The Ugly Dinosaur Production: FINISHED

This week we finally finished up The Ugly Dinosaur production. It's been a very crazy week and a lot of us have been working nonstop. Jinny and I had spent a good four or five nights straight in our common area and the animation labs working on it, only sneaking in a few short naps as breaks. But now it is all over, and we've got a nice animated short, so check it out:

I basically spent all week compiling all of the videos together and importing everyone's work into the individual scenes. It was very frustrating at times, but overall it was worth it. Now that this project is completed, I look forward to whatever comes in our next Design for Media project. I've got a whole lot of other final projects starting up now in all of my other classes, so I will be pretty busy until mid-December.

That is all for now! The earliest I will have anything non-Design for Media related up will probably be around Thanksgiving or mid-December, so I apologize for that.

Ugly Dinosaur Production: Coming to a Close

So this is our last week working on The Ugly Dinosaur Production. Our production will be done this Thursday, so now we are basically wrapping everything up and putting things together. It has been an extremely busy week, so I have been working on it a whole lot to help finish things up.

Clean-up:

This week I worked on some of the clean-up for Oscar. I only did the basic lines for the majority of these, but I started on some coloring for two of the scenes. Vincent did these original roughs, while Blair finished up the clean-up on the rest of the scenes of Oscar in Scene 3 while I worked on other parts of the project.

As the Pipeline Director, I updated our Youtube page, Facebook group, and Dropbox. I've put all of the Harmony project files onto our team flashdrive and sorted through them to place them in order. The majority of this week was spent compiling everything together. Although I have not yet uploaded any of the files online, I have been working on putting everyone's files together within the scenes. I have been sorting through all files, putting them in order, and exporting them. I found which parts of the scenes were missing and assigned roles to those who needed to fix them.

Ugly Dinosaur Production: Well On Its Way

We're nearing the end of The Ugly Dinosaur Production and things are starting to come together. We've got about a week left.

Rough:

Clean-Up:

I animated all of the roughs for the Torvosauruses in Scene 4. I also did the clean-up of Dip in Scene 3 (roughs originally done by Izzy Kertis).

As the Pipeline Director, I updated our group blog, Youtube page, Facebook group, and Dropbox. I've put all of the Harmony project files onto our team flashdrive.

Starting into Animating

So this week we started animating for The Ugly Dinosaur Production. Since I am one of the general animators, I was assigned to do some of the roughs and went ahead and cleaned up part of it.

Roughs:

Clean-Up:

I animated the roughs for the Compsognathus in scene 1, and I animated the roughs for Doop in scene 3. I also did some clean-up work on Doop in scene 3, although that part is not completely finished.

Other than animating this week, I also have been updating the Dropbox account. Jinny also bought us a Team Flashdrive, which I keep and upload our project files onto as a back-up.

I have also been helping Hillary update the Youtube page. We've been updating all of the progress files into a playlist called WIP Animations.

The Ugly Dinosaur: Finishing up Pre-Production Work

This week I've been pretty busy with my team's Ugly Dinosaur Project. Here's basically what I did this week:

Animatics:

(If you cannot view Scene 2, click here)

I put together the Animatics for Scenes 2 - 5. I only drew the storyboards for scenes 3 and 5, but I timed out all 4 of those scenes. Hillary put together scene 1 and combined all of them into the final animatic, which can be found on our Youtube page.

I also updated our Youtube page a bit. I added a Production Playlist, which includes all of the videos created for our project. I also added a Crew List of links to our Members' Youtube pages on the right side of the page.

As the Pipeline Director, I've been continually updating our Dropbox account. As I receive files, I  upload them to the specific folders.  This provides for easy access to all of our files among our group members.

Thumbnailing:

Since I am one of the general animators, my job was to do some basic thumbnailing for some of the characters. Jinny suggested experimenting with the Torvosauruses and Dot's parents, since they were not assigned any specific members to animate yet.

Practice Sketches:

And as always, I have been practicing drawing the characters. Since Vincent finalized the model sheets earlier in the week, I was finally able to experiment drawing the characters in the finalized style.

The Ugly Dinosaur: Project Launch

So this week in Design for Media, our class was split into three groups. Each group is working on a different project. So I get to work on Jinny and Laura's idea, The Ugly Dinosaur. I have been assigned the jobs of: Storyboard artist, Animator, Clean-up Artist, and Pipeline Director. So here's what I have so far:

Storyboards:

Scene 3 Thumbnails

Scene  5 Thumbnails

Practice Sketches:

These are basic concept sketches so that I could get an idea on how to draw the characters. I'm mostly trying to get in the habit and get used to drawing them. I also did an overhead view of the scene I was working on, so that I could get a better sense of space for the storyboards.

Since I am also the Pipeline Director, I created a Dropbox account for the group so that we could all upload our files there.