After a long break, I went back to my weekly life drawing class at The Hut, only to find that there had been a mix up with booking the model so the class was turned into a portrait study with the students taking turns modelling, here are my drawings.

After posting the first animatic for The Makeover I got some feedback from a couple of animation forums and I went back to the storyboard and changed a few things.

The suggestions that I received were in regards to the pacing, things started pretty slow and then went too quick, so I changed the story a little to address this. There was also the issue with showing exactly what the character wanted at the beginning, I added a scene at the start to help establish that.

Another thing that was mentioned was having a balance between the beginning, middle and the end of the story. Right now I think the ending is a bit quick, almost a surprise, I thought about how I could make it longer to balance out the other two acts but what I came up with felt unnecessary and just dragging things on so I left it as it was before.

I am interested to hear what people think of this new animatic.
Click the image below to see it:

Please excuse the laughter sounds at the start, it doesn’t sound right but I haven’t found a better sound effect yet.

As a way of getting started with learning animation I have fleshed out The Makeover storyboard that I did a while ago called . The following is the animatic that I have so far, please click the image below to view it, it is an SWF.

I am looking to animate this little story in flash but before I go ahead with it I was hoping to get some guidance from more knowledgeable people about what I could do to improve it and the way I should go about it, so feel free to leave any feedback.

I have been working on my animatic for The Makeover and I was getting ready for posting the animatic here when I realized that I need a preloader so I spent yesterday making a preloader. It is not the smallest preloader (might need a preloader for the preloader!) but it will do:

Here is an interesting article on the way we look at things and why some things are more appealing to us.

I just finished uploading the photos from my cycle tour of the North Island of New Zealand. I have also finished doing the google map which shows the route and cycling stats, to have a look click the image below. Please note that Internet Explorer seems to have some issues with displaying these google maps.

Well that’s the end of my North Island of New Zealand trip. I was expecting an easier tour but strong winds, knee problems and stuff at home, made this quite a testing trip. One thing is for sure, I definitely wont be flying with Qantas again, they seem to go out of their way to make life difficult for the cyclist. Anyway enough complaining, I’m looking forward to going home.