Animation Final Preview #1

I'm almost done with the pre-production stage of my final for Basic Animation Techniques. I'm using traditional cut-out animation mixed with hand-drawn animation, so I've been hard at work creating backgrounds, puppets, getting voices, ect. I can't believe this has to be done in less than two weeks but everything is coming together so much better than I could have imagined, so I'm excited to see how this turns out in the end...hopefully it won't disappoint but with how it's going, I can't imagine it going sour. Anyways, since this is definitely going to be consuming my life until it's over, I'll be posting some preview images occasionally for the next two weeks.

First preview: The 6 kid puppets. All created on Photoshop then they will be printed off on card stock and then sewn together, but in this image I assembled them as they should look.

The Pink Lioness Digital Painting

Drew this sketch of my character The Pink Lioness(TPL for short) during Honors Western Civ.

Then painted it in on Photoshop after class since I kind of liked it and I needed the digital painting practice. I'm not too happy with how the sky turned out but I foolishly painted the stars and moon on the same layer as the blue sky and didn't really want to fix it since I have many other things to work on, so I made it work. Otherwise, kind of happy with this I guess.

And I also made the header/banner for my blog during Honors Western Civ(heh, I can't help but draw in that class...it's so boring, it's making me understand why people do not enjoy learning history). I'm quickly realizing I need a better scanner...the one I have now is a piece of crap and makes everything blurry. Gah, just another thing I need to get. :/