2012 animatic with rough sound.

early animatic, with rough sound design.

imua!

"I love animation." that's the look. like you've been living in a cave.

seq14 rough composite done. only three more sequences to go (although seq17 isn't animated, yet, unfortunately - lots of sand in that one, still). aim to have a very rough cut up by monday. this week has seen solid forward movement, and hopefully that will carry over into tidy-up compositing and then waves and clouds.

section of seq12

you can't see the tidal wave yet, but there is one.

what will happen to me...

...if I don't finish this film?at least the yellow submarine mug will arrive in a few days.

seq07 rough composite

these rough composites retain many artifacts to be eliminated, namely the borders and paper/background layers, amongst other things. the timing is rough, to be trimmed down, and wave and general cloud animation remains to be animated.

seq01-05 rough composite + storyboard animatic.

seq02 comp without animated environment.

this may work after all...

sitting here for over a week trying to figure out how to keep the linear burn blending mode in the lineart layer so that the character could be composited, in all their dirty glory (no clean lines and cartoon paintbucket fills, so help me Martha) against an animated, water/sky background without taking weeks of importing minutiae to do it.

here's the magic formula, so as not to forget:

PSD characters against animated wave bg in After Effects:
• reduce PSD's to lineart layer (screen mode: linear burn) + merged color layers (color, deep color, under)
• select all PSD's for shot and import into After Effects: check "Photoshop Sequence," "Composition," "Editable Layer Styles"
• drag PSD sequences (lineart + merged color layers) into timeline, above animated waves
• edit character layers for moving holds, etc., using time remapping

update:
• will use the existing PSD's, with all their layers and imported as Photoshop Sequences, and apply a linear burn to the line layer (top), which achieves the same effect. will modify if this proves to much for the computer to process.

assembling...

seq02, color

first stab at a tvpaint wave

colors will change. this is a bit on the purple-y side.