Lie City - Layout & Timing

I finished up layout for an animation that I'm working on. The layout was due for class two weeks ago, so that's what I've got so far. I plan on revising the layout a bit for a few of the scenes, based on notes from my professor. But overall, the layout stage is pretty close to being finished, and I plan on actually fully animating this at some point in the future.

Layout & Timing Progress

I've been working not only on my thesis this semester, but also on my Layout & Timing class. It has been a lot of fun, and very challenging so far. I haven't done storyboarding too much, so this has been a fun challenge for myself to start learning more about it and forcing myself to finally improve with perspective. I've boarded out 28 scenes, along with redoing them, so far, but I am in the process of narrowing them down closer to an 18 count.

Here's a preview of some of my shots. I'll get around to posting all of them once they're more refined though, eventually. Or I may just wait until the end to post the full animatic, we'll see!

This is my current Character Lineup.

And these are the individual rough model sheets that I worked on over the weekend.

Lie City Character Sketches

So I decided on my idea for my Layout & Timing class. I ended up doing some character sketches of the possible main characters for my short, so I could get an idea of their shapes and what their designs would be. I have a rough idea revolving around Cimc, Cimcicola, and Snuvy. The others will all be background characters, if even in it.

Cimc

Cimcicola

Snuvy

Cheato

Flak

Fuzzy

Layout & Timing Pitches

This week we pitched ideas in Layout & Timing class. The class seemed to be leaning towards the first idea, though I was torn between that one and the third one. So this weekend I'm planning to develop my first idea a bit more and probably go with that one. This is for our semester-long project.