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!
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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 the about a new scene I recently completed. This scene is a two parter, Sc15 has and A and a B part. Below are screen captures of both. We see FRANK happy and in mid clap then we see the game charging on the table. I am currently finalizing the back grounds for this scene.
This scene took me ten days to color, Coming from a scene that took three months to complete to ten days was such a relief. I had been feeling a little stuck or slowed in my progress, this happened with all large scenes tho. By the time you’re reading this post I would have selected my final look.
FRANK clapping in joy
FRANK clapping in joy but in color
The game in its low battery mode
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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.