Please Welcome Jasmine!

Today marks the end of my first week here at Smiley Guys! So far I've brainstormed some ideas and created an outline for my short. Or what I hope counts as an outline. Making a 30-second film doesn't sound like a lot but in actuality, it will take a lot of time. When I was writing my outline I had to keep reminding myself not to add too much detail because a 30-second idea can quickly spiral into a 30-minute idea if I'm not careful.  Currently, I'm waiting to get my outline back and make some changes as well as starting on my production schedule.

A few notes about my first week:

1. The guy who sits beside me (I think his name is Christian, or Christopher or something with Chris in it) has a salad every day for lunch and it smells really good and inspired me to order a salad last night when I went out for dinner. My digestive tract thanks you. 
2. Apparently, Lisa knows CPR which is cool.
3. Someone who sits in front of me and to the left has some really awesome funko pops on her desk
4. I suck at remembering names

All in all this week has been amazing. I can't wait to see where this goes! - Jasmine

Bendix Says Farvel!

Halløj I kabyssen!

I was allowed to sneak in one last blogpost before I end my internship! I'm terrible at goodbyes so instead I will say: see you all later. Thank you so much to everyone at Smiley Guy for the best internship I could ever have hoped for. These past three months just flew by. I learned so much in terms of animation, concept art and about myself, I felt extremely welcome and it's just been an awesome experience overall. I will leave you all with a bunch of small drawings instead of a single comic. I tried to draw everyone, but if I've accidentally missed someone I'm really sorry! 

Oh and one last thing: Cherry and I finally broke down our language/country barrier

I'll see you all again and hopefully sooner rather than later!

- Bendix

Callie is Sleepy!

This week has been so busy at school and I'm really super tired. Falling asleep at my desk sort of tired and being irrationally frustrated at tiny things. Anyways, it's almost the weekend and I am very excited to sleep.

I have sort of finished up the puppet for the firefly in my short (sort of because I am not quite sure if I have all the important elements) and I started to work on my puppet for the light bulb. I'm having some issues with making the eyes because they are not just regular circles (they are lemon shaped eyes!)

But after designing Sam the firefly I think the light bulb will be much easier because it doesn't move and I now know a bunch of Flash features.

However, I don't think that I will be able to finish design by the end of next week because I have a PA day so it's only a two day week, but I gave myself lots of time for animation so hopefully I can go into that time without to many issues later on. Have a great weekend!

Callie on Builds

This has probably been the most challenging week yet. I figured after doing the animatic I had Flash sort of figured out (lol). I was wrong! I started design and had no clue what I was doing or even where to start, and so on Monday I watched videos on YouTube attempting to understand the many different layers and symbols that make up a "puppet". Watching the video didn't really help.

However, I found help in the form of Lea and Joel. They are both my saviors. I must have asked Lea a thousand questions. I am getting better though so I hope not to badger them as much next week.

Anyways with a lot of guidance I have managed to make three different views of Sam the firefly. He can blink and flap his wings while shouting! All at the same time! Super cool.

Have a great weekend!

Callie is Fabulous

I have finished my animatic and boy, am I happy. This stage has been the most rewarding so far, because it involved me trying to learn something I had never used before (AKA flash) along with challenging me to incorporate all the elements of an environment into a drawing. That doesn't really make sense but what I mean is when I draw, I usually only draw faces and not backgrounds so I am not very good at backgrounds and perspective. For this stage I had to draw a bug moving across a background from different angles. It's pretty difficult to translate 3D space into 2D. However I managed and now I am done.

Rich helped me turn my animatic into a video so I can take it home and show my parents and friends. The more opinions the better so I can make revisions. Monday and Wednesday were pretty ordinary but today, Friday, I got to wear pyjamas and eat custard tarts and enjoy the satisfaction of another part of my film done.

Have a fabulous weekend and I'll see you next week!

Callie Eats Ethiopian Food!

It was Julie's last day on Friday :'( so everyone went out for Ethiopian food. It was so, so good even though it was different from the food I usually eat. I got to talk with Ashly, Lea and Cherry while I ate and that's always good fun. Going out for lunch meant I didn't do anything except go back to the studio and interview Rich for a school project (I also was so full I fell asleep while while working).

On Monday and Wednesday I finished up concept. I am moving on this week to storyboards!! Super excited!! I spent a while last Monday designing the location for my short and drawing a few expressions for the firefly character. Then on Wednesday I looked at the sheet and saw that the expressions were sort of bland so I exaggerated them a lot and then drew expressions for the light bulb character. Cartoons are so cool because they defy anatomy rules and you can stretch and morph them. See you next week!