Dans Blog

Heeeeeeeey! For those of you that don't know I and a team from school have been making a DVD about Anti-vandalism to be shown in schools around the area. I've been co-writer and co-director on the project (joining late being recommended by my form teacher) and have been up to my eyeballs in scripts and storyboards ever since. But now after 2 months of stress and screaming into my pillow the first edit of the movie is finally finished :P I'm not too happy with some of the aspects but the main thing is I've learned alot about filming and how it all works behind the scenes :)

Anyway, now with a week to go I've started work on a short promotional video for the DVD to appear briefly before the menu. This time round I'm trying out a new form of animation: rotoscoping. This basically means I go out, film someone doing somthing, import it into flash, and draw over them doing the somthing they're doing. In this case I've used KCAD actor/ editor Oli.

It's a very labouring technique to use but the end result looks great.

So here's some screenies of what I've done so far. I've got through it surprisingly quickly considering how daunting the task seemed at first - not bad for a days work :)