#and I did the animatic :D just posted it last night!

[candyheartedchy]

I know you mentioned wanting to do an animatic with the one song from raggedy anne, and I don't know if you've seen but Micheal Kovach just did a cover of it!

https://x.com/kovox/status/1716060001163526369?s=20

HE DID A COVER OF NO GIRLS TOY?!?!!?

[smoll-stace]

I might have missed it but do you have a backstory for Ciel and Donovan

i got so excited at this ask ngl xD so I started ranting about my beans lol so i hope this answers your question even if it might be in a roundabout way. yes, indeed I do! (i have 700 posts so i can see why they are hard to find especially cause i can't tag xD) i have a few animations for Donovan that I have posted on here. and I'm working on either making a more explained version of the animations that isn't a music video but more of story format animation or a written story, depending on what i have time for in my current situation, thought that might be a long time coming since I have a very packed schedule. ToT Though I do have au animation and a few small writings that should be coming soon!

Ciel's backstory is still in wip stages, working out his emotions with his family interactions, and how i want his social life to be portrayed. But I should be having clips of his story out in the next month or so so keep an eye out if you are interested. As of yet though no gt interactions for his story. Just a lot of angst and sadge.

if you were interested in their first meeting here on earth, that story is on a back burner, but imagen quiet kid and sunshine child becoming friends, then high school sweethearts, this one I'm probably going to be writing, maybe later animating if I do want to subject my darlings to more animation xD maybe I'll add that to my new years resolutions! who knows?

here's some links to current works i have for Donovan and Ciel's backstory. :)

im now realizing how much art and writing i forget to post lol oh well

thank you for the ask! hopefully i'll be posting more of them soon xD

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📻🎶 H/D Wireless 2021 - Weekly Wrap-up #4

Time flies by when you're having fun! The fourth week of posting has come to an end. Please enjoy this week's Wrap-up! There's two weeks of posting left, so stay tuned for more 🎶

As always you can listen to the prompted songs for the works we post on two playlists:

Click here for Spotify (many thanks to @evaeleanor for helping us out there)

And here for YouTube

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📻 Down for What You Want

🎵 Summary: After the war, finding refuge in the clubs of Muggle London is easier than dealing with the shambles of the wizarding world. When Harry and Draco keep running into each other at Apollo's every Saturday night though, they follow their gut instincts to get on the dance floor and discover something they both have been craving for a long time.

📻 What do I do? With a Love That Won’t Sit Still

🎵 Summary: Italian Greyhounds are small and fucked up, but Draco is a big fuck up and that requires scaling. 

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📻 Fire

🎵 Summary: Draco Malfoy has never had trouble getting boyfriends. The problem is getting one that doesn’t leave him feeling cold after the first few months. He’s looking for something specific: passion, excitement, someone to keep him on his toes. He just doesn’t know how to go about finding it. After kicking his latest boyfriend to the curb, Draco’s at a loss for what to do next, until it occurs to him that a relationship with his fiery (and hot) Gryffindor colleague might not burn out so quickly—if he can just convince Harry to try it.

📻 Into the Unknown

🎵 Summary: It’s been echoing within him for months, like an annoying song that gets stuck in your head and refuses to let go. A nagging feeling in his core, telling him to say something, to do something, to go somewhere. Last night it finally happened. He did it. And it felt good; right. “I can’t be sure.” Four words, easy as that. It had been almost impossible to smother the sudden burst of joy rushing through him as that deep-seated urge rejoiced his unexpected act of rebellion. You’d think the Dark Lord’s punishment would’ve taken the exhilaration out of him, but no. Here he is, countless Crucios later, beaten and bruised, and never has the voice sounded this clear. He’s said something. He’s done something. And now he just has to go somewhere. He has no idea where, but he’s certain it will come to him. All he has to do is get out of here, then trust magic to do the rest.

📻 Home is What We Make of It

🎵 Summary: "There was a blistering draft from the child’s bedroom on the opposite side of the hallway. The door’s handle was icy to the touch as she wrapped her hand around the metal. Unlike the rest of the house, the door gave her resistance in her effort to open it. Unlike the rest of the house, when she opened the door, she couldn’t imagine anyone ever living there. Unlike the rest of the house, there was neither love nor warmth nor any semblance of life that seeped from the rest of the house’s walls. It was cold and hard and chilled her to her bones. She shivered. However, her sense of dread was not just from the cold. Perhaps it was the gaping hole in the wall." Harry and Draco want to start a family, but time loves parallels.

