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[secondlina]

 Whew. I managed to finish the first ten pages of my printed comic Psychopompes. The first ten pages are needed for a preview magazine. So, that's a whole week to sketch, ink, shade and letter 10 pages. Didn't think I could do it, but I did. I spent my vacation on this. Tired now. I'm happy with the result.

I can't show you guys the actual pages. But here's a few select panels from those pages, just so I can show off a bit.



Aside from that, i'm loving all the Tangled (Disney's "Rapunzel") concept art all over the internet. Behold :










As always, Disney knows how to do expressions. I love it. I hope the artbook for this movie will be instructive. Pixar artbook tend to be a bit meh. I,m hoping the Disney 3D animated feature ones might be better. You can learn a lot from artbooks.

- Isa

Comments

[ichiban-victory.livejournal.com]

I really like the look of black and white art with the grey tones more than color...and more than just black and white. Not having such stark contrasts really makes your art stand out more to me. I hope this sells well!

And now I feel bad... I knew of this concept art, but I guess since I've been gone for a few days it's not like I could tell you about it. Agreed on Disney and expressions. This reminds me when I saw the Bolt concept art on display in Florida. It was so great to see! It made me wish the movie had been traditionally animated... I feel the same about Tangled, but from what little I've seen I don't doubt it will be well animated for CG.

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

I like stark contrasts! XD But I wanted to try out the gray.

Disney animators always give out their all to stylize a piece and bring out a high quality work. I still think CG offers possibilities that traditional animation cannot. The hair for example. It's really hard to animate consistently hair, especially when it moves that much. It's like the flight scenes in How to train your dragon. Sure, traditional animation would have been fun, but the scenes acquire a certain realism and flow from the 3D animation.

A style needs to go with a story, and I think Tangled is a good candidate for 3D animation. Something like "The princess and the frog" or "beauty and the beast" would have looked odd in 3D. I'm not saying that I prefer 3D to traditional, but I don't think they would have done Tangled is the 3D medium was not available.

[ichiban-victory.livejournal.com]

I have to laugh a little, since that amazing hair in CGI is SO HARD to replicate realistically. Just watch the special features for Incredibles to see all the trouble they went through to program hair that would move realistically. Computers do make things look pretty, but it's a lot of hard work to make things move realistically compared to just being able to draw things moving realistically. We've not seen anything like Pocahontas' hair in CG movies. Think about it. ^_-;

I do think that any movie could and can be made traditionally. All that computer animation holds over it is more dynamic camera angles and realistic renders.

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

Computer animation has it's own style and artistic quality. I don't think it should be boiled down to camera angles. You can stylize a 3d model just like 2D characters. Pixar knows. In any case, I like both. I'm not going to start a traditional vs 3D debate since i'm waving pompoms for both sides. It would get confusing. I'm sure the movie would have been pretty as a 2d feature, but still think 3D is an interesting choice for it. And so far, I love what it looks like.

Hair was difficult to replicate, but they now developed a lot of awesome tools to make it. Pocahontas' hair is cool, but it's a very simplified design (black blob with escaping strands, it does look cool but it's very simple). I don't think Rapunzel would have looked cool with Pocahontas hair. There's definitely something I love about the way they did her hair in 3D.

I don't think the Disney "3D studios" are as strong as Pixar yet, and you can't compare a developing studio to a well established one. So yeah, their 3D might seem a lot weaker then their 2D, but I still think they are doing good.

[ichiban-victory.livejournal.com]

The Disney 3D studio will never be as strong as Pixar seeing how it doesn't exist. When Pixar and Disney kissed and made up, part of the agreement was that it would be Pixar that handled CGI movies while Disney would return to traditional animation. It's really foolish to actively compete with yourself. Regardless, Disney always hires skilled artists. I've never had any complaints about the animation in Disney's CG movies. Bolt alone captures animal body language far too well for the artists not to have talent.

And yeah....I could chomp at this all day, but I won't. I'm not arguing about this since I was never against 3D/CGI animation in the first place. Both have strengths and weaknesses, neither is truly superior to the other.

