Videos

I know a lot of the videos here still aren't playing. This is a known issue for Blogger and hopefully they'll fix it as soon as possible.

• "Thanks to everyone for all the detailed data on the video display issue. We have enough data now to move forward with our fix, so I'll be locking this thread to keep the house tidy. In the meantime, please keep an eye on our posted Known Issue about this bug, which we'll be updating the second we have more information to share:
  
  http://knownissues.blogspot.com/2010/01/some-users-are-experiencing-problems.html
  
  Much thanks again for your patience!
  
  Gatsby
  The Blogger Team"

Scene 40 Background

Rather proud of this one. Got the colours right. Makes me want to go back and redo some of my others ones, but alas I have not the time for such endeavours.

Scene 13

Warp Speed?

I am sick of inbetweening a slowly expanding fire cloud

Shall need to get some opinions on the explosion... I'm scared that it's not working well on 2s and that I'll have to do MORE 'tweens...

Explosion Shockwave

Having never properly animated an explosion before I decided today was going to be the day I started working on it. And I've ended up spending all my time on a new idea of having a shockwave element.

Ignore the crummy explosion in this video and just enjoy the first shockwave test.

EDIT: Okay, at that quality you can't really see anything. I'll upload a better quality version once I've animated the explosion itself.

RE-EDIT: It'll be interesting to experiment with the sound for this scene. I guess the sound of the explosion shouldn't be heard until the shockwave hits the camera (which isn't obvious here due to the quality and not enough camera shake).

Animatic Update

I've updated my animatic with some minor timing changes. I've added some of the animation I've done so far, as well as the first two pieces of music by Sarah Gillespie!

Fornax Chemica

Wouldn't mind doing the poster for my film like this...

Pirate Flag Animation Test 2

Again, the flag motion is driven by a robotic arm which will be holding the bottom right corner.

Pirate Flag Animation Test

It's a flag in the vacuum of space, I know. That's why there'll be a wee robotic arm at the bottom right corner waving it.

EDIT: I think I'll make the background of the flag a little lighter so it's more visable against a space background.