La más importante revista de diseño de Colombia, Proyecto Diseño, hizo una reseña sobre el corto "Gatín a Bordo" y su actual participación en el concurso de mytoons . Para votar por el corto, pueden ir aquí. The most important design magazine of Colombia, Proyecto Diseño, has made a review about the short-film "Gatín a Bordo" (Kitty on Board), and its current participation on the "Get With The Times" contest, from mytoons. You can go and vote here.
This is the short-short film that I've made for the Monster Jam contest. The music, as usual is from my friend Alejandro Guarin. For this time, I've tried something different, so I used a tool that was not made for animation, but I found it really helpful when it comes to expression. This tool is ArtRage. I've used it already to paint the backgrounds of my other short film "Gatin A Bordo" (Kitty On Board), but this time I've used it to draw everything. So what I did was, first I drew the pencil test to check the movement. Since ArtRage have no such thing as "frames" I drew a frame in a layer, then I created a new layer, and changed the alpha of the layer below, and so on. Then I exported it as .psd and then I imported it to Flash, as frames. When I was happy with the result, I started to draw the final look. Then I repeated the process again with the final drawings... exporting as .psd, importing to flash. Finally, I exported every frame as .jpg, imported it on After Effects as footage, in order to have the best render settings. Well, It was seems like a long technical process, but I'm happy with the result, and after all, it was only 10 seconds... The quality is not good on youtube, but on mytoons it looks better.
I was not satisfied with my aproach at George, so I decided to make more attempts. These ones are almost in chronological order, and show the evolution of my understanding on the construction. I feel more comfortable now, since I´m more loose on my drawings.