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

It must exist in some form since the "Disney Digital 3-D" brand doesn't really seem to include Pixar. Unless they are secretly Pixar movies released under the disney branding? Or a team truly composed of half and half? But the movies do seem to have a different style then pixar. Or is that an illusion? Curse you Disney, and your various confusing brands! *shakes fist*

I'm not so well versed in the ways of Disney (not as much as you anyways), but i'm still happy about the 3D. Yeah, we could have a debate about traditional vs CGI until we are old and gray and still not resolve the debate. I'm sure Disney has a reason why they chose 3D for this movie. Snow Queen seems to still be in 2-D despite jumping in and out of development hell. Any new developments on that movie? Since the snow Queen is my favorite fairy tale I have high hopes for this one.

Hey, how about the Bear and the Bow? Are you excited about that one? I am! the main character looks like she could kick butt.

[ichiban-victory.livejournal.com]

That's just the logo they use so that we know that the movie will be offered in 3D. It's not a studio, it's the technique for theatres. Disney has its own version of a lot of things, from the 3D viewing to surround sound.

From what I read, Glen Keane pushed for Tangled to be in 3D, not for it being 3D, but because he wanted to make a movie that looked "like a moving oil painting", which is much cheaper to do with CGI than traditional animation. For one they can render it on a computer. For the other, they'd have to actually paint it.

I'm always really neutral on Pixar movies until I see them. I'm the same with Disney movies, too. Until I can see even a snippet of a scene from the movie, I try not to have any prejudice for or against the movie until it's out. I loved Toy Story after thinking, "How dumb!" when I initially heard of it, but I also didn't really care for A Bug's Life. In this rare situation, I need to "see it" before I'll "believe it". ^_-;

I've not heard anything on Disney's projects, but that's not unusual. Disney has always been secretive on what it works on. When Disney is ready to let us know what's in production, they'll let us know. When they feel they can make a worthy movie adaptation of the Snow Queen, it'll happen.

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

Apparently he did manage some kind of effect with the 3D. Pascal can't stop gushing about how unique it is. I don't see any major differences, but apparently, there is major ones. I'll take his word on it. XD

[quasiarti.livejournal.com]

heh this week I was actually talking with my illustration teacher and he say the same about Pixar artbook's being meh. And I still found hilarious how Disney try to show more about the thief guy but people still go: that's such a girls movie

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

Really? All the guys I know who love animation are really into seeing this movie. I was actually thinking the directed-to-boys-marketing was working.

Swasbucking dashing thieves are girl bait anyways.

[spankingfemme.livejournal.com]

Nice panels babe! =D And that's damn good to hear you doing all that in such a short period of time! =D Speaking of vacation, how is the whole job front?

Disney does awesome expressions! I loves them so! =D This flick looks very fun ;)

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

Meh, i'll figure out the job front today.

[jason-register.livejournal.com]

I saw the trailer for this, looks fun. =)

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

It does! I'm really looking forward to it.

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

Ooh, super-intriguing! I'd love to see this comic.

I hear what you say about Disney expressions. The thing I noticed about Disney versus Don Bluth's style, for example, was that in Disney you can take ANY still of a character and it will be flattering to the character; with Bluth there are a LOT of in-between ugly expressions.

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

Like I did with my first comic, i'll offer up sales when it's printed here on the journal. And probably a few preview pages. And illustrations of course!

I'll keep you guys posted for sure! :D

Ah, Bluth. I actually like his more "icky" style. Disney seems a little too clean nowadays. But it is their style to have really neat animation. And pale lines. Bluth likes his fumbling and black lines. I wish Bluth sticked to his dark style rather then try to copy Disney.

[earthstar-moon.livejournal.com]

The pages look great! The shades and tones really add to the atmosphere.

Concept sketches yay! I see icon potential for some of these. Disney does do expressions well. I can't wait to see this movie.

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

Icon potential! *laughs*

Thanks! It took me about 3 days to shade it all (started almost right after you guys left and finished yesterday around 2 am. Whew!)

[engelen.livejournal.com]

congrats! :D

I still wish Tangled was a 2D movie -_______________-

[angelchan-2004.livejournal.com]

The panels look amazing! Nice flow of emotion and everything~

I do love Disney's expressions, especially the one where she's feeding the horse. xD

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I'm so used to doing silent comics and putting so much expressions in the characters faces that I had trouble fitting in the dialogue lol.

Gah, the expressions! SO AMAZING.