A walk in the dark

Now we are close to the end, just two months more or less and we meet the deadline. I can't lie, I am quite scared, despite we are way ahead in schedule, I feel like I am not ready to move forward...everything has been scheduled for 9 months, what will happen afterwards? All the people I met here will go away and university will be pretty much over. It is exciting in a way but on the other, it is terrifying.

All I can do is work hard, the hardest and as usual hope for the best and prepare for the worst.

I have been quite busy in the last weeks, doing loads of clean ups. We are pretty much done at this point, so I will move to shadows and coloring. I bloody hate cleaning up at this point!

here's an example. Animation by Luke O'Sullivan. 

have done some designs for Falling in Love, here are some

and for Alphabet Patch

for the game I am working on, I started the 3d model of the highwayman, Aaron Donlon fixed all the mistakes I did.

and in my freetime I have been doodling a lot

my brother

me

shady university

and last but not least, I have been doing fishes on my sketchbook all week, so it seems appropriate to do a big drawing like back in the days with all the animals i designed

Design new website

ARGH

I got so many things to worry about and now in addition I need to make a website for me. I do not have much experience in these kind of things, I hope I will manage in time: I am ahead of course work but I am super far behind in website, cv and I also need to make a twitter account!

ARGH

I wish all i had to do was drawing and directing :'(
One day Jack, one day


i have been doing more clean ups and drawings in the meanwhile, I'll post here some of em

Animation by James White and Sophie Rippington, clean up by me

Some design for the game I am working on

and two random ones

Cleaning is an hell of an awful job

I apologise for haven't posted anything in ages.
I have been quite busy (as usual) doing clean ups for my animation, Falling in Love. As some of you know, clean up consists in taking the keys the animator assigned did and re trace them with a cleaner line. Lots of animators are working at the moment which is great, but the only draw back is that not everyone is super neat in their line art or character proportions, so it is often up to me to fix the final animation, which is painfully tedious.

Both animations have been done by Sophie Rippington

Clean ups by me

On a side note I started working towards my future: together with two friends of mine we are starting a business next year, and hopefull we will be making videogames. It is still far from reality, but we are getting closer with finding the initial fundings and help from experts. We pinned down the kind of game we want to do and I am currently working on the art, while Ben Goldman is taking care of most of the producing and Aaron Donlon is starting some 3d.

It is exciting and scary at the same time, thinking this might be the first step of my future.

I can't post all the things I have been done, but boy it is fun :3

Omg my body hurts pls help

Man this two week has been heavy.
Saying that I am dead tired is an understatement.
Me and Sophie Rippington finished the animatic, added the scratch sound and all the frames: it came out about 4 minutes. The tutors seemed a little worried for the lenght but my lead animator James White said we might be able to finish it by March. Now, in terms of animation he knows a lot more than I do, so I am quite happy with that. Apparently the movie is quite long but it's not animation heavy as it might seem: James suggested we should over animate the whole thing, making it look A-mazing.
I said ok let's do it.
Some second years approached us asking to work on the project: so far we got two extra animators and one character/enviroment designer. I am trying to keep the group relatively short so that the style might remain consistent and it is definitey easier to produce.

I have been busy working on Salomone turnaround and the animatic's pictures (about 200)

Here you can see the guide to how to draw his dumb face properly

Once everything was done I worked on a color chart for the movie, I used a Pixar book about color charts (couldn't go more specific than that) as reference.

Let's not forget the silly promotional posters I did for advertising Falling in Love!

Other people are currently working trying to get the style right and doing animation shots. I am quite excited and looking forward to see them!

I also drew an imp while Sophie was working super hard

Falling in love: a romantic black comedy

I pitched my 3rd year idea and it went through! I am so happy that I will be able to develop it with a team of animators!

Falling in Love is a romantic black comedy that revolves around suicide. Our main protagonist, Salomone lives in Italy around the 1990 and he is living a sad existence: his daily routine is dull, his life colorless and plain. After gathering courage he decides he wants to kill himself

Unluckily/luckily for him, life has a stronger grip on him than the knot around his neck: Salomone's suicides attempts always fail ending up only hurting him.

Jumping in front of trains, running into buildings on fire, leaping off bridges, overdosing on viagra, Salomone just can't kill himself! He desperatly tries to end his misery until he notices Maria in a flower shop while eating poisonous flowers.

Maria is a young woman in mourning whose face is signed by many tears. Salomone forgets about killing himself for a minute, until the flowers kicks in and makes him pass out.

Back to his apartment, Salomone is sadder than before and demotivated. He decides to jump from the roof of the building where he lives for a certain demise.

He rushes upstairs and is about to jump, until he stops to look at the gorgeous sunset on the sea.

The sweet breeze calms his nerves and the wind blows the surrounding trees creating a delightful sweet synphony. Salomone smiles...maybe it's worth living another day...

he is about to leave when he sees Maria on the bulding in front of his: he tries to catch her attention waving like a madman, but the girl completely ignores him and jumps. Salomone jumps after her, without even thinking.

Salomone speeds toward her trying to grab her hand: Maria face is covered with tears. When Salomone reaches her he imagine how life could have been together.

Maria looks up and sees Salomone's face: despite the situation he seems happy. She is confused at first but smiles back and hugs him harder.

The two of them speeds down, swirling like in a dance, until they hit the floor and die after the fell in love

So far my team can count

Leonie Isaacs as producer

James White as lead animator

Leigh Juggins

Annah Bohac as animators

Dan Bowhay as Sound technician

Rob Owen as special effects guy

Sophie Rippington as script helper and background colorist

We'll probably need some more animators and background artists, but so far we are hella good 

William Tell: the apple shooting

It took a long time but i can safely say that I am satisfied of my first cartoon on toon boom. There are many bits that I would have improved, such as the part where he raises the bow and the one where he is about shoot.
I have to thank Mr Felstead for helping me and sending me the video tutorial

Let's not forget that I had to re do all the design of the character because I screw up badly with the style of the author and I had to learn to paint in a different style without outlines.

Merry christmas to me

As you can see all the character look pretty much the same, only painted differently, except William who was drawn less cartoony (too bad I really liked him)

It was a pain considering I had to re do everything during Christmas holidays, but it definitely payed off considering I got an excellent grade!

Worst part definitely was having a stomach flu while working and throwing up every 5 minutes, but other than that, it was a great Christmas

Claws of concern

I really enjoy drawing animals, so i decided to do some character design for the third year animation Claws of Concern, a very cool stylish animation. I had to draw a bear, a salmon and a whale, and i really liked it.

the protagonist, the bear

The salmon, all in its majesty

The whale, saviour of the other two

Also i started doing backgrounds for Long way down, another funny animation of the third years.

Yup, that it. A skyscraper...