RdP "Animation Studios": March 2008

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

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Friday, March 14, 2008

I. Preproduction- Background Design

Backgrounds are very important as well, they help create the mood and add to the overall look and feel of your animated short.

Upper left & upper right: "I am the Superhero"
I wanted a comic book/collage feel, so my sister Carmen made amazing backgrounds from buildings, gave them a tint and added a color tone filter in Photoshop to create the moire effect seen in most comics.
For the action scenes in this short I also wanted some action lines, also inspired from comics.

Lower left: "Putek"
Me and co director Tey Clamor was going for a darker tone to this short, yet still retain the cartoony distorted feel. She did a great job using dark blue hues and offsetting them with the yellow light from windows.

Lower right: "The Jerk"
I wanted a looser feel to this one, gave the backgrounds a rough colored edge, which I think came out really well.

For stories that involve the character traveling across a large area, a map may be drawn as a guide for using certain backgrounds in a scene. Here, I placed numbers regarding the areas where "Anna" will pass chronologically according to the "Libingan" script.

Why is this necessary? because when you start drawing your backgrounds, you will know which elements will remain, disappear, or appear depending on the angle you choose for your shot!

*It is important to note that the art direction of a film covers a color palette, drawing style, animation movement style of all the elements. Once these are all carefully blended together, the film has a more cohesive, solid look.

happy backgrounding!

next: Storyboards!

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

"The Jerk" is now in Atomfilms!

The Jerk, a short made within 48 hours (not by choice) was accepted into atomfilms! You can have a look here.

How it was made info to follow soon!

Animator purist warning:

Ever since I have been making cartoons, the most common question I got was "How did you do that?" Well, to everyone who asked, here ya go, this is for you, and for anyone else who is interested.
I must remind you though, what you will read from the following pages is not the official way of making animated films.

As the art form that animated filmmaking is, I believe there is no one, correct, cure-all method of creating your own animated story.

There are however, tried and tested industry standards and technicalities from which you can use as a training ground or even use as your own method. And it is these techniques which I studied and eventually tried to replicate in the independent setting (not much $$$) which has led me to form my own techniques in creating an animated film.

With that said, what you are going to see is how I work in creating my own animated stories, using commercially available software and hardware. I must stress, that these are not rules set in stone, but I offer them to help those who are interested in creating their own animated film.