📻 Move, move

🎵 Summary: She grabbed Harry’s hand, slipping something small into it and pressing his fingers around it. “Dilectio. It’ll cheer you up. Make you feel like dancing.” Harry gaped at her. Drugs. Ginny’s fucking giving me drugs? At Stasis nightclub Ginny does indeed give Harry drugs. But it's all good: Malfoy looks after Harry, and Harry grapples with newfound enlightenments, not to mention a newfound fascination with all things Malfoy—one which persists, even when he finds out what Malfoy's up to.

📻 Euphoria

🎵 Summary: Driven by trauma, Harry cuts ties with friends and family. From crowded nightclubs and enthralling live shows, Harry finds himself stumbling into a superficial world where he's lonelier than ever. When even the constant blithe of substance-induced highs can't prevent things from becoming what he ran away from, Draco Malfoy finds Harry. Draco, who’s wearing Muggle jeans and who’s listening to Muggle music and who suggests having a nice little chat on mephedrone. And whose nose crumples beautifully when he laughs. Or: A story about Harry trying to cope with the help of drugs until he finds a new addiction. Draco likes to mend things.

📻 Your House

🎵 Summary: Draco tries to serve Harry divorce papers, but Harry isn't home.

📻 Misery Loves Company

🎵 Summary: Stuck in his own head, misunderstood and lonely, Harry would love nothing more than to stay hidden in Grimmauld Place until the end of time. Malfoy won’t let him, and that's just what Harry needs.

📻 You Sexy Thing

🎵 Summary: As Harry began to tap his foot along to the music, the lights flashed like lightning in the middle of a summer storm, and his eye went straight to the middle of the dance floor. His eyes zoomed in on Draco. The blond looked striking as he moved his slender hips to the soulful beat. Harry watched, captivated as he pressed himself up to Pansy and began to sing to the song.

📻 A Love Story of Less-Than-Epic Proportions

🎵 Summary: Harry and Draco are just friends. Sure, they work together, and live together, and go to gigs together, and do pretty much everything else together—so what? That’s just what friends do. And Harry has no interest in messing with their friendship. He certainly doesn’t need everyone else constantly meddling, pestering them to just get on with it and get together already. He’s having a hard enough time as it is, trying to come to terms with the fact that he probably isn’t ever going to find love. But who needs love, anyways, when you’ve got a best friend?

📻 Cup of tea, Love?

🎵 Summary: Things between them are easy, so much easier than Harry expected. The problem is the outside world, which grows increasingly and ridiculously difficult. “We could leave,” Draco suggests. Harry has always wanted to travel.

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📻 rather a lover than a fighter

🎵 Summary: When Harry loses his voice and his magic, it’s up to Healer Draco to save the day. 

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📻 [Podfic] Keep Holding On

🎵 Summary: gnarf’s original summary: After the Battle of Hogwarts, Harry and Draco both fall into their own battles with their mental states. Draco is sent to Azkaban, and Harry turns to drinking, hoping to forget. Months later, Harry visits St Mungo’s new ward on the request of a friend, only to find Draco in a deep vegetative state. Not willing to give him up, Harry stays by his side, while simultaneously dealing with the Ministry's newest grand idea to make everything worse. Making new allies, and losing old ones along the way, will hopefully be worth it in the end.

[winters-sketches]

Hey! I just wanted to say that it makes me incredibly happy to see someone else who maps out animatics to songs the way I do! Seeing you matching the lyrics to what you picture makes me so happy!

Also might I suggest either Francis forever by mitski for hero or arms unfolding by dodie for the true ending?

No obligation for actual animatics of course but I think about these a lot so thought I’d share

aw heck yeah dude!! i love planning out animatics with songs, especially when the songs give me really strong visuals of certain things hehe. glad i could bring you some joy :D

-gasp- MITSKIIIIIiii oh i am pulling this song right up just watch me

five seconds later: slides this right into my Hero playlist cause gOD. im. sad now.

I don't know what to do without you I don't know where to put my hands I've been trying to lay my head down But I'm writing this at three AM

I can actually imagine Hero up in the middle of the night, writing this on a page or even just... laying in bed, thinking about her...

I don't need the world to see That I've been the best I can be, but I don't think I could stand to be Where you don't see me

though he tries to succeed and has always been talented, he never cared as much about how other people saw his success. it would never compare to the way Mari would look at him, warm and loving, not for his charm, but for who he is.

