Lofty Looters Pre-Revision Animatic

Lofty Looters Pre-Revision Animatic

This is the animatic put together using the backgrounds I posted before.  It was a lot more fun than the first animatic of this term, and probably a lot more fun to watch.  I'm doing thumbnails for a second part to this same animatic, so just wait and see…….

The Sum of my INKtober

As far as keeping up with doing INKtober drawings… I've done them every day so far.  This is one of the ones I'm most impressed with.  It's been a fun challenge, something I'd like to keep doing in my free time.
Say hello to my impression of Nico Marlet's concept art style!  The How to Train Your Dragon movies are incredible, right at the top of my favourite movies list (with some others).

"Lofty Looters" Background Sketches

As you can see, I like to draw outside of the lines.  Can't leave any leak space, after all.  Drawing backgrounds and making animatics is becomes more fun as I get better at them.  These backgrounds are for an animatic pre-named "Lofty Looters", and shows pirates escaping from the onslaught of angry tribesmen with treasure and  a surprising discovery.  I had to edit my original story, otherwise I might have had a feature-length amount of story sketches.

The first background is one I will be using to animate a heavy lift (of a pirate lifting treasure into a boat), and a push/pull animation (where the pirate pushed the dinghy out to sea).  I get to do a lot of fun research, and have discovered the names to some ship rigging and sails.  My favourite rig style is the brigantine!

Unbelievable Animatic

This is an animatic I made as my first project of my last year of college: http://youtu.be/MafPQTJb38I. I had great fun putting it together, all while trying to keep from snickering too much.

Ultimate YES!

I made the ultimate find today.  It's hard to see, but on those two rocks are imprints of fly wings- Fossils!  It was just after watching a parade in the Tri-county area, and there was still an hour to kill, so we went to a rock beach.  I happen to see this sign with trails marked, and one of the locations happened to read "Fossils".  Anyone who knows me would guess right away what I did.  For those of you who don't; I made a beeline to that location on that map.  I wasn't disappointed!

Exploration in the Dark

About three weeks ago now, Hurricane Arthur paid a visit, and took out our lights.  With trees.  The upstairs part of the house got a healthy dose of sunlight in the day, but the basement was another story.  The perfect setting to do an exploration; particularly where the freezer was concerned.  I had to identify which were supper items, and which were not.  It was a frosty experience, and most of what was on the top layer was easy to identify.  English muffins, ice cream, and packaged meat.  It was more difficult to tell wether the meat was ground beef or chicken.
Bedtime was also fairly interesting, after the candles had been put out.  I got into a habit of laying my pjs in a particular way so I could remember exactly which piece was which in the dark.  Nine days later, the power came back.

Time Exploration- Garden Version

Look at this scrappy bit of border.  Early in the spring, things are just poking up from the ground.  The snow is gone for good.  That's when my green thumb gets itchy, and the only cure for it is to get outside for once!

Here we've decided to make the border slightly bigger (and I'm also renovation the rock garden at the end there, right out of sight).  It's at this point that I find strawberry plants, and feel the need to inform mum of each and every one of them.

Mulching is a must-have.  Once it decays, it puts nutrients back in the soil.  Well-rotted compost or wood chips work well for this.

Let the planting commence!  There are a few new-comers here; itty bitty pansies/violas which are just the right size to plant close to stepping stones.  I've also saved a fern from somewhere to put next to the eaves tube drop-off thingy.

Suddenly everything is super green!  My favourite colour!  and of course all the other colours that go with it.