Arne Get's a New Look

In an Older Post I revealed some photos of Arne the armature's birth. Well as of yesterday, he has hit puberty. Puberty hit back, and the results are terrifyingly awkward.



Here's a shot of old Arne(or maybe it's young Arne)



I then drew over this image in photoshop to imagine how he might fill out.



Arne in all his tangled glory.



I also stuffed his naughty bits with clay to hide the yellowish epoxy.



Currently listening to Eclectic Electric by Primus

Jippidy

I shot my first video for Jippidy, this new company I've been working for. We had a party at Pisco, this lounge in SF. I filmed the festivities and made this ad for Jippidy's website. You can watch the Video I made here.

The Next Test

No matter what I try my animation keeps trying to get away from me. It's like I intimidate him or something.



This test is the same technique as the last one, only the paper is moving away and keeping the character in the same place. Half of the animation was traced backwards to complete the loop. I know I'm a dirty cheater.

Twisted Metal

The Birth of the armature. This is a wire Armature that is going to remain naked for most of the film. So I'm trying to keep him looking simple.



Twisting Wire.



Finished body



Setting epoxy in small paper molds.



completed.



I need to try to shave down the epoxy and try to get rid of the paper. Besides that he's ready for movement!

Testing, Testing...1...2

So I've been working on a run cycle for the past few weeks. In 2d, I'm definitely less comfortable animating, But after a couple tries I've got something I'm proud of.



I really needed to get a cycle done so I could do this. My first test with the 2d boxboy running in his natural habitat.



In this test, I retraced the run cycle over multiple pieces of paper which are replaced frame by frame. The pieces of paper are moving around a lot right now. for my next test, I need to control the paper more. so the it's movement is a result of boxboy running across it rather than a result of my animating.

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The Cleaning (dripping title)

Neil is going to enter The Cleaning into another festival. So Jake and I gave it a spanky new title sequence. No you can't see the film! but here is the title for ya!