I hit a hard rock a while back. Color scheme and overall look. I went for a mechanical approach and tried to borrow from life. It took a REAL long time to finish a background. I took a week off to practice coloring and learning about cartoon backgrounds, and now I feel more loose and spirited.
The new stuff I colored has a lot more mood and tone to it. It doesn’t look as flat. And, it’s faster to make.
A lot of new developments. The project is now focused on making a clean version of the trailer. The trailer itself will determine the overall look of the film.
Sequences worked on
(animating) -
(art assets) – 10-00, 07-01, 06-12
(assist) -
Hours : 6 hours
worked out? : 20 minute walk
regular work? : Yes - (6:30 to 9:30)
food? : TV dinner, balogna sandwich, peanut butter sandwich
16 points
Sequences worked on
(animating) -
(art assets) – 06-00, 05-02, 05-03, 06-23
(assist) -
Hours : 8 hours
worked out? : no
regular work? : No
food? : cereal breakfast, balogna sangwich, chicken and cole slaw
Art : 22 points
Sequences worked on
(animating) -
(art assets) – 04-All; 05-All
(assist) -
Hours : 2 hours and a half
worked out? : no
regular work? : no
food? : Chicken
Total points : 54 art points
Sequences worked on
(animating) -
(art assets) – 04-06
(assist) -
Hours : 2 hours
worked out? : no
regular work? : yes (6:30 to 9:30)
food? : Yes. 10 lbs baked chicken
8 points
Sequences worked on
(animating) -
(art assets) – 02-ALL; 13-ALL; 07
(assist) -
Hours : 6 hours 15 minutes
worked out? : no
regular work? : no
food? : beef mac and cheese, american ‘steak’ and mac-salad.
June Count
Art 803/1620
Animation 197/1620
New Count
Art 803/1620 + 106 = 909/1620
Milestones
-Animated a complete sequence
-Figuring out the color style and animation
-Created a system to gauge the size of the project
-Weekly backups turning this project into almost 15 gbs
-Laid out a foundation of placeholder files in preparation of art and color
The Month of May
I discovered that I typically average about 4 hours a day working on this project. I am also discovering that the more time I spend just worrying about 2 seconds of animation, the less of a gain it’ll receive. A reminder; It’s more important to have something physical and just created rather than having something perfect from the start.
Score
This score is calculated from the month of May 21st to June 1st.
Art 277/1620 + 526 = 803/1620
Animation - 119/1620 + 87 = 197/1620 
Sequences worked on
(animating) – 11-09b, 09-00a, 09-00b, 09-00c, 09-00c, 09-00d
(art assets) -
(assist) -
Hours : 2 hours 30 minutes
worked out? : No
regular work? : No
food? : Popeye’s breakfast, balogna hoagie dinner
Sequences worked on :
(animating) -
(art assets) – 02-00, 02-01, 03-00, 03-01; 06-ALL
(assist) -
Hours : 2 hours 30 minutes
worked out? : No
regular work? : No
food? : Hot dogs, Lean cruisine sandwich
106 points
Morning Score
Art 546/1620
Animation 119/1620
New Score
Art 546/1620 + 106 = 652
Animation 119/1620
Color examples. The top one with the various thumbnails is what I am using to reinforce the idea of strong colors and silhouettes for characters behind texture-faded backgrounds.
The image with the Castle is how I want the Intro chapter to look like, but I’m still working on it.
The bottom one with the purple cat is how the overall film will look like. Black outline characters in front of vector-ish backgrounds. Influenced by Samurai Jack, LoZ : Windwaker, and Chowder. Bright colors, textures, and brush strokes will achieve that effect.
Sequences worked on
(animating) -
(art assets) – 09-ALL; 11-05 to 11-08; 03-00 to 04-06; 03-00 to 03-03; 01-00 to 01-02; 06-ALL; 07-ALL
(assist) -
Hours : 3 hours 30 minutes
worked out? : no
regular work? : yes (6 to midnight)
food? : spam breakfast,
Morning Score
Art 362/1620
Animation 119/1620
New Score
Art 362/1620 + 184 = 546/1620
Animation 119/1620
Sequences worked on :
(animating) -
(art assets) - random
(assist) -
Hours : 4 hours
worked out? : No
regular work? : Yes – 6 to 10
food? : Chicken bits breakfast, lean cuisine dinner, lots of fruit
MORNING COUNT
Art 277/1620
Animation 119/1620
END COUNT
Art 277/1620 + 85 = 362/1620
Animation 119/1620
Sequences worked on :
(animating) -
(art assets) – 08-00, 08-01
(assist) -
Hours : 4 and a half hours
worked out? : No
regular work? : Yes. 6 to 9:30
food? : Chicken Breakfast + chicken dinner, with fruit dessert
For anybody that’s interested, I made a layout sheet of all the work that’s ahead of me. I broken my 28 minute film into various pieces to organize my animation.
