Late Night Logo Design

Bit tired, admittedly, but I have finished what is probably going to be the last set of logos! Here they are!

Enlarge to see detail!

Smitten - Sword spin finished?

Hey folks!

Yup it's me again!

I have lots of vids to show, but it really depends on whether I can upload them to Blogger. I'm gonna try anyway!

This is a new line test I have done. I changed the angle of the spin because Matt asked for it to be at a different angle, so that it could disappear behind the pillar a bit more.

Things I found hard with this shot in general was the handle. The drawings Matt had done of it weren't in extreme detail, so I had to kind of imagine what it would look like at certain angles as it span. I think I made it look 3D and believeable, but I expect it could do with a little improvement.

Making it come to rest was fun though. Making the fast part was probably more difficult, because I didn't want it to zoom too quickly.

Here's the vid of the sword in colour and in the scene. It only requires shading if it is properly finished

Tweening in Toon Boom

Toon Boom is a fantastic program, but I have yet to learn all the animation techniques, one of which includes tweening. Using the help of this tutorial, I will be learning how to do it properly. That way in future I can easily move things around without worrying about redrawing things needlessly.



I will also be doing a Livestream later of some animation in progress, so I'll have that uploaded too, fingers crossed!

Fonts for Degree Show Logo

http://mawns.blogspot.com/

Above is a rather tasty link to a blog, containing several fonts that I'd like to use or try and use as reference for my logos.

My favourites include:

 

EDIT:

After close inspection the guy's work and his opinions of how his work should be used, I have found out that his free fonts are only for personal use. I will not use these fonts. However, looking at these fonts have given me a good idea of how I'd like my logo to appear.

New logo designs for Degree Show

Above are the fave logos that everyone on Facebook and Twitter voted for!

I have now made a fresh batch of designs for people to vote for, based on their votes. Here they are below:

Shot 27 The Deep - Progress

Well, I've started to get somewhere with this shot. It's about half done now. Here are some thumbs I drew to help me with the poses and expressions

Critique from Matt

E-mail from Matt Vadis about recent updates. Important bits are highlighted:-

Hey Em

Sorry I'm not into today, gonna try and crack on at home, but i'll be in tomorrow and thurs.

Guardian reaction shot - looks good, the ears don't distract me anymore so I think it's done, nice one.

Don wrist shot - there's still something that's sticks out with this one. I think the animation is okay, but again it might be the consistency of style. I know it's a very short bit of animation so i think it will work. I'm having a bit of trouble playing it through blogger, lol, so maybe on wed or thurs I can take a look at the toon boom file and give you better feedback.

Sword spin - coming along nicely, the aerial shot is great - you've got the weight and centre of gravity really nicely. As for the appearance of the sword, use the circular handle one that you've drawn in one of your sketches, that's how i've drawn it in another scene so we can match up the style. As for the direction of the sword I've attached an edit to a screenshot of your animation in white. I always envisioned the sword going into the darkness heading behind the pillar, but having said that, if it is difficult to change keep going with what you've done, cos it looks good so far.

I'll take a better look at the toon boom files in person, but for now keep going with it. Thanks

Matt

 

Pretty happy with the feedback I got. I agree with pretty much everything he said. There are bits that need adjusting, and I wanna make sure they look good.

 

Here's the image he's talking about for the sword spin