The Last and Final

Hello fellow classmates and welcome to Thomas and I's final blog post. We are sadly no where close to being finished and we can't seem to find a way to export what we have from the program we are using so, don't expect too much with the whole presentation thing.

But hey! This project is based on personal achievement not completeness so we are technically good! 

Alright so this past week Thomas and I have both been muy muy sick and not really on top of our game, so we didn't get much done. I am to shy to add lyrics to the song so that will not be happening :)

I did, however, write another back up song!! Yay! This one is a little more sad so I think it will go better with our story line. I'm sorry 'If all else fails use this,' you just weren't sad enough for this. Depressing really, you had so much potential.

On Thomas' side of the spectrum, he has really improved his drawings on the drawing board!! And he did the BA part where the chick concurs her monster. Here's the thing getting chopped down like a pro.

     

Dos Semanas

Le Sente 

(That is Italian for "The Feels")

I made a Time Laps! (Just ignore the fat hand, the horrible quality, and the horrible drawings)

That's our plan, and I know you can't really see it but it's the thought that counts right? Plus I wrote out our story line last week so just refer to that and imagine it in drawing form. Anywho, we've made mucho progress. I wrote lyrics to our song and it goes along with our story line... kind of. I am shy however, so I'm on the edge about actually putting them into the backup song. 

I also wrote a second song! It is all on the piano and I am very proud of it, but I haven't found a sufficient recording device to use for it. If I don't find one, I will have to import the sound using a keyboard and my computer, which I hate doing being the sound from a grand piano sounds so much better, but oh well.

In the animation department, Thomas has finished almost half of the video, and it is awesome! Here is a short clip of the video so far. (Ignore the noise of Thomas' fam bam in the background).

In the brain department, Thomas and I have learned that having one computer sucks, especially when the non artistic person has it. However, we've also learned that Thomas computer supports the program and the drawing board! Progress people. Progress. Here is a picture of our girl in the middle of her battle doing some awesome kunfu stuff. Hardcore right?

Week two.. Oh the struggle..

We have found a great anime program to use! Yay! It's called Synfig Studio and it allows you do many cool features with your drawings.

Thomas and I have learned a lot about it over the past week. The major thing we learned, though, was how to do cut out animation. This is when you individual parts of the character and make them move separately.

Ex: You draw an arm, you can move it around to make it look like it's waving, and the program animates it all for you, you just have to draw the arm.

This is a little thing we put together using cut animation. (If the video doesn't work the first time just re-load the page)

We also came up with our storyline! It is going to be a story of a young teenage girl who is fighting an internal battle against herself. This will be portrayed in the young girls brain. Her brain will be in the shape of  prison cell and she will be shackled to the wall. Monsters will come and fight her and she will fight back and win. With every strike against the monster, the smaller it gets and the more transparent the prison cell will become. Very symbolic, we know we know.

Here are our three main ideas for the monster.

 

And here is the girl Thomas drew with his amazing drawing skills (I drew that horrible face thing obviously):