Paper Cut-Out Character Design

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Process: Oh, Sonya

I decided to go with stop-mo charcoal animation for this short. The biggest problem was that I am not familiar with the medium, which lent to a bit of trial and error. Erasing and re-drawing was also pretty fustrating and meant that going back and fixing parts was almost impossible. A couple segments were removed from the final animation because of this. Also, the dancer was animated first in flash, then printed out as individual frames as a template and redrawn in charcoal. Then composited back into the animation. Im not totally happy with the composite, but I could just be being overly picky.

Unsuccessful Animation Attempt

Decided to go ahead and post some of the work I did on the Bike I saw you animation. I ended up scrapping it because I was unable to find a time efficient way of animating the work as I originally intended without compromising the quality...I think that their are alot of possible solutions, just havnt been inspired yet.





Chains Of Love

You were locked at the corner of broadway and 28th, all in green and aquamarine. I rolled by, lavender and white. You made my cog skip a link. Let's make single speed babies, unless your fixed?

12/15/2009- Portland Mercury

Process 1: dove parade

Just archiving my process and evolution from idea to product.





thought I might be able to scan inked illustrations for the animation, but realised it didnt work (couldnt get clean scans/photographs) and had to re-illustrate in flash vector. threw some real photographs in as place holders for props and decided that I liked how it looked and went with it for the final animation.

1. Pencil Sketch
2. Inked sketch
3. Vector Illustration