[rough footage]

I was getting over a cold this entire week, so my output probably wasn't what it could have been. But I still got some rough stuff done!

From when we're looking into the well. This is just the rough lineart/texture for the background; I'm planning on touching up the well's interior in Photoshop.

This is only about half the scene. I still need to animate her doing some action I haven't decided (maybe brushing off her dress?) and reacting to hearing her mother come up the stairs.

Super boring footage of Claire from the mom's POV, as she's berating her for not cleaning her room.

Rough animation of after Claire has fallen in the well, when she opens her eyes.

Hopefully this coming week will be more productive than this last one has been, haha.

[backgrounds + footage]

I didn't get a chance to work much this weekend, but I'm still technically ahead of schedule, so I don't feel that bad! Mostly backgrounds were done anyway. These aren't colour corrected, so next time you see them they'll be more black and white and less sepia. More in keeping with the others you've seen.

The first time we see the well. I'm still tweaking it a little. Claire's head would be in the bottom right-hand corner.

View up from the well at Claire's face, when she's talking.

Rough footage!

The scene where she walks to the windowsill and hoists herself up. I haven't added the dress yet and I think I might keep going with the animation and include her swinging both her legs over the sill. Also, the colour's probably won't be that saturated? We'll see.

Her walking to the well for the first time.

I'm still feeling pretty good about all this. I'm taking revision notes as I go along. My goal is to finish all the rough animation, or at least most of it, this semestre, and spend next semestre colouring and adding the revisions people have suggested.

[rough footage]

I was going to have three videos to show you guys, but I saved wrong and lost twelve seconds of footage, aka the scene where she gets up, looks around, and walks off. I have an older video version of it I'll post here, but I need to redo it all again.

A rather floaty run cycle, but I'm trying to just get all the rough animation done right now.

The background will be changed stylistically, but this is where she's laughing, playing with her dinosaurs, then hears her mother coming up the stairs.

The older version of the lost scene. The newer version had the walk cycle fixed.

Another test background image.

EDIT: I FOUND THE FRAMES OH MY GOD. I almost died. I have to re-composite them all, but still. Whew.

[thumbnails]

One of the things I'm really struggling with right now is interesting shots and camera angles. This week I'm planning to watch some movies and take some notes, try to figure out how to nail down the mood. Until then, here's some thumbnails I did in an attempt to "spice up" some previously boring shots. I'm going to be doing this all next week as well, so these are just the first few.

[new concept art]

still working on better compositions and trying to figure out colour. WE SHALL SEEEE!!!!!

Unfinished. Just put up for class. Will remove later.

[a bit of viz-dev]

Just some more stuff I've been working on. Foliage studies, colour schemes, a bit more Claire stuff, with and without the hairpin.

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[character turnaround]

Here we go! This is the tentative colour scheme. I really like it, but I still have no idea how the backgrounds are gonna look, so it might change.

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EDIT: Because we're looking at blogs in the Toon Boom class right now--more concept art! 

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[colour help]

I'm still working on it, but right now I've definitely hit a colour rut. These are the schemes I've liked the most so far out of the several that I've done. Anyone have any thoughts? Help would be much appreciated. Thank you!

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EDIT: what do you guys think about this?

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[character designs: round 2 + first concept art]

Okay! I tweaked the design a bit. She might be a bit too tall now though. I also think I'm going to add some more fat on the arms and legs; I want her to be about 8-10 years old. What I need help on (besides any thoughts you guys have) is hair colour. I'm leaning away from the brown because I envision the scenes and colours of the backgrounds to be kind of darker, and I want her to be the lightest thing in the film. What do you guys think?

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Also, here's the first piece of concept art!

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