Turn Around of the “Idea”
A new website, a year, and now a new film. I realized that my previous film was far to complex to finish on my own in a reasonable amount of time. The main problems with “Riot” are too many characters and an overly realistic design. In developing my new film I have outlined a single main character with only a couple sets. By building a story on a single place and a single character I can focus on the animation rather than many different characters and sets.
The “Idea” as I am currently calling it, is about an idea come to life from a stack of paper. Simple. Probably a film that has been done many ways before. My objective to do my own take on a common story and see if it draws and audience.
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A short sweet post here. Up on the Animatic Builder page are two downloads, a nightly build and the recent stable version. Have at least PHP 4 and MySQL 4? then your all set to go! Animatic Builder
The Redesigned Animatic Builder timeline.
During the past few weeks I have been diligently updating Animatic Builder with new features and a completely new interface. Overall the main idea of the App hasn’t changed; building and maintaining a sequence over a range of any internet connected devices. What in the release makes that goal easier? Quite a bit.
From the start the whole App has been rebuilt with an AJAX, or asynchronous, connection so the user can modify the sequence without the delay of reloading page each time a change needs to be saved. Every on page change is made once a user focuses away from a changeable element. As well, each change effects the sequence immediately so a duration takes effect right as it is made.
The playback system has changed drastically as well. The most obvious alteration is the introduction of a self-centering elastic layout which keeps the current frame in the center of a browser window and when the browser is re-sized the whole layout expands around it to any size. Continue reading »
Portfolio Site – Sarah Shipley
I have completed a couple of sites recently and one of those I have had the honor working on is that of Sarah Shipley, a copywriter and producer I met during my time working in New York City. Sarah was looking for a simple site to show her work. Many times an artist looking for a portfolio site will build an overly complex Flash site with too many bells and whistles. To show off one’s work, leave add-ons for sites that show off the web; your site is meant to show off you and your work.
Head on over and check out Sarah’s work!
The Animatic Builder timeline.
For this update I am going to give an overview of a new online application I have developed over he past couple of weeks to aid in pre-production, Animatic Builder. If you are unfamiliar with storyboards or animatics there are overviews here. Essentially where storyboards are the first visual organization of a film idea, an animatic is the next step adding a duration to each storyboard so the pacing of a film can be developed. Animatic Builder is designed to make creating storyboard and animatic sequences easier by keeping a sequence and it’s associated content in a central location accessible from virtually anywhere within an intuitive user interface.
The core idea of Animatic Builder is that a sequence can be timed out, played back and updated from a web browser without the need for movie compression, emailing large files and maintaining timeline files. With a concept and a set of images, a timed out sequence can be arranged and played back in just a few minutes. Animatic Builder is not meant to replace a non-linear editor such as Final Cut Pro but for planning out a scene or short movie during pre-production. The functionality of the app will be focused on building sequences with only pre-production information, keeping the app lightweight and accessible from any modern browser. Animatic Builder keeps a sequence and it’s necessary files contained for easy access.
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Turn Around of the “Idea”
The Redesigned Animatic Builder timeline.
The Animatic Builder timeline.
Whitney Krape
