4-29-09

Today I edited more for the film, but a lot of wacky stuff happened with the capturing, and I think we finally got it figured out. it looks like somehow all my edited stuff disappeared though after capturing... I'm hoping that's not true. I'll try and figure that out.

April 27

Today I created the animated section for our short story to give to everyone in my group for eric's character's little flashback. I also created a song for the beauty pageant segment of the story, and I finished editing that section of the movie. Hopefully next class I can make a big advance and almost finish the movie.

4-23-09

Today we filmed A LOT for the short story, and we are capturing it now. It looks good, we had access to a lot of props and stage stuff since we filmed on the actual stage, and we got some good acting. I'm feeling good about it.

4-21

We basically went back and forth today within our group arguing about what we were going to do and the group out voted me and decided we were still going to do what we were before I.E. me in a dress.

So.

That's what we are doing I guess. Next class we are filming the pageant scene and this weekend we are going to get all of our footage so that next week can be spent hardcore editing.

Ughhhhh.

4/17/09

Today I began working on a new story about a unicorn detective in a film noir world.

I animated a unicorn in a fedora and got his mouth to talk, we will see where it goes.

On tuesday we are going to film more for the short story.

4/16/09

Today I worked out all the little glitches in the Three Sailors that I could and exported it along with my Anti-Ad for the Film Festival, filled out all my forms and submitted everything. Let's hope it does well!

What I filmed for outside filming

I filmed March 28th for the Kent Meridian Track invite and on April 2nd for the Kentwood track meet. I captured the footage on Wiley's drive, because he wants to do stuff with it.

today...

I tried to clean up my rough finished version of the three sailors, just little audio issues and visual glitches. Should finish next class and have it all ready for the dvd.

Finished and captured all my outside filming.

Three Sailors, rough version

The Three Sailors from Kelton Sears on Vimeo.

Spring Break

DEAR GOD IT'S FINALLY DONE! I finished the Three Sailors just now and it is amazing. I am extremely proud of it, clocking in at around 13 minutes long. As you watch the movie, you can see how I grew with Motion, my animations get bolder and better as the story goes on. I am now just waiting on some minor components from some other people and it will be ready for the DVD for the film festival. I am extremely excited and it turned out better than I had even hoped.

April 2

Today I finished a rather complicated scene for me, which got me involved in creating a shadow, silhouette effect for the first time. I am super happy with what I came up with. Basically, I found a picture of a side profile of a man, photshopped it so I only had the form, then turned down the opacity. The effect is awesome. I learned a lot from it.

I'm filming outside filming today at the track meet, which will mean I've met my quota.

Over break I'm hopefully going to finish Three Sailors and begin on our short story, as well as record some music of my own on the laptop.