animatic update

Animatic updated:

animatic 31dec12

seq07

seq07 720 from Christopher Magee on Vimeo.

...sent across the ocean to Shannon on Monday for in-betweens and clouds...

seq06

seq06 from Christopher Magee on Vimeo.

...mailed off to Janelle on Monday to make it smooth and beautiful...

deep blue sea at high noon

Merry Christmas

getting closer

things as they stand (furry brother likes to sleep on the storyboards, for some reason):

furry brother.















process...


main to do:
• make ogre run through increasingly rough water
• the theatre set

celebratory spaghetti before departure

portable workspace.

animating with the clipboard - it was o.k.

...but the arrival of the animation disc today was a big improvement.

propped up by camera tripod, with ruler taped down in front for front support.




















the disc itself spins like butter.

The Master BG list has arrived! Halfway!

For any folks interested in all things Background-related, I have now uploaded half of the list of BG's for OM in the Backgrounds tab.  It will amaze you.  Really.

Actually, assuming pages 11-20 yield about the same number of BG's as the first ten, there are significantly fewer BG's than we originally thought.  Still a good amount of them, but doable.  I'll have the second half - plus deadlines! - up later this weekend.

Eri                  c

seq06_sh01 keys & breakdowns

ogre wades towards mermaid.


seq06_sh01 from Christopher Magee on Vimeo.

Here it is...... midday om_002_01_X1_0009

I like long walks by the beach... at night.

It's actually true, though the beach here in Seq03Sh02 looks like it has limited real estate...
See you guys tomorrow!

Emilio Estevez

Hi Team!

Check the Background tab for an AMAZING breakdown of O&M Color Palette Timing!

 Enrique

our fresh young interns

Amanda, Shannon, Matt, and Giselle, ready to take on ogres over winter break...

sandwich day

Today we worked in the classroom and experienced some changes. Goodbye to Maya, who we are sincerely sad to see leave us. Hello to Matt, who sat in today and officially started his role as Eric's background coloring assistant. Janelle met James Earl Jones.  We ate sandwiches.

As winter break draws close, we will keep in touch via this blog and DropBox, and also through the mail, with drawings flying across oceans and continents.

And bye to Dave Brubeck, who is now taking a bit more than five.

On to Sequence VI....

Om Nom Nom

Teehee. :)

sequence iv: ogre goes fishing

Sequence IV: ogre goes fishing from Christopher Magee on Vimeo.

"research"

perhaps a bit cheesey, but what the heck, it keeps the imagination flowing:

mermaid documentary

...and from Wikipedia, a little bit about ogres:

ogre definition

return of the mermaid...

...to the drawing board.

naming conventions

Hi there,

Better late than never, and before we head out for winter break, I just posted a series of images on a new page for the blog that indicates how keys, breakdowns, in-betweens, and tracebacks should be labeled and how timing charts are interpreted. See sample below, and let me know if you have questions!
~ Chris

caught up with pencil tests

Seq IV, Shot 04: ogre licks lips. from Christopher Magee on Vimeo.

...and pushing through Sequence IV, then on to the next one.

Need to give you guys your assignments before Winter Break scatters us.

Almost got that little iPad brush stylus today, but alas, there's not really a use (and therefore excuse) for it. We'll see how long my Willpower of Steel holds out.

I love going back to that ol' drawing board...

8 shots per week...

...is all it will take.

Yikes.

Looking Over The Boards...

seq03 from Christopher Magee on Vimeo.

It's a BIG one...

So here we go with 160ppi.  We will now be able to animate the Ogre's pores and the Mermaid's scales into the project.  Good luck with that, animation team.

E

p.s.  This big fella is called Seq_4_Sh_3_bg.  Just so ya know.

Today's special is le Seq02_Sh06_bg...

It is a big pile of sand.  Very exciting.

E

Seq05 Sh01 bg, yo.

The calm before the storm...

Erock

Not the Jersey Shore...

...though I did realize we should have gone out into Sandy the other night to record some good ocean storm sounds...

Eeeeeerriiicccc

UPDAAAAATTTTTEEEEE!!!!

Ok, so I decreased the storybook-y vibe and upped the dark, messy broodiness...
I think this is it.

By the way, I realized that you guys requested Seq2sh01 yesterday;  that is this shot!  let's see some tests with this guy.

Shmerick

Amanda and Giselle animating ogres.

seq04sh04: ogre hungry, sees fish

animating through jury duty, animating through a hurricane...not only a civic duty, but also dangerous...

seq04sh04: ogre hungry, sees fish; keys and most breakdowns. from Christopher Magee on Vimeo.

Ogre listens to a shell

This one took forever to convert on Vimeo, for some reason.

OM Seq3 Sc 8&9 from Janelle Smith on Vimeo.

