YO, I had this giant post written up then something happened with Blogger then I lost it all. So this will be a quicker 3 in the morning version of my semester. Basically it was busy and crazy and to show for it I have 5 oil paintings, 3 animation shots, and a short film called Hello Debra. From my oil painting class I'm only really satisfied with the recent one I posted and our last portrait painting on which I did Ollie Johnston. I went over Hello Debra on another post and I can't put up the final film since we're sending it to festivals so I'll mostly talk about Raquel's advanced animation in this post!
Ollie Painting
I learned a lot from doing these dialogue shots in class. Keeping in mind everything I learned about body mechanics, now I had to incorporate lip syncing, more character performance, subtleties and general appeal. I also learned that I take almost forever picking a dialogue so after hours and hours I finally came across Adam Sandler yelling "You blew it!" from Billy Madison.
The line
My friend Samia came up with this great idea of a guy getting a bad haircut so I rolled with that.
My planning/animatic
And the final thing!
For our second dialogue test, we had to choose from specific directors and one of them was Woody Allen. So I picked a line by Owen Wilson in Midnight in Paris. I wanted to use the line for a totally different feeling from what was done in the movie so I came up with this. I don't have the storyboards for this so straight to final!
In the film Owen Wilson was excited about meeting his hero writer and eager to show his book but he had to get it first.
For our last assignment, we were put into groups of 4 and had to pick a longer dialogue to chop up between us to create shots we can stitch together into a final mini film. My group consisted of Michael Bliss, Ting-yu Chen, Samia Khalaf, and myself. We really wanted to do a female villain and picked a dialogue by Charlize Theron's evil queen in Snow White and the Huntsmen.
Our initial storyboards (so bad)
Here we had her mostly sitting so we changed that later, to help the character move around more and also because it resembled another groups animatic.
A second pass at the storyboards by Samia
One of the earlier stages of blocking for our shots
And the final thing! Off to sleep!
