Alive and Kicking

Why must time slip from use when we want it to stay? and when we want it to leave it seems to stay?

I don't know, time's a jerk that eats your food and messes up your plans.

I haven't been using this main Blogger in some time. I'be been using other blogs for the use of different large projects I'm working on. for right now they will have a page linking to them at the top of this blogger you can also click the links that are in this post.

The first was a much larger solo effort from me to make a animation and then later a comic. it's about this strange hooded man who is on the hunt for one of the last human mages on their plaint. I'm not sure when this will ever pick up and be fully made in to the thing I dream it to be. But I still want their to be the little pet project I can work on when I have mother else to do. I will say that the page is still being worked on and I'd like to at some point soon go back and clan that blog as well as this one up.

http://findthemage.blogspot.com

the next one was a school assessment with a short deadline that everyone didn't do on time. I would like to say that it's the best work ever, but deadlines are really and I had to work with them. I will say that I'm happy with what I made. in short the story is bunch of school items come to life and get sucked in to a notebook and they met a bunch of drawings.

http://lostinthenotebbok.blogspot.com

Hope you all have a good day. This is YouNeverSee, otherwise known as Brock Townsend, signing off.

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I will not lie; this last Quarter was one that was really weird for me. I worked on a lot of stuff at the start then I needed to learn something, and then I never got back to working on things. I learned a lot, both on how to make the animation better and how I can get ready for a job in this field. I’m looking forward to picking this back up with the things I now know, and I want to make it as smooth and clean as I can.

What the story was is nowhere close to what it is now. It used to have a whole group of colorful people now it’s down to just two. I might add back more once I have time this summer.

I’ve remade the stone golem, and gave him a stone spider thing. This spider thing is the reason why the black hood dude is taken out and unable to keep fighting. I wasn’t going to always be the spider thing that stopped him. It had shifted from a lot of things but I felt like the stone spider thing jumping on his face and not let go, and then later drag him away was funnier.

There are a few people I won’t be adding back; the monk is one. I didn’t like him to much and his look and feel in the story was too different. He also dragged it on and made it much harder to animation it do it his complex way of making the tea and table.

The hooded mage is still my favorite and is one that IK can’t remove from the story. I’ve had some fun idea’s with him/her giving them feminine like moments well still have the body of am male. Also the spells are very fun, thinking of how they flow and work makes it very entertaining. Other then that I’ve made it so the mage shoots a slow moving butterfly at the golem to be the thing that stops it. Rather then before where the golem drank some tea and then fell to sleep after taking the first sip. 

I’ve been meaning to go back and fix the black hooded fellow; he’s right now not built well for animating with right now. He looks cool, but looking cool doesn’t help when you don’t flow with the rest of the frame I’ve made of him as of late. Other then that he not screams like baby when the spider grabs on to his face and then runs around trying to get it off well the mage stands there and looks at him. I’m really happy with his look right now as it’s changed from being a knight like archer to a fish man to now his black hooded self. It was hard for me to tell what the heck I wanted him to do, at first he didn’t really fit too well in the start, I wasn’t sure how to best use him. I was liking how he seemed like a bad butt man, but he didn’t really get stop by the monster at first, he was planed to be thrown back so the monk could grab his cape and stop him well ripping off the cape to make a sheet for the table. Butt I didn’t want him to be hit. So he changed in to fish man to better fit his new weapon: the harpoon. The harpoon was going to shot at the golem and get his leg stuck on the rope at the same time. So when it deflated off the golem he’d go flying back with it then the monk would walk up to him pull him down by his cap and have the torn cape as a tablecloth. At on point however I mad the chose that that was a dump idea, it might have also down with the fact the monk was taken out. He was then lastly changed to the hooded man we see now because IK need to to start working on his part and I had no idea what he should have looked like so I just started making something in back and it ended up being him. I blame the elder scrolls trailers that came out for him.

The knight! I wish I kept him. He had a nice scene where when he tried to hit the golem with his huge hammer. But the golem took it from him and throws it away to the stone face that’s in the background. It was going to hit a nail that a man was holding. It would have made the stone brake just in the right way to finish the stone face. This was taken out of time reasons. And not it’s out because we’ve changed background settings.

At fist this was all going to take place in a swamp, then a light forest, then a open field, now it’s in a desert to better fit the golem.  In the last few weeks hover I’ve been thinking about changing it again to a tomb. This are things that I have not fully done and is just a nice dream I have at night well I get stuff ready for school. It’s like that sweet idea but you know will take forever to do right and really isn’t worth it, but you want to make it worth it because it would be so kick butt if you did.

In the end I’m happy what I’ve learned from it and not from it. It t’was a magical sort of slap to the face for me: This is something that was far bigger then I thought it was going to be. At lest to my quality standers it was, and it’s still not fully meting them to me so. I was at one point planning on bringing in something I was working on outside of school and taking it in to aftereffects, and I might still do that next year but for now it never happened.

It’s been a long and odd year and this was one thing I both loved and hated working on.

I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I'm sooorry...

I feel like this should be the time were I acted like some crybaby like Sam. I know that it won’t help me in this moment, so I’m going to share what I did and learned from this fail. You learn more from a fall then you do a jump.

 

WHAT HAPPENED?

Well really, to be truthful, I guessed I could get more done in the time given.  I also getting really to let people pay me to make art for them outside of school so I wasn’t working on anything from school at home well I was working. The time I was here I worked, most of the time, but even with that it was more then. I really didn’t set a good time out from a storyboard, which really hurt me because I feel like there wasn’t the paining that I wanted/needed.

I ended up changing the whole thing, it used to be a party of hero’s that were inspired by the D&D sort of party. Now it’s a story about two people we don’t know, and one is wearing a black and one’s not. There’s no rhyme or reason as to why they are fighting this stone golem and why they want that TV thing? (it’s changed 5 times, no really)

I wanted to store to be more about this older character that I made for e-com a year ago, give him more story and such. However I’m looking it over again and I feel like I don’t sound right. In the end there needed to be more before hand witch was something I couldn’t do because of bad plaining.

 

WHAT DID I LEARN?

Don’t eat the deer chocolate…

Really what I would tell kids of the next coming, and myself because I made this error,  plain, really this was nothing like working on an drawing or painting. Also know your skills. Really this is a problem for me, I shoot for the stars ever time and some times it makes something great, and then some times I feel like I need to just brun what I make or have a part way don e thing like I have now.

 

WHERE’S THE FULL THING?

I can put things together, it just won’t look like anything other then a buch of small gifs and some pictures. Sadly this was a time were I just didn’t get done want I wanted to get done.

I will say one thing make sure you save good. I lost a stone golem (2-3 days of work) because I didn’t save good. So that put me behind when I was already behind.

YOU WILL GET THIS DONE

Um do you need to say it so rudely-

YES!

Ok…