Sunday, 25 April 2010

Project Earthlight (II)

Day two of Project Earthlight, and everything's coming along rather nicely. Today I designed the main characters (a pair of aliens) and began to animate the first few shots. I'm about 25 seconds in so far, which is faster going than I thought I would be. It's looking pretty good so far, although I might redo the first scene at some point.

Because of the enormous load of graphic effects I'm using (mainly blurring), Flash finds it pretty hard to play back: I'm thinking the final may have to be a video, rather than an .swf file.

Saturday, 24 April 2010

Project Earthlight (I)

I'm starting a new animation which, if all goes to plan, will be my most complicated, serious, and generally ambitious to date.
I thought, because this is going to be a helluva lot of work, I'd keep track of it on the blog.
So, today, I came up with the idea, found a piece of music to use (there's going to be no speech in this, it's effectively a silent film) and storyboarded the whole thing. So far it's looking like about one minute forty in length, with about 20 shots or scenes.

More details, such as the story, etc, will follow soon-ish. :D