I decided to work on some art to help move the cog wheels of
Clock Day.
Clock day is celebrated every 15th of August (since 2001) on
newgrounds.com. It started when a user named StrawberryClock had turned in his flash submission which just contained the letter '
B'. This submission, as much as it was blammed, withstood the blams of time and has churned out an internet subcultre. From these bytes of silliness grew the phenomenon of the
Clock Crew and their creativeness.
According to
history books, before StrawberryClock submitted 'B', he had turned in 'A' which was blammed to the peak of oblivion. Thus my project is based on that submission by StrawberyClock.
It's a short animation and personifies the letter 'A' and A's bleak, short lived future it faced by the forces that binds newgrounds.
Below are some of the preproduction works that went into this project. Enjoy!
I started off by first getting a good feel for the character and penciled out some basic shapes to simplify the figure.
On nailing down the final design, I decided to go straightahead and not do the turn arounds, something that I essentially do on all projects.
After thumbnailing the concept storyboard, dove right into to creating a tight animatic with Jedadiah's:
Pardon(theme) from the audio portal. Songs that didn't make it into the list or were dropped last minute were the following, A salute to these talented audio slaves.
CJ's :
Ghost of the PastDanPaladin's:
PearZeke30695's:
Lilium (Music Box)Jedadiah's:
Reprise and FinaleThe Clock Crew in the mean time have finalized on this years
preloader, which I have modified to fit my animation.
Thus getting to the end of this post, I had fun working on this project. The total time it took me from scrip to screen was approximately 12 hours, broken over a few nights. Getting technical, this animation made in Flash CS3 (bloody thing crashed a lot of times), the background texture is from
CGTextures.com which is a collective maintained by Marcel Vijfwinkel, also used Photoshop for editing and optimizing the final image.
Audacity was the weapon of choice for sound editing.
I'm submitting the finished animation this Saturday to newgrounds.com and by next week, it goes up on
thedevilsgarage.com too. So for now, I shall leave you with two stills from the animation.
Shoutout to
Sean 'Chains' Mckenzie who helped me out with that strange language called actionscript.
Update: Death of 'A', has been featured on newgrounds homepage! Had got 15,000 hits in the first 24hours, most excellent!
Labels: analysis, Animation, Character Design, Character Development, newgrounds.com, Story Boards
Christian,
All robots manufactured at the garage go through a color test. 
