Pipsqueak's Corner

George and Mike Drunk

2008-08-19T17:54:00.005-04:00

This here's a layout test that John wanted me to do and here's the storyboard drawing for comparison.

It took me a while to tighten this drawing up and to get the actual feel of the storyboard sketch down. The problems I have with this drawing is that I made the characters way too big, George is too close to the frame, and George and Mike are way too close to each other.

Tell me what you think!

Things and Such

2008-08-16T11:00:00.008-04:00

Sorry I haven't been around much. I've been in Maine for the past month working on something with a friend of mine, but I bring thee images...

Freaky Cat!

2008-07-10T02:15:00.006-04:00

What's up?! I figured I should put something else here rather than what I've been working on for my film. I got a new Wacom tablet recently and I wanted to see how I could ink drawings with it. I inked this in Flash and it came out okay, but the lines get all loose and uneven sometimes, which gets me all frustrated. I think I should start inking in Illustrator and see how that works for me.

the original drawering...

Rabbit Animation and Some Other Stuff

2008-07-06T04:00:00.013-04:00

Hey, folks! Here's a cleaned-up animation I recently finished plus some still frames. Sorry if the sound is kinda crappy. I exported the video along with the sound in Flash, which apparently messes up the sound a lot, but I have a sound designer who helps me out with all the technicalities.

Anyway, I hope you like!

Intro_JM_01
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And here's some other stuff...

A sad painting of a tree

Crazy faces!

Miy Film is Almost Kinda Done!

2008-05-24T01:24:00.014-04:00

Hey, everybody. I feel really bad that I haven't put almost anything up this year, so I'm going to make it up to you by putting frames I've inked up from different scenes of my film! I'm still in the process of inking right now.

These were done in Flash using a Cintiq, which was really cool to use, but I'm going to have practice more to get much smoother lines.

Hope you like 'em!

Next time I'll probably either show you some more animation or some background paintings.

Hey! Speaking of Cintiq inking, have you checked out Katie Rice's blog? She has posted some drawings she's cleaned up in Flash that look really beautiful using a Cintiq. Her lines are so damn smooth! My favorite is all of them!

It's Birthday Day!

2008-02-20T20:08:00.003-04:00

Hey, check out this insanely awesome birthday card that Hammerson made for me! He drew my characters!! How swell is that!

Go check out his fun and cartoony illustrations over at his place---> HammersonLand!

My triple thanks to you, Hammerson! You're too damn cool!

And now for some animation!

Intro_LL_02
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Intro_MS_03
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Intro_Animals_03
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Wish me luck on my film!

Merry Christmas!

2007-12-25T21:06:00.000-04:00

Someone Threw Up On Me!

2007-11-27T12:18:00.000-04:00

It's All Good!

2007-11-22T18:59:00.000-04:00

Happy Thanksgiving!

Well Look Who's Back to Bloggin'!

2007-11-21T14:40:00.000-04:00

Hey, everybody! Sorry I haven't been posting anything I think for the past month and a half. Every time I go back to school the amount of work keeps heavily increasing for me leaving me no time for online fun.

But I'm back and I've brought some animation from my film to show. It's not much, just two videos. I could upload more, but my internet is so goddamn slow, like dial-up slow, but I'll see if I can put up some more animation maybe today, tomorrow or sometime this week.

I don't think I've mentioned this film as being my senior project film for my school. It's like a thesis for seniors. It's a big deal for me being that all senior project films are going to be shown up on a big screen in front of hundreds of parents and students after graduation. Sounds kinda scary, but kinda cool too. So I can't wait till that happens.

Anyway I hope you like these clips! The first one has a loud train horn sound so you might want to turn down the volume on your computer or on the dailymotion clip to avoid any ringing sounds in your ears.

Demon Boy_01
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Intro_Animals_01
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I'm also back home for the holidays so I'm gonna take it easy with my work for a little while and I wanna make it up to the awesome people who visit this blog by trying to post everyday with something cool.

