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.

Whoever said that being the "Straight Man" you could be the funny one. that always puzzled me. Sure you needed someone to tell the joke and take the pie in the face, but your could still give a memorable performance to the dull "role". Here are a few pencil tests of the townspeople and their individual laughs when Johnny says that he can bring in the bandits. I gave each person in town their own laugh. I'm such a nerd when it comes to making a personality for a character. The first one is a young lady that is still in the process. She's about 92% done. I gave her a childish one compared tot the others. A girl who's about 15-19 years of age. The second one could be the girls mother by looking. I gave her a stuck up "I think I'm better than you" style. The lone man is a caricature of my fellow colleague Andrew Tomaka. Sometimes when he's being sarcastic, or just for the hell of it he'll actually laugh and enjoy himself. The two middle aged to senior citizen men are caricature of Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston, two legendary Disney animators. I pictured that their actions would be how they were in real life; real good buddies. I plan on having one more character , a Mexican with a bulky sombrero. when clean up and color are done, their scenes in the picture are completed.

Being upset. the Goofy Guy raises his gun in preparation of shooting Roy, but is clunked on the head from the back and then collapses to the ground. As the camera lowers, the audience sees Johnny holding a rock in hand.

When the girl's veil and hair is blown off by the wind, revealing that the lady was Roy in drag the whole time, but is oblivious to what happened, we cut back to the Goofy Guy who will just be a still image, witht the excption of a twitch on the lower lid.

After the jaw dropping, the camera will cut to the bottom of the dress and pan up to her face that's being fanned. Then it will be a close-up of her eyes bashing her eyelashes. We are then back to the Goofy Guy who is bashful and then howls. To make it even more funny, I decided to pay tribute to Tex Avery and especially his cartoon "Red Hot Riding Hood" where the wolf character howls uncontrollably.

So here in this sequence, the Goofy guy is sent out to see what or exactly who caused the disturbance, and in doing so, his attention is whistled by and he is in the presence of a beautiful lady. His jaw drops in comedic fashion. I plan on having a cash register like sfx for the part.

Week #4 now! almost a third done with the semester. Little nerve wrecking. Things are still going like a steam locomotive for me and my progress. I'm actually impressed on how much footage I'm producing each week, even within a few hours at the computer in a day's time too! Yesterday I finished animating the main bad guy in Shot#18 and just finished the body turn on the Goofy Guy when he's being called upon. Tonight I will animate him getting up and investigating just what exactly made them startled. Toon Boom is still coming through strong. My strategy is to animate as much as I can early in the week, and come Thursday-Friday, cleanup and color in Toon Boom. The coloring is faster than I'd imagine it be. when all said and done, it will just be me, After Effects and a $#!T ton of colored cells to place/ time correctly with appropriate backgrounds. Then at each time give the rough cuts to Jeremy and have him score and together we'll place the sound effects.