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I should probably make a tag for all these Secondhand Origin Stories book trailer animation clips.
Anyways, here's some Issac shots.
I am so baffled about how I'm gonna add the rain-through-the-window-casting-shadows effects on that first one there.
This is a hell of a project to learn to animate on.
(Yes, this is the same characters as Names in Their Blood. I started animating a trailer for book 1 in the series while I started writing book two.)
Ok, so above is one of my first animation attempts for my animated book trailer. I like the style, I like the color, and I think the overall gesture mostly works.
BUT it drives me nuts how her facial features sort of wander and her head keeps sort of gooping into other shapes.
Also, while I like that style I'm not married to it.
So I've started trying out the 3d head customization and modeling tools in CSP v 2.0. We've established that their 3D body modeling with their automated pose tool is not a hit with me despite hilarious results.
This was my initial test for seeing how I liked working with it.
It's way way faster and I like how she stays more on model. Also it's easier to focus on the acting side of things when I don't have to worry that an ear is just going to fuck off into the ether when I'm not paying attention.
Hairlines are still hard though. Don't be surprised if everyone has bangs by book 3.
Another little bit of book trailer animation WIP. The shadow pleases me and mostly like how the head tilts. The background needs more texturing and her head gets smaller at the end? Also the bits where I bullshitted the hands simplified a bit TOO much but, again, for someone self-taught for not very long, I'm pleased.
This is for the trailer I've been animating, not the thing I'm commissioning a song for.
I don't remember when I last posted a roundup of some of the clips for my "book trailer" for Secondhand Origin Stories, but I continue to refine my process, rely less on rotoscoping, and be really chuffed with how things are going.
Just another animation WIP for the Second Sentinels book trailer. I'm really working to rely less on rotoscoping and for this I didn't even have video references, but I'm still really pleased with how it's turning out- particularly that gesture with the hand because hands are terrible and I had like no references for that at all.
At the very least, no previous art project in my life has taught me half as much about color and creating atmosphere.
I'm gonna have fun sketching the suggestion of superheroic family photos in all those frames.
