Terrifying Senior Project Time!

Oh, it's that wonderful time of year, yes indeed.

I got the idea for this animation from this sort of half-awake, half-asleep dream I had involving a penguin wearing a really, really bad peacock costume. I wondered why a penguin would ever need to do that, and ... things went from there.

The storyboards look like this. (Click for full size)



In case anybody was curious, the notes I scribbled in the margins are for the modeler and rigger I'm collaborating with HEY EVAN YOU'RE AWESOME. (I have since added that one more scene.)

The penguin is here in greater detail.



He was actually a much more sympathetic character in the first draft of the story, but it was a lot harder to get to some kind of resolution. After unsuccessfully bouncing ideas off other people for MOOONTHS, it actually became much easier to put a story together if the penguin was more of a flakey sort of guy.

And of course, the poor peahen.



That last color shot is just an idea for now and probably will not be her final colors.

Yaaaay!

So my school has this game development club, and we're currently coming up with ideas for enemies and characters. There's supposed to be these hordes of easily-defeated small goblins that the main character can just wade through, so these are a couple of fast sketches of what they might look like, cobbled together from my own thoughts and some ideas from other club members.

I'm going to hell for drawing that poor cat. Click the thumbnail to see the full version, as usual.

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v481/Zaphy/doodles/?action=view¤t=j43_project2.flv

I've never animated in Flash before. It was an... interesting experience.

INTERESTING

This is based off of Shel Silverstein's poem "Bear in There". I don't think it's complete yet, it needs sound and also less of the floaty text.

(I fail at embedding videos.)