My animation is set in an unoccupied room, in as well as unknown location, owned by an unknown organisation. The room itself is completely unoccupied apart from my characters as well as the holographic objects placed in the room by my characters unknown observers. Creating the backgrounds is one of the last things I am doing in my animation, as well as now that I have finished the lip syncing as well as character animation its time to turn my attention towards my characters surroundings.

The Image above shows the progression of the very simple background build. That comprises of three layers, the plain white background, the actual light grey walled background as well as ultimately a gradient layer made in Photoshop as well as saved as a transparent PNG. In the image above, you can see how this non-Flash based Gradient effect really helps lift the characters from the background, as well as also softens the background layer helping build a perceptive.Read more >>>

Rodney “The Slacker” as well as Steve “The Normal Guy” Mini Cardboard Cutout Mock-ups

Steve “The Normal Guy” Mini Cardboard Cutout Mock-up
The rather low quality photographs (dam lighting) above, show two quick mock-ups I created, to test out material on behalf of the cardboard cut-outs I am planning on making on behalf of the my display at the Final Major Project Show. The two mini cut-outs created here are made from corrugated cardboard (Rodney) as well as mount board (Steve), with the image stuck on using Sticker paper. The character images I used to create them are of two of my early animation builds, with Steve “The Normal Guy” still having one of his early horn colouration designs (current design has completely dark Grey horns, rather than just dark Grey tips, shown here, which made him look like a red Pikachu).

Halo 3 Mythic Map Pack Trailer
This rather obscure piece of design research is a trailer on behalf of some new multiplayer maps on behalf of the Xbox 360 game Halo 3, made by Bungie Studios. The trailer itself may not look stylistically great, with its “copy as well as paste” mash-up appearance, which was done deliberately to mock shopping channel style advertisements. Which gives the trailer a great sense of self mocking humor.
What I really liked about this is  its utilize of sound effects. Soon I shall require to start concidering how I create as well as edit in the sound effects on behalf of my animation. Althought I do not personally desire to take this “Cheesy” sound effects route, this trailer is a good as well as fun exsample of one done well. Using comical as well as cheesy sound effects as well as voice acting to help set the pace as well as contiune to develope the low budget advertisment spoof.<

Experimental Cup Holder: Epsiode One - Cake
Midway Render
Above it a low quality render (made twice as low quality by YouTube), of my Web Series pilot animation, Experimental Cup Holder: Epsiode One - Cake. Here it shows how far I have got, at the end of having started it just over a week ago, reaching the midway section of my script.
This first half shown above, is still also far from completed, some of the animation needs tweaking (especially on behalf of The Slacker, Rodney), the opening titles still require to be designed, sound effects require to be added as well as none at all of the backgrounds have yet to be drawn. In addition some of the audio needs cleaning up, especially the computer voice.

General Frag - Facial Mock-ups 
The Images above show some of my facial expression experimentation I have been doing while starting to animate “Experimental Cup Holder: Episode One - Cake”.   These are based on some of the rough concept art sketches I have been doing, as well as are to help me with my lip-syncing as well as expression as I animate, using them as templates.
I have only made these templates on behalf of General Frag as well as Ottar (its meant to be spelt with a A), because of the fact that they are two of the an estimated all seen as well as expressionable characters.
Note: “Experimental Cup Holder: Episode One - Cake”, is the name I have decided to stick with on behalf of the time being on behalf of my web series as It only only stands out, but is also plays on the series random as well as exsperimental nature as well as story.  Read more >>>