Literally PRINT TO PIXEL :')

Right, so I have now decided that I am going to use my original drawn character, but put it on the computer, and 'pixel' it up!

For example here is my original hand drawn image:

Which, on Photoshop, I turned into firstly:

After I had created this one, I decided to draw a robot that was facing the side, to see what it'd be like when the robots are playing ping pong, so using the method of cell animation, I drew a robot facing the side, using tracing paper over the top of the original drawing, so to keep them the same height etc

I drew it straight away in pen, so I made a few mistakes, however I decided they could be easily rectified on Photoshop:

tracing paper on top of original

on its own

So then I did some erasing and paint bucketing on Photoshop, and created this:

Hahaha, sounds so quick! However, it took me a while to fix up the picture, and to decide on which shades of grey to use where etc, I took some print screens of the process (see if you notice the changes in my wallpaper on my computer, bearing in mind the wall paper changes every 15 mins..) :

erasing mistakes..

When I'd first filled it in..

Added some colour for the lights on the panel..

Started to match the colouring on the original robot psd file..

I then started to outline features in black

(OHAI Aaron Johnson wallpaper ;) hahha!)

Half way outlined in black, and I think it looks best outlined definitely!

Some lovely wallpaper of Charlie Fink.. oh and my finished outlined robot ;) haha

So I started to properly match all final colours to the first robot...

i-dentibots.. apart from the outline,which I swiftly did and....

 Voila! Two matching, yet differently poised, robots:

    

Next I decided to horizontally flip the robot, to make the opponent robot; I also made another layer which contains a ping pong paddle:

That'll do for now!

laine.x

Futurama - The exploding robot scenes

This is a youtube video I found featuring scenes from the episode of Futurama 'Insane in the Mainframe' which features a robot which blows up all the time..

I thought it would be good to see how the makers of Futurama tackle a robot explosion:



Right so to avoid showing much 'robot gore' they have simply created a huge cloud over each explosion, and when the cloud clears, the robot has clearly exploded :)

Broken down (no pun intended hahah):

 

 

 

Good to knowww!

laine.x

Okay my chin is once again up!

I have decided that I am going to attempt now, to create my animation using a combination of some of the cs5 package I have on my macbook; mainly photoshop, illustrator and of course, after effects.

I did go to two of the After Effects workshops, but on the first one I saved my composition, but forgot to save the files and music to my usb stick - fail! Anyway all we did was learn how to import a some jpgs (unsequenced) and then arrange them on a timeline along to some music; and then import a sequence of jpgs in order to create a sort of animation. Pretty basic stuff :)

The second workshop,  involved using more of the features of the software, such as changing the scale, position and opacity of images.. I failed to save the work from this workshop, so I created a new one involving my robot:




The music doesnt really fit with the graphics but it doesnt really matter :)

After this, I also changed the hue of the robot, and made it rotate too!



This one works a lot better with the music I think, as by chance the rotations are in suitable places in the animation :)

laine.x

Plasticine FAIL D:

Okay so the cardboard didnt work..

I then decided that I would make my animation using plasticine, as it worked well enough for the mini animation I made a few days previously; and got cracking..

Firstly I was going to make a 2D robot from plasticine..

But I decided 3D would be easier to move with my animation.

The robot's main frame (hahhaa get it?! :P):

With the head and neck attached..

Then some dodgy eyes are seen (sorry about the puns, it's making me feel better.. ha)..

Then the mouth and arms were attached..

The joints for the legs too..

Added the legs..

I then decided the body was too long and a partial amputation was in order..

All that was missing at this point were the pupils in the eyes, the teeth lines and the antennae/ears..

So I added a few of the afforementioned..

But then whenever I tried to alter it in anyway after that, this happened:

Poor Mr Robot :(

There's also the fact that this face looks absolutely crap..

FAIL FAIL FAIL :(

So there we have it, that's both cardboard AND plasticine down.. time for plan C, I suppose.. something which I dont currently have... :/

A cup of tea is in order. D:

laine.x

Making My Characters..

I am going to try and make a robot out of card to see how straightforward it would be to make all of my characters and tweens from card too..

my robot

 This is the card I am going to use.. SHINNNYYYYY <3 hahahaa

So I drew the robot onto the back of the card, in reverse of course; which involved tracing the robot with pencil and then rubbing it onto the page, in order to get the design exactly the same as previously/in the future..

Then I cut it out with a craft knife, which took AGESSS..

The cut out robot..

I decided that the robot needed some definition and that I should use a black fineliner or sharpie pen to outline and draw on the features with, so I did a test, writing the word 'Robot' on a piece of the silver card in each pen, to see if after 5 seconds the pens smudged..

The Sharpie stayed exactly the same, whereas the fineliner smudged completely off, as you can see above!

So I outlined with the sharpie..

 

Finished robot, with the tracing paper original..

..and again, with jaunty angle :)

I think that the robot looks good, but it was A LOT of effort, and the card is particularly tough, so it really hurt my hand cutting out the robot, as well as trying to be as accurate as possible; and as much as I like this project, I dont think it's worth injuring myself over (not after all the hand cramp the Skills module gave me) ha!

So I shant be making my robots out of cardboard.


laine.x