Hung Over

hung over.

Cooking

Today Dan had me deliver a package on E 23rd street where this bitchy girl works who's never satisfied with the work she's receiving and always makes it seem like my fault even though I'm just the delivery boy. Don't kill the messenger. Bitch.

Anyway I decided to walk home to save subway fare and totally misjudged THAT distance. Good thing is I got to stop at GoodBurger Home of the GoodBurger and get a GoodBurger that was a really good burger. I got to walk through the village too which was sweet since I hadn't been to St. Marks or Astor Place since I was a fifteen year old who thought he was really cool and shopped for cool things with his cool friends.

Now I'm back and working on situation number one for my jersey characters to get into; cooking. I collected a couple of funny food related soundbites from the show and am working on designing a chefs hat.

Tonight's plan is to meet my dad and his staff in ChinaTown for drinks.

A Day in the Life...

So I finally got to talk with Dan and Andre today and although they both liked my Avatar idea a lot, I guess they realized that I only have two weeks left here and something more simple would be more manageable. Wish they would have talked to me about my ideas sooner and it might not have been a problem... but whatever. So I came up with the idea of just having the characters go through these short ten second skits where it's kinda like the day in the life of a guido except all these bizarre things keep happening. I animated an intro scene thats pretty funny and everyone laughed and liked my characters, especially Andre. Tomorrow I think I'm going to try and finish a full skit.

Animating Day One

Started the miserable snow/rain/slush/ice hell ridden day by getting my characters onto different layers based on how i am going to make them move. For instance, I know I want each character to be able to bob his or her head when they speak, so I have to make sure that the head is on a different layer than the body and either in front of in back of the body layer depending on the character design. Likewise, I want each character to have some eye movement, so I have three or four different eyeball layers for each character that I can key in and out as necessary.

After that I got some backdrop images of Seaside Heights, Jersey Shore online to use. One of the boardwalk and one of the beach. I still haven't had a real chance to talk with Dan or Andre about what exactly it is I'm doing and since classes at Pratt started today and they both teach I'm not sure if I ever will. So I decided to just start animating something anyway and I placed three characters onto my backdrop and had them say a few lines and look at each other. The timing was awful but its a work in progess.

Here's Everyone

Vector Drawings

Over the weekend I designed my characters and now I am spending today doing the tedious process of digitally inking my drawings. Effin pen tool that I've avoided using for four years. Here's an example of Mike aka "The Situation"

Red Bull and Spicy Tuna

Today I installed Final Cut Pro in a completely lawful way onto my computer (thanks DK) so that I could start organizing and editing my soundbites. This was a painful process...

Next I began creating my characters, finished all of them and then decided I didn't like it. Lunch was at a small Japanese restaurant around the block that obviously doubled as the owner's home since we ate surrounded by baby toys and a rack of T-Shirts. We talked about different places we've been and how not all of New Jersey is like Seaside Heights.

Now I'm stuck on a Red Bull high trying to figure out my next move. I'm trying to get my dumbass friends together so we can finally do something with our lives tonight but its not looking good. The only one completely down is Phil... and well... its Phil.

I started my day watching a documentary about Star Trek hosted by William Shatner himself. It was pretty ridiculous.