Tuesday 12 June 2018

ToonBoom Drawing Problem

Here's the screen recording of the issue.

Sorry if it seems mundane. I would just like to resolve the discussion and help help others.

Tuesday 5 June 2018

Week 16 - 17 - End of 1st Semester

The first semester is over but my animation isn't! I'm going to keep on monitoring my workflow on this blog until it's finished. Here is how I animated shot 10 of 20.

Thursday 17 May 2018

Week 14 - 15 - Getting Ready for the Exhibition

Man. Working on a project as ambitious as this one at the same time as having two part-time jobs has been very demanding but it's also been so much fun! I'm surprised to have been able to achieve as much as I have so far.
On Monday this week I managed to gather my two go-to musically talented friends Jake and Alex and recorded "Happy One Outz" at SIT Sound! The song to which the Headphones & Skateboard Opening will be animated to. I must credit my other musically talented friend Rob for helping me with audio editing in post and Sam for filling me in about using different microphones than I'm used to.

Here's a couple of pictures of Jake's drum kit, guitar amplifier and my guitar stuffed in his car

Here's the D-Command at SIT Sound, the only studio I have access to as an animator.

The D-Command is supposed to be used to record ADR (Automated Dialog Replacement) or Foley for film and animation but we used it to record music.
We recorded the rhythm guitar and the drums first using three different microphones (notice the mic stands) and then we recorded the lead guitar and bass lines afterwards.

Here's the song! 
P.s. I had to make it into a video to put it in this blog so I used my animatic.

Thursday 10 May 2018

Week 12 - 13 - Post-Critique Work

Some shots seem to be taking longer to produce than expected.
Also, my recordings' sizes are a bit larger than normal so I have uploaded two separate videos.

Shot9 Workflow - Part1

Shot9 Workflow - Part2

Thursday 26 April 2018

Week 10 - 11 - Holiday Work

I have been hard at work during the holidays but have been slacking at recording myself. I haven't recorded myself drawing backgrounds but I did remember to do so while animating. 

This video is about how I animated shot 6 through to 9 
- of the Headphones and Skateboard opening animation - 
in about two hours.

Friday 6 April 2018

Week 8 - 9 - More OBS Footage for Critiques

Here's a short video of the first shot of my animation (shot number 1 of 20) which I recorded in the Toon Boom work space.


Here is shot 2 of 20, similarly recorded.


3 of 20


I recorded a bit of my animation work flow for this shot (shot 4) as opposed to my drawing process like my in my previous post (the week 6 - 7 - Photoshop one).


Here's what shot 4 of 20 ended up looking like.

Wednesday 28 March 2018

Week 4 - 5 - Artist Models & Research

During the days leading up to our first assignment, I researched into different cartoon openings and the different techniques the creators used in the making of them in an attempt to find ways in which they may help me with my project.

These three videos include animation techniques which I want to implement in my project.


Integrating a Photoshop background into Toon Boom Harmony.
I retrieved this video from the Toon Boom website. I found it in among many other valuable tutorials. This one is of particular help to me because my camera will be quite dynamic and my animation will find an effect like this one to be very aesthetically beneficial in the long run.  

Animating to Music
I found this article to be particularly helpful to me because of the sheer amount of detail which was put into the writing of it. The author makes sure to cover as much information as possible and his tips are therefore able to cater for animators working on lots of different kinds of animation.

First Assignment
Here's the PowerPoint presentation I made for the first assignment of the year, it clearly outlines what my goals and intentions are with this project as well as my main plan of action for it.