Says-A-Me Sketches

Here are a few sketches from the upcoming Says-A-Me short...

Making Headway

Well this weekend I was able to get some help with voice-over work thankfully. Now I only have two more characters to finish!
In the mean time I have some character designs that were worked on. Been kind of stuck on how I'm going to have the people look like in this one. Also I have other obligations that I need to work on as well...DOH!
I'll be posting some of the character designs later on.  Also time to start making a little tune and get some sound effects in order...

Chegg...Commercials!

Okay so i don't exactly have cable t.v. In fact i don't have it all. I rock the good 'ol bunny ears!

Anyhow I was basking in the glory of cable television at a friend's place when I saw a Chegg.com commercial... It was completely great! I loved the animation in it.

So I did what was natural and youtubed it and low and behold I fond more! Check them out here if you haven't seen them already. Short and sweet..

Bit Of A Preview Here...

Ah hell, here are all the backgrounds for the next cartoon... :D

Finished With The Backgrounds

I've finished the backgrounds for the Says-A-Me Street episode.

I know it's out of order since I still haven't finished with the voice recordings yet, but I should be doing that hopefully this weekend when a couple of people can help me out with that..

I'll upload some previews later on today...

Finished With A Storyboard...

I have uploaded a storyboard of the Sesame Street (Says-A-Me Street) cartoon I'm working on currently, however only friends can view it so yeah...friend me! I'll release it to the world once the full cartoon is finished so if your the patient type I suppose you really don't have to friend me...sniff...

Also I'm working on a "tutorial." I'll be documenting my paperless animation process during the creation of this cartoon so be expecting that as well. Hmm...yes progress is the key!

Need More Voice Talent!

I started with the voice recording today...turns out I'm about as bad at it as I thought! So far I can only get Big Birds voice down, but I got stuck! Now every time I talk it just sounds like that!

Hahahah..soo anybody wanna help? I need females for this one!

p.s.

Don't make me do it!

Just On A Quick Note...

I added progress indicators on the page. Hopefully this will prove useful in some way, at least giving viewers a visual as to how far along I am in my projects.

The progress bar will be incorporating five parts of my animation process.

Step 1 - Scripting

Step 2 - Story Boarding

Step 3 - Voice/Sound Recording

Step 4 - Animation

Step 5 - Compiling

Each of these steps represent %20 of the total project. I almost always take each of these steps in the same order for all my animation projects so basic math skills should be able to tell you how far along I am.

New Layout!

Just finished with the new blog layout. Looks good i think, much more simpler than the last. Yeah now to work on some animation!

In the mean time my sister sent me a pic of my nephew using his newly inquired logical skills to turn on a light... I felt obliged to turn it into a motivational poster :D

Hard times...Harder Thinking!

Damn I am sooo horrible at updating aren't I?

Ok so even though I have a script written out for another cartoon and having intentions to animate it, for some reason I haven't even touched it...However not all is lost because I've just finished up a script for another A308 cartoon! This one is a very heavy endeavor since I'm aiming at a full youtuby 10 minute episode!

So now the question remains..Should I animate the shorter random cartoon first? Or just jump straight into this A308 beast? I'm actually aiming at making the other short first just so that there's a little something for my "viewers" to watch. That's right, I'm thinking of you!

YOU SHALL BE ENTERTAINED!