Cupboards and Clowns

Update from Eleanor's cupboard [a.k.a. The Batcave] which is our out of hours studio as demonstrated on the blog for A Sweet Disposition. So scary clown keyframes timing take one.

Dark Barn

Darker scary barn for Joe and Brian's Mawkin's Backfire.

Snowglobe

House Project

Second take on the house project for Rory and the masters student.

Seasonal Savouries

Yule Stool

Ghosts

This was another challenge set by the ever-talented Ciaran. This is my take on illustrating the song 'Ghost's by Japan. You-tube link here. I don't think its finished and the colours are unbalanced but

I'm behind with these and there is another to start on...

Madvent Calender

The idea is simple. Draw 25 elements one each day of advent spending no more than 10 minutes on it in the aim of compiling a final scene. I have no idea where this will go and have started with an easy if very fitting subject.

Peer Reviews

Peer reviews tomorrow so I whipped two presentations up. Wish us luck and prepare your comments in advance.

Printed Goods. Messy Studio. Yay

Usual Suspects

A Sweet Disposition's height relationship chart for the characters. Smokey Bob has his at rest phase and his Im trying to be scary size..

Colour Suggestions Required

Under Ashley Burn's direction I changed the colours for the three main characters for mouse-tsche. There's not much change to the girl and the hero but the villain's colours I'm not very happy with. I quickly dropped both sets into a background, including the original full cast colours and I'm not convinced by any, think they are all too bland, suggestion's welcome :).

1. New Colours

2. Comparison of main character's colours in a background. First is

Ashley's second is my original thoughts.

3. Secondary Characters Background Test

Bobs UV Mapped

Thanks to Pat Imrie who helped to reload the file, turns out that our issues occurred because there was not one but two UV maps applied to Bob's head. Double mapped. This issue was fixed and the new map has been approved. next comes rigging.

But I Like Mice!

Yay. Two cleaned and inked tests of the talented Alex Ashaman's lip-sync test for John's line "But..I like mice" [check out her sketch blog here] and my slightly odd key-framed bucket test. Major thanks to Eleanor Affleck for lining and tidying. Slowly feels like A Sweet Disposition is coming together...

Run Cycle Colour/ Composition Test

We are on a roll tonight. This is an initial test I threw together quickly of a shot of John's feet for A Sweet Disposition as he runs away on a cycle from the clown into the graveyard. For initial composition/ colour test only. Final scene to be completed with luck sometime soon..

Vimeo link: http://vimeo.com/17139407