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I’m trying to crank out a short segment this weekend. This shot has Helen Cooper leaving the basement, with Judy taking her place to watch over young Karen. I started off tracing the background and foreground elements, but to change things up, I’m using my “cartoon” style on the characters. Does it save time? Well, […]
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It was a marathon session tonight. Just me and my Ustream channel and a few friendly observers. Lo and behold, I’ve finished the scene. The leering, lurching Bill Hinzman zombie attacks Barbara, she screams, and Johnny leaps to the rescue. It’s only 14 seconds, but I think I put in more hours on this section […]
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There’s a couple ways of thinking about Twitter. One is that it’s a waste of time, a bunch of people writing about what they ate for breakfast. Yes, there’s some of that. But you can also use the service to monitor news and network for jobs. I use Twitter as a sort of link blog. […]
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Same section as last time, but now Johnny has lip sync, the zombie is properly rotoscoped, and so is Barbara. Roto is tedious. I’m doing sketchy work, but every 2 frames. That’s 15 times a second. Per character. Now my wrist hurts. To prove it, I actually recorded my work habits with a webcam today. […]
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Weeks later, I’m back on this “Night of the Living Dead: Reanimated” scene. I’m jumping around a bit, so Johnny still needs lip sync. The Hinzman zombie is a junky placeholder — I’m thinking of rotoscoping him in that shot. There’s also a severe lack of Barbara there. But… I wanted to get this test […]
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Rochester filmmakers Mike Russo and Derrick Petrush have posted the trailer for the slasher parody, “One Kill.” It’s a hysterical horror comedy short produced as part of last year’s Rochester Movie Makers summer challenge. I was not involved in the production, but this gives me an excuse to post the poster image I made for […]
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Animate This! / Community / NOTLD:R / Subterranea April 24, 2009
READ MOREAll this week, while I was focused on animating a few scenes, Mike Schneider was thinking about the big picture. He was getting all the pieces in place for a relaunch of the Night of the Living Dead: Reanimated website, along with a new trailer for the project. Behold, the latest trailer! If you watch […]
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I heard today about a short scene early in the movie that still needed attention. It’s about fourteen seconds of action in the cemetery featuring Barbara, Johnny, and the Bill Hinzman zombie. Exciting! It sounded fun and easy. I just worked on the first few seconds for a couple hours, but I don’t even have […]
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Here is the completed animation for the 49 second section I’ve been working on. The deadline for content is the end of this week, so I’m sending my files off tonight. My half rotoscope / half flash puppet method is very time consuming. If I’m called on to do some more orphan scenes (which I’d […]
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Here’s some more work from that same scene for Night of the Living Dead: Reanimated. My style is changing from shot to shot because I’m playing around, having fun. When finished, the whole movie will have a patchwork quality, so I don’t feel the need to stay consistent from shot to shot. When I’m done […]
