2D
OPERATION: Fineapple
A gruff but semi-likable pineapple named Sean Pineapple and his best-friend of a beer bottle, Slim Jenkins, get into a series of hijinks whilst uncovering a conspiracy that will shake them to their cores.
The first animation is a concept dream sequence before Sean wakes up.
While I got what I wanted from the dream sequence to have hand-drawn characters and background, making the "real" world animated via a vector-rig overtop a 3D generated set wasn't possible. My vectors for the rig are below.
If I get access to the softwares again, this would be one of the first projects I'd look to. I've enjoyed toying with the appeal in these characters and how it dictates their movement, their relationship with sound, etc.
These are the character turnarounds I made for the gaggle of goons.
Sean Fineapple
Slim Jenkins
Anna Applebottom
Manny Mandarin
Paul Mall LVIII
This was the beginning of a somewhat misleadingly comedic scene, where Paul is moaning having had his arms and legs snapped... only to be told to shake it off by his compatriots. They know better than anyone that he can just sit up, pop a few more cigarettes from his mouth, and plug them to his sides as brand-new limbs.
Hopefully this time-lapse can show you how I refined my line work. Their shape had to be the right match between realistic and whimsical, and I think I got pretty darn close.
Made earlier in my college career, this next clip is a moment from later in the story where Sean finds a secret staircase in the back of their friend Anna Applebottom's closet. What could she be hiding?
WARNING:
*EXPLICIT MATERIAL*
**This video has volume, but contains explicit language. It is intended as an animated adult comedy**
With little experience creating these animations, I'm happy with the clips I was able to make, bringing my characters into a moving medium. It made me more conscious of their personality as well as accelerated an acute attention to detail that you have to carry in frame-by-frame animation.
STORYBOARDING
I think that storyboarding these two was one of the times I've had the most fun designing characters. The ominous doorway in a seemingly goofy cartoon about animated inanimate household objects.
The way Slim has to duck under the doorway because they are in an apple's apartment... an apple who is much shorter an object and doesn't need tall doors herself. The change in theme when moving to their silhouettes in the pitch-black stairwell. All of it inspired their narrative and stimulated their creation as characters.
Frame-by-Frame
As much as I love doing this, it can get time-consuming. That being said, the end results can be a lot of fun!
Logo reveals, character displays, and narrative expressions. All of them possible from Procreate on the iPad.
3D
Ezekiel "Ze" Azar
A.K.A. Freefall
Equipped with a gravity-platform boot suit, Ze is a master of parkouring the city skyline... without laying a hand or foot on a single building. He is an addition to the group of stories I have set in dystopian futures.
Xoedin
The land of the lost, this is a small camp I built in 3D, modeled after one of my stories' locations. All lost things find their way to Xoedin, as do the troupe of characters in my story, The Time Breaker
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