Golan The Insatiable: Storyboard Test

Did the Golan The Insatiable storyboard test last year, but never uploaded it.

Learned a lot about Flash.

Happy Pi Day 2014

It's Pi Day!

Looking forward to the pecan!

Boucing Blob Test

Testing out a new animation program, yo!

Glyphs Of Sorrow

The short experimental film I worked on earlier this year was completed in May. I never really had the opportunity to upload it on here, so I figured I'd do it like a few days before the new year.

The title is Glyphs Of Sorrow and it premiered on the CSUF PMC Film Festival this year. I wanted to create something outside my comfort zone and tried to do something a little creepy I guess. I also wanted an excuse to work practice After Effects as well, so this was a perfect way to do so. I'm not going to re-upload images from earlier blog posts, but I will add tags to those posts so that if you click on the keyword at the bottom you can see some of my work-in-progress stuff.

My characters Nail, Jason, and Kacky make their cameo appearances in the glyphs. In the film, I only used 18 out of 20 glyphs: the first one would be the guy with 3 hairs (row 4 column 1) which was a character concept for a different film idea I wanted to do but had no time to; and the second one I just kinda forgot to use (row 2 column 4).

The above is an instructional image I sent out to people to help me come up with designs.

I got the reaction I wanted at the film festival and gave out bottle cap pins. Some days later I did a painting of the final scene of the film:

Looking back, I wished I could have asked some people to help me with my movie. I only had a month to really animate anything and I was pretty much a one man team. I had to cut out a lot of my ideas in order to meet the deadline, so that was a bummer. Regardless, I'd like to thank Katie Hardash, Rachel "Sailor Ember Phantom" Clark, and Marcus Lazore for all your help and support!

After Effects Blob Cycle

Here's an After Effects test I did to try to understand compositions and such:

Been working on my short "film" the last month. I'll definitely upload the final product on here when I'm done!

And with that said... May the Fourth be with you!

Idle Ghost Animation Test

Animated some g-g-g-GHOSTS!

Okay okay, maybe just one.

Ominous Face Lip Sync Test

Tested out my mouths by shamelessly using the audio from a boxed meal commercial and lip syncing over them. Learned that I was missing a proper "R" mouth, so I quickly made one.

And then I distorted the audio and added a simple effect.

It's alright for a test, yo!