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 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.

Pep Mask Production – Day 3

Continuing with my film, I’ve been prioritising shots that I believe could be completed quicker than others. Saying that, the above shot took longer to complete than I thought, however it hasn’t set me back.

The shot you see uses Michael Jackson’s “BAD” poster as its secondary subject in the background, fading to a moonwalk rotoscoped from his 1996 Brunei performance of Billie Jean. His moonwalk is something I always love to animate, as to me its a movement as iconic as a walk cycle (given it is essentially the same, just in reverse).

Pep Mask Production – Day 1

Over the next couple of weeks, I will be working on a short film which will be an offshoot to my final major project in May. As such, it will revolve around my Cystic Fibrosis, focusing on one specific section – physiotherapy.

Starting production on 18th December, I created the first shot using traditional lightbox animation with pencil crayons. This was to create two car light time-lapse shots. Here’s a preview.