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What is Pencil good for?

Posted in Pest on Feb. 5, 2013, 7:11 p.m.

I thought in abandoning the original design of the Gekis. The shape of the legs make the animation difficult. Because of their legs, the Gekis have to walk in a particular way, like no other creature does. As I am the only animator of this production I thought the effort ...

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Film Transitions

Posted in Pest on Jan. 30, 2013, 12:39 a.m.

I have a created a video showing the main film transitions:

  • cut
  • dissolve
  • fade
  • wipe.

The video was edited in OpenShot, the images were created in SynfigStudio.

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Creating a storyboard in Linux

Posted in Pest on Jan. 17, 2013, 7:37 p.m.

To create the storyboard of the first chapter of Pest I use multiple programs. Unfortunately I didn't find a program that offered me everything I wanted or needed. I tried to use Pencil, but I didn't like the drawing tools it has. So I used MyPaint, GIMP and ...

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From the short story to the script

Posted in Pest on Jan. 9, 2013, 7:23 p.m.

I'm used to writing stories. But pest is my first script. The script is adapted from a story I wrote a little over a year. As an adaptation, the exercise of writing this script allowed me to see the differences between these two forms. At first I thought that ...

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Camera positions

Posted in Pest on Jan. 1, 2013, 10:45 p.m.

Depending on the distance between the camera and the object in the scene, there are five different camera positions:

  • Ultra-wide shot: the camera shows a panoramic view of the stage.
  • Wide shot: the camera shows the object as a whole in the stage.
  • Mid shot: In this shot, the camera ...
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