Outlaw Creations

For this project, I decided to go 'cartoony': I thought I needed to get it out of my system now, and then move on to a more realistic style (my fav.) later.

At the library, I found a pretty useful book about using Flash to make cartoon style animations.

The two authors have a portfolio that

includes Walt Disney and

Hannah&Barbera, so I knew my

inspiration was in good hands...

First I drew the characters on an A4 with a pencil.

After re-drawing the outlines with an

ink pen, I used a sheet of tracing paper

to draw the various character's facial

expressions;

Then I scanned both sheets and did the

colours with Photoshop, preparing

(still in Photoshop) each of the 10 frames

requiredfor the project.

My idea was to have a main character

(the Pencil) passing judgement on the

others artist's tools.

A simple narrative, where it's possible to interact with the scene by

moving the mouse over the character you want, and see what the

Pencil has to say about it.

Getting all the frames correctly scripted was a bit of a nightmare

but after hours spent learning the basics of Flash, I finally managed

to complete the core of the project.

Please enjoy...


Uli Interactive Narrative 1 by ~Powelldogg on deviantART

Tuesday, 6 October 2009

Hi folks!

This is my first blog as a Multimedia student at NTU. For the next three years I won't be bothering you too much about what cool movie I've watched or what new album excited me... You already have your friends for that stuff!

I'm here to talk about what I'm doing at uni, so let's get down and dirty...

At the top you'll see the result of my first afternoon working with Z-Brush. For a total newbie, I think the result is pretty good... well, the colouring was done in Photoshop (which I've been using for years) so I guess I cheated a little bit... but fear not! As soon as I master the 'know-how' of a smooth colouring in Z-Brush, you'll be the first to know! Please, leave a comment.



Until next time...

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