Last Watchcat Wednesday of 2016

Let's face it, 2016 sucked
 
When the year began with Jason Wingreen, the voice of Star Wars' Boba Fett dying at 95, most would chalk it up to old age. But when Princess Leia, Carrie Fisher died yesterday on my birthday, it was hard to celebrate it this year. 

But we did celebrate finishing Watchcat episode 2 by putting out episode 3 in the form of a "Holiday Special" which is up to 336 views. We also started the year with 15 subscribers and on the last Watchcat Wednesday of 2016 we are up to 81 Youtube subscribers. You can subscribe to our Watchcat Films Youtube channel too!

We are planning on making more Watchcats episodes in the new year, in the meantime, please share our episodes with your friends and family. Help us to make more of these little dreams to come.

Thank you for all your support and letting us know you are out there and interesting in we what we are doing. We started 2016 with about 4500 views to the Watchcat files blog and we end this Watchcat Wednesday with:
  

 11,000 all time views!!!

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Happy NEW 2017!

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For Xmas 2016

Here's wishing you Happy Holidays from WatchCat Films.

Happy Holidays message from Apollo 8

And in case you missed it...

 

Happy Holidays Everybody!

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Thank You!

Watchcat Holiday Episode is here!

"Two episodes in 1 year, why it can't be done?!" They said it was impossible, but who listens to "They" anyway and as we say goodbye to 2016, here is our Watchcat Holiday episode as a present to you. Please share it with your friends, family and other Watchcat owners across the country and the rest of the world.

And a big "Thank You" goes out to two gentlemen who we worked with this year on both Watchcat projects. Alejandro Torres for composting the animation and kicking up the production value and Marcello De Francisci, for his sound recording and mixing expertise. Thanks Guys!

Have a safe and happy holiday season from Watchcat Films!

Stand by for Holiday Episode

We will soon post an animated Watchcat Holiday episode which you can send out to all your friends and family to enjoy this holiday season. So check back before Christmas eve! 

How will Santa get out of this one? Find out in this special Watchcat Holiday episode!

Enjoy it below... 

 

Rough Animation finishing up.

Things are going well as all the rough animation is finishing up. Its nice to have only 6 scenes to deal with instead of 45 or 50 as in the previous Watchcat episodes. My good friend, Alejandro Torres has created a nice wintery looking house which you will see more of at the end of the short. Here's a photo of the "house in progress".

Last week, we got a really nice email from Lindsey Villagomes, who we met at CTN Animation expo this year. We gave her our Watchcat Episode 2 postcard and she was kind enough to send us this feedback.

Hello!

I met you both at CTN this year and I just wanted to say that WatchCat is amazing! I absolutely love the atmosphere it sets up as well as the sense of humor. There was so many times that I would just burst out laughing from expressions on the character's faces to certain things character's would say. It's a great project and I can't wait to see more in the future! :D And I will for sure be spreading the word of WatchCat around!

Lindsey

This came at a time when I was considering saving the Holiday episode for next Christmas. After reading Lindsey's letter it let me know that at least someone took the time to let us know they liked what we are doing. It also helped me keep on track and get this Holiday episode done in time.

And so, here's our rough animation for Lindsey and other people who like what we are up to.

WC03 rough anim xmas2016 01 from WatchCat Films on Vimeo.

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Rough Animation begins

My final animation class ended on Friday and yesterday I decided to installed a 21 day trail version of ToonBoom Harmony 14. My goal is to animate a Holiday Watchcat episode to send off to friends and family and end 2016 in a fun way. 

I will attempt to document this production on my Animateducated blog if you are interested in learning more about the animation process using Harmony.

You can see the animation in previous post entitled "Making Christmas".

Here's a good example of the camera move in this rough of Scene 1. This begins with white at the beginning, so be patient.

wc03_rough_sc01 from WatchCat Films on Vimeo.

So far, things are going well and I hope to have the rest of the scenes roughed out by the end of the week. If you like what you see or maybe you don't understand something, please let me know.

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Making Christmas

We were just finishing Watchcat Episode 2, when Greg and I started thinking up shorter ideas for possible future Watchcat episodes. And so, we came up with our first mini motion picture to kick off the holiday season and end 2016 right.

I made a rough storyboard to figure out the story visually and we were able to book Marcello to help us record the dialogue and the world famous Jim Brothers to help record some of the sound effects. Jay and Jim are twins and are well known sound effect recording artists. Luckily, they could make the session to help record the sound effects for our project. Here they are in action...

We appreciate every new view and subscribers we get. And so, here is a special treat, the rough animatic to our next animated Holiday Greeting card. We hope to finish in time, so everyone can send the final version to their friends and family before Christmas.

WC03_Animatic_sound from WatchCat Films on Vimeo.

Let us know what you think of it and watch for the final color version coming soon!

 

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