Working through Sequence IV. Need to finish throwing Sequence III into the timeline and post it.

Need also to post timing chart and in-between naming conventions.

And waiting for the hurricane to arrive, of course...

Please update your part of the "to do" list, everyone.

Fixed!

Sorry I missed the second team today, I was obliged to be home for some household repair...

After fishing around the old Google, I caught a fix for my Photoshop crashing issues which, turns out, was due to my tablet.  But [fingers crossed] it seems to be all better.

So here's one finished, with more to come.

Airick

UPDATE:
So here it is with some adjustments...

Bam.

eRiC

animating at jury duty

Nothing like animating while in the waiting room for jury selection. But it's all about constraints setting us free, eh? A good opportunity to sit down and animate with no distractions. Anyway, that was the beginning of Sequence IV.

And nothing like being told you can go home now after all that waiting, because the case didn't go through and they couldn't use a bunch of us.

An interesting day, after all...

picking up the seashell

III_07 from Christopher Magee on Vimeo.

Janelle on the in-betweens.

journal entry

Janelle and I worked on a bit of animation and then headed out for falafel, and then I went off to figure drawing (for which animation is a good warmup, or vice versa).

Sequence III keys are done. We're at least a month behind and about to start sequence  IV, which should both be fun and a lot of work, as the Ogre tries to catch some fish but bumps into the Mermaid.

After a week of illness, car trouble, and general mayhem amongst us, hopefully this week the whole gang will be here and hale and hearty and ready to move forward with backgrounds, color, and more animation! : D Considering moving more folks into animation in order to speed that process up, although there's a trade-off between speed and the time it takes to animate well: proportion shifts, staying on model, finding better angles, and fine-tuning timing. As it is, barging ahead to get everything done, and then turning back to revise things later.

Interns Shannon, Amanda, and Giselle finding their groove (they have lots of classwork to contend with in addition to this), and the linework is improving (stay off the gas pedal). Timing charts! Gotta keep everything tidy.

Interesting to see how the story starts to feel as pieces get filled in with pencil tests. Room for shifting around of sequences...

buenos noches, los muchachos!

~ Chris

animatic revisions 20oct12

animatic 20oct12

seqIII_shot01

seq03 sh01 ogr gets up from Christopher Magee on Vimeo.

new backgrounds from Eric

seq01_sh01

seq07_sh04

seq14_sh01

seq15_sh04

"about" page udpated, naming convention set

see the "about" page for new stuff.
see the "production calendar" page for the file naming convention.

animatic revision, 12oct12

see "animatic in progress" page.

ogre turnaround 11oct12

Ogre Turnaround, 11oct12 from Christopher Magee on Vimeo.

Foley Adventures, Part 1

While Chris is in Ottawa, the rest of the team has the task of finding sounds for the film. Here we are at the beach.

Listening to the sounds of feet stomping on sand.

We found Eric's clouds!

We didn't have a muffler for the recorder, so we improvised and used a sock. It worked out quite well.

Obligatory beach photo!

 I'll upload the rest once I find the cord to connect my camera to my computer. It's around here somewhere...

Chris in Ottawa: Pumpkin Carving Picnic

Nothing like being at a major animation festival to make you glad you're working on something and not just wishing you were.

A lot of great work (and also some that makes me wonder). But that's what it is.

Now, back to Ogres and Mermaids...

13sep12 more of the visit...

13sep12 - Claire visits Motion Heads.

OM Seq XIV Sc II

It needs some work.

OM Seq XIV Sc II from Janelle Smith on Vimeo.

Seq I, Shot 01: ogre pushed onto beach.

Seq 01, shot 01: ogre pushed onto beach, keys & bd's only from Christopher Magee on Vimeo.

II2 with sand color adjustment and rough Ogre insert.

BG for XIV7, Ogre does J.C.

BG for IV, shot 1.  I want to go to there.

Edit of II2 cont'd BG.  I think the sand works better here...

animatic update, 30aug12

Sequences II, V, and XIV: see "animatic in progress" page.

seqXIV, shot002

seq14 sh02 ogre gets up: in-betweens to be added for end from Christopher Magee on Vimeo.

SeqXIV, Sh9

seq14 sh09 ogre run 3-4 front from Christopher Magee on Vimeo.

XIV-008: 3/4 run back

seq14 sh08 ogre run 3-4 back from Christopher Magee on Vimeo.

Sequence II, Scene V: Pencil Test

OM Seq2 Sc5 from Janelle Smith on Vimeo.

XIV_005: ogre run cycle

omXIV_005: ogre run cycle keys from Christopher Magee on Vimeo.

Sequence II, Scene IV

OM Seq2 Sc4 from Janelle Smith on Vimeo.

Sequence II, pencil tests

Sequence II, animation