Though many storyboards are being posed in order, I decided to start posting scenes that I am working on at the moment. Right now I am painting this animation that I completed yesterday. I still need to paint his eye brows, the band around the brim of his hat, and his upper lip and tongue. I tend to do one element at a time going through all the drawing and painting just that one thing at a time. For instance I painted his skin tones from frame one to frame 179. Then I would go through and paint all the coat tones from start to finish. I have one frame fully painted that I reference when starting each step.
This is a dialogue scene with lots of head shaking an a big hand gesture towards the end. This is about my third dialogue scene and I am getting much better at tying down the subtle movements. In a few hours I should be able to see this cut into the final edit and see how it plays with the sound.
One advantage of Callipeg is that I can carefully paint around the edges and then fill the color quickly by just tapping in the area twice to let it auto fill. As you can see, at this moment the driver is saying, “WeLL”
This short will be on display at the Orange County Regional History Center (65 E. Central Blvd. Orlando, Florida 32801) for the special exhibition, Yesterday This Was Home, on display October 3, 2020 – February 14, 2021
The 1920 Ocoee Massacre in Orange County, Florida, remains the largest incident of voting-day violence in United States history.
Events unfolded on Election Day 1920, when Mose Norman, a black U.S. citizen, attempted to exercise his legal right to vote in Ocoee and was turned away from the polls. That evening, a mob of armed white men came to the home of his friend, July Perry, in an effort to locate Norman. Shooting ensued. Perry was captured and eventually lynched. An unknown number of African American citizens were murdered, and their homes and community were burned to the ground. Most of the black population of Ocoee fled, never to return.