Character Turn Arounds Video

Here is a short video showing off the character turn arounds. I learned that throwing it into an animation you really learn where the incorrect placement of things on the different angles are.

Turn Around

Turnaround, every now and then I get a
little bit lonely and you're never coming around
Turnaround, Every now and then I get a
little bit tired of listening to the sound of my tears
Turnaround, Every now and then I get a
little bit nervous that the best of all the years have gone by
Turnaround, Every now and then I get a
little bit terrified and then I see the look in your eyes
Turnaround bright eyes, Every now and
then I fall apart
Turnaround bright eyes, Every now and
then I fall apart

HEY! Look! Turn Arounds! Luckily for me my Mount and Blade game semi corrupted so it forced me to be productive. As you can see the wife has been fixed up to fit with the others, thanks to lots of great input from Joe Brumm!

The Wedding Characters v1

Here is version 1 of my characters for my final year animation.
I think I will tweak the BBW woman to better match the straight line work of the other characters.
I think my biggest break through was realising I could turn my last name "Cottee" into a little upright rocket ship, as seen in the corners.

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Happy Xmas and New Year friends.

I have been holidaying with family and all that, but now the new year is here I am back to UNI WORK (work is a funny word for me cos it is more like fun). I have to get a pre production pack finished during my holidays before I go back to uni. So I am starting concept art and things like that for my big new animation. It will be called "The Wedding" (perhaps working title, but I like that). I'm not sure if I have mentioned but I will be adapting my house mate Jack Vening's wonderful short story. I also have a pretty exciting sound guy on board to score it!
Here is the first peak of concept art! I have been playing lots of monkey island so I am pretty influenced by their art direction at the moment.


I also just made this pencil like brush preset for photoshop, My first brush design.

Tom and I are also diving back into Boatmurdered to finish it by uni start!
Here is proof, a shot of Tom's flash file.