Thursday, June 3, 2010

Gigia's cartoon alpha version

It took me ages to decide whether to share this version of my first cartoon. But it was simply an exercise without which I couldn't get my Autodesk Certificate from Digital Dreams Barcelona.
I was so proud of myself when I handed it in on the 6th on April, but since then I was told that:

a) the palette is inconsistent
b) changing the light from what I thought could be daybreak to sunset, just to give a sense of time passing more quickly than it appears, is actually quite confusing
c) There is no depth of field, no fog and no blur
d) It takes a couple of views, at least, to guess the snail is hungry and can't move because the shell is too heavy.

In spite of all this, it was still a step in my learning process. I hope by next year I'll look back to this experiment with the same tenderness you look at your primary school drawings. I'm trying to put together a beta version, even though it would require radical changes.

2 comments:

  1. Finally found how to post a comment...simply didn't work with Firefox, but's running now with Explorer!

    Gigia's soo cute!
    What about the beta-version, then?!

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  2. Still working on it... I'm tempted to drop the subject and start a new one though! I should start all over again to make a real difference.

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