Sunday, January 31, 2010
Demo Reel
Above is my sweet demo reel. It was compiled specifically for the folks at Evergreen College.
The song is "Dream Island Obsession Park" by Susumu Hirasawa, off of the Paranoia Agent OST.
The already thin lines get blurred on youtube, so if nothing else, the thumbnail image is ugly as butts. . . I dunno, maybe I should switch over to the brush tool.
Just to be clear, nothing is rotoscoped or whatever. I don't take any pictures or draw from models, though I keep a hand-mirror nearby for checking facial expressions.
Lastly, the thin fellow flicking a rope is what I'm currently working on. Looking pretty good, right? Right.
Saturday, January 2, 2010
Revision
I spoke really poorly in my previous post. I was all "20 seconds of nothing happening is too boring," and "it doesn't need to be any longer." I'll try to clarify what I meant, 'cause what I said was total garbage.
I said that I didn't understand why people thought my cartoon was too short, when I should have questioned why it would have been better with filler. See, I'd rather watch a 5 minute video that's non-stop entertaining instead of a 10 minute video that's half entertaining and half tolerable, and I'd be bothered to watch a 15 minute video that's one-third entertaining, one-third tolerable, and one-third filler (such as poorly done exposition). It feels like an awful lot of people, on Newgrounds at least, would prefer the 15 minute video over the 10 or 5 minute ones. In short, I felt that there was as much entertaining material as was necessary in my video (though I certainly COULD have added more), but people would have enjoyed it more if I added 60 seconds of people standing around doing nothing interesting. This bugs me.
Also, as a general rule, if there is an expanse of 20 seconds in a video that is neither entertaining nor vital to the story, it seems to me that it can be cut out. A couple movies that are great about not wasting any time or boring the viewers are Princess Mononoke and Dead Leaves. Check them out if you get the chance.
Lastly, I posted a sketchy thing on Newgrounds yesterday. I have LOTS of wee doodles like this, but I wont post any others.
I said that I didn't understand why people thought my cartoon was too short, when I should have questioned why it would have been better with filler. See, I'd rather watch a 5 minute video that's non-stop entertaining instead of a 10 minute video that's half entertaining and half tolerable, and I'd be bothered to watch a 15 minute video that's one-third entertaining, one-third tolerable, and one-third filler (such as poorly done exposition). It feels like an awful lot of people, on Newgrounds at least, would prefer the 15 minute video over the 10 or 5 minute ones. In short, I felt that there was as much entertaining material as was necessary in my video (though I certainly COULD have added more), but people would have enjoyed it more if I added 60 seconds of people standing around doing nothing interesting. This bugs me.
Also, as a general rule, if there is an expanse of 20 seconds in a video that is neither entertaining nor vital to the story, it seems to me that it can be cut out. A couple movies that are great about not wasting any time or boring the viewers are Princess Mononoke and Dead Leaves. Check them out if you get the chance.
Lastly, I posted a sketchy thing on Newgrounds yesterday. I have LOTS of wee doodles like this, but I wont post any others.
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