Okay so I’m hauling my way through my archives for pre-production stuff, and I found this dude, The Bandit, who I really love and I’m very sorry wasn’t in SKIP but them’s the breaks.
He was in one of the original versions of the film, and in the more refined storyboard for quite a long time- so, yeah, here’s the version that didn’t make it! The gag was that, since Arthur is a black and white movie character, the bandit would freak out and think he was a ghost.
Of course, people didn’t get the joke with a colourless storyboard…
I do think it would have worked in the end, but I’m much happier with the ending it has now for a multitude of reasons, and animating that shawl would have been a real killer. Anyway, thought you might like to see some of the process :)
Oh and here’s a little bonus early colour theory for the film as a whole-
Oh and while we’re at it, here’s a lipsync exercise we did using Noodles (basically putting this up because it’s better than the other one ahahahaha ah haa… ha).
Character, background and audio file provided by VFS.
I mentioned this animation exercise that I did at VFS in the stream and yeah okay here you go :)
The character, Noodles, and the background were provided by the school. The task was to animate him notice the bulb is dead, change it, then leave the room when someone calls him on the speaker. We didn’t get given the soundclip in the end so that’s why he falls off the chair ahahaha yep 8T
I finally tried animating in the streets of Vancouver. I was not easy to animate someone’s gesture that quickly. I´m usually too slow to capture a someone’s action in just one drawing, let alone animating one.
Animating with newsprint without a light table is a huge challenge, specially for registration of every drawing. Luckily I´m far more comfortable at flipping ;) I played the timing a little on this one. It is still super limited animation, nevertheless a good excercise.
Dude you animated this on the street? Man you are badass.
Also yeah this lad is my bro. He’s pretty cool. Just fyi you lot that stalk me.
So this film I’m working on has elephants as the main characters right? And it’s hard to film acting reference for that on all fours like a proper quadruped.
So
one of the other animators
built stilts for our arms
and made a trunk using part of a gas mask, elastic and a slinky.
Apparently he wants to add in a wrist joint for the stilts to be more realistic.
We’re building the world’s most ghetto quadsuit and no one here even knows what that is.
And we’re all walking around the halls wearing these stilts and the trunk and we’re gonna use them as reference tools. I swear if this doesn’t end up on the DVD somewhere I’m gonna flip a shit because
