All that paper, about 850 drawings in all, equals to about 2 minutes of animation that I have been working on. To say I got a little carried away with this project and have taken far too long on it would be a complete and utter understatement. Still, it's my first proper paid job for a client rather than a live project so I wanted to make it as good as I could, but let's just say I'm never inking every frame of an animation again, or least not for films any longer than 30 seconds. XD
The editing is done now and the film needs background art and colour yet before it's complete, so I won't be able to show you it for a little while yet but I can show you this seeing as it has no context to the story..
IT CAME FROM BELOW. An alien that was inspired from some chatter on DeviantArt and led to this picture. That was almost three years ago? Bloody hell.
Speaking of tons of paper (INCOMING RANT): why are A5 sketch pads so elusive? A5 is my preferred size for animation drawing. A4 would be ridiculous, and I can just take off a few cm from the top to get a 16:9 ratio. But other than once every one or two years for a limited time in the pound shops this size is nigh on impossible to get a hold of, whereas stupid sizes barely anyone uses like A1 are always in stock. At one point I ran out completely and had to wait for the collage shop to get any, of which they cost 4 times the price there. Bah!
In other news, I went up to London last Monday to see a Screening of that 'Lost in the K Hole' documentary I did a bit of animation for. Nice to see my scenes with sound now, and some quality voice acting. My bits opened up each of the three chapters of the film, so that was neat. Really pleased with the result considering it was all done in one (non-stop, sleepless) week. :)
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That is a mighty load of drawings, Gagaman! Congrats! I did roughly half of that (400 drawings) over a three month period and I almost wanted to gnaw my arms off!
You can check it out here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76JmMtZa7Mw
Wow, that was really neat Barry. I love seeing pencil drawings come to life, and I dug the Bomberman look alike amongst the robots! Was that filmed with a stop motion camera?
Thanks! We used a digital movie camera liked to a Mac running FrameThief (you can try a trial of it for free on their website). The camera was on an old-style film rig, which was also an option but I went with video to save on the $50 film processing fee.
There was actually a deleted scene showing the robot security room, complete with a few Badniks snuck into the background. :)
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