Long file is long

There must be something wrong with me, making a decision to work with such a ridiculously large file when I know there are simpler, quicker solutions. But frankly, they can't be as fun and effective as this!

The aim is to represent a film reel coming to an end, as part of some sort of technical malfunction. I was interested in creating that familiar effect where the speed of the film changes and makes the image appear to move up or down. I could have just animated the whole screen to physically move up and down to suggest this, but I think this would have looked too fake.

So, instead, I decided to actually make a digital piece of film reel, consisting of 25 frames. This one image is 25 times the length of 1080p. (Not the one I uploaded here, this is about 10% of the full image!)

Then, I bought this into After Effects and made it moooove real fast, downwards. I perfected the keyframes to make the car move up and down nicely.

A good few hour's work for what will be ONE SECOND of the film.

Isn't it great being an animator.......? :D

Watercolour kitchen interior

As you can see from the main wall image at the bottom, separating the cupboard was an afterthought - which explains the blob of cupboard still present in the middle of the wall (rescued from clone stamping)!

Interchangeable Catipoce scenery textures

 

Watercolour Backgrounds

Remember that old way of painting pictures? Ya know, with all the bristles and water and stuff. For the last couple of weeks I've enjoyed taking up most of the space in the kitchen with some A2 background art:

This last picture doesn't require any detail in the bottom right hand corner as it will be out of view. I considered painting the Sunflower from Plants vs Zombies there for lols, but I never got round to it. 

And, if you're interested in this sort of thing, here are the layered images on transparent backgrounds ready for compositing. The two little grassy bits are simply for the animated characters' feet to appear behind. 

 And here's the wide angle shot split into 3 depth layers:

 

Notice how the top edge of the middle image is mostly fading out - this is to help smooth the join between the layers, which is more obvious when the join can't follow the defined edge of an object (such as the tree).

Background complete...

As always, click over to Vimeo to see it in HD :)

Untitled from Livvy Brewer on Vimeo.

Backgrounds.

Thought i'd just whack some backgrounds up here for you to see as a little taster!

The first one is just a rough sketch of colour that I am working on in the background to get the light and dark figured out. I'm actually loving the colours of this one and its a biggggg background so I have lots of lovely details to work on which will be fun!

The rest are part of a collection of quick scenes that I wanted to just have some fun with, and make easily readable as they are only on screen for a matter of seconds. Enjoy!

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