Wednesday Progress documentation

Here are some of the drawings that are done. Some sequences are photographed on the light table.

Monday Progress

I have been continuing to draw. I hope to be done with the drawing portion by the end of this week or the beginning of next week. I am going to keep drawing every day, with all of my "free-time" until I can complete it. Then I will start to scan the drawings...I suspect that the scanning will take maybe one long day or two days if I break it down a little more. But anyway I am getting closer.

Style choice

Though I have been playing with the "cleaned up" version for my finished style, I want to keep a pencil feel. No ink no inking using photoshop. I will have a cleaner image than the below link, but I love the rough, motion, and raw feel of the pencil. I will darken the existing pencil and take out any lines that overlap or distract. But I will keep much of the pencil shading and only ad digital shading at the end if it flows with the rest of the shading.
Below is what inspires me, the masters in all their glory when they pencil test their characters. Though mine will be more clean, I want to keep the overall feel of this type of style.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EdbMnGBGA8&feature=related

AT THIS POINT

I have completed about half of my drawings for my animation. I will continue to draw this week. I do not know how many I have done because I do not number them....I like to work on several different scenes at once and so I have chunks of the scenes.

updated animatic

Why my piece is post modernist

Post modernism is about rejecting traditional views of "fine art". The very medium I use is post modernistic in nature. Animation is often not seen or taught as fine art. There are no history of animation classes offered by the art history department. Though it may come to be more widely accepted as fine art in the future, right now the idea of having a cartoon animation in a gallery with paintings and sculptures is not a traditional idea.

The concept of my piece focuses on language barriers but it illustrates this point in a very post modernistic approach. The characters of my animation are a young business owner and a dead (zombie) man. Traditionally in society, language barriers exist only between cultures. However, my piece goes farther than just a cultural barrier and puts in place the barrier of life and death. My story uses these characters and barriers to explore a real-life issue and puts a comical and light-hearted spin on the topic.

Both the medium and the characters in my piece demonstrate a post modernist way of thinking. There is nothing "traditionally fine-art" about my piece and I believe that that fact only acts to make it stronger.

Mon Oct. 8th

Progress is steady. Unfortunately I like getting a lot of drawings done and then scanning a lot of drawings. I am gathering a lot of drawings. Am continuing my drawings this week.