Tuesday, October 16, 2012

FIRST COLOURED SHOT

Well after a very successful meeting with my composer, RESTON WILLIAMS, I came home tonight and got the colour palette laid out and ready to start inking and painting my short. Here's the first shot that I coloured. Now I'm just going to plow through the shots while Reston is composing a kick-ass score to go with it.

8 comments:

  1. hello, i was wondering how you go about telling your composer how you want your music to be :) I find that I have an idea of how my music should sound like but I have a hard time describing it to my composer :) thank you! and i can't wait for your new cartoon to come out :D

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    1. Hi Jeca.
      A really helpful thing for the composer is to find examples from oter movie scores that have the same feeling that you want. At big studios they even edit the movie to other movie scores while they're working on it to get the sense of the mood and music
      just go through and find out which beats are really important to you and let them know where you want it to be calm and where you want it to build tension. Hopefully that helps.

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    2. Yes that helps a lot :) thank you so much :D

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  2. Hi, i love the shorts you make, they really are entertaining. One question, ¿do you draw directly on Toon Boom the rough animation? or do you draw on paper and then scan the drawings on Toon Boom?

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    1. Hey Alfred, thanks for the compliment. Stay tuned, I want to keep making shorts like this.

      To answer your question the rough animation and clean up is done directly in toonboom.
      I had a hard time when I did my Harrey Podder short because the line in toonboom was too opaque and there was no texture to it. I wanted something a little more pencil like. So for this one I actually figured a way to make it look more like pencil. I just lowered the opacity of the colour I was drawing with and it gave it that pencil feel and it was way easier to do rough drawings. I didn't do any of the rough animation on paper.

      Hope that Answers your question.

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    2. By the way, great advice the opacity one, I will try it.

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  3. Totally, thank you so much. I wanted to know if it was possible to make appealing drawings in Toon Boom before I buy it. One more question, I have a Cintiq Tablet -the smallest one-, and we I try to draw on Toon Boom I make the trace with the pen and the line appears after, does it happen to you? Again, thank you so much for your answers, and of course i will keep looking forward for your shorts.

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  4. You're welcome Alfred. Glad that helped.
    As for your question about your slow drawing tool that lags, I don't have that problem. My line shows up as soon as I draw it.
    But maybe that has something to do with the speed of your computer.

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