FRANK

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Todays FRANK update are some images of my compositing process thus far. I have a lot of scene finished and ready for final renders, So i starting putting together a new animatic. The bottom images show most of the scenes I’ve finished. It feels nice to see all the weeks of hard work come together to form the big picture. Still lots to do on the project but every day I get closer to finishing it.

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Todays FRANK update are a few screen shots from a very short scene I colored a few weeks back. In this scene FRANK picks up the game and we see his reflection, right before he loses his temper and sees RED. I spent some time just looking at the scene and trying to picture how the colors would mix, It took some time to process it and after some experimenting I was able to finish the scene

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Todays FRANK update is one I been forgetting to post. This Scene (Sc14) took me about three months to color. There are A LOT of moving parts to this scene I will try and break it down a bit.

First we have four flower pots, two in the back and two in the front, only the front ones move but each has 3 sunflowers that move with it. Each sunflower has twelve pedals, So coloring these was a slow process. Next is FRANK’s hand coming into frame and moving the pots and grabbing the charger.

First Frame Set Up

Nine frames In and we have contact

FRANK Reaching

Compositing The Scene

This screen shot is from when I was compositing the scene, there are a total of Fourty-Six frames. While compositing I was able to see a few small mistakes I made during the coloring, lucky for me all errors where easily corrected, they took about 3-4 days. The scene was a bit challenging when it came to coloring all the elements that moved. There was foreground middle ground and back ground elements. I struggled a bit but for the most part this was a pretty straight foreword scene that didn’t require any redoing, just a few layering issues.

A few words about the scene, this is one of the more longer scenes in the film and it took a long time to complete but the final look (not pictured in the screen shot) came out great and I am really happy with all the effort it took.

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Todays update are a few screen shots from last weeks progress. I have been having a lot of fun with my approach to coloring and designing these backgrounds. They are the first and only glimpes at the after math, so these stills are kinda a big deal for the story. However I want to keep it lose and just have fun.

animation production art, animation color scripts

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Todays FRANKs update is exciting!I am starting a new scene which is a great feeling after grinding for 4 months on just one scene. Its a long scene and it has huge importance to the film. Im quite happy with the animation also, it looks very nice moving in color as Im currently compositing it

Any way this new scene is very different, its just stills. So Im basically painting 4 different backgrounds. Its nice because I can have fun and just paint. Weird enough I have been coloring for a long time now but rearly has it felt like painting. This new scene feels like painting and Im loving it and enjoying the process

Drawing a favorite of mine, flower pots! I love these things

A rough from maybe the 3rd pass a few years ago. I love the way the green came out, but sadly this wont be the final color.

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Todays blog post is an update on this scene. I am done coloring all the frames after todays corrections. All thats left is to composite and to add a few finish backgrounds. Its a very long scene apx 24 seconds long. Its taken me more then 3 months to finish all the frames. This is the second longest scene in the film, but its very important because it carries a tremendous emotional impact.

Anyway enjoy!

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todays update is a continuation of the last two updates. its the scene im currently working on. its a updated animatic version, it has some updated animation but still a ways from being final.

as i’ve mention previously, this version of the film is closer to the original animatic and boards, it was not the route i was taking but i recently starting questioning if i was happy with the direction i had settled on months ago. i will animate the scenes and play around with the editing but i wont know which way it will go until the very end.