Final End of Year Film

A week or so back I finished my third year film which was also nominated for best 2D animation for my university end of year show.
As you can could guess I was very excited that it got nominated and everyone who watched it enjoyed it and all the jokes made people laughed which I couldn't not be any more more happier about.

Below is the end of year film and I hope you enjoy it.


Spooky Scary Investigations FINAL FILM from Jason Evans on Vimeo.

Film update 24/04/15

It's been a while since my last end of year film post and during that time I have managed to get a lot of it done. There is a lot to do, the most important items I need to address are the lip sync, import the stop motion scenes and finish off animation at the end of the film.

Once I have completed the film to an acceptable level and I got some time left to make things better I want to go back over the very first scene and fix the stiff animation on Max.

End of Year film update 02/04/15

The last couple of days I've trying to finish off as many scenes as possible (but not including the lip sync). I've only completed 3 scene's but I'm hoping I'll pick speed since the next few scene's involve only one character at a time.

End of Year film update 28/03/15

A bit of set back this week where my days of work got corrupted which slowed down my progress. I've managed to redo what I lost and got all the scene's ruffed out.
I'm currently fine lining all the keys and discussing the stop motion scene's with my animation as my previous animator had to much work finish and wouldn't be able to do my stop motion scene's.

Below is a video of my current progress.

Film update, Tomb Scene

After having the critique Monday I was heavily recommended to redo all my voice because they wasn't of good enough quality, I've re-recorded all the dialogue apart from Max which I need to find a voice actor because the last one wasn't emoting enough.

Below is the test which I showed for the critique.

Film update: Keying the hallways

I've spent the best part of this week drawing key frames for my film and skipping the colouring, in-between and lip sync. By doing just the keys I feel I got more to show when I post an update.

Smoke and Progress

I have almost completed the best majority of scene one of my final fill but instead of completely finishing it off I moved onto the next scene. The reasons for this is I could work forever on getting my first scene perfect and make no progress on the other scenes which could result in having an unfinished film for hand in. Secondly I want to get the time of the whole film completed so I can give it to my music guy so he can finish off the sound of the film.

Below is a test of one possible smoke effect for my ghost and the second is a ruff cut of my film so far.

Repost Scene one colour update

Scene one colour update

The first scene of my film is almost complete. There is still a little bit of colouring yet to do but once that is finished I can then start adding the lip sync into the scene (but I will adding the lip sync once all the scene's are lined and coloured).

The step is to complete the reaming scene's which shouldn't take as long as scene one so the updates to this blog should be more frequent.

EDIT:
For some reason which is unknown to me, the video's frame rate has drastically dropped. Until I can find the reason to why this is I'll be adding all future updates as an SWF file.

Scene one film update

Sorry for the long delay, but I wanted to finish a big part of my animation before revealed it to the public.
I have completed the key frames and in betweens for the for character Josh for the first scene and I am now in middle of cleaning up the second character Max.
I can then colour them both in and processed onto scene 2.
Below is a flash file I embedded of scene 1

Production Test

Today I started and finished a two second clip of what my final film will look like (although this clip is missing shadow effects and at this moment I've ran out of time to speak and need to get other tasks done first.

Three Protagonists Complete

Today I completed my third and final protagonists design (which I have shown below). The original back story of the characters where very different from what they are now. Although this doesn't effect the plot at all for the animation I thought it would be interesting to bring up.
Originally the  three characters are unrelated and work for the one character Trixy, But after designing the third character I wanted to change it to that the third character is the father and the other two are his son and daughter.

Again although this don't changed anything for animation I'm creating, it would if this was to go onto be on going series.

(below are two images of my first initial sketch and the final characters I decided to go with)

After Effects tests 1

For this new brief I have been tasked to explore the feature of after effects and then using that knowledge create a 30 second click to promote charity of our choice.

I've completed a number of small tests but my best effects are smoke changing into text and creating a wave portal. I have added the videos of these effects below.

Google Doodle Progress

I have almost completed my Google Doodle and the current progress of the interactive image is shown below

the constant animations are complete but only three of the buttons are working so far (and the Moon buttons sometimes glitches which I need to go back and find out what's wrong). At the rate this is going I should be finished by Thursday.

As I side project I also created an animated image of a ghost puppy using the transparency and glow tools in flash

Ghost Puppy Krinkles by NonsenseGhost on deviantART

First day of third year

First day back in the Atrium, starting my third.
I have been given my brief which is in short to learn new skills and tricks on adobe flash.
What I've done so far today is look up tutorials on how to add glow effects, learn to use the bone tool and use nesting more effectively.

While doing individual tests for these I also made 10 second video using all three of these features which I have linked below

Completed Projects

I managed to finish my final Major project yesterday but before I show the final video I want to get a second opinion from my lecture for last minute changes or edits which I didn't notice.
In Addition I finished the title card for fellow student for the collaboration side which is below.
There are few things which I would of liked to improve on but given the time I couldn't do them.

Animation with sound and collaboration

I had ruff test of my sound yesterday which I have put into a test below. In general I'm happy with the sound maybe a few tweaks here and there but this close to hand I'm not sure if there would be enough time to make the slight changes.

I've also took on a minor collaboration with one of the stop motion students (Hannah Griffiths) to do he title card. below is very early animation, I'm planning on animating a rising sun in the background and another doll on the right side which when reveal both teddies/dolls will run off the screen.

Animation near completion

Wrench Fight test 1

This is last complicated scene of animation, everything else is just animation which I can in day.
When doing my backgrounds there was one I missed and it's for this scene so I need to go back and create it but the animation looks to hear with a tweak here or there.

Ruff Test 2 (No Audio)