Scene 11 Animation

Clip #1

Scene 17 Animation

Clip #1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwBJP37ToNs&feature=youtu.be

Glitchy Goodness

When a bumpmap goes out of bounds 

Old Man Boomer

Offset Boomer

Melted Gold-faced Boomer

Metal Boomer

 

Sick Boomer

 

WTF Boomer

 

Devil Boomer 

These glitches were pretty much fixed by switching from a models > textures > rigs pipeline to a models > rigs > textures pipeline.

Lighting It Up

 

Textures are coming along. We're getting a nice-toothy steampunk look. I've also placed some rough slim lights with a warm screen and a cold backlight and Tim Schwartz should pick up where I left off later today. 

 

Lefty, on the other hand, will maintain sleek space ship textures, and lights complimentary to boomer's (cold screen and warm backlight).

The shot I will attempt to render out for Viz-a-GoGo will start with Boomer pushing Lefty's screen away, and pan to split screen as they continue to argue (I'm composing a Render Out list to clarify this conundrum for everyone involved).

"I'll swallow your soul!"

Textures and Rig Fixes

Finally started dropping textures into the scenes. These aren't fully updated textures, but I think that they're already working pretty well. I also fine tuned the rig to removed that tedious vest pocket, and let the spine and neck bend to further extremes.

Architypes: The Anima

The Anima is one of three shorts planned for the Architypes Trilogy. They are loose recreations of some of my most bizarre dreams, all featuring characters I believe associate with a Jungian architype of the same title. Below is the initial storyboard.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/rupz3ycc8c4sjq6/LyaILI_dXj

The Music of Lefty & Boomer

I've been collaborating with James Storey on Music. I wanted a minimal electronic tune for Lefty, and a more organic tune for Boomer, which would overlap without distracting from the dialogue. I started by sending him this music test.

This is what he's come back to me with so far.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zf46h8jG4-A&feature=youtu.be

Scene 21 Animation

I couldn't get a big enough film team over spring break, so I was unable to re-shoot the live action footage. Voice recording and rough soundtrack is expected later this week, but since I need something to talk about today, I decided to get some long overdue animation done on scene 21.

 

Lefty' movements are much more jerky and rhythmic.

Unfortunately, it crashed just before class and I lost about four hours of animation on Boomer, but he's supposed to move much more fluently and rubbery to contrast from Lefty.

Lefty & Boomer: Project Statement

Jungian psychology has fascinated me. His approach to the human mind as a collection of entities brought a new light to mythology, religion, and overall storytelling for me. For Lefty & Boomer, it inspired me to create a story in which divided a character into more characters... a normal person in an everyday situation as opposed to some cliché schizophrenic "Oh no, I was the killer the whole time?" kind of twist.

I decided to focus on the logic vs emotion duality, commonly attributed to the left and right brain hemispheres. For this purpose, I created a robot named Lefty, and a dandy named Boomer, who would represent these hemispheres within a quiet-neurotic college student. Their mission: talk to a girl.

I decided to film the physical stuff (meatspace) in live-action, partially to save time, but also to emphasize the physicality of it all, as well as push the surreality of the squashy/stretchy animated mental world (Psychospace).

Scratch Tracks #1

Forgot to reserve the filming equipment before Spring Break, but I'm recording new vocal track with Austin Hines on Thursday, and James Storey says he has an idea what he wants to do (More on that later).