I'm caught up!

Woo hooo! I've caught up with my schedule and I am now on track. I'll definately start coloring this weekend and since only half of my scenes need color I think I'm on good shape. Here's the scene I animated last time in class which I think turned out really nice.

I'm finished with Scene 8!

Well this weekend I finally finished scene 8 which has the most animation in it. Yesterday I finished with scene 5 which is just a camera move. But here's scene 8 all cleaned up. I haven't colored it yet but that's later on in the schedule. So here's scene 8. I'm not quite happy with the tail but I'm moving foreward anyway. I think I'm going to enlarge the cat and mouse or zoom in more so that they aren't so tiny.

I prefer using the pen because I've done some of my animation with a regular tablet when the cintiqs are not available and it's just not very easy. The thing that I like is that I can rotate the cintiq and draw that way with the pen because it's more natural for me to draw that way. I like the pen alot.

Still Animating

I started over on scene 8 because I didn't like how the clean up was going so now I'm color coding the different parts of cat to help me see it better when I trace it. So far it's going really goood. The scene is taking the longest because it has the mose animation in it but when I'm done with this one, all the other scenes are close ups and camera moves so they should be easier to animate.

Animating!

Whoo hoo! I started animating yesterday. I've started on scene 8 and I'm behind a week but I think I'll be okay as long as I really push it this weekend.

Background 2

Yeah! I finished the second background last class. So I am very far behind but I'm already at Monty today at 8:30 am to finish up the backgrounds today and start the animation but I also have to work on my concept animatic today too, so I'll see how much I get done.

Background

Yay! I finished a background. I'm a bit behind schedule but this weekend is catch up weekend.

Storyboards

Here are my storyboards. They aer read from left to right. I only colored the first two because my short will be in full color and not black and white so I'm not quite so much worried about the shadows right now. As soon as get a background done, I'll post it so you can see the color palette.

Character Design

The bottom design is of Mimi the stuffed animal mouse who will ride the cat. Mimi will be animated as a cut-out character. The top is the kitty he will ride. The cat will be animated frame by frame.

Update

I'm working up on finishing the character designs and storyboards which will be up by Thursday.