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Todays blog post are a few screen shots of the introduction scene. I had been working to clean up the animation on this very long scene. I am happy to say about 1 week ago I finished. So I been working on coloring the 89 frame scene. It will without a doubt take about 2 or 3 months to complete due to its size and complexity. This is a full body shot which mean a lot of coloring and outlining. Never the less it will be fun and I am very close to being done with all animation and coloring.

FRANK opening the door

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Todays production update are some screen shots from the intro scene, Im still cleaning up the scene. Im almost done and cant wait to move onto the coloring phases

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Todays FRANK update are some screen shots from a walk cycle and turn. This is one of the first scenes of the film, I haven’t touched it in over two years so its been a bit of a challenge. It took about one month to complete from clean up to color to composite. It been really nice to finish a full body shot of the main character. Im still working on the first part of the scene, but Im excited to be done in a few weeks. This film is coming together really well. Lets hope I can get it done this year

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Todays FRANK update is about the background I was working on last month. Im almost done with all the details, here are some screen shots. Im happy with the outcome and the little details.

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Todays FRANK update are some images of our guy FRANK. In this scene his upper body moves, So I decided to split him in half only color the top half in order to save time and to keep the lines neater. It was a fun scene, originally i was gonna color all of him every frame, but then I realized I didn’t have to. Like a true 2D animator I got to cheat in this scene.

Im still working on this scene the background has been very challenging more me to complete. Its been a very slow grind, however I will over come and when I do I’ll have a nice fat post to share!

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Todays production update is scene16A. This shot took some time because I hadn’t done any rough animation since the first draft of the animatic. I had a few color sketches but no more then 4-5. However despite not having a ton of concept art for the idea I knew what I wanted since the very beginning. I didn’t see a reason to change it much, the biggest experimental’s where the colors and the timing. So it was pretty easy to piece together but it did take some time to animate due to all the layers it comes with. I have to change a few timing issues, its a match cut so it needs to read right. I will come back to a final pass soon enough.

Photoshop color frame

Photoshop color frame and layer

Animatic still from the scene

After Effects still from the scene

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Todays blog post are some screen shots of the game scene. I have completed to animation for it, its taken a few session of chipping away slowly to get the right feel. I experimented a lot with the scene so every day was slow progress but after all the problem solving Im happy with the final out come. Its pretty close to the original draft

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Todays update are some screen shots from a scene I wrapped up a few weeks ago. This scene in where you first see the game FRANK is playing. I had only storyboarded the scene and done rough animation on after effects, So returning to this scene was exciting for two reasons. One, I was closer to the finish line. Two, it was finally time to tackle this scene after years of waiting. The challenged was at the door step, a challenge I was looking forward to over coming. My vision for the scene never really changed since the very first draft.

As I started working on it I added elements to experiment. Found some that worked and some that didnt…so I got to experiment and I really enjoyed this process. I got it done rather quickly.

photoshop file from the scene

Very old very rough color test for the scene

color test

animation frame

Multiple variations of the scene, I could not decided so I put together this to help aid

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Todays FRANK update are some screen shots from a scene I finished a few weeks back. In this scene Frank drops his flowers and does a turn around before walking of screen. Some of the biggest challenges with this scene was making sure the flowers hitting the water n vase went smooth. I finished animating this scene about 2 years ago and when I worked on the color script I simply did a rough pass. So when it was time to color I wasn’t sure how it would go. It took about 1 month to color the scene. This is one of the few shots where we see a full body FRANK.

I have been working on the final design n color for the background. But for the most part what you see is what you’ll get!

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Todays FRANK update are some screen shots from my most recent scene. I finally made it to the closing scene, I only roughed out theanimation, so working on this was a little challenging due to not have a final animation pass. I colored and experimented with shadows while coloring this scene. It took about 2 week to complete. Im happy with the outcome. This being the closing scene in the film it was very important It convays the right emotion. Hoping i nailed it!