Waddup Blog!

Hey guys,

If you are following the blog, Eric and me are hitting crunch time in our production. The next 4 weeks will be hell as we finish our assets, do sound and composite the whole thing. Wish us luck.

Yours truly,

Shawn x_x

Birds (w/Color)

Here is a trial of color on the seagulls. They still need to be ran past shawn for a final agreement.

Update

Birds awaiting color.







Colored Turtles ready to be animated. This is how they will look on our backgrounds.






Finished color of the Captain







Turtle puppet laid out (no pun intended) for animation, he is separated and colored to have movable parts.








More colored turtles ready to go.

Shot 15 Stuffs

3D Maquette in Progress

Crab

Shot 1

More backgrounds. Been able to start kicking them out faster.

Model Sheet in Progress

Practicing Drawing Turtle Hands

Animatic Update

Environment updates.

These are a number of the environments I have been making for the project. I still need to revisit a couple of them and add clouds and specs to the sand.


This was my test environment. I was trying to come up with something that both of us liked. After a number of attempts this was the solution. The clouds are all different styles and I ended up not using any of those methods in the final pieces as the new ones don't take as long to make.


Background for the scene with the Turtles running down the hill. I'm still going to revisit it and add some texture to the foreground sand.

Background for the scene charging up the hill towards the bunkers. Still needs some clouds and texture in the close sand.

Background for the scene with a turtle being attacked by a seagull. Clouds are done in this one, but the sand still needs some close texture.

Background for the turtle behind cover. Looking at it again, I'll most likely touch it up some more later; adding a little more to the clouds, and a few more specs to add texture to the sand close up.

Update

Another update on the illustrator work.

Eric and I are doubting our beginning. We're struggling with overcoming the vestiges of our original decision to make the film in 3D. Basically, some of our shots were planned to be complex 3D shots that don't translate well into 2D. As a result, Eric and I are going to have to re-think a lot of our shots.

Update

Illustrator updates. Been working on these two poses the past few days. Finishing them up this week along with starting some animation tests.

Sketches to Be Cleaned Up

Original Background Concept

This was our concept image for when we decided we wanted to use live action backgrounds. As stated previously, however, we weren't able to get good photos for live backgrounds, so they will more than likely be drawn for the final film. Also, our real backgrounds would have obviously been sized to fit the turtles. This image was just a test image grabbed off of google.

More References

Eric striking poses for drawlrings:

G.I. Joe Shtuffs:

Turtle with Thompson. Shooting. (in progress)

Work on the shooting view of the turtle with Thompson. Just need to complete his arm, gun and shell and fix up his porportions to match the original.

Turtle with Thompson behind cover. Final

Finished version of him. Fixed up his hand and a few other slight issues.