Important Note: If you are one of the people who don't feel like reading this whole thing, then please just scroll down, look at the pic, maybe read a little of the information about the cartoon, and tell me what you think. Thanks in advance.
Now for the rest of you:
First off, Happy (late) New Year everyone! Okay, the mandatory spread of good will is done with, let's move on. As you may or may not know, I got a Wacom Tablet for X-mas, this one to be exact.
Now if you missed it (which I'm sure most of you who are reading this did) I revealed the results of my poll on Dec. 24th. If you are too lazy to click there and read the results, it turned out to be a tie between waiting for the tablet, and making a "future-esque" cartoon. So I decided to do both. And now here's something I haven't been able to do for the last 3 news posts, give you a percentage! Just FYI, the new cartoon is called "Television Rules the Nation." and is set too the Daft Punk song "Television Rules the Nation" (...sort of).
Television Rules the Nation-
Approx. Percentage: 11%
Current Runtime: 16.5 Seconds
Now, I know I said I was going to make a Cartoon Production Update once a week, but really, I think 2 weeks is a pretty good amount of time in between updates. If I did once a week (at least for this cartoon) there wouldn't be much to update. So if you would like me to cut to the chase, basically what I'm saying is: There will only be one Cartoon Production Update every 2 weeks from now on! Everyone clear? Good.
Now I think I'll tell you a little bit about the cartoon itself. Basically to re-iterate for the... 4th time, it's going to be like the cartoon Future by Celarent. Sadly my cartoon isn't going to be as good as his, (huge surprise) but that doesn't mean it wont be epic. This cartoon is definitely better than any cartoon I've ever made, as it should be. I'm really taking a lot of time with the camera angle and shots in this one; incidentally, the cartoon looks much better. Now, unlike Future, this cartoon has a little more of a defined storyline; rather than 3 or so (but I'm not saying that's bad thing). One thing about this cartoon that's kind of bad is that, due to the high use of filter effects, it's going to almost mandatory that you watch it at medium-low quality.
Well that's it for this week. Below is a screenshot of one of the first parts of the cartoon. Enjoy.
~Jimtopia
Wurmy
Looks nice :) I liked Future alot. Great movie.
But what you could do is instead of using Filters, you can use the filter, take a screenshot then replace the original vector art with filters with the new screenshot :D That way it'll look the same, AND it won't lag :D Although it'll look a little 'pixely' but I think its worth it.. Specially if there's going to be a LOT of filters
Jimtopia
That's a good idea, in theory, but there's two problems:
1. If I did that, I wouldn't be able to animate any of the backgrounds, so I could only do it to static objects, which there are very few of in this cartoon.
2. The file size would probably get ridiculously huge, a typical JPEG image being about 78 KB's or so. Multiply that by a huge amount of backgrounds and objects with filters, and you're getting a big cartoon.
Thanks for commenting though, I hope you'll check out the cartoon when it's done!