#week423

[everyweekforayear]

GCBC:PG Continued

STATUS SO FAR:

Sunday/Day 1: Reread through the latest pilot script and started going down rabbit hole of story ideas. Creative Time: 30mins, super late

Monday/Day 2: Tons of stuff destroying my free time.

Creative Time: 0mins

Tuesday/Day 3: Similar busiest to yesterday but on train home from work, I made a list of all the different backgrounds that are needed for the episodes.

Creative Time: 30mins, on train after work

Wednesday/Day 4: Sketch-a-palooza. I started sketching on the train to work and then furiously sketched through my ideas in the evening. I based these sketches on the pilot but I might change some script ideas.

Creative Time: 30mins, before work; 120mins, late at night

Thursday/Day 5: Another night of sketching and then this transition in to the base layers for the different views. I spent a lot of time establishing the format and the pixels and the general layout.

Creative Time: 30mins, during my lunch break; 120mins, after work

Friday/Day 6: Not a ton of time today but I got myself in a good place.

Creative Time: 30mins, during my lunch break

Saturday/Day 7: Nothing.

Creative Time: 0mins

CONCEPT UPDATES/CHANGES: Wow. I forgot how long this photoshop stuff takes. I mean, I spent 7 hours of my first year per main character sprite, so I'm definitely going to need a good amount of time to finish the backgrounds. I suspected that these elements might take longer. So I'm going to push some of the background work into the next week.

PICTURES/NOTES: I will be adding some scans of my sketches for the scenes.

THIS WEEK RUNNING TIME: 6.5 hours

FINAL RUNNING TIME (SO FAR): 6.5 hours

[everyweekforayear]

Good Cop Bear Cop: Pilot Backgrounds

And so begins a fun new kind of story telling. The last project was very graphic, as in violent. I need to get away from that for a little while so this month's project is instead very graphic, as in animated! Good Cop Bear Cop is one of my favorite show ideas and a while ago my friends and I got around to sketching ideas out and then for two of my previous EWFAY projects, I created character sprites for my main characters. Then a little while back we wrote a pilot that only ever circulated internally amongst my WHAT friends. And now I decided that the best way to make this thing happen is to take the bull by the horns and create all the remaining graphics myself. Once I have everything else, then I can create the animation with relative ease. Ha! But the base graphics will of course be a lot of the initial work. So here goes something...

THIS WEEK:

Good Cop Bear Cop Pilot Graphics

1 WEEK GOAL: This week, I intend to create the background scenes for the pilot episode. Elements that I believe will appear in multiple episodes will require a little more thought and energy but the quick elements will not be as flushed out. I'm hoping I can manage to pull off all the backgrounds this week, even if it means putting in a little extra time to get them just write. Each week that follows in this month, will be a graphic related element.

BOILED DOWN CONCEPT: Overall, I want to create the good cop bear cop animated pilot.

PRIMARY REASON: I feel like this concept is silly, and absurd and theres something beautiful about it too.

ON DECK FOR NEXT WEEK:

Nest week will focus on creating the remaining primary characters, like the bad guys, and people who will be most likely to recur.