Polling for Documentary

Hello all. I have to come up with a documentary for a British television channel creatively named Channel 4. The documentary has to fit into Channel 4's key demographic. I don't have to make the documentary, but I do have to create a title sequence for it using kinetic typography (those cool swishy word animations that got popular last year for some reason).

So, how can you help? Wellp, I just need you to take this poll please. It's just one question, so that's not gonna take you very long. I'd greatly appreciate it - especially since I need to have finished planning by Thursday.

Which documentary should I create opening titles for?

Gypsies on DrugsToo Posh for Corn FlakesMy Dog The Buddhist MonkHitler's Unidentified Skinny Alien Wedding in A and EOffending MinoritiesThe Weiner HoarderMy Summer of Parading Minorities Around and Calling it a DocumentaryThe Prawn QueenSkinny VS AnvilGay, Black and Jewish: Born for Channel 4Make Pitbulls Sing OperaToo Tory for RealityLiving with an Alien Stalker NaziWhy Aliens Broke My Legs and Ate my HusbandMy Big Fat Dalek WeddingInside Big Fat GypsiesThe Man Who Never Read a Book but Made a Documentary AnywayThe Secret Life of ToiletsSharks in JailMy Addiction to Breaking LegsWomen Who Cook PeopleFacebook Made Me Eat a PuppyThe Man Who Went Insane Doing Kinetic TypographyDoom, Doom, Death, Disease and DoomMicrowaving Hamsters: My Hoarding Addiction's Evil TurnThe Boy With Bananas for Eyes

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Walking my Dinosaur

That awkward moment when you know exactly what the next key frame of an animation should look like, know exactly why it should look like that and know the motion involved… But can’t get your hand to understand that information.

This would be so much easier with a CGI rig because you can just drag the control points and let Maya do the work. But that’s why CGI is cheating. 

Note: I’m kidding. CGI has it’s own challenges, I know.

Six hours of work… Still not finished tweening. x~x

I should get used to drawing more. It’s been nice watching a drawing slowly turn into an animation, though. 

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Out of Sight

This animation is so amazing. It's been a long time since something grabbed my attention for so long. I was receiving IMs and being handed mail the whole time and nod once could I bring myself to look away. I even found my eyes getting damp from the emotional build-up it caused - it's just that awe-inspiring.
I especially love how we're encouraged into this little girl's world as she crawls through a gap in the fence. We start off in our own world of sight before following her into her own world - a very clever way of starting. Her "magic wand" is another clever device. Its beautiful as she "creates" her own umwelt, the visuals appearing as splodges of watercolour before she becomes fully comfortable with it and starts imagining full versions of what she's experiencing. The style of the drawings and the music come together to form something truly beautiful.

Quite an amazing animation.


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Booster Pack

For about six years now I've had a set of characters heavily based on some friends from highschool. Over that time, the characters have become their own. That is, they started off as humerus characatures and have, over time, taken on a life of their own. The original purpose was for a comic about what would happen if myself and my friends ended up taking on our own fantasy-style adventure in another world. I found this particularly amusing as my friends weren't exactly the perfect team for such a scenario. The comic became a subject of entertainment for people at school and I enjoyed making it.

At the time, I was also going through somewhat of an "anime" phase. As such, the characters are designed to reflect on various anime design traits that I found interesting (the big oddly-shaped eyes, giant implausible hair, etc.) and that is how I usually view them. Because of this, I've wanted to make various anime-styled animations regarding these characters. However, the anime style doesn't exactly lend itself to quick animations, so these small creations would take a very long time to make if I wanted them to look perfect. Another problem is, I don't want to be seen as an anime-obsessed person. Especially given that this would be wildly inaccurate. As such, I have been experimenting with drawing styles that might make these characters more "animatable" and also more visually appealing. 

Culture Shock by ~Draco-Ryo on deviantART

I'd love to know what people think of this style of drawing. b:

No Animations But Here's a Drawing of...

Bendito Machine

Help out with Bendito Machine?!
That sounds awesome!

Paranormal Encounter

I saw an alien and a bigfoot in the woods last night. The bigfoot was sort of hopping and gliding from foot to foot making heavy breathing sounds as it walked, like Neil Armstrong on the moon. The alien made these really loud, heavy vocalisations that made the hair on the back of my neck stand on end. Then the two creatures looked at each other, pointed at eachother and made converse indications with their hands before laughing silently and switching roles, the bigfoot vocalising and the alien space-walking. It was a very disheartening experience that reminded me just how cruel and mocking the universe can be sometimes.

Paint Tool SAI

I tried doing a bit of digipainting with Easy Paint Tool SAI, which I find is much better for lineart and preliminary sketches than Photoshop. 

I started by scouting for locations for inspiration. 

Then painted from my imagination whilst listening to some lovely music.

Then played with some Photoshop filters to see what I could make of it. 

Which version do you like best?

Video Game References

I did a short animation for one of my friends.
... Like... Just now. Well, I finished just now (at 3:45am) anyway. Love adding those fine details in postproduction.