"No Escape" - Progress Day 1

The reason I don't usually do realism or semi-realism too often is because it takes too long. But to make up for a lack of decent animation (or lack of animation in general), I can at least do what I do best which is more illustrative and preproduction work. I didn't mean to really start out getting this detailed with fur, but it just happened and I'm gonna stick with it.

So far I've only started detailing on Yesebel. I took out the sketch layer so you can't really see the distinction between Sombra and Yesebel here. It all looks like one big blob with a little bit of detailed fur on Yesebel's face.

Did a lot on this today (even though it doesn't really look like it). Gonna take a break from it and either just rest for the night or sketch up the bio pages for Sombra and Yesebel. I'll probably just rest.

Storyboards

For my storyboard concept and development class's final project, we have to create a Leica reel for something we hope to turn into a full animation. I chose to create a storyboard for the song "Hero's Come Back" by +nobodyknows from Naruto Shippuuden.

These are the first two. Something to just start me off before I really get started with my final storyboards. These'll probably change a lot for the finished product. My main idea for this was to not create a full story nor animation based on the words of the song. The song's in Japanese anyways. But I wanted to create something based on the mood of it. Hero's Come Back has a pretty upbeat tempo and I always think of a battle when I hear it. That might be some of the influence from Naruto, but I think a fight sequence would go great with this. So basically there's going to be somewhat of an epic battle between my evil characters and a bunch of good characters (some that belong to me and others that do not). This is also gonna double as a gift for some people I consider friends and inspirations. Unfortunately because I think this is going to be difficult enough as it is, I don't think that I could put in everyone and everything that I would want to, but that's okay because I have some more ideas in mind that I could use.

My teacher warned that if I did make an animation out of this that I wouldn't be able to show it off (except maybe as a portfolio piece). I was aware of this, and I'm just using this as an exercise in timing and movement. I do want to make something to go along with the song CaramellDansen as an exercise in lip sync...but perhaps later.