So, okay it’s July and I was supposed to premiere Nivadahmandi in June…
It’s my first animated series!
SUE ME!
For the last two months, production on Nivadah was held up (choked, & drowned in a river) by a side project for the NFWF.
I was not only art director, but lead animator on one of the characters with the most screen time. All my free time was spent working out issues with that project or helping other artist on the project with thier scenes.
I never even got to glance at the turnarounds for the characters in Nivadah, much less animate them.
And honestly...
it’s my first attempt at doing a project of this scale and I have to admit, while few…
there were some loose ends.
Mostly everything is under control and I should be posting some actual finished (or close to finished) scenes next week.
I’ve changed so many scenes recently and that is what keeps pushing back the episode one release.
I’m finally getting to sleep at night (the entire night) and so my brain works properly once again, meaning I have creative ideas and thoughts coming to me nonstop.
I’m back to the old me 100% (scary)
I’ve only been animating for just over a year so… I shouldn’t expect to animate at the speed or skill of say the guys from Studio 4°C (Mindgame, Tekkon Kinkreet, Genius Party [beyond], Gainax (Neon Genesis Evangelion, Gurren Lagann, FLCL) ,
or C’MON…Production IG
(GITS, Blood: the last vampire, and that animated sequence in Kill Bill)
or C’MON…Production IG
(GITS, Blood: the last vampire, and that animated sequence in Kill Bill)
I am however, working on Nivadah.
It's coming along tiny scene by tiny scene.
You never really get the full complex scale of something as seemingly simple as a thirty minute animated show, until your knee deep in it.
I'm not going for thirty minutes, but just the few minutes I'm working at are made up of several tiny seconds worth of scenes.
SEVERAL.
I'm thinking episode one won't be ready until sometime later in July, then episode two will come late August.
I think that this is a doable schedule.
So to tide you over until episode on is over, I've posted some background pics and screen shot of the process.
YAY!
It's coming along tiny scene by tiny scene.
You never really get the full complex scale of something as seemingly simple as a thirty minute animated show, until your knee deep in it.
I'm not going for thirty minutes, but just the few minutes I'm working at are made up of several tiny seconds worth of scenes.
SEVERAL.
I'm thinking episode one won't be ready until sometime later in July, then episode two will come late August.
I think that this is a doable schedule.
So to tide you over until episode on is over, I've posted some background pics and screen shot of the process.
YAY!
cut me some slack.
not only am I one man...but I'm only human.
not only am I one man...but I'm only human.
