Well it finally happened. I have become a real cartoon character in a Senior film called "Hero", by Tucker Joneson and Andrew Hill. And if you go to Woodbury University's Annual Animation Showcase this Friday, May 11th, you will see this film and other great student animated films as well. The fun begins at 6pm, hope to see you there.
Last Saturday, I went to Career Day at CSUN in Northridge, CA where I met many students and got to take a look at their work. I also gave them Watchcat postcards and told them about our project. We are hoping to involve more students of 2D animation in the making of future episodes, with the understanding that since we can't pay them at this time, we could pay them in other ways. We would allow them to use the finished scenes for their portfolios and would give them screen credit.
Its not a lot, but to get a copy of an animation scene that you helped create, might lead to more work for the both of us. We get an animated scene, they get a copy for their reel, screen credit and animation experience. We personally would love to be able to pay artists, but presently we are in hobby mode. That world were you have to prove that this idea is going to work or not. The only way it will is to produce something that can be shown later on with the hopes that an audience will want to see it.
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I mentioned before, we figured out a few character flaws for Watchcat because no one wants to see a perfect superhero who always catches the bad guys. Besides claws, our cat needs some character flaws, you want to see what happens to him. Its a part of Storytelling, look at Finding Nemo. Nemo has a smaller fin to deal with and succeeds with it when he does. Marlin, his dad must overcome his fears in keeping his only son safe.
Character flaws have an effect on your Character design, which we didn't think about because we were only concentrating of the character design and animation. A lot of the portfolios I saw, many had samples of Anime inspired characters.
It was refreshing when I see a portfolio with the student's personal style; with maybe 10% Anime, 90% their personal style. I always get inspired by seeing others artists work.
Last week, we posted our Halloween script and this weekend we are recording dialogue tracks. Andrew Jones performs as Watchcat with Rick Alamada playing Mikey. We are planning to show you a "behind the scenes" video of them for our next Watchcat Wednesday posting.
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