I was on a bus going to the airport and out of nowhere some freshman from school throws up all over me by accident. Like on the right side of my face, hair, pants and jacket. It pretty much sucked haha. It all happened pretty abruptly too. Seemed like the guy was partying a little too much the night before and had to let it all go. I figured I could make a drawing out of that crazy situation and show it to you fine folk. It was very shocking at first and then slowly I realized how awful it felt to get thrown up all over especially since I was stressed out from all the school work. Hey, at least I got a story and hopefully a drawing out of it. It actually kinda traumatized me a little too. Everywhere I go I feel like someone's going to throw up on me. When I stand in line for groceries or sit next to someone. Kinda like a bad car accident. I feel like it's going to happen again soon.

I find the whole situation pretty hilarious and would love to animate it one day so try not feel bad for me if you were already haha.

The Dumbass & The Devil

2007-09-20T00:48:00.001-04:00

Hey, everybody! Here's some more drawings for my film. I'll see if I can find the time to post some animation here.

OOH! So Nifty!

2007-09-12T01:34:00.000-04:00

Hey! Thought I'd post something a little different this time. I've decided to make a nice picture to characterize this blog a little more and placed it where the title of the blog is at. I thought it'd be kinda fun to do.

I'll definitely put more of my film stuff in the next upcoming posts.

Flower Stompin'!

2007-08-24T22:46:00.000-04:00

More Boskoness

2007-08-21T11:12:00.000-04:00

*UPDATE

Here's an image I made to show I how many drawings I've done for the first cycle.

Here are more cycle studies for ya! There are 13 drawings in the first cycle and 30 drawings in the second cycle.

The animator who thought up all of this was a really creative guy. He made sure that all of the keys were captured twice in the first cycle. That way you can really feel out the rhythm in the animation with or without the music. And it looks damn fun!

Where the hell is this type of animation? It's so fun and everyone's completely leaving it out from the industry. It should be brought back soon and fast!

Bosko_cycle_02
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Bosko_cycle_03
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Mr. Slither Animation & John K.'s Animation Course Level 1, Lesson 1

2007-08-10T20:48:00.000-04:00

*UPDATE

The drawings below should pretty much illustrate how I was able to figure out each of the frames for the Bosko study. Each drawing is labeled on the bottom right.

Hey, everyone! I've brought some moving drawings for you to see!

Here's a small clip I've been slowly working on for the past couple of weeks. Sorry about the quality! It looked alot better in flash.

Slither_Intro_test
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After working on the Slither clip I realized I needed to work faster on my animating. So through grateful fate I saw that John K. wanted us wanna-be animators to practice old rubber hose cartoons and has provided us with a really cool Bosko clip along with great information on how to animate in beats in his blog.

Bosko_study
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Of course I couldn't just wing it, so I made an efficient way for me to draw each frame all together in an organized fashion. This helped me keep on track with the proportions of each drawing and made sure each frame kept consistent with one another.

I first started copying all the keys like the ones John has in his blog.

Then I started counting the in-betweens within each key frame to figure out which of the in-betweens would become break-down drawings within all key frames.

After I have all of the key frames and break-downs organized together I began doing all of the in-betweens from key frame to break-down and from break-down to key frame until they all go down to the very last key. This really helped me to not worry about how many in-betweens I had to make.

And when there were too many in-betweens within a key and a break-down I figured out which in-between would be a secondary break-down within a key and break-down.

It's good that the Bosko clip worked on beats because it kept each frame evenly balanced with one another and made it easier for me to make all the break-downs within all keys. If the frames weren't evenly organized I probably would've gone crazy!

Whew! Sounds kinda crazy, dunnit?! I thought it'd be interesting to share with you all on how I managed to do this practice. I hope it made some sense.

I'm gonna start working on the other cycles in the Bosko clip. This will definitely help me improve with all the animating I have to do for my film.

Angry Slither

2007-07-27T12:31:00.000-04:00

There's plenty more where these came from! I'll post some more stuff when I can. This is a tiny scene I'm working on right now for my film. It's been really fun so far to make all these layouts and then plan out how everything will animate. It's too cool! I'll be animating the film in flash with full animation and with some "flashy" animation.

