Back to the Cat Part 2

Classes have begun again. I find myself teaching 3 animation, 36 Freshmen and 13 Sophomore students. The future of animation is alive and well, but I'm having less time to animate on Watchcat. Luckily, I don't have a lot of scenes to do to finish. I have even considered the idea of having some of my students take a scene or two, but I don't know if this is our school's policy or not. 

One thing I have learned which I will now drill into my students is, its a lot easier to finish a :30 second story than a 3 minute one. After Episode 2 is finally completed and if there is a good response to it, we will focus on :30 to :45 second tales at the most, more like this...

Appreciate the comments and if there are any interested student out there, wanting to learn traditional animation and improve their skills. Please let me know.

Thanks,

Jim

8600 Views!

This week, our blog reached its 8600 all time viewing milestone. We also got some comments letting us know you are out there patiently waiting to see the next episode of Watchcat.
  
Scene are getting finished and I'm down to 9 scenes to go. I thought I would share with you some other animated projects I have worked on recently, while I've been working on Watchcat...

This next spot I didn't work on, but would have loved to. It does have the same actor from the commercial I worked on (above). I kinda feel bad for this guy being tormented by all these CG creatures lately, he must have a good agent.

 

Hope you've enjoyed seeing what else I have been working on lately. If you did, let me know by leaving a comment above or click on the ads to give me a penny for your thoughts.

Thanks,

Jim 

In the City

August is here and Summer is almost over. I am currently in the process of finishing up the   last scenes for WatchCat Episode 2. I've been working on the beginning and ending scenes, where we see the city scenes at night. I'm using After Effects and importing flat artwork of buildings, putting them together and flying a camera thru the cityscape. Here's an example of what it looks like...

Intro "Work in Progress" from Toondini on Vimeo.

Now, I'm working on the ending and soon, I'll only have 12 scenes to go! I feel like one of those bikers in the Olympics, riding uphill with nobody cheering them on, so please let me know what you think about this scene. Any comments are helpful.

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