#project thoughts

[zoloxolo]

Project Thoughts: Student Film "Heard Somebody Cry" [April 12th 2025]

New semester, new student film to work on!

As I said in my last update, I decided to drop my uncompleted film "Lost and Found" last semester due to the amount of baggage it carried during production. I knew that I wanted to do something a bit more light-hearted and fun for the next one, even if it meant working on something as cringe as an animated music video of my two precious ocs.... a but indulgent, yes, last year was very difficult for me so dont judge.... Unfortunately, because i am using a song from a popular band, i won't be able to enter it into any film festivals. The most i can do is hope my film gets selected for my college's screening and maybe win a single award if the judges like it enough.

Anyways enough blabbering, here is what i have so far!

Lemmie first introduce you to my characters I'm going to be animating! The man in the green sweater is Omar, the other ghostly figure with the beret is Benjamin. Back in 2021 when i was attending CSSSA, I attempted to animate a short film of these two which was gnna be named Acquainting Painting. Looking back after years have passed.... it was very silly of me to think I could finish a 1 minute film in just a week, but I managed to have the storyboard done at the very least. I haven't uploaded the film on youtube yet so maybe sometime in the future I'll be able to link it here, but I aint gnna lie, I am a lil too lazy to find the video. I think the file itself is gone forever from my hard drive failing, but I definitely have the file exported as a mp3.

Here is what Benjamin looks like in human form with his proper colors. This was concept art for his redesign, thus the outdated outfit.

Here is what he's supposed to look like in the final product after adding in the effects, but tbh, I'm still not fully on board with these colors. It's got a nice pallet, but i want him to pop out more in a lighter blue since the setting is going to take place in an art gallery at night. By the time i roll out another update, I'll update his FINAL final look.

And now, for the animation segment!

In total, i wanna say i put in about over 40 hours of work into this since 3 weeks ago. I definitely should've put more work into this segment during that time, I was sorta dilly dallying for a bit. There's a few more boards beyond this, but i wanna wait to show it off after the majority of this segment is animated. It was super hard to animate Benjamin glitching since the only things i have ever animated up until this point has been character acting. I had to watch a lot of aimkid beforehand to study the way she makes her character move. I definitely need to watch more 2d animated movies that aren't disney related and get caught up with the times... but i can't help it, i love animating the Richard Williams way 😵‍💫

That's it for now. Its 8am and I stayed up all night trying to type all of this out. I'll see yall preferably next week.

[kiryuing]

[akiiame-blog]

this girl is literally on cloud 9 for a little goofy chubby guy

[noirandchocolate]

Several weeks ago one of my coworkers called me over into her cubicle and gave me a very unexpected gift. Her mother passed away recently, and she'd been packing stuff up at her condo to give to relatives and sell, so the home could be sold. The mother was an avid knitter and crocheter, and when my coworker came upon her stash of equipment, she told me, she "immediately thought of me as someone who might get some use out of it."

So, I have inherited a varied collection of knitting needles and crochet hooks, cable needles, sewing needles, and, best of all, now-out-of-print pattern books, mostly for blankets, because that was what this lady loved to make most. Plus, I also have a bunch of gauge swatches she made, pinned to little bits of card covered in perfect schoolteacher handwriting setting out the patterns they were made to test.

And also...

My coworker brought another bag, full of yarn and...knitted blanket squares. Her mother's last started project, before she got too sick to continue. And she asked if there was anything I could do with it.

It turned out, there are twelve completed squares, and I quickly located the pattern book they are from amid those given to me. It's a book of 60 patterns, meant to be put together however the maker wishes into blankets of 20 squares. I figured out which of the numbered patterns were already made, and selected eight more that I thought might go well with them.

So now! I am working on completing! My coworker's mother's last knitting project!

And I really am feeling very good about doing it.

[hootyhoowoo]

I’ve had this saved in my wips since October of last year _(:3 」∠)_

[asparklethatisblue]

Viktor consumes tea at lethal temperatures, Jayce learns this very fast

[patzweigz]

really surprised i have of yet to see this reading of laios' and toshiro's relationship before tbh

[kartoonito]

My guy of all time

[theoldkyokodied]

guess which game(s) I've been playing

[khazure]

[zoloxolo]

*reappears again*

Heehee, funny update on my final film during last semester, I had a major life event that happened about a week or 2 after the last post. TLDR: I had someone who used to live with me move out, and alotta my stuff ended up being scattered around. By the time things started to settle down, I had one week of the semester left to work on my project. I managed to animate and polish half of it before I turned it in! You can see it here!

I think I did p alright for a first film, but it carried so much turmoil once winter break arrived.

After the new year passed, I spent a few months healing and doing stuff creatively and non creatively. Spending an entire week doing nothing but eating, using the restroom, animating, and sleeping is not for the weak yall, so of course it took awhile to get out of that creative rut after going through what felt like animation boot camp.

At some point, my professors and I got in contact to encourage me to continue working on the film. I agreed, but I ended up changing my mind once classes started back up again. I wanted to work on a small animated music video of my characters from my first failed attempt at a short film, "Acquainting Painting," which is going to be a bit uppity and face paced compared to my last film. I was just about to return to tumblr and continue my "project thoughts" on the new film concept but I ended up having a medical scare that lasted 2 whole weeks, thus a good chunk of time meant for production work gone.

I haven't been able to get into the flow of this new project since I got better, I'm currently behind on class work bc I was sick for so long, but I'm currently revisiting all of my belongings I haven't seen and touched since last semester. Im trying to get back into selling my work at art markets again since making money is a bit of a priority now. Half of the time that was meant for animating will be going into my little art business, but I'm hoping that coming back to my "project thoughts" series will encourage me to power through this new film. As of right now, I have about 86 days until it's due. I promise I'll post again after I'm done sorting my belongings out. XP

[lucielleblanc]

mizuki’s a really good ‘ally’

[zorangezest]

deceptibee and dadwave

[eelclaw]

lionblaze, shadowsight, and the prisoners they released

[blackkatdraws2]

[ORV] happy Han Myungoh before I explore (my interpretation of) his trauma ^_^

[CONTENT WARNING: Body Horror / Gore underneath]

Han Myungoh had to save his daughter in exchange for her freedom and his humanity

Han Myungoh did try killing the baby before it was born, but he changed his mind later and gave birth to Han Dareum and loved her. SOURCE: Chapter 251: Episode 47 – Demon King Selection (5)

Still, it must've been scary living his entirely life as a straight cis man then suddenly being hit with the fear of pregnancy, having to experience what it's like to have a living being growing inside you. (Even if not physically, since: 1. The specifics never got told in the novel 2. Han Dareum is a curse 3. Han Myungoh himself said he "give birth from the heart.")