karchesky :: gallery :: animation

So two years ago we were approached by a rather large animation school from a nearby city, and they offered us the chance to do a little work for them. It was a two minutes long animation to go along with a certain children’s song. The idea was that it would appear in a would-be TV show they were creating. Anyways, long story short, we did the animation but the TV show never materialized, and I’d lost hope it ever would.

Alas, I kinda ruined the surprise with the title of this entry, but after so long, the TV show did go on air, and one of the episodes featured our little work.

I can’t upload it because it doesn’t belong to me, but the owners of the show uploaded a promo on YouTube and you can see a few seconds of out animation there. Check that bit below - full video and further info after the jump.

Our part is the one with the robot. It’s a very amateurish effort, I’m aware. There was only one professional person in our team (our teacher, who edited the video), and the rest of us were students, of which I was one of the oldest, and some of the kids had ages in the single digits. It was a schoolwide effort. So, I’m rather proud of this even if I acknowledge that it’s far from a professional job. It’s also my first animation work even though all I did was character design (the titular robot and another character are mine, and I coordinated the remaining character designers).

Here’s the full promo, not that you’ll be able to gather much from it if you don’t know spanish (actually, this is the same video as the one above, just beginning from, huh, the beginning):

I hope someday I’ll be able to put our full video online. I’m currently hunting for a copy of the episode of the show where our animation aired. They interviewed us and I was very nervous and babbled on about, huh, I dunno what. So that should be entertaining as well! Though I kinda hope they left my interview on the floor of the editing room.

Oh, and if you were wondering what was the meaning of the tiny teapot in a celluloid film that is used as the icon for the animation section of this blog, well, now you know

El Robot Cebamates

This is more like the prelude for an animation than actual “animation”, but I’m still filing this post under this category.

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I keep saying how busy I am, but offer no proof of it. Well, I don’t have to, do I? Huh, I guess I felt like shwing you guys some of the other stuff I’m working on? This is for a local TV ad that’s going up soon:

Samples from the ad

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So, I’m working on a very short project in animation school. Part of it involves a bird flying. The bird is supposed to be an eagle, and I’m trying to get it to rotate its head as it looks around. Anyways, these are the first close-ups sketches of the head I did today. I figured you could at least laugh at my ineptitude here.

First of all, the profile, since that’s the starting point.

Profile: Eagle

Not too bad. It’s supposed to be a bald eagle, I guess.

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