Emma Character Design!

Here's Emma's character design! Yaaay! I like to think she's epically adorable. Once again, posted with some process work along with her.

Process:

Emma's Storm

"A great storm was approaching!!!"

This great storm is almost over. Two more environments to go, the field and the final location. What you see here is Emma's storm. Emma forgets to look ahead to where she's going, so she gets swept up in a collection of tornadoes and taken to a place without pop-ups.

You ever listen to Russian music? I know it sounds like a random question, but I've been listening to it for the past couple hours. It's pretty awesome; you should try it out.

Process:

Emma's Forest

*Sings* Another one bites the dust! Another one bites the dust!

Here's Emma's forest, the third location she comes across in her travels. The crazy thing about the forest is that it is kinda two locations in one, since she's moving through it and it transforms around her. Once again, posted with process work because I think that's awesome.

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Emma's Animatic

WHEW. So I finally have a "final" animatic. "Final" in the sense of- I've run out of time and this is the most I could do also taking into consideration that I'm behind in DFA and need to have that done as well.

For those of you who don't know, an 'animatic' is basically the layout for the animation that is to come. Since animation is so work/time/money intensive, the entire film is planned out in a rough hand-drawn version first to see if it works. It's easier and faster to change. So, basically, here's the plan for my thesis:

I appologize if Blogger is being difficult. The video doesn't seem to be playing smoothly. You may view it here as well.

At this point, I need to move on to finishing up DFA and starting the next project. However, I have some really awesome notes from my teachers and peers to improve it even further (this is always the case) and thankfully, if I choose to do "Emma's Flight" for my thesis, I will be granted an extra week at the end of the year to return to it and make it even better.

There is, of course, the summer as well to make changes, but I hear it's never a good idea to depend on your vacation time to improve your work. ~_^

Emma's City

*Crawls across screen panting* Sooo much work needs to be done by Monday. I got super sick and lost a lot of valuable time just a couple days ago. I've got to crank everything out in the next twenty-four hours. Here's Emma's city design, the location she starts out in.

Process:

This was the first draft work for the five locations in Emma's story. Insane, I know. They've changed since, obviously. Buts she starts in the city, goes to the field, then to the forest, gets swept away by a storm, and finally ends up where she wants to be.

Emma's Hot Air Balloon

MUWAHAHA! I finished Emma's hot air balloon- a prop for Emma's Hopes and Dreams. I'm pretty stoked about that (since it's due on Monday O_O). I'm going to post up my other work for the project too. Fun fun.

Here's the turnaround for the balloon:

And here's some process work that went along with it. Silhouettes are AWESOME.

Faucet

Faucet ~ (2006)