animation projects

This class alternates between being super chill and super intense and it's sort of giving me creative whiplash a little bit. Several weeks ago, we did a five-to-seven second rotoscope in which we were supposed to change something to make it more fantastical. I did a home video of Brennie and I beating on each other with foam swords but turned us into Jedi.

The project took about 45 hours over the course of two weeks and was absolutely crazy. I actually made myself sick working on it for seven hours at a stretch multiple days in a row, but that said, I think it turned out pretty sweet.

younglings from Kasha Prinzing on Vimeo.

Then we did a week or two of derpy in-class assignments meant to teach us the basic principles of freehand animation, like staging:

arcs:

and character modelling:

These assignments were meant to only take an hour or two apiece and be super simple. I think I only spent a few hours in the digital lab outside of class that week. It was sooooo chill. But now there's this new hardcore project where we're in groups of three producing ten seconds of film apiece that focus on a common theme. We have, you guessed it, two weeks. 

I really liked that blue-haired girl I drew, who also showed up in one of our first projects, the thaumatrope. See, there she is.

Actually, both of these chicks have showed up in my notes before.

So I decided to use them for this assignment.

I'm definitely learning a lot about Flash with this project. That whole set is one very large very complex symbol, and I have a whole nother one to make for the close-up shots.

So that's where this class is going. It's a great time, and I don't even hate spending that much time drawing - in fact, I love it - but I do wish we had slightly more room in the syllabus for, y'know, sleeping.

Commander Kip
"I roll to wrangle the bantha."
Normal is overrated!

Thing of the Day: A Night to Remember by Betty Who

I just love this. So much. Wow.



I think I've played it like fifty times today. Her voice is one of my favorite kinds of voices and this track has a great groove. Also... she's coming to Olaf on Friday and I'm sooo pumped.

Thank you, Mads, for turning me on to this awesome artist. You always have the best taste in music.

Commander Kip
"We must have seen them when they were new and weird." "No, they're still weird."
Normal is overrated!

so this star wars roleplay

is quite a time.

Leth is a blast to play.

After we got surrounded by some mercenaries in the last session, Leth was forced to finally use her lightsaber in public and do some leaping around and she cleaved some guys in half and it was epic.

Oops what.

So after taking a shot to the shoulder while they were escaping the Separatist base a few weeks ago (and seducing Hippolyta on the way back to Coruscant), Leth had some real talk with Hip while getting patched up. I finally got her to tell most of her tragic backstory and why she has such a what-if-I-can't-protect-you complex, hooray.

Also help they're cute.

This was right after they managed to defuse the bomb on the Separatist escape shuttle and very narrowly avoided certain obliteration.

Hip.

And this is Ssussexx, Matt's Trandoshan noble. He's very fancy, very small, and almost entirely useless at everything except first aid, at which he is an actual genius and can basically reanimate corpses.

And finally Moss, Riley's Bothan scout.

I'll do my best to draw Connor and Josh's characters at some point as well.

Commander Kip
"I'm pretty sure Great Con gives you +10 to bluff."
Normal is overrated!