something to see

brb

noreply@blogger.com (spikey star) — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:07:00 +0000

this blog will just have to do with slow updates, I just can't keep it up, well not for the moment anyway :( I haven't given up on animation but there's far too many things I gotta deal with right now.
Kiba's playtime is going underway so once that's more built up I promise to post something up here cos I will need your opinions and such!

I'm alive and well so don't you worry! hahaha

merry christmas

noreply@blogger.com (spikey star) — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 22:25:00 +0000

a short ~~crappy~~ animation I made last night :P
merry christmas everyone!

Untitled from spikystar on Vimeo

the animatic

noreply@blogger.com (spikey star) — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 22:52:00 +0000

alrright, here's the animatic for Kiba's Playtime

Kiba's Playtime animatic from spikystar on Vimeo

changes made:

after Kiba leaves, it cuts to the shot of a tree+sky where the sun set happens so you know time has passed since he left.

Next scene, Lily and Marie are packing up to leave, they're folding the picnic sheet they were sitting on

finally Kiba re-appears in a dress from behind them

so yeah, any feedbacks and opinions are welcome

ughhh

noreply@blogger.com (spikey star) — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 22:31:00 +0000

just so I don't end up disappearing off again for aggges like last time *coughs*
thought I should at least update here so it doesn't look out of date :p

but seriously, I really have been busy with other miscellaneous stuff.
it's all so crazy dammit....

I need to get back into drawing and animating loads more soon.

hopefully I'll have something to post here next time

halloweeeeen

noreply@blogger.com (spikey star) — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 21:53:00 +0000

I don't know why but I wanted to make this hahaha

happy halloween!

okay, as promised...new stuff

noreply@blogger.com (spikey star) — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 18:44:00 +0000

Character sheet for Kiba

storyboard for the animation I've been working on

Title: Kiba's Playtime
Format: 2D Flash Animation
Duration: approx 5minute or less

Part1

Part2

the storyboard image had to resized in scale, I hope the texts are readable!

oh noes

noreply@blogger.com (spikey star) — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 21:46:00 +0000

oh dear, I haven't updated for ages again...the shame!

just needed to figure out what I should do with my life now and whatnot etc...it's okay, I'm not having a breakdown or anything hahaha the past few days has been soooo fun I'm so happy about it :)

anyways, I will post again soon, honest!

long time

noreply@blogger.com (spikey star) — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 23:31:00 +0000

I really need to update here more often, I've been away and stuff so that's my excuse for now haha

2new characters

noreply@blogger.com (spikey star) — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 01:00:00 +0000

it's 2am now, I've been working on my characters most of the day and scanning drawings *aghhhh* still got 3more characters to do

here's two I've done earlier

they're sisters called Lily and Marie

update

noreply@blogger.com (spikey star) — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 23:13:00 +0000

wow my blog's been pratically dead for a while :-/ it's not that I haven't been doing anything, I was just too lazy to update!

I have been working on some new ideas for a short animation piece so I'll upload drawings and such when I post again next!

Birthday Bash

noreply@blogger.com (spikey star) — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 15:13:00 +0000

Here's the full version of my final animation :D

I'm going to edit the eating scene cos I was told it needs a little anticipation and the head needs to move as he takes a bite

Birthday Bash from spikystar on Vimeo

I'm quite happy with the result :) it's been good working with Flash, even though I wasn't confident at the beginning I think I can handle the program now haha

rough cut movie I hope it plays properly

noreply@blogger.com (spikey star) — Fri, 25 May 2007 20:13:00 +0000

we had to show a rough cut movie to show how much work has been done on our final project, I didn't really like the session to be honest, they said a lot of annoying things to us *aghh*

rough cut movie from spikystar on Vimeo
the "suggestions" I got were:

the character should open the box at the start, see the toy inside and then smile before picking it up, they thought it was weird he was smiling right from the start...er, what?

The toy should hit him on the head more than once, maybe about three times before it gets eaten

I can probably do the second option without too much problem if I want to but the first option, the opening the box thing, I don't know why I feel unsure about that, unless if that's going to make something better..?? I just think it's not like having the box already open doesn't make sense or makes the whole thing hard to understand. I dunno, if I can get away with it I'd rather leave as it is cos I didn't see it as much of an issue :-/

pre-view

noreply@blogger.com (spikey star) — Sun, 20 May 2007 17:09:00 +0000

a little preview on the progress of my final project. This is the ending where the little one gets eaten.

Untitled from spikystar on Vimeo

character sheets

noreply@blogger.com (spikey star) — Sat, 19 May 2007 21:16:00 +0000

some doodles of my character used in my final project, I always draw it in a scribbly-way so they're not very neat!

these are showing the basic features

some poses and whatnot

how his mouth opens

two characters acting

noreply@blogger.com (spikey star) — Fri, 18 May 2007 22:48:00 +0000

riiight, so I managed to find the two characters acting animation. The one saved on my drive had the ending cut off so I went back to the line test machine to find the original and rendered it out properly again. It should be fine now!

two character acting from spikystar on Vimeo

they're sharing a popcorn on the couch but the one on the right keeps eating them and the other character on the left gets mad and tips the empty bowl on his head
these are mostly keys, the only in-betweens I did was for the eating part :-/ well, I still like it anyway!

I'll try and post my final project stuff as well so I can show what I'm doing right now and not just the old stuff, yeah! :D

first ever lip sync

noreply@blogger.com (spikey star) — Fri, 18 May 2007 12:53:00 +0000

this is an old lipsync animation I did at the BA animation course, it was my first attempt at using flash so it's not perfect but whatever!
tell me what you think of it!

first ever lipsync from spikystar on Vimeo

noreply@blogger.com (spikey star) — Thu, 17 May 2007 23:53:00 +0000

aghh, I'm sorry I haven't updated here for a while! I didn't have time cos of how things were at home but anyways, it's okay now!

thank you to those who commented on my previous entries :) it's nice to get comments and feedbacks from you guys! I'll try and dig out the popcorn eating character animation from my hard drive and post it here in the next few days.

My final project is going okay, I'm quite enjoying working on flash.
I think I've managed to do most of the key positions for all the scenes now, I need to decide on what I want the background to look like, I think I should keep it simple. I better work on it in the weekend!

2character lipsync

noreply@blogger.com (spikey star) — Thu, 03 May 2007 21:18:00 +0000

2character lipsync I've done back in February this year, the sound is taken from a film Dumb and Dumber. The character on the left also starrs in my final project :D he's meant to be a little robot thingy! I'm quite fond of him <3

lipsync animation from spikystar

talking of the final project it's slowly proceeding, I'm still learning bits and bobs about Flash that I didn't know about before *pfft*

first post

noreply@blogger.com (spikey star) — Wed, 02 May 2007 18:12:00 +0000

I was forced into making a blog to post and share my animation works,...so here it is! this is a animatic I've made for the final major project we're doing at the moment. I will try and keep adding things whenever I can :)

animatic from spikystar