I’ve never found lighting or composition hard at all, I find that stuff remarkably easy and fast to do...but the actual animating part I do struggle with a lot. I would make a horrendous technical director and I think you can see its very apparent in my work...because, I *am* the technical director for this as well as all the other things. It brings me back round to how a solo project really displays your strengths and weaknesses...your passions and your laziness.
I wish though that I could just get on with making the film that I want..that the technical side didn;t crush the creative side. Part three of The Rescue has got very far removed from what I intially wanted. And i hate to say this...I really do...but, it's almost like its a animatic...but even worse...a first draft of the script to boot.
There's a lot here that I wanted to put in to highten the action, that I've had to leave out...and I'm really not happy about it at all. You just want to do your directors thing and say..."Right!...right I want the truck to go over a bump and respond perfectly TECHNICALLY to going over that bump in the road" or be able to say..."Hey right, get this!...I want the baddie robot to shoot out the glass on the jeep and have the glass fragments all go all over the place and sit perfectly TECHNICALLY with PHYSICS and all on the back end of the jeep"
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Hey Michael. Just visiting your blog to see what's happening... wow, you've got some stuff here! I like what I see.
RE: this last post, I can only give a small scrap of advice: don't sweat the details until you've got the whole story complete. I like to work broad strokes to fine lines. It helps you focus on the big picture and see where those details need to go. If you stick on every technical detail, you're gonna waste alot of time fighting yourself for a technicality.
Sure, the devil's in the details, but get the story told, then go back and fix up the small fine lines.
btw - LOVE your dark, black-and-white stuff. I really like the feel of the rescue pics and movies you got going here.
Hey Paul,
Thanks for the kind words :)
Definitely, its like Lucas Martell says about how writing is rewriting…
..the thing is, that I’ve not written any of my animation down on paper...I just have a very visual outline of what I want in my head of key scenes in the story, I struggle greatly to get it into visual form on the computer, I mean this is even why they’re all peg leg characters, I personally didn’t really want to do it like this at all...I would really love to do very stylised human characters...but...and this leads me to my main upset about myself...is that I’ve not really learnt new things with the tools in over five years now….and that reflects very badly, as it paints me as a lazy person.
My actual lighting technique though HAS changed in that five years...and my choice on frame ratios and camera focal lengths has changed gradually over the years too.
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