Revised bit of bunny

Download hula clip here

This was the model drawing on the bottom I was flipping back to:

Innards/mechanics study:

Hula hip studies.

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Did this on a sheet of animation paper as a guide, BUT i need to make more of a figure 8 type motion.
Yup this is hard… I’m going to need to do lots more work!

My updated storyboard and keys

Hula Bunny Animatic 03

Pirate Judge

LOL Hapi I saw your Samurai Judge, love it! Here’s a Pirate Judge. He has a triangle hat hehe. I’m thinking of the fun we could have with the reaction mumbling… tee hee.

Hula Bun – Revised Back-story

So I felt like my back-story didn’t really fit in very well to the motif we have going on. Plus I was watching my bunny sit in his cage and thought of this, it’s really cute so I think I’ll go with this instead. Make her bunny-sized as well, so when she hops on stage she’s super tiny :)

My updated things

my rough character sheet!














last minute square samurai judge design... I can't wait to see what the other judge designs!

Hula Bunny Animatic 02

Animatic version 2 click here to download

Hula-Bunny new Model Sheet & Studies

Thurs. 9/16 meeting notes

Okay so we decided to have everyone pick a shape and come up with a character design for our 3 Judges. That way we’ll have some selection to choose from:

Kala – Diamond
Ryan – Square or Circle
Michelle & Nak – Triangle
Hapi – Square
Lauren – Oval

Justin, since you were home by the time you got the message we were meeting just pick any old shape. Please post under Character Design category on this blog before we meet on Thursday.

Hare the rest of my drawings and notes from our meeting (sorry the drawings are totally crap but at least they have the ideas down!):

Oh right, I’m going to make a mock up background in Photoshop of the precession to see if we like that look for the background. Then everyone can pick it apart and we can re-arrange it as a group.

The start of the auditions will be an exterior of the theatre, with “AUDITIONS TODAY” or something like that in big letters blinking or scrolling. Then a shot of the precession (stage), then a silhouetted shot of empty seats. The 3 judges will walk in and sit down.

So when we talked about our transitions between dances, in the interest of time we decided on having one animation of the stage’s curtain’s opening and closing to indicate a transition between dances, and the last time all the characters will be lined up together for their bow.

We’ll need to gather all of our character model sheets together, and play around with scale in photoshop to see what order we like them in. So please post your character model sheet onto the blog under the category character designs.

The end will be the bow, and the judges giving them a standing ovation. At least that’s what we last decided on. All this of course may be subject to change because it’s not unlikely that we will think of something else at this point! ;)

Little breaker dance sequence v1.0

As of right now, I did most of the key poses and a little inbetweens. I still have to fix the proportions of the first part of this sequence. My intentions were to include a variety of space, which is why the character is small in the background and larger when he's more in the foreground.

So in my sequence, the little kid will move a huge boombox to the right of the stage. Then he starts doing his dances: toprocks, followed by airflares until he's out of the picture. He then slides back in the picture with a helmet, which he uses in the final scene doing a headspin.



Any suggestions on a way to tweak the animation? Feedbacks are greatly appreciated! Keep up the good work guys!

Hula Bunny Animatic 01

First animatic of dancing hula bunny with 3 shot story board backstory & key poses of the dance.

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