A Stroll With Famous Cartoon Felines

The link below was a good site I found that explored different animated cats including the ones that inspired me! It was helpful at working out the design for my cat.

http://www.the-flying-animator.com/how-to-draw-a-cat.html

Giving Cats a Voice

I love these videos. I have done it since I was young. You basically film a cat or cats and then talk for them. The videos below are two great examples of this. They are done really wellso much so that it looks like the cats are talking! Brilliant!

WOW A video of a real cat that lives in a Fish Shop!

WOW I just found a video of a real cat that lives in a Fish Shop! His name is Charlie and he is 18 years old.

What I handed in

Here is where my animation got to when I had to hand it in. Pitty that I never got to finish it for the hand in but I think it will be ok.

Cool Walk with Hi-5ing Snake

Here is the bit with the cool walk and the hi-5 with the snake. Remus just needs bits adding and it all coloured.

Some vids i forgot to post

Here are some videos that I forgot to post.

My Bits so far

I'm not going to have enough time to do the last bit with the sandwich gag in time for my hand-in but I fully intend on finishing. I worked too hard on it to not!

Any way, here are my bits so far. Some have no backgrounds or props missing but that will be fixed.



Missing from this is Remus' tail, pupils, collar, colour and the background. There is a tiny bit missing from this too. If you look at the end he has his paw up, well that extends and hi-5's a snakes tail in the tank in front of him. He then turns towards the right side of the camera and walks off.





This just has the wrong background and needs the proper zoom in footage. Oh and the girl's hand appearing and picking the butty up!





Remus is missing his tail, pupils, collar and colour in parts of this bit. The girl is missing some of her colour, blinks and some extra frames to tidy her movement up. This is the last scene and is missing the bit with the keys and the butty bit. The butty bit will be missing from my hand-in as I previously mentioned but I'm hoping to finish the key bit tomorrow. The background of this bit is also wrong, its not meant to be in b/w, not sure why I did that. Its also meant to zoom in closer as he runs across the desk at the beginning, solving the issue of him being so small but still fitting all my stuff in.


Its going to be a long day tomorrow, possibly a night too. Wish I had one more day, would be so much easier. My own fault though, I should of spent more time on it when I got my extension. I took it too easy as I took quite a while to recover from my awful attacks and then was scared they'd come back and then got drawing block! Not good. I am happier with what I've got now though so that's something. I just hope I get it all in one piece, that works and that I can write to a disc.

2 Small Bits = 1 Bigger Bit

Well, here is the last posts video joined with the next bit. You will also see at the end is Remus sliding across desk because of the owner pushing him away. There is also colour here and there to get an idea of what colours things will be.

Its rather annoying that its taken me forever to do this bit and its only 16 seconds long! Grrr Argghhhh!

Look, Climb up, Little Walk, Meow

Well, this is what I've done from coming home instead of doing the rest of the Maggot Run (Gutted about it by the way! Really wanted to do it all. Annoys me that everyone else got to do the rest of the treasure hunt on great biking roads, having loads of fun while I'm stuck indoors doing work.)

Any way, you can probably guess what bit this is for. I made the first bit a bit spooky with a kind of exorcist feel with the stiff, straight look up and down. Thought it would be something a bit different from how I've done the rest of the animation. I also thought I'd pop in a blink.

Oh and sorry for no videos while I was making it and only showing you it all done. Just got into it and forgot to export any, even forgot to do progress saves. Lucky I'm happy with the final thing.

Is it just me or does he look cuter in this bit. Maybe its just because I actually added the pupil in this one. Yeah, that would make sense.

Changed Girl and Cat Slightly.

Due to my silly mistake of doing the cat first for this bit I have changed them both slightly. I've also coloured the last few frames of the cat as a test.

Fingers and a Bit of Colour and Tidy

Ok, I've added fingers and tided it a bit. I've also fixed the sandwich and added a bit of colour. She is now ready for colour although if I have time I will add a few more frames like I said I would earlier. As it is I think it works ok as most of the focus is on Remus.

Remus isn't very noticeable at the moment because he has no colour and needs some sorting as I changed how the arm will be positioned. Really I should have done the girl first. I've been putting her off though as I prefer animating animals. Silly really.

Any way, As you can see. Its really coming together :)

Girl with Remus

This bit of the girl is really coming together. Just need to sort the fingers and blinking now. I also need to add a few more frames so it flows better. Oh and of course make the background colour and add a keyboard.

I made her head bigger in this update, I think she looks more correct in her proportions now.

Girl Blocking with Remus Animation

This is the footage shown in the last post but I have added the Remus animation. I will need to change the size of the background as Remus' first bit slightly cut off. What happens is, the camera starts at a wide shot and then slowly zooms in as Remus jumps closer to the girl.

Remus' next bit is sliding across the desk after she pushes him with her arm.

Girl Blocking Outline Animation

Here is my blocking animation for my girls part with background. As you can see its just a rough body outline based on what I recorded of myself and Andy. I forgot to add a keyboard Oops! So need to add that at some point.

