Yes, I gave in, I felt the need to contact two important establishments - findmyfling.com and Sexhance! to appeal for financial aid by directing some attention their way with a little advertising here and there on the blog.
Both of these are key ingredients to Dr. Wright's search for a more upbeat sex life, and you can try them too! You buy now!
26.1.09
19.1.09
Test... Chasing Skirt
With the layouts being worked on last week, this week I wanted to finally get cracking with some genuine, solid animation so, today I set to work on getting used to animating in Flash for the production phase. I'd laid out with my previous aesthetic blog posts that I was considering going down the 'line-less' route for the animation - a tall order considering I'd never tried it before, further to which, I'm not hugely well versed in Flash. Nonetheless, I set myself a target with the following image, created exclusively in Flash using the old tablet:
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It wasn't too painful to pull off, but alas, that was only one image. I attempted some processes and then set to work on a test animation, all created within Flash [no paper used - green, man!] and then composited it with a freshly Photoshopped layout in After Effects. The result is a somewhat literal portrayal of Dr. Wright's favourite night time activity - chasing skirt.
Ah, the old carrot on a stick jig, only this time with 294.5% more backside. Though it did take the best part of a day to fully complete, I'm largely satisfied with the results as it abides fairly closely to the original proposal. I believe this will be a workable aesthetic for use in production of the film.
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It wasn't too painful to pull off, but alas, that was only one image. I attempted some processes and then set to work on a test animation, all created within Flash [no paper used - green, man!] and then composited it with a freshly Photoshopped layout in After Effects. The result is a somewhat literal portrayal of Dr. Wright's favourite night time activity - chasing skirt.
Ah, the old carrot on a stick jig, only this time with 294.5% more backside. Though it did take the best part of a day to fully complete, I'm largely satisfied with the results as it abides fairly closely to the original proposal. I believe this will be a workable aesthetic for use in production of the film.
4.1.09
Nancy Heart... Done!
So, without further ado - Nancy Heart in developmental sketch-o-rama:
I've moved away from my initial 'shark-hair' idea seen in the first sketches - I felt it was a little far-fetched and ultimately unattractive so I went down the Brooke Shields hairstyle road instead... it's a good road! Eye width is notably larger than either of the Wrights, and we have the sexy half-mast eyes รก la Jessica Rabbit.
And let us not forget those Lovely Women of Bret Blevin's - those perfectly formed bodies have been squirted through the processing plant to form a Ferrari chassis for Nancy. And there we have it, the femme fatale is ready for surgical action!
I've moved away from my initial 'shark-hair' idea seen in the first sketches - I felt it was a little far-fetched and ultimately unattractive so I went down the Brooke Shields hairstyle road instead... it's a good road! Eye width is notably larger than either of the Wrights, and we have the sexy half-mast eyes รก la Jessica Rabbit.
And let us not forget those Lovely Women of Bret Blevin's - those perfectly formed bodies have been squirted through the processing plant to form a Ferrari chassis for Nancy. And there we have it, the femme fatale is ready for surgical action!
Nancy Heart... Inspirations
After the last post relating to Nancy Heart, I really hadn't given her much further thought, mainly because at the time I felt as though I'd more or less settle with what I'd created then. After a much needed mull, I've determined this is not the case, especially with the final character aesthetic nailed thanks to Dr. and Mrs. Wright.
To rewind for a second, I want to share [as I did a couple of months ago with Dr. Wright] some images of some female celebrities and characters whom I wanted to inform the look of Nancy. Firstly, Brooke Shields... a much younger Brooke Shields:
I'll be honest. The only thing that springs to mind when I see Ms. Shields is the bizarre character of Erika Ford she plays in an episode during the second season of Friends... Mainly because that's the only thing I'd care to watch with her in, nonetheless I feel that particular character is relevant in that she is beautiful, yet detrimentally marred by a screwed up perception of the world.
Secondly, Uma Thurman:
Probably no surprise to some, as many are aware she ranks highly on my list of 'tappable' women. She has a unique, yet clean facial structure, and there's a marked width between her eyes - something which adds to her attractiveness in my opinion, and so it was something I considered for Nancy.
And, undoubtedly, there will be those who draw parallels to Jessica Rabbit, and as such an iconic figure, it was hard not to draw inspiration on a general scale. So here she is, just because:
Beauu-dif-ful! Now on with the next post.
To rewind for a second, I want to share [as I did a couple of months ago with Dr. Wright] some images of some female celebrities and characters whom I wanted to inform the look of Nancy. Firstly, Brooke Shields... a much younger Brooke Shields:
I'll be honest. The only thing that springs to mind when I see Ms. Shields is the bizarre character of Erika Ford she plays in an episode during the second season of Friends... Mainly because that's the only thing I'd care to watch with her in, nonetheless I feel that particular character is relevant in that she is beautiful, yet detrimentally marred by a screwed up perception of the world.
Secondly, Uma Thurman:
Probably no surprise to some, as many are aware she ranks highly on my list of 'tappable' women. She has a unique, yet clean facial structure, and there's a marked width between her eyes - something which adds to her attractiveness in my opinion, and so it was something I considered for Nancy.
And, undoubtedly, there will be those who draw parallels to Jessica Rabbit, and as such an iconic figure, it was hard not to draw inspiration on a general scale. So here she is, just because:
Beauu-dif-ful! Now on with the next post.
2.1.09
Mrs. Wright... Revealed
First off, in my best pigeon French for no particular reason - bon annay, sivooplay. Moving on, some insightful scans of Dr. Wright's long suffering other half in sketch-o-rama.
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Mrs. Wright is in her mid-late forties, and showing all the usual signs of middle age - a bit of weight around the mid-riff area, growing behind, facial sagging and a dated hairstyle - a visit from Gok Wan wouldn't go amiss. However, it has been imperative that she holds the potential to look quite attractive, if not a tad sexy [final scene considered] so hopefully, I haven't drawn her here in her everyday-form to look completely repellent.
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Beneath the thick wooly polo-neck, she's simply a warm-hearted and trusting individual who doesn't wish to impose herself on her husband and is sadly quite oblivious to what he's been up to behind the scenes. It's a shame she has the news delivered to her in such a gruesome manner.
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Mrs. Wright is in her mid-late forties, and showing all the usual signs of middle age - a bit of weight around the mid-riff area, growing behind, facial sagging and a dated hairstyle - a visit from Gok Wan wouldn't go amiss. However, it has been imperative that she holds the potential to look quite attractive, if not a tad sexy [final scene considered] so hopefully, I haven't drawn her here in her everyday-form to look completely repellent.
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Beneath the thick wooly polo-neck, she's simply a warm-hearted and trusting individual who doesn't wish to impose herself on her husband and is sadly quite oblivious to what he's been up to behind the scenes. It's a shame she has the news delivered to her in such a gruesome manner.
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