Added a few more pages to my website with the sketch work i have done and some fan art, may do a few more bits and bobs of fan art to fill that up a little.

Here's the link to my site:

http://helectramahbouby.moonfruit.com/

Final Showreel

This is my final show reel, changed title credits so it had my name an what i done in main focus, and people who helped below my name. Thnx to lucy who pointed this out. If i manage to get hold of the hayle project i may add that in as well and maybe a few more character designs.

Site

Added a few more bits and bobs to my site, a contact sheet, a cv link where people can download my Cv (which i deleted my personal information because you dont know who will be looking at it), also added a bit for my show reel on my main home page so now it dont look so empty. I may scan in a few of my life drawings as well and add them on.

Show reel part 2

I added all the coloring work i did for steph into my show reel, i also added a couple more character designs, im going to add a few more, maybe have some variety with it, using different styles.

Show reel so far

In this show reel i have put in the animation i colored in, only used a few scenes so far, i may put the rest in as well and maybe cut down the stag scene as well. I will also be working on character designs to put into the show reel as well. I may also look into previous work and see if i can use any of it.

More buisness card ideas

did a few more buiness card ideas, once using illustrator and other using my character i created for my website using photoshop. Im going to think of more ideas at home hopefully and create a few more ideas into photoshop etc so i have a wide variety to choose from.

I managed to get my Cv done as well, im going to talk with andy and hopefully ill start my show reel.

Final Website

Finally found a design i liked, i may go back if i have the time and edit the tree etc, but i dont want the background to be to detailed, like i said before i want something basic, nothing to flashy and this includes my background design. Im going to work on character designs etc and fill up my art work page.

Website in progress...character

My website now has a character, planning on adding a bit more detail to the contact sheet and home page, and maybe some of the others, looking rather dull at the moment, i might design a whole new background for my website.

Buisness Card Ideas

Here are a few buisness card ideas, to get myself going, did a few with some of my own character designs and another using what i knew about illustrator, im going to do a few more on illustrator and maybe one more with my own character.

Rail way man Finished!!

Finished this scene, think it looks alright, had to change the layers a bit so the tall young man's layer was above the old man's. No problems, no crashing programme or computer.

Rail way man part 3

Got a bit more done today, squirall is a fidderly, have to had the extra detail etc, but its not to bad, should have it done soon :D

Rail way man part 2

I was given a scene to finish off, which was currrently been colored by our secound year chloe, the last few scenes are quite short, so it shouldnt take me that long to finish it. No problems with this scene except from delete unwanted bits and finding out which layer to use and renaming colors so i know which color goes where.

Profession Practice-website in progress

I started this website over the weekend, just to i can get the basic layout done and sorted out the colors i wants etc. This is what i got so far. Its very blank at the moment, im going to think up ideas of what to put the main home page and also to add to other pages to make them more interesting, i want a basic website, nothing to fancy. My first initial idea was to create a cartoon character of myself and put her in different persitions for each page, another idea would be put a small basic decoration down the side of each page, i will draw these out and keep updating the website till i am happy with it. I am also going to create more of my own character and create more human characters and try out different styles to get a bit of diversity in there.

Stag with a Background!

I got assigned a new job, I composited a background into the stag scene. Problems i came across was getting to grips with persitioning the different layers, Bring forward and back the layers and making sure things fit right, but from a lot of help from steph and alot of fidderling about and closing the page and restarting i managed to get to grips with what to do.

EDIT:



Background was edited and now had a full background done by harriet, i then when back to the animation and composited it all together, i also had to move the tree forward because the antlers in the stag didnt look stuck in the tree in some parts, but by doing this the tree moved around and looked like it was floating, so i had to delete the tree layer and re-do it, this didnt take to long and was a lot quicker then if i tried to move all the single layers to fit each other. Then the grass didnt quite fit and i had to adjust the grass so it would fit but then the grass moved in the scene so i deleted the grass layer and placed it again and made sure it didnt move. Then once i thought everything was sorted out and i rendered out the movie, steph noticed some blank bits where the background didnt quite reach the edges, this was mostly round the camera pan, so i went back and adjusted that and i learnt something new which will proberly help me in the future, steph told me if i turned off the page on the tool bar with the yellow circle nothing should move if i adjusted it.

Rail way man Final

Finally got this one small scene done, with added shadow. Was a bit difficult trying to stop the shadow from moving, but the animation was a bit jittery, but it wasnt to much of a problem. Eventually decided to but a thick line instead of adding a bit more, as this seemed to caused problems and i had to start over.

Rail way man

This is what i got so far, its just the basic block, i am using the same teqniquie as before, where i use the fill bucket and use the button apply to multiple scenes. The only problems i came across was there was gaps in the lines so i had to use the close gap tool so i could fill the color in,k at first i was filling in all the gaps which seem to take up a bit of time so i decided to fill in the color and where it didnt fill in, i would close the gaps where needed, this was much easier and quicker. Another small problem i came across was where i colored in animation and the previous bits on animation i colored would change for instance the face turning grey or the jacket going white, so i went over the animation and filled them in using the right colors for them.

Work Update

This is the final Stag scene, fully colored etc, it took awhile having to always tidy up the coloring, making sure it looked neat and tidy. It took longer then usal as well due to the programme crashing quite a bit.



This was a easy short scene to get done. Plus Andy showed me a better way and quicker way of coloring in on toon boom. using a fill paint bucket and converting the orginal line to Line art, which get the color right up to the edges, this can fill in all the scenes and i just have to touch up the areas it sometimes misses either due to movement etc. Then once the block color has been done i can hand draw the shadow on the hair, clothing etc. I used this on the girl shaking her head.

This has made coloring animation much quicker and much neater.

You know when you've been Tango-ed

Day: 1

Almost finished a secound scene, this has been easier to do minus being a larger scene and a bit longer then the last, its easier to color due to the little movement. Ran into a few problems where Toon boom Threw up a error when i tried to save my work, so had to close the programme and lose so much work, this set me back a little. i don't know if this is due to the licencing playing up before or just the programme just playing up. Any this is the last 2 days work. The secound day i spent most the day tidying up the previous animation, due to the camera being close up you could see every little mistake.

Day: 2

Hallilua!!

finally finished the epically long scene! Quite happy this is done and out the way, although this would of been done last week if it wasnt for the power failer then liceneces not working and not getting sorted properly, at least its done and out the way now and i can start a fresh scene :D

Finally!!

Well after a few days with no work due to licencing being down since last thursday, i havnt been able to do much work, but luckly it was fixed this afternoon. I almost finished this scene completly, hoping to finish by 2mz and start a new scene.