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So the guy from work, Travis, is gonna do the background thing.  So that'll be good!

Yesterday me and Jack Jack Attack sorted out the signpost joke and made it in Maya.  It's all cartoony, and I can move it around to give it a 3Dish look so it isn't flat.  I need to change one or two little things with the texturing, because there's a black line where there shouldn't be etc etc.  Infact, now I think of it, I'll open Maya and get a rendered screen cap.  One moment.  Hang on, you don't have to wait, do you.  I can take 3 hours to get this thing and it'll still only take 3 seconds to read that gap.  But while I'm gone, here's some things to discuss.  A) Hitler was a vegetarian.  B) The duality of man.  C) The idea of Bounnong and Sean Mundy kissing, and D) People named Roy on roids.

Okay, I'm back.  Here's a screen cap of the rendered look.  Keep in mind this needs editing around, spacing out etc.  This is just a bit of a look to see how it appears. 

There we go.  Looks good, eh?  As I said, that's not final, but still.  Pretty spiffy!  Thanks Jack (and Josie for helping me just then)

Did you have a good dicussion on the duality of man?  Good.

Bye

I Don't Like Uni Computers

So Blogger has a new look, which doesn't work for Internet Explorer too well, because no-one uses Internet Explorer anymore, because this isn't 2002.  And uni doesn't let us use any other browser.  GET ON THE GOOGLE CHROME TRAIN, HOLMESGLEN!

I'm currently on my way getting backgrounds done.  I've asked a guy I used to work with to do the lovely theatre-ish background for the piano hall scene.  Hopefully he can do it.  Otherwise I might go on Reddit, and surely I'll find someone awesome on there.

I'm gonna start storyboarding in the next day or two.  I'm gonna do that digitally.  I'll finish the thumbnails probably right now and in Neale's class this arvo.  But if the weather keeps up, I'm leaving early.  Coz I don't wanna drive home in peak hour in the rain.

Cheers
Jarrod

Fortnight Off, Forthright On!

That title makes no sense what-so-ever, but it doesn't have to.

Hello friends!
Head on over to the concept art page to see more concept art, including the first finished background of the animation!  IT'S THE BREAK ROOM!  You'll see that there is a draft sketch, but that looked too 2D, so with a bit of help from Neale a while back I made it look more 3D.  I'm really happy with it.

Also featured is some work done by Darren.  He's brilliant, and if I had half the talent he had I'd be more confident for whatever I do next year!

At the moment I'm scouting talent for another background - I want someone who's good at digitial painting to paint a beautiful mountain range with the sun etc for the backdrop in the piano hall.  But I don't want it to be a cartoony thing with a Photoshop effect, or a photo with a Photoshop effect.  A friend of mine is asking her boyfriend for some of his work so I can see, and he only lives 6 houses away from me so that's easy!

I've gotta start sorting out voices, because I want the final voice track recorded by the end of Term 2.  My sister's going to do the minion's voice when it repeats Dr Phil, and I'll do Dr Phil's voice.  I will most probably do The Inspectors voice, too.  But I'll sort that out over the next month or so!

Cheers kids!

Jarrod