Watchcat Xmas 2018 is here

Sometimes, it is better to give than to receive and Watchcat will be there to keep eye on the holidays this year. Please share this video with your friends, families and have a happy and safe holiday season...

Watchcat has even been there when Santa needed help...

And it was this first Holiday episode that started it all...

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Happy Holidays, Everyone!

Counting down to Christmas

Making a project on a tight deadline is a real challenge and 
I was hoping to have our Watchcat Holiday card for this posting, but I've been fighting Murphy's Law all the way on this one. I will post it in the next few days, so be sure to check out our Watchcat Facebook page when it comes out.

https://www.facebook.com/watchcat/

We would like to thank Andy Jones and Rick Almada for their voice work in our upcoming Holiday short, "Tis the Season" and Soloman (Sal) Carreiro for his animation help as well.

Sal's an animation student at Woodbury University in Burbank,CA, who returned to his home in Fall River, MA, to help clean up Scene 5; the Bad Guy punch to camera. It was a small scene, but we really appreciated the extra help. Thanks Sal!


BTW, the scene was based on this footage of Chuck Norris punching at the camera.

And speaking of the Bad Guy.

The winning entry of our "Name this Bad Guy" Contest goes to Peg Foley of Albuquerque, New Mexico for her entry "Toodles McGee!" Peg wins an official Watchcat button!
Congratulations! 

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You like? Let us know and Happy Holidays!  

CTNX 2017 this weekend

This week, Watchcat Films will be in search of animation and background artists for an upcoming Watchcat Holiday short. We will be prowling at CTNX 2017, if you see us, please stop us and say hello.

Did we mention we have a new holiday episode in the works? There will be a few new changes on this one, all I can say is that we are going for a more Film Noir style.

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Here's the rough beginnings of a storyboard for our Holiday tale.

 A bell ringing for Charity...

 The Bellringer is interrupted,

 by a Bad guy who attempts

to take the money, but is also interrupted

by Watchcat ...

 who returns the hat and bell to the Bellringer.

So what do you think? We want to hear from you! Feedback helps us
Any comments or suggestions? We are still revising the boards and will share with you the animatic next time.

We are up to 18,363 all time views

and 

have 111 subscribers to Watchcat Films on YouTube! 

Next Watchcat Wednesday! 
Watchcat at CTNX 2017 coverage

Watchcat Animatics

Animatics are roughly animated storyboards used to work out any problems with picture editing, timing, sound and everything else before your final film is completed. 

With that in mind, here is the animatic for our Watchcat Holiday episode.

WC03_Animatic_sound from WatchCat Films on Vimeo.

You can see the final episode by clicking here.

And so, here's our first rough animatic for Watchcat Episode 4.

WC04_Rough animatic from WatchCat Films on Vimeo.

We are trying to keep our episode shorter in order to finish more than on a year. Any feedback is good feedback, so please let us know what you think, like, dislike, hate, don't understand, etc. Any comment is helpful. Thanks!  

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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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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