Carpe PM

Last week I was assigned the task of designing a character. I was watching Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride and wanted to base it off those forms. And so, Timmy was born. He is a character from a cartoon a friend and I have been wanting to make for a long time. I had started drawing all the characters in the Simpson’s style. I’m now starting to lean towards this style more than the other. In any case, I’m making a cutout animation with the character this week, and will have something made by Monday. This is all being done in Flash.

In other news, I and some friends are entering the 24 hour film competition for Apple called Insomnia. We’re making a musical, and this should turn out wonderful if all works out this week. Midterms are just around the corner and assignments keep being delivered by the teachers. It’s a good week.

I’m not sure how half a month went by so fast. We reviewed regular expressions and went over context free grammars in compilers class. The traditional animation class has us designing characters this week. I have decided to work on a character from Doomination, and perhaps animate him in my final project. His name is Timmy. He’s a tiny little kid who is obsessed with coffee. More to come on that.

I’m getting together with some film friends, and we are entering the 24 hour competition that Apple is sponsoring. If you aren’t familiar, it is called Insomnia.