On sunny days I go out walking I end up on a tree-lined street I look up at the gaps of sunlight I miss you more than anything

gaps of sunlight through the trees.. reminds me painfully of the truth sequence :')

I don't need the world to see That I've been the best I can be, but I don't think I could stand to be Where you don't see me

And autumn comes when you're not yet done With the summer passing by, but I don't think I could stand to be Where you don't see me

(i have more thoughts but i'm finding difficulty putting into words aaahh)

i don't listen to a lot of mitski but her music is good...

and then arms unfolding bY DODIE MY BELOVED OHHhh i love her sm yeS YES YES

oh... i love how just... calm and delicate the acapella is :O really makes me think fike to try look at you and feel the way i did before. oh, our fire died last winter all of the shouting blew it out you know i could live without or with you, but i might like having you about. yes, these new walls are pretty hard to crack it might take a while until i trust you won't attack oh i apologise, but it was only self defence running away just made sense

but here i am with arms unfolding i guess it isn't quite the end old partner in crime, i am going to try to fall in love with you again.

oh... i love how just... calm and delicate the acapella is :O really makes me think about everyone trying to rebuild the relationships they had with each other before everything...

man the "oh, our fire died last winter; all of the shouting blew it out" makes me think SO much of a song that also reminds me of the friend group, i will post something about that later aaaAa

[acm320jewelracasablog]

Week 5: Good Morning, I Haven’t Slept Yet and It’s 8:44am on a Friday :D

Hi Brittany (and whoever else reads my blogs)! This was very tiring and I am very much lacking a lot a sleep since this week was the week where everything decided to be due. I will sleep after I finish this blog post lol (I’m sorry if there’s a lot of typos or bad grammar in this post, I am very tired)

Casting Call & Auditions

This past weekend I held auditions for my two main characters, Apolaki & Mayari. Everyone was really nice and very talented. I haven’t had time to review the recordings just yet but I think I know who we will be casted already. Some of the auditioners also gave me feedback on some of my dialogue which is AMAZING especially since English is my first language and I’m still very new to learning Tagalog (well not new, new since I took 2 years of Filipino language in college lol). Hopefully I can review the recordings soon but yeah, I think auditions went well and I experienced new things which is always great (except if its a bad lol). 

Production Schedule

I will keep this short. I literally just finished redoing my entire animatic so I have not touched the production schedule at all. (Sorry Brittany! I’ll work on it when I can!) 

Script

After receiving some more feedback on my script after the auditions, I went back and revised it. A lot of the edits were either to take out as much as I can in order to shorten my script or it was dialogue changes to hopefully match more modern Tagalog, since my 2nd pass of my script had more old school or deeper Tagalog. My dad helped with the 2nd pass. My mom helped me translate for my 3rd pass of the script. I do miss my original opening scene but that’d just mean a lot more work so goodbye opening scene, you will be missed dearly. Uh.......I’m tired and I forgot if I had anything else to say about my script so here’s the 3rd pass of it

Araw at Gabi: English Script / Tagalog Script

Visual Development

Last week I showed the rough sketches of the turnarounds for Mayari & Apolaki. This week I was able to finish them, which is nice. I really do think I like this updated design a lot better. Sadly, I didn’t get around to working on environments but oh well, sacrifices must be made lol I mainly tried to simplify the shape design as much as I could. As for color, I tried my best to keep to keep the texture and painterly style since I really liked that about the original designs. Anyways, here’s the finished character turnarounds. 

Animatic

My script isn’t the only thing that went through many changes. I almost entirely redid my animatic form the bottom up. If you compare my 1st pass to my new 2nd pass of the animatic, it’s completely different, yet the same story. I made sure to look through all the notes I took from when I was getting feedback from as many people as I could. I think this pass is definitely a lot better especially the fight scene (thanks for the help Jared!). I think my film is now a lot more visually interesting and I think we get a lot more of the character’s personalities and relationship with each other. With this new pass, I decided to really focus more on the relationship between these two siblings, and not just focus on the overall mythology they derived from. This pass could still use a lot of tweaking especially since I did this all last night (sorry, again) so it’s not quite perfect, just yet.

I know this week we were supposed to deliver an animatic with sound, but I had to do sound at 7am this morning. People are sleeping and recording at 7am is not fun. (Not judging anyone who does find that fun) Anyways, I just recorded the google translate lady saying the lines. Yes, I understand that both characters having the same voice is confusing. Luckily, my subtitles mention who is talking, and you can tell visually anyways lol. The audio is in Tagalog and the subtitles are in English. I was too tired to look for sound effects (sorry again for the 4th time).

Araw at Gabi: Animatic 2nd Pass

It is now 9:26am as I’m typing this. After this is posted I will shut down my laptop and sleep until it’s class time. Goodbye! :]

[escapemotions]

Interview with artist: Libor Batěk

Today we had a chance to speak with lead 3D artist Libor Batěk about video-spot production process, his Rebelle impressions and many more. Did a project for charity organization improve his origami skills? Read on...

Hi Libor, can you introduce yourself to our readers?

