I am REALLY inspired to do my own surfing cartoon after seeing
Kleeman and Mike so I began working last night in earnest. It has no title yet
but it is coming along
conceptionally
. First thing I am doing is building the art. I want great water art, neat character designs, and really tight wave animations
So, after working in
Flash and
Photoshop for 8 hours at work
, I came home and spent another 3 hours of trying to animate the perfect wave; all of them were just mediocre and I wasn't to happy. :-(
So, to finish the night with some sort of victory; I chose to work on a "bubbles-test" instead. The above static graphic is how they turned out. Sorry that the graphic is static. Blogger wouldn't let me upload the animation. In the
Flash animation the bubbles go up and down at different intervals and they look really "plushie". These bubbles will be part of the whitewater.
I love the impressionistic rendition in the
Kleeman and Mike cartoon but
I am going to go with a completely different style so that mine isn't rip-off.
Cole Sear: "Swimming around like regular people. They don't see each others' times. They only see their own times. They don't know they're fast."
