Got a fair chunk of the animatic drawn out today and I'm happy with the way the dance is looking.
Lastly one of my baby stick insects just hatched, wildly unrelated but good news in any case.
Bad news: The hands are going to be too big! I've tried to make the design as small as possible based on the size joints available, but their still around 4 inches long, which is huge! I was hoping to keep the model 18 inches tall or smaller, but with these massive hands thats still not big enough. This leaves me with 3 choices, a) I make do with a model with giant goofy hands and try and redesign the proportions so its more stylized, b) I use wire armature for the hands (which would be a huge pain cuz they break and id need several pairs of hands) , or C) I make the Noah puppet massive, as in mebbe 3 and a half feet tall.
so far im most tempted by the last option cuz it'd be awesome to have a giant Noah. However this probably isn't feasible, because the sets would need to be massive, not to mention the difficulty I'd have making the support arms work. Ill explain about my crazy idea for animating noah using supporting rods in another post because ive ranted enough already...
my cameras still busted it seems, which is the other downer for today, as it means i cant put my new sketches int he animatic still...
Ive taken some photos of my work from today on the dv cam, so sorry it looks awful, best i can do for now at least.
the first pic is a bit of the dance sequence i drew out, so far its about 39 drawings long and mebbe 3/4 done.
The next one is an 18" tall plan for Noah showing various proportions as I'd like them. I used this to work out how big the hands would ideally be.
the last pic is my animatic wall, which is now full so... im gonna need to clear some posters of another wall. Im glad ive started putting it up like this, it means i can scan through the sequence easily and work out where im up to.
aaaand thats your lot today, time for me to go watch a movie or something
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