Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Day 92



The Good News: The Geniuses at Apple have fixed my display on the Macbook Pro.



The Bad News: In updating the graphics card, the entire computer was wiped clean.



The Silver Lining: I backed up my entire film on my Time Capsule last Sunday night.



The pain in the arse: Reinstalling everything.

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Day 91

Monday, March 29, 2010

Day 90


I'm leaning toward the image above as the final choice for Newsom's color scheme. As you'll notice in the others below he is wearing a solid color shirt that has no white. That's for a specific reason, as his Doll wears the same colors too, and that plays a big part in the ending.







Obviously, if Newsom ends up wearing blue, I can't have Korchin wearing blue as well. That's sort of like having two characters in a movie called William and Bill.



The image above is one extreme direction that Korchin's color can go: I wanted to see what it would look like if I gave him one of those fake tans that a lot of stockbrokers have. But I fear it might be too distracting. Or maybe not. The guy is supposed to be a pompous prick, so maybe that'll add to it.

I'm having a blast coloring. ToonBoom has this great feature I just discovered called Auto Gap Closing. You can turn on three options while coloring: Close Small Gap, Close Medium Gap and Close Large Gap. So you don't have to zoom into pieces of your drawing that might have openings. Which is a huge time saver. So thank you, Toon Boom for making the post-prod process easier,,,(insert smiley, thumbs up approval here).

Sunday, March 28, 2010

Day 89-Animation is done.

Anger from matt lee on Vimeo.



Now...onto coloring.

Saturday, March 27, 2010

Day 88

Pride in his work from matt lee on Vimeo.

Friday, March 26, 2010

Day 87

bump from matt lee on Vimeo.

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Day 86

hide n seek from matt lee on Vimeo.

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Day 85


"Oh, crap" from matt lee on Vimeo.



Edited the first half of my film last tonight. As it stands, one scene was deleted and three new shots need to be animated (for clarity reasons). Most importantly...I have a gut feeling that I need to set up/reveal the voodoo doll plot device earlier. Way earlier.

I envisioned it being a surprise/twist but in essence, it's the engine that the story runs on. I guess you never really know how these things work out until you see it put together. In this case---I'm putting together the hot rod while racing it.



I didn't make an animatic for this film. I made one for my last, "Road Rage," and that process didn't turn out too well (the third act of the story completely changed from what was in the animatic). Generally I make animatics and stick to 'em for jobs, but for my own films I feel it's a detriment to the process (ask my thesis advisor how nuts I drove her and vice versa). I get bored easily, so looking at the animatic day after day after day would make me second-guess myself....if there's one thing that people have commented on about the short list of films I've made, it's that they have a spontaneous energy to them. I'm a huge improv junkie, and I love watching shows at the Upright Citizens Brigade. I took Improv 101 there too, so that's probably where my sensibility comes from.



That being said, I'm going to edit together the last half of my film later this evening and see what the damage is. :)

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Monday, March 22, 2010

Day 83

kick the box from matt lee on Vimeo.

Sunday, March 21, 2010

Day 82

Beating off from matt lee on Vimeo.

Saturday, March 20, 2010

Day 81

back to work... from matt lee on Vimeo.

Friday, March 19, 2010

Day 80

keyboard smackdown from matt lee on Vimeo.

Thursday, March 18, 2010

Day 79

This is still rough- as usual.

pack your shit from matt lee on Vimeo.

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Day 78

The characters in Pins & Needles rarely act this stupid:

Heads up! from matt lee on Vimeo.

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Day 77

finders/keepers from matt lee on Vimeo.

Monday, March 15, 2010

Sunday, March 14, 2010

Day 75

Gasp from matt lee on Vimeo.

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Day 74

sneaky pt ii from matt lee on Vimeo.

Monday, March 8, 2010

Day 73

This shot didn't work out the way I wanted it to so it is being trashed

catch from matt lee on Vimeo.

Friday, March 5, 2010

Day 72

catch from matt lee on Vimeo.

Thursday, March 4, 2010

Day 71

The Upper Hand(s) from matt lee on Vimeo.

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Day 70

Up and at em from matt lee on Vimeo.


ball's out from matt lee on Vimeo.

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Day 69

Step up from matt lee on Vimeo.

Monday, March 1, 2010

Day 68

Power Chair from matt lee on Vimeo.