Wednesday, February 5, 2014

BEHIND THE SCENES!!!!!!!!!

Wanna see my animation rig? It doesn't look professional at all, but I decided I will have my own niche animation style known as Awkimation, meaning animation that is awkward because you animate using a light pad that is too small for an 8x11 piece of paper and you use office clips to hold two pieces of paper together and the whole thing is sitting on top of a book case so you can work standing up and next to the light pad is a bunch of action figures and odds & ends that distract you enough that you regularly lose focus.
oh and also, I use one of those padded lap desks thingies, but only to prop up the light pad at an angle so I don't have to hunch my back light a normal animator. that is what distinguishes me from traditional animators, a straight back and also no formal training except loading cartoons into movie maker so I can watch them one frame at a time and also regular watching of cartoons.

In conclusion, I love my rig and I hope I never gain any fame off of this.
 here are the photos now.
on the very right is some Victorian dog bookends and in the right corner is some action figures including a bootleg batman I found once.  In the middle is where the movie magic happens.  Its only a light box. oh and a plastic skull because I bought it once. and also a whole skeleton was too expensive.

some ideas for my spaceship steering wheel, even though it's not that important. notice the AMC logos? yes, my ideal spaceship would be a AMC Gremlin. and the Japanese characters translate to "space gremlin", since in the very distant future, the Japanese become obsessed with making spaceships that look like 1970's American hatchbacks because Americans become obsessed with making spaceships from Japanese Anime.  

a reference drawing from an earlier scene.

space Gremlin!




another better line animation I did for reference for this upcoming scene. still don't know what the scene is about? huh? hint: it has a car door!!!

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