Pep Mask Production – Day 17 & 18

I’m so happy to be able to write the words: it’s done (well, the first draft at least).

  
The final shot in the production timeline is actually around 3/5 of the way through and consists of 55 images of myself, progressively getting younger and younger using 15 separate mediums such as pencil, string, card collage, and sellotape among others.

Yesterday was the only day in the nearly three weeks of this production that I haven’t had a shot completed.

The next job is working with audio and doing cleanup animation, but for now I think I am going to take a well earned sleep.

Pep Mask Production – Day 15

For Day 15, I repeated the effect from Day 14 with much more depth, to transition between myself and the car lights shot I completed on Day 1. I’m really happy with the result.

Heres a preview of the transitioning, and how much more is going on in the frame.

Pep Mask Production – Day 14

Day 14 of my film – very nearly finished animating with only 4 shots remaining. This is a preview of a shot which transitions between two environments through the use of colour and line, separating a scene into smaller lines and linking those up to lines from another scene.

With each line I was able to try different paths and ideas, such as jagged lines, curls, and even the Greek meander shape.

Pep Mask Production – Day 12/13

For the past two days I’ve been working with animating an illustration I made recently, showing me inhaling phrases my parents would say to me during my Pep Mask, and exhaling my retorts. It’s been really interesting working in Flash with the warped text, setting up a warped guide to draw text within and making it follow a path.

Pep Mask Production – Day 11

Day 11 of my film is over 2/3 of the way through – if my plan works out, I should be done within around a week. Here, I’m using colour again to set up a shot I did at the start of my production which explored growing concentric circles. There quite a few examples of expanding the world of colour in a secondary shot to be more abstract. Hopefully they’ll all come together well.

Pep Mask Production – Day 10

Day 10 involved doing a bit of filming with my little cousin. He played the role of me as a child in a brief shot at the end of my film. I’ve been using a lot of rotoscoping of reference footage in the film to make the subject matter purposefully very realistic. The meaning of the film is incredibly personal and real to me, so I wanted it to feel like you are definitely seeing me as opposed to a caricature.

Pep Mask Production – Day 9

Day No. 8 of my film saw me working with a slightly different colour palette, which was designed to represent light within my room as seen from the outside. Generic light that as seen from my view is the white on black as I become used to it, but the light in the room is more visible when seen from the dark night outside.

I love that yellow.

Pep Mask Production – Day 8

Day 8 of animating – creating a shrine-like environment to house a piece of my physio I often misplace. I experimented with different torch designs, and settled with one based on the piece in the shrine upside-down and elongated.

Starting with classic torch designs, I also sketched a design similar to the candle bowl in Pixar’s Sanjay’s Super Team.

Pep Mask Production – Day 7

I’m not going to lie, today was so incredibly boring. The shots I was animating were very long with very little action. However, inadvertently one of the shots makes me look like I’m posing in a fashion magazine.

I’m only holding my hair to show the tediousness of my physiotherapy – I swear.

Merry Christmas! I’ll be back on Boxing Day with more animation previews.

Pep Mask Production – Day 6

Yesterday was the first day I doubted myself properly, but today I am back on form and ready to create again. I got 4 shots done, 2 of which including this motif.

This is supposed to resemble the dial that shows the pressure of my breaths during my physiotherapy. A usually boring sight, I added coloured motifs to resemble my imagination during the tedious process.