Wolf Animation

Wolf Gif

Wolf Video

Here are some test animations for my interactive story.
Over the week i am possibly going to try and animate a whole wolf...but its hard.
For this type of animation it needs to be frame animation ( or in flash terms keyframe animation). You can't really tween something like this, or motion tween...or any other kind of tween, because flash isn't that clever, its quicker to tween, but looks poo poo. Traditional is the way to go.

I think this comes from me being more moving imagery than interactive. I'm thinking more about the moving side, rather than the flash interactive side.

HIT ME

Another Flash piece from the same site. www.albinoblacksheep.com. I don't think this is designed that good, the footage is pixelated and not placed very well. If maybe, to come up with a few ideas...filmed himself wearing boxing gear, on a better bakground, in a fight stance, something a bit more appropriate.

Anyway, i decided to blog this one because it uses film footage with in flash and interacts with it. This has shown me that there are alternative avenues to use flash and that you don't always have to go with animation and buttons.

www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/hitme

The ZoomQuilt

I've been surfing the net, looking at different flash interactive work. Came across a site called www.albinoblacksheep.com and so far i have been hugely impressed by this ZoomQuilt www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/zoomquilt ... Its a massive piece of art and you can keep zooming into it. After awhile it loops round, but still really good. Give it ago,

This isn't an area i'm personally into, but i can still appreciate it.

FLASH

Been using Flash today,
I have been a flash user for some years now self taught, but back in the macromedia days. Now being shown it properly i can see the advantages, however i dont think it is that great. In some cases it is a good tool to mock up quick animations and even storyboards. The web and inteeractive features are very helpful if thats what your into.

Today i learnt keyframes and tweening, and everything in the middle. I already knew a lot of this. When you delve further into the animation side i don't think it compares to dong it all hand drawn. Granted it takes a hell of a lot longer, but the end results are much better.

I know for this interactive brief i am going to have to grit my teeth and get on with it. Hopefully i will be pleasantly surprised.

I DONT HAVE THE NET

I havent had the net as of late, so this personal development business becomes really hard and i am trying to squeeze blogs in every now and then. BUT it makes it look like i upload them all in one day, however i have been doing them all week, but as i say only get a few minutes a day to upload them.

So please dont have a go at me if there hasnt been a blog in a few weeks.

Joe Cartoon

I have been looking at www.joecartoon.com, the interactive section is really good (and funny). Joe Cartoon as been around for sometime, i first came across him when i was still in school, and i thought then i would really like to do animation. I'm not 100%, but pretty sure that he uses flash.

I am going to take the same approach as Joe with my fable interactive, with using buttons to get the audience to interact with the story. Also i am going to take the comedy approach, which should keep a new audience interested in a old story.

How I want my INTERACTIVE Fable to look.

I've looked at a few comics and online games and i have decided that i want to take a dark approach. The fable i choose is THE BOY WHO CRIED WOLF, this short horror is a really dark tale and a hard lesson to learn.

The three pieces in the above picture are examples of the art direction. At the top is Corpse Bride, Tim Burton as his own style with thin legged, creepy characters. They also look close to dead. In the middle is Emily Strange, i don't know much about this girl, but she is a franchise. I've seen her on wallets, pens, books and everything upto clothes and dolls. I really like the illustration style and i will try to adopt this 2d illustration to the other 3d pieces. Bottom is Monster House a CGI animation again like Corpse Bride is as a creepy atmosphere.

On each of them you see similar scary thin trees, thats what i'm going to go for.

More posters.

Hello, not blogged for awhile. I've been making more posters for the SoundPeople gig promoters. I'm hoping that this will generate more paying work for me. Also this may help me get my foot in the door with music videos.



I've set myself a website and a myspace up. www.mystrangeworld.co.uk www.myspace.com/mystrangeworldmedia