Today I watched a few videos of seagulls in flight before making a super speedy frame-by-frame animation. My working process for simple frame by frame animation has become so much more streamlined during this project, by necessity. So much work, so little time. I put the animation behind the final title and put the musicContinue reading “Paddington: Finished?!”
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Paddington: Names
I did a few thumbnails in my sketchbook of fonts and line weighting, looking at what would work well with such a busy background. I think the white is good – you know where to look. Now the names are there, they sort of balance out some of the uneven compositions. It looks more finished.Continue reading “Paddington: Names”
Paddington – An End Is In Sight
I’ve been loath to make a new blog post for every little asset I complete, but do know that many hours of love and toil have gone into every second of progress I make. Today’s work was to create the “cheers!” asset, get that boiling, put some cute little fizz in their glasses, and makeContinue reading “Paddington – An End Is In Sight”
Paddington – Tom Kerridge Coloured
Doing this has made me realise two things: one, that I am an illustrator, not an animator – and two, when I animate, I can make it look pretty bloody good. Other things I’ve done is import that big pavilion background into the working file (with the four crops), and put these frames (but transparent)Continue reading “Paddington – Tom Kerridge Coloured”
Paddington – Tom Kerridge Shot
Today I woke up with fear in my heart, but after a morning of work I’m feeling good, loose, happy and I learned a lot! I learned how to manipulate video in Photoshop and to export as a series of images. This will be hugely useful to me with any frame by frame animation IContinue reading “Paddington – Tom Kerridge Shot”
Paddington – Mad Laddington
Cool for everyone witnessing this project thread to get to see my neurons die in real time as the words “Paddington Bear” weave themselves into my thoughts in any way they can. Prime examples are of me calling Roderick “Paderick Roddington”, me trying to say I had to blog paddington but instead trying to “PlagContinue reading “Paddington – Mad Laddington”
Paddington – File Format Problem Solving
Today I threw random media into Premiere Pro and exported it in the Apple Pro Res 422 HQ format. I got the sense as I did this that I had been prepared somewhat for this by previous experience – that awful day where my videos got exported in Virtual Reality for NO REASON did, admittedly,Continue reading “Paddington – File Format Problem Solving”
Paddington – Sweet Lord, I Got Chosen
Roderick told me yesterday that my submission was one of the three picked to go forward. THIS IS NOT A DRILL. But now to business. Today, I went to uni in the hopes of gathering as much information and help as I could before term ended. I had a fantastic conversation with Roderick, who wasContinue reading “Paddington – Sweet Lord, I Got Chosen”
Paddington – Storyboards
I suppose I post this with the caveat that if I end up signing an NDA, I’ll have to come back here and take my paddington content down. But with things as they stand, I want to keep a project thread, and so will post my storyboards. I had fun making this, which is whatContinue reading “Paddington – Storyboards”
Paddington – Meeting with Roderick 2
Roderick was excited by the video! This is interesting progress with me, as although I haven’t wrested complete control over my creative practice, I can now look at something I’ve made and tell if it has that mysterious magic. I’ll call it flooby magic. At a talk today, I felt that familiar feeling of beingContinue reading “Paddington – Meeting with Roderick 2”
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