Todays FRANK update are some screen shots from my most recent scene. I finally made it to the closing scene, I only roughed out theanimation, so working on this was a little challenging due to not have a final animation pass. I colored and experimented with shadows while coloring this scene. It took about 2 week to complete. Im happy with the outcome. This being the closing scene in the film it was very important It convays the right emotion. Hoping i nailed it!
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Todays FRANK update are some images of my compositing process thus far. I have a lot of scene finished and ready for final renders, So i starting putting together a new animatic. The bottom images show most of the scenes I’ve finished. It feels nice to see all the weeks of hard work come together to form the big picture. Still lots to do on the project but every day I get closer to finishing it.
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Todays FRANK update are a few screen shots from a very short scene I colored a few weeks back. In this scene FRANK picks up the game and we see his reflection, right before he loses his temper and sees RED. I spent some time just looking at the scene and trying to picture how the colors would mix, It took some time to process it and after some experimenting I was able to finish the scene
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Todays FRANK update the about a new scene I recently completed. This scene is a two parter, Sc15 has and A and a B part. Below are screen captures of both. We see FRANK happy and in mid clap then we see the game charging on the table. I am currently finalizing the back grounds for this scene.
This scene took me ten days to color, Coming from a scene that took three months to complete to ten days was such a relief. I had been feeling a little stuck or slowed in my progress, this happened with all large scenes tho. By the time you’re reading this post I would have selected my final look.
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Todays FRANK update is one I been forgetting to post. This Scene (Sc14) took me about three months to color. There are A LOT of moving parts to this scene I will try and break it down a bit.
First we have four flower pots, two in the back and two in the front, only the front ones move but each has 3 sunflowers that move with it. Each sunflower has twelve pedals, So coloring these was a slow process. Next is FRANK’s hand coming into frame and moving the pots and grabbing the charger.
This screen shot is from when I was compositing the scene, there are a total of Fourty-Six frames. While compositing I was able to see a few small mistakes I made during the coloring, lucky for me all errors where easily corrected, they took about 3-4 days. The scene was a bit challenging when it came to coloring all the elements that moved. There was foreground middle ground and back ground elements. I struggled a bit but for the most part this was a pretty straight foreword scene that didn’t require any redoing, just a few layering issues.
A few words about the scene, this is one of the more longer scenes in the film and it took a long time to complete but the final look (not pictured in the screen shot) came out great and I am really happy with all the effort it took.
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Todays blog post is something different, I recently finished coloring a short but complex scene, Im not entirely sure where I messed up but I cant save my photoshop file into a PNG file. Its been a real headache trying to get this to work, I tired a few things from, saving different types of jpegs and tiff files, but my problem remains. The issue is when I try to import into After Effects cs6 Im getting a error message. I haven’t spent much time trying to figure it out because I have other scenes which Im more interested in finishing, so this minor set back will have to wait a few weeks. I will figure it out in time but for now here are some errors messages, enjoy!
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Todays update are a few screen shots from last weeks progress. I have been having a lot of fun with my approach to coloring and designing these backgrounds. They are the first and only glimpes at the after math, so these stills are kinda a big deal for the story. However I want to keep it lose and just have fun.
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Todays FRANKs update is exciting!I am starting a new scene which is a great feeling after grinding for 4 months on just one scene. Its a long scene and it has huge importance to the film. Im quite happy with the animation also, it looks very nice moving in color as Im currently compositing it
Any way this new scene is very different, its just stills. So Im basically painting 4 different backgrounds. Its nice because I can have fun and just paint. Weird enough I have been coloring for a long time now but rearly has it felt like painting. This new scene feels like painting and Im loving it and enjoying the process
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Todays blog post is an update on this scene. I am done coloring all the frames after todays corrections. All thats left is to composite and to add a few finish backgrounds. Its a very long scene apx 24 seconds long. Its taken me more then 3 months to finish all the frames. This is the second longest scene in the film, but its very important because it carries a tremendous emotional impact.
Anyway enjoy!
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Todays FRANK post is an update on scene 21. I have been coloring this scene for a while now, we are almost done with it.
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Todays FRANK update are some screen shots of my current progress. I have been working on this scene for a while now, the background is the only thing holding me back. I have yet to finalize the design and colors but this stills are pretty close