Cat Rap Process 5 - Final Meow

Here is my final pass at this "Cat Rap" I made in Experimental Animation Class. This piece was featured in the 134th Annual Student Show at CCAD. I took my last pass and pulled new background elements in as well as colored each frame of the cat in with white. I also added a title slate and a music credit slate at the end (music props to The Death Set and their song, "Kittens Inspired by Kittens"). This was a multi-passed rotoscope Animation! Earlier passes: http://sarahmaeschmidt.blogspot.com/2013/04/cat-rap-updates.html

Cat Rap from Sarah Schmidt on Vimeo.

Cat Rap Process Updates 2-4

Here are the next few iterations of the Cat-Rap animation for Experimental class. I animated/rotoscoped more or less straight-ahead - over video reference my friend shot of me - on 1's in Flash, slapping on tails at the end. For my second pass: I dropped the opacity of the first pass, cut out the video, animated on 2's - paying more careful attention to a somewhat consistent "cat" shape. The third chunk involved a push into After Effects with lots of effects added, including keying out blacks and instead pushing in colors and smears. I think the next step is to get a white color fill into the cat.
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Spring Break

Here's a little bit of what I have been working on this week of Spring Break. For Experimental Animation, I am doing a rotoscope project - which definitely involved me lip-syncing a small meow-rap by The Death Set. Animation III has me working on a scene from my short that involves an attitude-walk (a dance in this case) with an abrupt change at the end.
I also have a goal of trying to finish roughs for every scene of this cow short over break, so more is on the way!