Hello All!

Sorry for the lack of posting! Especially following my last posting proclaiming that I would try to post more often.  Things have been hectic.  I have been hard at work trying to work on my portfolio.  I am pushing hard to get a staff job in feature film. 

That being said, I just finished animating a new test shot and I wanted to share some of the process.  I was looking for an audio clip with some punch to it.  My wife and I are secretly obsessed with the movie “Just Friends” (yes, you read that correctly).  Every time the movie is on TV, we are glued and laughing away.    I ended up buying the DVD and looking for a clip I found entertaining.  I then started to just listen.  Over and over. 

I can’t stress the importance of planning.  It was something that I learned at AnimationMentor.  It was stressed so much and the more I animate, the more I understand why they pushed the idea so much.   I don’t recommend doing your first animatic in 3D.  It’s too time consuming to see if it’s going to work.  Grab a pencil and paper (or in my case a Cintiq and Sketchbook Pro), and just thumbnail it out.  Nothing special.  Draw stick figures!  You just want to make sure the idea has potential before investing tons of time posing out characters and dealing with cameras, etc.   And without further adieu…my poorly drawn animatic: