Missed me?

Baaaaack! Its that time again! Your (should be weekly, but is...) monthly dose of Mookage!

Iv been busting my nuts over this walk cycle mullarky, its a little bit harder than i remember, much harder than i found the run cycle and perspective stuff bizzarely! But thanks to a bit of richard williams advice & a 3rd attempt i managed to get it right.

After all that waffle this will probably seem quite meek - it is only 3 seconds...and quite uneventful

I like it though, i wanted him to walk like snoopy does...

so i looked at this...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKxXAwBRuVo

and worked away! Its exactly as i wanted it to be, this is for the first scene - i will him walking on the spot and the background moving as of this point, he will pass his lover girl (also on the background). Lovely stuff. :)

More soon.

Also....if anyone wants to buy me Adobe Flash, id be very grateful - animating in photoshop is becoming tiresome O_O

Meow. Im having a troubled day today! Feel my pain! please?
Nevermind.

I pieced together the perspective run iv been working on, im a bit hit and miss about it, its been bloody hard work if im honest, perspective runs arent fun, il tell you that much!
You can see for yourself. It serves its purpose. Like a bee. Noone really likes having it around, but it does its job.
bees.
in my bonnet.
Thats a haiku! (its probably not, just wanted to sound clever!)

Im going to go back and change his right foot aniticpation frame in the cycle, its way too big and makes his run appear clumpy. Il report back soon captain! Aswell as that, me and Joe (Joe and i?) have been doing some rotoscope screaming faces. You'll enjoy them soon too, i promise.

Im buying a Wacom today. Its official, i shall never sharpen a pencil again. This makes me sad. I have become the machinist :(. Open me up, and you will find a robot heart.

Hey, that would make a good film idea!!!!!!!

Anyone?

Yeah!

I dont know where i get these crazy ideas from, i must be a genius. :D

Lets dance!

You were expecting your usual dose of lewis based wit weren't you? Sorry, im all witted out. I'll maybe chuck in a joke later on if your lucky....

Been working on the same piece of work as yesterday, the run and jump etc...

This is what iv got done, im pretty happy with it to be honest....but thats probs cos iv been looking at it for too long, i'll see how i feel tomorrow :D!

Im going to add more frames in the jump/click heels at the end, its on 3's atm :S - not goood.

Oh yeah, and the joke i promised....

What goes 'aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa'.

A sheep with no lips.

O_O

i know. taxi for lewis?

Did you just see something move!?

They call me God! They dont, they call me Lewis. But i am the bringer of life!
He moves now, we can get a kinda understanding of this little poontang! Im working on the animation for the credit sequence, the idea being that the credits will roll above what you see. Its kinda a cutesey happy ending to it....you didnt think i was gonna go breakin his heart did ya!?
He will be in flower heaven....(to be honest, i just wanted to get the chance to do some more perspective and frankly...more difficult animation. But im not showing off....i swear!)
Iv only done a little, but i was bored of PS3, so i thought id best pop in! This is to give you an idea.....

bear in mind before you go scoffing.....

This isnt complete, its a work in progress, and its been edited together in windows movie maker....thats right, windows movie maker!!!
Its sticky and horrible, but timing can be worked out on a programme designed for human beings.

I wanted to make him run and move kinda like a baby thats just learnt to walk....just to add extra cuteness, so obvs i did some research, and decided to miss out the bend in his joint.
The effect is so! i need to work on the motion curves a little, but im getting there.

The idea is that a flower has popped up, and he is running excitedly towards and then (coming soon) doing a little jig!

Don't ask...

...seriously, don't ask!

just thought id give you a random pug to keep you smiling. worked on me anyhow!

i dont expect you to be impressed by this. im certainly not.

Knock Knock....

Whos there?
Mook.
Mook who?
Just Mook.
....
.......
.........Oh, come in then!

Ladies and gentlefolks, its the animatic numero two! This includes a new fangled lady mook, shes a bit of a sexy bitch...its gives Mooky and incentive, a motivation (apparently)!
Other than that its pretty much the same as the last but with a few lil changes here n there, no more mr wheelbarrow....he was annoying...and a lovely new world for Mook to enjoy!

(music was just 2kill the silence!)

Drawn in Photoshop, edited in after effects.
(Note. excuse the shitty camera movements, i made the picture size too long to fit in the screen at bits so i had to move the camera n watnot.)

Crazy

Its a whole new year!!! Not that you weren't aware of that fact....nor that it makes any difference to me.

Resolution? No.

But im back at the sweatshop producing metaphorical sweaters (studio...working)!!

Im not gonna lie, theres plenty i need to be getting on with, so we'll keep it short and sweet for now, we'll do the small talk and smooching another time :)

Joe was struggling with giving some style to his soldier character. Never fear, 'style' is my middle name!

In steps Lewis to do a few different ideas for soldiers heads....this is the first.

I call him Crazy. He's beaut...