Barnacle Bert is now available on Vimeo, for those of you who prefer higher resolution than YouTube: Click here to watch. Enjoy!
Barnacle Bert in “Hands Up Jellyfish”
May 27th, 2010 by John
My animation is complete! When you’re ready to see Barnacle Bert’s adventures and related mayhem, click here.
Barnacle Bert was formerly known as Diver Dave, but Barnacle Bert is funnier.
There is also a page about the movie on the main site, which includes high-resolution stills.
Diver Dave Scene 1
May 19th, 2010 by JohnToday I animated the first scene of Diver Dave. Check it out on YouTube. (For some reason WordPress is not allowing me to embed the clip, so you’ll have to go there to look at it. Sorry.)
I’m not planning to put every scene online, but I’m excited about getting started so I couldn’t resist posting this.
I’d planned to do 15 FPS, but when I tried that it seemed too chaotic (things went very fast indeed) so I’ve ultimately scaled back to only 7 FPS, which doesn’t look quite as bad as I thought it might.
In other news, it looks like I needn’t have worried about the forty-two second animatic, since this scene is already over 20 seconds and makes up only a tiny part of the film. We’ll see!
Experimental Animation: Boat
May 14th, 2010 by JohnI’ve mostly been working on monsters for the past few days, but today I made Diver Dave’s boat, and it came out very nicely. Take a little look-see:
Images of the monsters should appear fairly soon, otherwise you may have to wait until the actual movie is ready.
Experimental Animation Day 3
May 12th, 2010 by JohnHere are all my cutout sprite pieces for Diver Dave:
And here are two test poses. The one with the black background is intended to be similar to how the final film might appear.
Experimental Animation Day 1
May 10th, 2010 by JohnOver the summer I’m taking a three-week intensive course entitled Experimental Animation. The class met for the first time today, and our assignment for the day was to work on some potential concepts for our animations. Initially I was thinking of doing something about a sort of mechanical planet populated by robots, but I decided that it was too obviously inspired by (and derivative of) Machinarium, so I moved on to concepts involving an astronaut exploring a strange planet, which eventually let naturally to Diver Dave and the Zap Gun. That is my concept for the moment and I’m sticking to it. Here’s my initial very simple storyboard.
Diver Dave always gets what he deserves.