Jelani John : One Stop Shop » Methods of Motion

A bit late, but here’s Pepe!

jelani — Wed, 06 May 2009 22:52:20 +0000

I worked on this with Nahanaeli Schelling. We’ve come along way, with massive audio troubles along the way but its finally done!

Villans for Vengeance

jelani — Wed, 06 May 2009 22:49:45 +0000

I finally finished the villans project. Thanks for whoever made the anonymous suggestion that I put in subtitles

fighter animatic / i hate premiere pro

jelani — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 17:50:24 +0000

A quick animatic on my upcoming animation + I couldnt figure out how to get this to export without that wierd blurriness.

Also, the images used for the animatic and the two main character designs. They don’t have eyes or mouth for now. I’ll design those later.

story idea for methods final project

jelani — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 22:35:30 +0000

this will be a fighting sequence with some very humorous dialogue. more to follow as i develop this idea. i want to use the technique of bodypart reveal shown in shigurui

Storyboard and image collection

jelani — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 22:52:15 +0000

I’m working with Nahana for this project. Our basic storyboard and a collection of some of our resources for the animation. The story is that there’s a little boy who has no eyes. He goes on a journey with a talking monkey to get eyes. When he gets his special eyes though, he’s so terrified by what he sees that he decides to gouge his eyes out.

Storyboard

C’est Triste

jelani — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 22:56:35 +0000

A claymation I worked on with Fiona Daniels and Tim Hanyes

Storyboard for Relationships

jelani — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 23:52:52 +0000

Storyboard for a claymation animation to be finished next week. We’re going to try to make sure the development is clearly shown in each shot and we’re thinking of changing the 4th shot to make it way over the top. Sound will play a huge role in this, but we’re going to be short on time so I’m not sure if that will manage to be as polished.

Time Lapse the first!

jelani — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 23:44:32 +0000

video link coming soon!

(Flip Book) Baby in a Blender

jelani — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 05:59:47 +0000

So the idea was to make a flip book. At first I was going to take Ken from street fighter and do his shoryuken finisher. Then I realized that this is a flip book and that the animation is probably only going to last about 6 second. So… brainstoming time.

I let my brain have at it and the logical progression was thus:

Shroyuken = martial arts = punching = the point of impact of a fist on an object = fist to face = face getting blown off by force of punch, leaving a skull = baby-in-a-blender.

So I’m in the process of making a baby-in-a-blender flipbook that will be title’d “Impact.” Sounds good eh?

So I’ve storyboarded and timed it out in my head and I think I’ll do it by hand in pencil. I’ll use a soft pencil to trace out broad outlines, a softer one to fill and color’d pencils for the blood n stuff.

i’ll post the results once i’ve finished it.

Waltz w/ Bashir

jelani — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 04:08:17 +0000

So I saw Waltz with Bashir a few weeks ago and I have to admit, I was impressed. Setting the story aside, the animation was beautiful. Very crisp and clear and a mix of different styles were used to great effect.

I was actually pretty disappointed at the end of the movie. I think they were trying to go for some sort of shock value, but they failed in that. I actually got more emotion from the scene right before the end where he’s walking through the sea of mourning women than from the real footage. But that’s the only place where I felt the movie failed. The storyline was very engaging.