Storyboarding again. Gronky is very happy to see you.
I’ve had a not-really-creative week when it comes to “A Moment In The Sun” which is weirdly apt considering it’s been a fairly rainy and not sunny week:
12 May: After rewriting the script the previous day, many beats were boarded. I was still on a roll from the weekend, apparently.
13 May: Still boarding somewhat, I had to pull out the old oil-based clay and sculpt up Gronky’s mouth before I could draw it.
14 May: Ran out of interest in boarding. Still looking for Gronky’s new design. For now, the boards will contain the old design just to keep momentum up. (Just like Wreck-It Ralph. I think.)
15 May: Nope.
16 May: Nope again, though I did catch the seminal “city movie” Man With A Movie Camera. (Think of it as a 1920s Soviet Koyaanisqatsi.)
17 May: Late Saturday night while trying to summon inspiration, I discovered that Gronky needs an underbite..He looks tops with an underbite.
18 May: Back to boarding again (taking a quick break from it while typing this). I’m past the halfway point in terms of boarding, but the second half has way more images to draw. Definitely having to fight the urge to procrastinate by doing things like blogging, that’s for sure.
I start a couple of weeks of holidays in a week. I’m intending to have modelling and rigging done on both of these guys by the time those are over – getting the boards done is important for that because then I’ll have requirements about how they have to move and deform. Gronky’s deformations in particular are looking to be pretty extreme.
Normally the cold and wet of winter sucks most of my creative energy away, and that could drop A Moment In The Sun’s momentum down to zero. We’ll see how it goes this year. Last year over winter during an enforced creative break I read a ton of books, watched a ton of cartoons and generally swotted up. This year there’s less reading planned and more Architecture Academy, possibly a marathon of Rocko’s Modern Life and/or Animaniacs.
As long as it’s still fun to draw Gronky and his big silly grin though, I can keep boarding for a while. It’s challenging but definitely fun to sell the illusion of a big dopey creature with actual brain processes.
