A Lalo Production - Part 2 of 4

Here's the second installment of Lalo's popular video:

Erica's Animatic...or whatever you call it

This week at smileys I finally started my background designs or building or….whatever you call it (:P)
I am doing it on Photoshop and it is pretty interesting.  I have to start learning how to use the pen tool
though…..so many lines!….Anyways today I am going to give my builds a break and start working
on the animatic.  I thought it was gonna be WAAAAYYY harder than it actually is which is basically just moving frames. Can’t wait to finish and FINALLY get to the animation ^.^ Looking forward to it every day.

Sooo here is the GIANT!, with revisions on it of course!

A Lalo Production - Part 1 of 4

Here is the first part of an awesome video presentation Lalo made for his school project.  Enjoy!

Cody Trims the Fat

I've been continuing to work on my animated short and things are still progressing somewhat as planned. All the dialogue I intend on using has been chosen and is pretty much in place. I've cut the time of the show down from over 3 minutes to less than 2 so the animatic I've made needs a lot of tweaking. I've also added slight head turns and different mouth positions to my flash characters to make them look less flat.

Adam falls in sync

So far in the lip-syncing phase of my project, things are going well. I actually found an unexpected amount of enjoyment from doing lip-sync. It can be a bit frustrating at times as its sometimes hard to make key-frames for words that are said fast, but overall, I'm having a great time. The two main characters, the teacher and the metal-head are almost done in terms of the lip sync. Next thing on the check list is finishing off their expressions which I'll be most likely doing next week.

Erica's Figuring Out Design

This week I continued building my characters the front and side views. They are coming along quite
nicely. The only things that I found hard to do were the eyes and after you do them a couple of times
you get the hang of it :)

The bodies are also pretty difficult to do trying to get them looking the same but I’ve got it figured out, partially…

Anyways here is a pic of my character building:

A Cody Update

Here’s a picture of one of the storyboard panels

Hello again. Into month 2 at Smiley Guy Studios and things continue to go well. I just finished storyboarding for my animated short, which (on some good advice) I decided to make in Flash. I’ve received a lot of good advice for setting up my scene and characters and general tips for using Flash, so I’m excited to move on to making the animatic. The script has been recorded and the lines are mostly chopped up so I can start timing everything out soon.