zambia in villages. There may be voiceover in this so i'll be animating the talking scenes at the end but i don't wanna start casting till i have the script and character design sheets done so i know how many voices i need and what the characters all look like. For now here is a quick character design sheet i did for the main superhero character "Thunderbolt." It still needs more work specifically on the look of the mask because i don't want him to look like a Deathstroke ripoff but heres what i got for now. Stay tuned guys.
The nest major thing i got around to generally improving on recently was using editing software to do a lot more complex stuff such as this end of year video i edited with vegas alone and without using any animation software. The race at the start took the longest as you would guess and the rest was fairly straightforward. It turned out quite decent nevertheless. Here it is below.
This time i want to produce something truly memorable so i'm avoiding day shots because they are too easy and boring and i want to use a colour palette that suits the atmosphere one gets when out in zambia in villages. There may be voiceover in this so i'll be animating the talking scenes at the end but i don't wanna start casting till i have the script and character design sheets done so i know how many voices i need and what the characters all look like. For now here is a quick character design sheet i did for the main superhero character "Thunderbolt." It still needs more work specifically on the look of the mask because i don't want him to look like a Deathstroke ripoff but heres what i got for now. Stay tuned guys.
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