I'm 37 years old 3D artist living in Prague, Czech Republic these days. I work for Eallin studio which produces animation and live action spots for use in TV commercials, music videos and last but not least children TV series. I have started my career as a hobbyist 3D artist during my studies on high school light years back. After several tries to study technical oriented college I landed a job in a game developer studio where I was modeling assets and painted textures. I would call it “happy little accident” because there weren't so many opportunities back then in game industry in Czech Republic. Then after several years I've migrated to TV commercial field for a change and stayed there till these days. :) I've gone through many team roles ranging from junior modeler/texture artist, lighting/look development artist to lead of 3D department. My duties are most of the time lighting, look dev and supervision of the projects, sometimes also modeling assets and characters. I also like to do 2D art in my spare time which I lack a lot. :) A word “2D art” should be taken easy because it's more about scribbles or doodles - not serious artworks, but hey, it's fun and that counts in the end! I strongly recommend to anyone to go and doodle and to be a kid again...

How have you come across Rebelle?

One of my colleagues Mato Hanschild who is 2D artist and concept designer showed me this wonderful application called Rebelle. After that I fell in love with its brush engine for watercolor painting. I was amazed because I've never seen such good simulation of the real watercolor in computer, moreover with such an ease… There were few tries by other developers but not as good as Rebelle! I liked user interface at first glance - for me it’s really important when I approach something new. By the time using it I've also realized how interactive the actual painting session is and that it really matters how fast and which way you use ‘Tilt’ and ‘Blow tool’ to your advance and to pump up your creative juices in you! The color leaks and abstract shapes can boost imagination like hell. :) It's really a different experience on desktop with Rebelle than with any other painting apps. That’s probably why I've been hooked to it instantly. Nothing is fixed and final, your brush strokes develops according to various conditions on the canvas which is so unusual in common digital painting software.

 We believe there are people interested in working this field reading this interview. Can you describe us how your typical project looks like?

Sure, usually we firstly get brief from the director of the TV commercial who tells us his vision approved by the client in advance. We prepare storyboards according to the screenplay and then boardmatic (video edit from still images used in the storyboard). We also breakdown the whole project to a smaller parts / tasks so we know what will be necessary to build. After creating the props and characters, animators do layout animation from which come up a 3D animatic. It's a good place to make changes in edit/animation because it doesn't hurt much in terms of work needed. When everything works in this stage, animation is polished to a final quality, lighting and shading artists can fine-tune visual aspects by outputting series of images as an animation. Then the images are processed by compositing artists who do retouches, post effects and final color grading. It can be said that this repeats again and again till the images meet the director's/client's vision. After that it goes to a sound postproduction for sound effects and music score. Final broadcast output is prepared for TV screening meeting their standards of the format.

Eallin - company you work with had to deal with a difficult task - to create a video spot for charity organization Plamienok. Could you tell us more about process of video making?

Particularly in this project there was a need to replicate paper origami like stylization containing children painting on top of it - something like watercolors done by kids in kindergarten. For most of the job we used Maya 3D animation package and Rebelle painting app for texturing 3D models with a help of other apps for image editing etc. When we knew we would need watercolor look on 3D models I've instantly envisioned using Rebelle for that. It was simply so much easier and quicker to paint models like that not using standard tools like Photoshop or scan the real thing and retouch it afterwards… It showed as a good choice and the whole process was straight-forward and easy. We just flattened out the 3D models to a canvas, painted on it in Rebelle and exported back to 3D animation package. It took some experimenting to get desired look and design but it was really fun to do also thanks to an abstract form of textures in this particular project. We were able to finish this project in about 8 weeks in the team of just 3-4 artists plus director and some production stuff behind the project.

What was the biggest obstacle during this project?

It's always a big fight to put everything in the show and to not cross the screen time - that's very common in TV commercials projects. You put everything what's in the script but it looks funny because it happens so fast. Then there was a lot of water effects for the river element and as with any other simulations it took quite a time to get it work as needed. We used Houdini VFX package for that. We needed to develop a way of folding the paper boat „character” which wasn‘t that easy in 3D animation compared to real life. We reverse engineered the way paper is folded to get a classic paper boat model, break down it to the pieces and rig it using skeletal system and finally animated it in the right order. We’re lucky Plamienok gave us a lot of freedom and trust! So our thanks go to them for that.

Do you have any 'Behind-the-scenes' story you can share with us?

Funny thing was that the director of this TVC was Kosuke Sugimoto from Japan (really nice guy btw) and it was immediately obvious to us that this guy will be origami expert but in the end it was not the case luckily. :) So we had a good time together as a team not spending sleepless nights to get paper folds exactly according to the book. :D We could also play and experiment a lot during this project so no complaints by any team member at all. :)

Thank you for your time, Libor!

Thanks for the opportunity to share my words with readers! I wish you all best with your great Rebelle!