Here is the poster to my senior thesis. The tagline may come off as a little corny, but it definitely fits the plot to the film. At first, I was going to make a wooden framed border appropriate for the time period but soon lost interest when trying to make that look convincing and not just a standard wooden border. I did want to have the landscape in there and to make the scale relationship evident of the "Bad Guys" to our hero and his noble steed, ironically cowardly hiding behind him. To make it more detailed, I made the characters more rounder and dimensional by adding in shade levels to their ski, clothes, etc. Then when completing the color process, i went in and added another level for each character and gave that sketchy "rough" look to them. I love how the drop shadow came out under the title and wish I had done that for the closing credits in the final cut, but the version that will be playing will just be as good.

Here is the finalized "Drag Sequence" in the film. This is where the "Goofy" comes across what appears to be a beautiful lady randomly in the desert and then turns out to be Roy in disguise. Realizing how foolish he is deceived, the goon tries to shoot the horse but is then bonked on the head by Johnny with a rock and come crashing down to the ground. This scene took quite sometime, but when looking at a rendered version of it, it looks terrific I think.

Here is the shot of the "Speedy Hispanic" running combing the desert for his fellow bandit and just what exactly is responsible for making the noise. This scene will definitely be one to grab the remote and go frame-by frame to see the timing on this guy. Plus now in color, it gives the viewer an aspect of the body parts that are in motion.

Here is a short clip from my film. In this scene, Johnny has discovered the hiding place of the bandits and is now thinking of a plan to take them down. I couldn't resist not doing the classic "Light bulb" cliche when he got an idea. He'll then use this light bulb and throw it over the boulder, making it startle the bandits from exploding like a grenade. That would be my Tom and Jerry tribute as to when they would use simple house hold item to hurt each other and the sfx would be extreme. For example, one getting hit in the face with a shovel may sound like they've been shot. Although seeming short for a clip and considering the time since my last blog you would think i'd have more, rest assured there will be more clips coming very soon. Enjoy!

Here are some key frames from Shot #31. This is where Johnny, the boy is challenged by the main villain to a one-on-one shoot out. he throws the gun on the ground near him when he's (Johnny) is tying up the Speedy Hispanic. I wanted to have him pick up the gun and have slight trouble with adjusting it to his pant loop.When acting out the action at my desk, I even stuck my tongue out and thought that would be a nice touch to add some comedic fashion in this climatic scene. But when attaching his firearm, there's still  the determination of a young boy.

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Here is the rough animation for when the "Speedy Hispanic" is sent out to find what caused the noise in the first place and why is it taking the "Goofy Guy" so long. Here you will see the use of speed lines to give the character some extra character. To me he is a man that gets the job done as fast as he possibly can, even if it means making a mess. Don't let his cute and friendly appearance fool you. Underneath that bandanna lies a sinister grin, and only standing 4' 2". He's quick to the draw and wanted in 5 states. The test when looking at it, may seem like nothing but when cleaned-up, color and sized in after effects with the BG, it should be one of the coolest shots in the film. Enjoy!

Here are some still frames from my film. I'm really happy to see how my characters look in color and still achieve to give that pencil test performance from the earlier stages. Sometime when color is applied to characters, it can cover up or even "weigh" them down more than expected. Now when looking at the final rendered frames, one could say that the drawings themselves are a bit too sketchy. Well that's what i was going for. I've always been fascinated when Disney when to the Xeroxing process and finally the audience could see the animators actual drawings, not someone else's clean up down the pipeline. It'll have the look of  101 Dalmatians- The Rescuers'  era but still have that full animated movement. I hope the audience when viewing the film wont think that I was just being lazy when cleaning the drawings up. There's always something special when seeing a character move and you can still see the eyelines or a couple of gesture lines left over from erasing. To me its educational because you can see how that animator was thinking when trying to pose the character a certain way.