Great news! well, two greats news's actually, first I got 10 seconds (of constant movement) done yesterd'y, and today one of the voice talents has been confirmed! He said he would love to do it!

Yay!!!!!

I have gotten so much done this week, about 30 seconds since sund'y right now I am shooting some mighty fine banjer pickin', I only have one more shot in this scene. I should be able to finish today, then tomorrow I start on scene two! Scene one is the longest continual scene. There are six scenes, Three of them are really short. The animation, as it seems to do in every episode is improving, I think they have a lot of character in this one.

How long is the episode supposed to be?

probably about five minutes

You have a long way to go, my friend.

i have one minute and 49 seconds, so almost two minutes. The banjo pickin' I shot yesterd'y turned out really good! I actually rotoscoped it, I shot my dad playing it and pretty much copied it frame for frame so i get the proper finger motions, It is only the second thing I have rotoscoped, I did the same thing for the fight scene in episode three, now that is a funny video, I got my dad, and the guy that did the voice of riley, to actually act out that scene.

Alrighty, this scene is finished. I had one more shot I had to do, Tomorrow I start scene 2

You gota post that video somewhere HA!

I think I have decided that I ort not shoot anything today, but work on props, audio, and a small new character

just so you don't get your hopes up, it is not a major character, no where near riley... about the level of the caterpillar in the first one. Yes it is an animal, I will not tell you what kind though, but it should be pretty funny. And to confuse you.... Those two new voice talents.... well, neither of them are for this character. haha, try to figure that out. only one new character... two new voices, neither voice that character???? Muahahaha

ummm that is cunfusing ugh

so, its like the aquirrel sorta?

I would say..... more than the squirrel, but maybe a little bit less than the caterpillar.

Beaver Creek Five, Scene two, Take one, frame one.... Action....... and cut!
Beaver Creek Five, Scene two, Take one, frame two.... Action....... and cut!
Beaver Creek Five, Scene two, Take one, frame three.... Action....... and cut!
Beaver Creek Five, Scene two, Take one, frame four.... Action....... and cut!
Beaver Creek Five, Scene two, Take one, frame five.... Action....... and cut!
Beaver Creek Five, Scene two, Take one, frame six.... Action....... and cut!
Beaver Creek Five, Scene two, Take one, frame seven.... Action....... and cut!
Beaver Creek Five, Scene two, Take one, frame eight.... Action....... and cut!


Ohhh the excitement of film making (said sarcastically)

ha ha iantimothy!
It's all worth it!

Yeah I know! I always have fun animating...... even what I have to animate tomorrow......... It will be BY FAR!!! the most things ever moving at once... not exactly sure how many but probably 2 or 3 times more than anything I have done before

Beaver Creek Five, Scene two, Take one, frame ninety-two.... Action....... and cut!

Ian, if I may call you that. If it's not too much trouble could you upload the finished Beaver Creek 5 episode here please? I can't get on YouTube anymore and it's because of proxy. Though I am curious who this new charector is... I'm assuming it's a frog?

Well I have to finish it first but, do you mean put it on here as a file here on the forum? or put it on the creations contest? And all I will tell you is your assumption is wrong.

And yes, I prefer to be called Ian.

Alright Folks I wanna ask a question.... I am sure some of you haven't noticed, but I would like to see if anyone has a preference. In Beaver Creek 2 the music, in the actual episode not the theme song was banjo, in episode 4 other than the theme song and twigs playing, the music was mandolin... I would like to see which one you like better.
Here is episode 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4vqo8-F4hs&feature=related
here is episode 4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tp4C06p2D-A
remember not the theme song, or when twigs is playing, just the background music.

Ian, you have given the link to episode 4 twice...
But I like the music from episode four more...it sounds more...'peaceful'

my bad... its fixed.

I mean can you please upload the finished file here please?

Sure STL!

UPDATE TIME



Beaver Creek Episode Five Update

Date- Wednesday June 23, 2010

Amount shot- Two minutes, six seconds.

Time spent- One month, two days.

Shots completed- Twenty-one.

Number of sets- Three.

Number of characters- Four.

Dialogue- About 2/3.

Voice talent- Joel Timothy, Tim Roberts, Amy Barkley.

Estimated completion- August

we have both of the guest voices recorded they sound great.

Can't wait! Only 3 minutes and 94 seconds left to be shot am I right?

I never know exactly but probably less than that... I don't like going to far above six minutes. This one will probably be about five. maybe five and a half.

What software are you using for Beaver Creek?

I am on a mac, and I use iStopmotion

http://www.boinx.com/istopmotion/overview/

ooohh.... Does this mean that their will be the first female character??
Or is Amy voicing a male?

can't say.

like is said, there are not voiceing characters exactly, if I tell you what it is it will give to much away.

Is it a badger or a Swan/ Goose?

can't tell y'all.

I will torment you for another month and a half.

still getting a lot done.I have about two minutes 25 seconds. Today I finish with on of the very tricky parts... Like I said... I had a lot moving at once... about 25 things moving...every frame.... for a long time.... EVERY FRAME!!

on the bright side... it looks really good. and I finish with it today!!!!

Today was sort of a preparation day (yeah... sure...) I finished the second scene yesterday and am going to start scene 4 tomorrow. today I looked over scripts and audio (not much... mostly played with my trains) I should be ready to shoot tomorrow because I got a lot done today (yeah... on my trains...)

so... yeah... I didn't get too much done today on Beaver Creek... but hey... doesn't every animator need a day in-between scenes to play with his toy trains.

not sure exactly how long I have.... I would say probably anywhere between 2:30 and 2:45
so I have gotten some mighty good progress.

You will definitely finish by August!

I am positive of that now... I was a little doubtful at first... but yeah... no doubt!

On the music,I think I rather Mandolin. Though I think it sounds too subtle,It could be a bit louder.

yeah... it sounds louder in my original files... youtube just kills audio... I am going to make it louder this time.

and harry... not quite... almost...

So... Ian... In the video of you talking about science and animation, were you the one moving the model or doing that random stuff with the cardboard and also doing the voice?

yep, that's me.

I shot something pretty difficult yesterd'y, today should be a bit easier. but first I am fixin' to go to Hobby Town USA. I have never been, it's supposed to be really good.

Makes me think of a beach boys song ha!
We'll all be planning out a route
We're gonna take real soon
We're waxing down our surfboards
We can't wait for June
We'll all be gone for the summer
We're on surf-ari to stay
Tell the teacher we're surfin'
hobby town USA.
HAHAHAHAHA!

It was a great store. I went completely un-animation related. I needed some more track for my train...

I am still a-workin' away. haven't gotten too much done so far about 4 seconds hope to get about 7.

Got to shoot somethin' pretty fun today, tomorrow I get to so something a little bit different, should be fun though.

Beavers creek is amazing!!

I started shooting a scene with Drake this mornin' and the first frame, I move his head and his neck snaps off.... so....... His new head and neck is drying now, it will be done in a few minutes and I can start shooting again. that neck lasted longer than I though... I made that version of Drake for the 3rd episode... so he lasted 2 1/2 episodes. This one will be the third Drake to appear in Beaver Creek now.

RIP Drake V.2

he was a good duck RIP Drack V.2