The Tale of St. Patrick’s Day!

Ah yes, nothing like celebrating a March holiday in the fall.

James and I have finally done it. We’ve completed a cartoon. This is something we’ve talked about for four or five years now. And we finally got together and made it happen.

So, go watch The Tale of St. Patrick’s Day. However, it is in a competition, so starting September 1st we need you to go back and vote for it. Well, that is, if you like it!

http://www.aniboom.com/animation-video/386093/The-Tale-of-St-Patricks-Day/

Long time, no update. Let’s fix that.

Hello internet. I’m sorry for the lack of updates over the last few months. We had some monkey wrenches thrown into the mix.  However, all is not lost.

We are currently wrapping up production on a short film for a contest. I expect it to be done in the next few days, and posted here once it’s set.

From there, we can go back to Episode 1 and finish that since it’s around halfway done. From there, we might change up a few things to try and get content out faster. More details once James and I discuss how things will proceed.

Thanks for stopping by after 2 months of inactivity on my part. I hope to not let it happen again.

Theme Song! Episode One Edition.

Theme Song! 

Music by James, Animation by Carl!

Theme song visuals will change for each episode slightly. Expect a different ‘Start Screen’ and ‘hidden character’ for each new episode.

Scene 7, without dialogue.

To give a short demonstration of what I do, here is scene 7 of episode 1 in its animatic form, without dialogue.

Here is the process: Script is written by Carl, I’ll do a rewrite, Carl will do another rewrite, et al. We then storyboard it. We record audio with the voice actors, Then I slice it together. After that I send it to Carl, who makes comments and points out timing issues. I fix it, send it back, he approves. I write background music, and make a set of sound effects. I take the Dialogue and then I set up and time music cues, sound effects, and balance and compress the audio. I render it into a short video (Like the one here, only with words) then I send it to Carl for the Animating. (Which is the really hard part) while he does a rough animation, Scott and I will make backgrounds, and send them to him. He will insert them behind the animation and make small adjustments here and there. After the animating is done, we watch what we’ve done, pat ourselves on the back and move on to the next scene.

Storyboards, scene 9

as per normal

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Storyboards, scene 7

Huggins questions Elliot about who sent him. His mustache disguise fails. Huggins revels in the moment.

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Storyboards, Scene 1

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Storyboards, scene 6

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Storyboards, scene 3

Scene 3 - Takt and Elliot enter Eons room looking for evidence of his involvement in the comic only to find him sleeping. They confront him.

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Theme song progress

Music for the theme song. Work in progress.

third2009melody2mp3

We were going for a digital to acoustic transition. I wanted it to end quietly and abruptly.