My very busy quarter has finally come to an end, and I am happy to have taken very helpful classes! Over this quarter I got to work on three main things: Student films (Baklava, Grotesque) , Unbroken, and The Lost Planet.
First the student films, I am so excited to have worked closely with the director and the rest of the crew on pitching a new story and completing the storyboards/animatic in 2 days. I have never worked so quickly on pitching a story or storyboards, but it proved to me that I can work very quickly with that. I am looking forward to what happens next with Grotesque over the winter break. Secondly, with Baklava, I had the chance to work on keyframe animation and backgrounds for this film. I learned a lot of new rendering styles, as well as worked the first time with ToonBoom Harmony. I hope I can continue on this project as well.
The second project I worked on was The Lost Planet. I worked on this last quarter, Spring 2021, the prop and environment side of it. This quarter, I got to work on the characters and creatures of the world. Over the break, I will continue to finish up the project so I have a complete project to show. What I have planned is the finishing up of the cast with their expression sheets, turn arounds, and action poses. Then, finishing up prop and environment design with a few more polished, painted props and environments to show off what I’ve learned.
Lastly, I got to work on Unbroken. I am so excited for the break! I can finally finish the first phase of the webtoon, pre-production. I will have the story finished and the illustrations for the light novel created, as well as all the turn arounds, action poses, and emotions for each character done. It’s a bit overwhelming as there’s just me and there’s about 40 characters in the first part of the webtoon, and I care for each and every one of them! Who knew making all the assets for a webtoon would be this much work? I also have to work on designing much of the interiors, such as the two cathedrals and castle. I may have to get help with the 3D as I learn 3D over the break.
Oh, one last thing. I am happy to announce I am joining the video game Pantry Panic as a concept artist!