HUGE FREAKIN' UPDATE TIME.

Okay folks, my last post to this blog was way back in November. Yup, three months ago. Time for me to slam a ton on ya.


FIRSTLY, allow me to preface this by posting what I turned in last semester-

The Amazing Hot Dog Wizard (1st Whole Rough) from Nicolas Pflug on Vimeo.

Okay, so as we can see I had a ton of rough, un-colored scenes, plus another half that was still storyboard. That was in December. Initially, I had intended to finish the rough animation by the end of the Christmas break. However, this plan fell through due to ToonBoom crashing on my laptop, and me losing the activation key so I couldn't move it to my pc. I was able to fix the problem (turns out the key is hidden in a folder buried DEEEEEP in the source file), but I still lost a ton of crucial work time. Nonetheless, once I returned I decided to start forging ahead. However, I felt in order to establish a finished look for the piece, I needed to refine and color the first half. I wanted to finish this two weeks ago, but due to the roughness and the frame-by-frame nature of the animation, it's taken a long time to get the piece back on track. Allow me to show you the animation I have refined and colored so far. Please note, there are scenes in between that are still getting worked on, so there will eb a flash of black in the video indicating where the missing footage is:





So yeah, still got a long way to go, but better. Much better. But yeah, whats up with that missing footage? Allow me to explain: as you can tell from the rough I presented last semester, the reaction shots to the Whatever-You-Want Wizard still leave MUCH to be desired. Also, the chewing scenes needed a ton of work. For reference, here's all the shots I didn't include and am working on right now:




And here's a gif of the new chew animation for the lady, now a quick bite instead to give more punch:

Still rough, but WAAAY better than what I had before. Expect all of the footage from the reassessment finished by next Tuesday (have family visiting this weekend, so I'll be a little behind). Also, no clue why blogger does that weird ghosting thing, to see the cleaned up animation go here: http://doodledido.tumblr.com/post/43069261749/still-rough-but-heres-a-gif-of-a-lady-eating-a

As you can see, this is taking a very long to finish. I'm still aiming to have all the animation done by the picture lock date of March 6. To show a sample week illustrating my work schedule in order to maximize output:

Basically, the red blocks indicate the time I have partitioned for work. The blank spaces are where I'll be sleeping. Obviously, at some point I'll be working on other classes and my internship's outside work, but the top priority is the BFA. In any case, still have a crazy amount of work to do, but gonna get it done in order to make this the absolute best piece I can make it be!