My Film!

2007-06-15T17:56:00.000-04:00

What's up?! Just didn't want to make this place seem so dead so here's what I've been up to!

My film! Yes I'm still working on my film and I'm really happy about it too. I've been really into it and the process has been pretty good so far! Right now i'm working out an animatic for it and I'll see if maybe I can put up some test animation for next week depending on how much I can do.

Here's some storyboard drawings from the film.

Heathens!

2007-05-17T14:06:00.000-04:00

Slither, Satans, Cartoonicatures & Lion

2007-05-11T03:41:00.000-04:00

Some more concept stuff for my film!

Here's some crazy shit!

Mr. Slither's Chameleon Craze! And Some Demon Dumbs!

2007-04-23T20:58:00.000-04:00

Here's some more character concept sketches for my film!

An old character for me, but a new one for you! Mr. Slither!

I'm gonna change his designs more so he can be more chameleon-like. A friend of mine told me that the chameleon's eyes are different, where one eye concaves into a small hole on his eyeball and the other has the eyeball sticking out (on top of the eyeball? I'm not sure if those are called eyeballs.) with eyelids. Pretty interesting critters, huh? I'm gonna research more on the chameleon and see how well I can put its traits into this character and see how well it'll fit with the story! Fun stuff!

Demon Dumb & Things!

2007-04-09T18:23:00.000-04:00

Here's some concept sketches for the film I want to do!

And now for things!

A Demon's Thirst!

2007-02-23T16:28:00.000-04:00

Demon Boy the gardener!

I'm working on a story right now that involves this character. It's pretty much about how this character became to be this character along with other tidbits in the story. The story is pretty simple as of now. I'm sort of structuring it right now so things can work real nice and smooth. I'm also going to make this into my first animated short. Maybe I can document my progress into this blog so all of you can see!

P.S. He's not a gardener just so you know. I just like being silly.

Tuhday Wuz Mah Boifday!

2007-02-21T01:36:00.000-04:00

Hey, everyone! Yesterday, February 20th, was my birthday and, I know it's no big deal, but I'm 21! So instead of you guys giving me presents, I bring the presents to you!

Look at dis nice cake!

Me and my friends had a craving for some Don Hertzfeldt cartoon cake fun!

Here's a new character I invented.

Brother Lion! My lion character's (Looney Lion) half brother!

Well, that's pretty much it! Wave goodbye to the nice people, Mr. Flower!

bye!

Braineaters!

2007-02-14T04:57:00.000-04:00

Hey, everyone! Check out my craptastic animated music video I did of a Misfits song! I thought I'd pay tribute to one of the most coolest bands out there.

I've been meaning to post this for the longest time now. It took me a weekend to do and it's sort of unfinished in the end. I colored all the stills and the animation is just pencil tests done in FlipBook. There's some minor editing problems, but it still looks good. The animation might seem kind of limited, but that's because it was all animated in twos. It took me some hard time to get it done.

Well, I hope you guys like it!

Braineaters_final
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FINALLY!! New Post!

2007-01-25T21:07:00.000-04:00

Hi, everyone! I'm back to show you some more of my insane-o stuff! I'm pretty sure some of you got tired of just seeing the same shitty Christmas card I've been leaving in the last post for a while and I apologize for that (I know I felt like crap for leaving it so long). I also wanted to say thanks to the people who post all the nice comments here. You guys are some of the most kick ass people ever! Anyways, here's some new and kinda interesting shit for all to see!

These two model sheets were made for a class I'm taking now. They're of my two characters: Jackrabbit McGee and Pipsqueak Mouse. They're drawn really generic with symmetry, which was kind of difficult for me at first, largely because I like to go to the extent with my own style trying to make a drawing seem really fun and less generic. Also, this project reminded me of the Preston Blair Lessons John K.'s been giving, so in a way I've learned more by sort of solidifying my characters and making sure that their structures make more sense in design and not focus too much on the contours.

I just noticed that there's a million screw-ups within these drawings. I really have to get back to those John K. lessons!

And now I leave you with other stuff.