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Seasonal Contest Animations
Finished December 2007 and February 2008

I'm part of an animation forum on THE INTERNET, and every month or so they have a contest for swag and a grand prize (actually I wasn't aware there WAS a grand prize for first place in the first contest!) The rule is, however that you can only use 48 frames of animation and AT MOST can have it be 5 seconds. That's not a whole lot to work with, but I work better under restrictions, so I decided to enter these contests and continue entering these and other contests as they come up!

Winter is Coming! Contest

2 Second Love Fest!

I'm not entirely positive at this time, but there's a good chance that the 2 Second Love Fest animation is messed up for some magical reason and I cannot get it to work. Maybe I'm having trouble because it's on 9 layers, when 3 would have been fine, but it's really just not working on some flash players.

Tim's Dream Update
Refurbished 2/1/08

The one thing I absolutely wanted fixed took me something like two hours to fix, and really made me upset that I put it off for so long. I still didn't finish the cartoon the way I want to (and I found out that there's already an animated music video for Kerfluffle by Ladyfuzz) but there's a lot of upcoming little projects that I want to work on in the meantime. I've been meaning to break in my animation scanner in a big way, so I'm sure that I'll be doing something more grandiose soon.

Tim's Dream
New! Finished 5/20/07

This took much longer to finish that it should have. I spent a week doing a pencil test of an idea I had been kicking around for a couple of weeks. Then, thanks to the mass scanning device (which is just a scanner and pegbar with velcro on them, I'm not sure if velcro constitutes a "device") that I developed around the time of "A Bad Day in the Forest" I was able to scan all 200 frames in about two hours. There's definitely parts that I'm really happy with, and some things that turned out way better than I thought they would, as well as some things that didn't go according to plan.
"Kerfluffle" by Ladyfuzz was used for the soundtrack. I concidered using other songs, but it's the only thing that really fit the shortened version of it. I kind of want to extend this to a full two or three minutes, but full animation can be kind of a pain in Flash. I want to attempt to work on limited animation and familiarize myself with that for a while.
Special thanks, as always, to Angie, who I drew the strawberry after. Not that Angie looks like a strawberry (though she kind of does) but this is the way she draws. Super Special Thanks to Sierra, who more or less convinced me to finish this. This taught me about what I need to do if I want to make a full pilot or short film. I don't know if I can get one into the Chicago Film Festival, as I'm pretty sure that deadline is closing in, but I want to get one in a festival at some point.
Timewise the pencil test took 6 days of work to complete, and the flash section took another 6 days of work, though two of the days in flash were spent doing backgrounds and trying desperately to remember actionscript.


A Bad Day in the Forest
Finished 4/13/07

This wasn't an experiment when I started it, but ended up being one. I was bored at school where I go to work so I don't have as many distractions, despite having graduated. I had really only put the Johnny Sixpack character into 3D up until this point. I mean I drew him in my portfolio, and he started life as a doodle, but when it all comes down to it, the guy was created for 3D. So I decided to try and animate a short 10 second animation with him. And, since we went against Emily's wishes in for the 3D piece, I decided to have Johnny lose at the end of this one.
This took me a day and a half to do. The pencil test, which I am concidering uploading seperately, took me four hours, and then putting it into flash took me another 6 - 8 hours. It also took me half an hour to scan it into my computer, but that's not really saying anything about me as an animator. There are a few small timing issues here and there, but for a day and a half's worth of work I'm pretty proud of it.


Electronegativity
Finished 3/20/07

This was the final to my last general education class ever: Introduction to College Chemistry. I took it with one of my best friends ever Angie, and the result was this entertaining, though odd, take on science. I consider this my first foray into the "Learning Can Be Fun (but isn't)" series as far as animation goes. This was fun and easy to do, the only problem was getting a good angle on the subject to make it funny. I don't know if I can really say I did, but I added funny pictures, which eases the burden a little bit.

Speaking of funny pictures, Angie drew and designed the Fluorine and Hydrogen guys. As well as lending her voice to Fluorine She may have done a little less than me on the project, but her contribution is very endearing (and wanted) none the less. The information on Fluorine came from Wikipedia, the actual lesson came from my Chem. teacher, Miss Shuida.