Animatic

Dear Kristen Animatic

Voices are provided by Ralph himself and Chelsea. I had a blast recording, and had a lot of trouble getting rid of my laughing in the background. Theres a lot more funny dialogue between Ralph and his friends but I decided to cut the extra chatter since it was well over 4 minutes at first. Final time is at 2mins 52 seconds, but I still want to cut it down to 2:30.

The scene after Kristen gets the letter is when shes with two of her friends. A tall one whos talking to Kristen and a short one whos obviously really really bitchy. Shes the one who actually circles the 'No'. I feel like I could push the ending, it doesn't feel convincing enough for me. Any suggestions?

Movie Poster

It took a hellvalot longer than I expected to color this piece. Mainly because I was shooting for a coloring style that I more or less hit and missed.

Ralph has this crush and understandably, he has that nervous chill whenever Kristen (his crush) is around. Ralph, being the nice guy that he is, gives her a bottle of water to help her cough one day in class. Being the nervous person that he is however, ends up shaking uncontrollably...spilling A LOT of water on Kristen. Not wanting to studder a mouthful of spit just trying to say sorry, he writes a letter of apology. But thats not all he wrote.



-Edit-

Heres a not so desaturated, more to look at poster.

11 seconds 2.0

11 Seconds playblast

Sweetness. I sure love splines and curves, yup yup yup. I think one more pass around with this and it'll be good.

Didn't get to work on the mouth movements's Spline and curves...next time fo sho.

Concepts and all that shizzle.

Bottom->Up = Oldest->Newest

In super simplify mode now, working on my line economy and making my characters look more interesting. Got a scan of the original note up there too.

11sec Layout

So heres a rough layout of my interpretation of the 11 second clip. The lead actress is in front of the mirror brushing her hair when her "boyfriend" lays it on her about their relationship. She was busy with the knots when it finally hits her. He's defending himself, restating what he really meant until hes finally home free out of her room.


I really like this sound clip, and felt like doing a study of the expressions I wanted to do. Of course the people in front of me prolly thought I was crazy or something.
Watch Josie, lolz

Insperation

So I was at work yesterday at the high school thinking up an idea for my animation. Hearing Crystal's possible story ideas made me rethink my animation so I was pretty lost in thought. Just then, I noticed one of those binders with a clear cover to put paper in. In the sleeve I saw the most amazing note ever on folder paper, handwritten in pen. It went like this.




I grabbed his binder and and asked him if this had really happened, he said yes and his group of friends laughed because they had been there when he had given her the note. The "no" was soo viciously circled that you could pretty much still see how mad she was at him.





And then I realized the entire class had been watching me, thinking I was a weirdo for getting so excited over a piece of folder paper. The gears are running in my head now (._.)

New Years Manga Resolution!

Lets see if I can finish all these by the end of this year o.o!

Red = Completed/Caught up
Blue = In progress

If you guys got any recommendations let me know of a few. I'm always on the lookout for a new manga to read. I found this on /a/ and it piqued my interests and a bunch of series are really good. Its going to be a sad 2010 when I won't have anything to read, ha ha