http://www.videopop.jamildesign.com Production Blog Sun, 25 Jul 2010 05:24:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Rather than creating all new paintings, my approach was to take single frames from already-animated footage that I felt best represented a particular scene. The goal was to figure out how to best adjust the color scheme of each character according to the scene's lighting conditions while getting an idea ... http://www.videopop.jamildesign.com/?p=104 A little more than a year-and-a-half into production, I'm finally getting around to this stage of visual development. In most cases, figuring out the look of the environment and color studies/scripts probably would have been done to a certain degree by this stage in production. My excuse? A year ago, ... http://www.videopop.jamildesign.com/?p=73 Shot 2-03 from Leo Aquino on Vimeo. So monkey and tortoise are tired, hungry, and have been walking, walking ... and walking. Enter butterfly! http://www.videopop.jamildesign.com/?p=69 Shot sequence 1-18 - 1-19 from Leo Aquino on Vimeo. As one can probably tell by the numbering, this sequence was originally supposed to only be two shots. This somehow magically turned into six shots (including the previously posted 1-19C), mainly to add some tension. There might be one or two ... http://www.videopop.jamildesign.com/?p=54 Shot 1-19C linetest from Leo Aquino on Vimeo. Ugh, the agony ... Though it probably doesn't look like much, this might be the most challenging shot I've faced up to this point - the culprit being the tortoise's step back and fall. Three weeks and 3-4 seconds of scrapped animation later, ... http://www.videopop.jamildesign.com/?p=48 Line tests for shots 4-25 - 4-28 Tortoise & Monkey Line Test - Shots 4-25 - 4.28 from Leo Aquino on Vimeo. http://www.videopop.jamildesign.com/?p=42 line test - shot 3-6 Tortoise & Monkey Line Test - Shot 3-6 from Leo Aquino on Vimeo. http://www.videopop.jamildesign.com/?p=37 line test - shot 2-7 Tortoise & Monkey Line Test - shot 2-7 from Leo Aquino on Vimeo. http://www.videopop.jamildesign.com/?p=34 I happened upon these alternate ... uh, visual re-tellings of the story while scouting potential video hosts. ... ah, yes. The monkey must pay for his insolence. http://www.videopop.jamildesign.com/?p=30 line tests - shots 3-15 - 3-18 Tortoise & Monkey Line Tests - Shots 3-15 - 3-18 from Leo Aquino on Vimeo. http://www.videopop.jamildesign.com/?p=28