Gun Blogcast #2 - "Fan Service"

Hola,

Bienvenido al segundo Blogcast de Gun the Animated Series.

OK enough of that. Today I'm giving you an inside look at the process of crafting a small but scintillating shot. Or actually titillating would be a better word. Yes.

I explain here the steps that I took in creating a small part of an animated sequence involving Alex (again). In it, I show the various techniques I employed in animating a shot of Alex closing up her stealth suit as she puts it on in the final scene. She was naked before, but now her clothes are on, and we get to see how that happens. I talk about my use of varying layers in the creation of the shot, and the additions I had to make based on the needs of the storyboards I created. I also talk briefly about my use of graphic symbols and provide a little insight into the direction in which I tend to approach my animation.

Plus we get to stare at boobies for ten minutes. (somewhere, a man is smiling right now... no, not me. Pervert.)

This was a fun blogcast to create, simply because this time I wasn't completely underwhelmed by my work, unlike with my running water sequence (see blogcast #1). Also, I'm running a bunch of other programs at the same time, as evidenced by my buddy Matt popping up on my MSN Messenger, which made me laugh in retrospect. I also noticed that I tend to suck my teeth a lot when I have no idea what to say next. It's an unconscious habit, so you're just gonna have to deal with it and learn to laugh at it. One of my many quirks.

Anyways, I also decided to make this one a little more presentable (and probably will do so with all future blogcasts as well) by providing titles and some sweet, mellow background music by Tortoise, which I mixed myself (poorly). The song is called Djed and if you don't know Tortoise, I'd suggest you go get to know them, cuz they're great, really relaxing, chilled out music.


So pop some corn, or corn some beef, or beef some... nevermind. Just watch and enjoy.

Also today is Artboy's birthday, so happy birthday to him (again).

Peace and Hair Grease.

Gun Blogcast 2 - Fan Service

Blogcasting! (Appeasement [Capitulo Dos])

Okay, so now that I'm back for another round of updating and it's only been a day, I'm actually pretty happy about that. However, the stuff I'm chitty-chatting about right now doesn't please me. Oh no it doesn't.

Basically, yesterday when I said that I wasn't going to upload any screenshots or anything for people to look at, I felt like I was coming off like a real dick. While it may be true that I am in fact a real dick, it doesn't mean I have to do that to people who might actually want a bit more substance from me and the work I'm doing in leading up to the release of Gun ep. 2.

So with that in mind, I ventured to create my first video blogcast. It was a pain in the ass to record and encode and sync, thanks to the shitty functionality of CamStudio. ugh. The first time I tried it, the frame rate on the video was like 4 fps. Just plain awful. So I finally figured out a way to do it well, and instead of bothering with uploading it to my own server, I just slapped it on my myspizzle so I could stream it here. Should take care of the red tape.

Anyway, this blogcast is about a short animated sequence I was working on last night, specifically a shot of water running into a drain. I'm no expert in animation, let alone in animating running water, so I totally winged it, and as I did, I went back and looked at it and got turned off by the result. It was bugging me all day so I decided to share it with you fine folks with a twofold purpose in mind - to get some opinions/ideas/advice (if anyone has something relevant to offer), and to provide some actual content for the Heretik Times.

We're gettin' straight up LIVE NEWS in this bitch!!

Hahaha. OK, so here it is. Check it and hit me back. You might want to full screen it, although I have NO IDEA what it might do to the blog page itself. Enjoy.

Gun Blogcast 1 - Running Water Woes