i made a cartoon for the live action jam!

here's a post going through the processs

first things first, i knew i wanted to do SOMETHING with motion tracking. but first, i had to figure out WHAT i was going to focus on. in May, i made a little robot character for fun, and was immediately drawn to her because i could just animate her floating around and also she looks funny. i also used this cartoon to test out a shader i had previously made that replicates the texture of my painted style, which feels a little odd because this focuses on live action? but i like how it ended up looking on the character

so i got to that motion tracking business

and in animating this, i wanted to do something a little weird. it'd been forever since i did stuff with motion blur, and for the last nearly 2 YEARS (ouch) i've been animating a project with some friends where characters are mostly animated on two's. so going into this i wondered: how would motion blur work on a character animated like this? and the answer to that ended up being that it looks ok lol. sometimes the motion blur plays into the funniness of a shot and i think it helped the 3D stuff blend in with the live action backgrounds, but it was also kind of a hassle sometimes cuz motion blur is an uncontrollable beast.

then after a bunch of storyboarding and brainstorming, i got the usual @icymire32 on music, and @emizip voicing the lead of the cartoon! emi and i need to finish playing battleblock theater together but i keep forgetting. also she made this character sound very whimsical and funny thank you emi. all the stuff i wrote for this cartoon was written in a very tired haze and hearing it read back to me was a funny experience

after setting everything up and starting animation, i realized i had no idea what to put on the walls of the little room alix was set to live in. so i told a bunch of people in my discord server that they could send me any drawing of theirs they wanna make and i'd put it on the walls of the room. this is what the room looked like with no art and no materials:

and this is what it looks like with a lot of art and materials:

credits for the drawings are listed in the cartoon and its description!!! if any of these artists post their pieces online i'll like those posts here and in the cartoon's description as well.

and then over the course of just a couple of weeks i made this whole dang cartoon. here's a bunch of fun and silly progress screenshots

this is my friend marko's car. i put it in the digital realm. to make it up to him i let him squish brains around in the intro of the cartoon

this is the beginnings of some confusing scenery i set up to hide a woman walking her dog

we love a&w here

i fucking hate smoke sim. I HATE IT

a baby

and thats like most of the interesting stuff i have to show off for this cartoon i think..... shoutouts emi for the voice acting and carol for the music

shoutout to @tiltro for being the most supportive mother fucker in the world love u buddy. shoutout to laundry detergent quest i probably wouldve finished this cartoon a day earlier if it wasnt for that game

bye