Meow, Run up and Rub

Just need to add the tail and pupil now... well and colour.

Reference Videos

Here are some videos of my carer, Andy acting out a bit of my animation for me to use as reference. I love refernce videos, it pick up little human actions that if done by memory would be missed.

Remus got curious about what was going on and kept joining in though LOL. He will go in front of the camera when I don't want him too!

Here is another update of my cat rubbing on the girl. Took a lot longer than I expected to work this out and get it done! It just needs a little bit of tidying and the tail added into the rest of the frames. The next bit is she extends her arm and slides him along the desk using her fore arm.
That's going to have to wait though as I'm working on the girl today.

Worked out how head could go!

Took a lot of messing and tries but I think I've worked out a way to get the head to rub on the arm and then move around it but still look like its rubbing and moving with the body. I've also added some more and put the tail in the last few frames.

Sitting, Get Up, Run and Rub on Owner

Here is what I've been working on the last few days, all put together. Really annoys me that its taken me so long to just do this much!

Rub on Owner

I've had a bad day trying to animate. My heads not been in the right place so drawing and thinking of transitions was really difficult. Any way, here is today's progress. I know theres no head. Due to my problems today I got stuck trying to work out how it would go past the arm, I'll work it out tomorrow when I'll hopefully be thinking right.

Oh and the person is meant to be still. I was just using it as a reference for where my girl will roughly be. It also looks like he's doing this off the desk but the girl will be in a slight slouch so really you need to ignore the straightness of the person. She will actually be sitting slighty sideways so Remus will be rubbing her arm and then slightly along her side.
I also noticed I deleted a frame by accident so theres a slight jump near the beginning.

Next he lifts his back rubbing against the girl, as he's lowering his back, the girl gets sick of it and pushes him along the desk with the side of her arm. I'm still thinking how the cat will move along the desk while being pushed along. I think it means another test that will annoy Remus.



I didn't really like how long and slow the walk at the beginning is as he is leaping before this so here is a version with the beginning cut down and changed.

Cat Scene 3 - Animation mixed with Storyboard

This is to show what I have done so far for this scene and what I have left to do. I'm hoping I will get it done in time but time is running out :(

Oh the angles are off because I decided to make the angle different so the desk is straighter. So things won't match up in the right place in this. I think you get the idea though.

Sitting Meowing, Get Up and go to Owner 3

Here is a bit more of what I've done. Remus pounced and ran at me while I was doing it and he seemed to just stop and walk so suddenly that I thought I had to have that in mine. I don't know if he's just odd and can do that but well, I saw it so it happened.

The next bit is, he will turn his head and rub himself against the owners arm to get her attention, she is busy so pushes him back along the desk. I've done quite a bit today actually. Quite happy with myself :D

Sitting Meowing, Get Up and go to Owner 2

I've made more progress in this bit today. Hopefully I will have most of it if not all done by tonight.

Sitting Meowing, Get Up and go to Owner

This is the bit I've been working on today. So far I am at the sitting and getting up stage. It did take most of the morning to picture it in my head after watching various YouTube videos of cats. I think I got the getting up right, it is a relativly quick move though so I guess its not a big problem if its a bit wrong.

I've noticed that his fringe looks wrong on the first frame so I will go back and fix that at some point.

Some Fish Videos

Here are some Fish videos used as reference.

No Tail!

I just noticed his tail is missing! I forgot about that. Will add that in now or in the morning, it is getting a bit late.

Cool Cat Walk Finished!

It's taken an awful 2 days to work this nightmare out but I have finally done it! 80 drawings, 149 frames! I think thats not bad. Oh and just for fun I gave him a little jig onto the screen, I thought it was fun first appearance for him :) Sadly, it's not very noticable, seemed like it was longer when I drew it :(

Now I just need to put the tanks in the background and draw the bit where he turns his head back and sees the snake and Hi-5's him. Although because I am running out of time I am just going to have him walk past the tanks. If I have time at the end I will add the Hi-5 bit.

Another Reference Video

This is a really good reference video with different types of walks. The first one was the kind of thing I was thinking of for the cool cat walk just with a bit more of a gangster walk in it.

Reference Videos

I just realised I never posted the link to the reference videos I found to help me with animating a fish, my girl and cat.

http://www.youtube.com/user/moogyxo#p/u

Cool Cat Walk body

Here is what I've done so far today. Bit annoyed that I overslept as wanted to get this done today, just means I will be up late tonight instead.

As you can see I've kind of made his walk into a bit of dance with his back legs doing a double take when he puts one of them down. I'm hoping it will look right when it's done as at the moment I'm not too sure. It does look like hes dancing to a beat. I was imagining how people who think they're cool whistle and walk in time to it or walk in time to music there listening to. I was thinking maybe Remus could be whistling or humming but that might go a bit too far for what I wanted from him. I think I still stuck to my idea of giving him a slightly anthropomorphic walk here as I've never seen a cat walk like that!