28 minute film; broken into
13 Chapters (each lasting about 1 to 3 minutes); broken into
324 Sequences (each lasting about 5 to 20 seconds);
broken into A LOT OF THINGS TO DO.
Here’s how I organized them.
I broke it up into categories such as sketch and color for the ARTWORK files. I also broke it into categories for the ANIMATION files.
Also note the little tick boxes. I tick it off when it’s complete. There is a total of 22 of these sheets (11 for Art, 11 for Animation)
I have concluded that there are 1620 tick boxes for each department. (I don’t count the last category. So 5 * 324 Sequences)
So like an RPG, I’ll get stronger every time I tick a box! Except instead of fighting monsters, I’m drawing and coloring.
I’ll start including the tickbox countdown in the blog.
-MikaUpdates team
Doing organization of assets. Creating major outline list.
Printed out a PDF of all the data. 11 pages of things to check for.
Hours : 8 hours
worked out? : No
regular work? : Nope
food? : Buffalo wing breakfast, Popeyes Dinner
Sequences worked on :
(animating) - 07-00a, 07-00b, 07-00c; 05-07f
(art assets) - Fixing 11-09 psd files, creating 11-09b2
(assist) -
Hours : 4 hours 30 minutes
worked out? : no
regular work? : no
food? : chicken shrimp stirfry with rice, eggrolls (and special eggrolls with avocado)
Sequences worked on :
(animating) – all of 04-05
(art assets) -
(assist) -
Hours : 3 hours
worked out? : no
regular work? : Yes – 6:30 to 10
food? : Rice, chicken and broccoli
Sequences worked on
(animating) – 05-04 entire
(art assets) - none
(assist) - none
Hours : 4 hours
worked out? : no
work? : no
food? : cereal breakfast; sausage, egg, and fried rice; macaroni salad
BONUS :
Sequences worked on
(animating) – 05-06c, 05-06d, 05-06e
(art assets) -
(assist) -
Hours : 2 hours 45 minutes
worked out? : Maybe?
regular work? : Yes. –6:30 to 12:15
food? : Mac and Beef + Mac Salad
Sequences worked on
(animating) – 05-06a, 05-06b
(art assets) -
(assist) -
Hours : 4 hours
worked out? : Yes
regular work? : Yes (6:30pm – 10pm)
food? : Macaroni salad, popeye’s breakfast, eggs
Sequences worked on
(animating) – 11-09b, 09-00a, 09-00b, 09-00c, 09-00c, 09-00d
(art assets) -
(assist) -
Hours : 2 hours 30 minutes
worked out? : No
regular work? : No
food? : Popeye’s breakfast, balogna hoagie dinner
Sequences worked on
(animating) - none
(art assets) - none
(assist) – Classy Book, Mika Poster
Hours : 2 hours
worked out? : No
regular work? : No
food? : Pizza breakfast, Chuck E cheese pizza, Popeye’s dinner
Sequences worked on
(animating) – 11-09 section
(art assets) – Floating Island (side)
(assist) -
Hours : 2 hours
worked out? : No
regular work? : Yes. 5:30 – 9:30
food? : Balogna 1 foot sub and Pizza
Sequences worked on
(animating) - None
(art assets) - Colored 04-05a, 04-05b/Colored 11-00b, 11-00c, 11-00d, 11-00e
(assist) - None
Hours : 2 hours, 20 minutes
worked out? : No
regular work? : Yes. 2:30pm – 12:30am
food? : Bacon Burger (thanks Linda), Spare Rib tip heart attack dinner
Sequences worked on
(animating) - none
(art assets) – 11-09a, 11-09b, 11-09c
(assist) - non
Hours : 3 hours 15 minutes
worked out? : no
regular work? : No, Banquet 4pm – 1am
food? : Curry breakfast, Panini lunch, buffet-style dinner
Sequences worked on :
(animating) - None
(art assets) – 04-05e, 11-00a, 11-00b, 11-00c, 11-00d, 11-00e
(assist) – MikasRoom_angle, EndofTheWorld (Large), EndofTheWorld (House),
Hours : 5 hours 15 minutes
worked out? : Yes
regular work? : Yes – 6:30 to 9:30
food? : Curry breakfast, Pizza and Panini
