Yaki and Yumi

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Stephen Levinson is a super awesome and talented 14 year old! He took my rough animation that I did (go to the blog below, and watch!) and cleaned it up, and colored it. He did a very fine job! Thank you Stephen! I am sure the animation world should keep their eye on you! Here is Stephen’s website everyone:
www.stephenstudios.com

CLICK HERE TO SEE FAN ART ANIMATION
**animation may only work on macs**

So, on my final day of production here on “Yaki and Yumi”, I thought I would share a special treat. I have dusted off my animation pencil, and flexed my flippin’ fingers to bring you..an animated walk cycle! I haven’t animated in a long long time, but had a blast revisiting the medium! Since there was not a pencil animation camera anywhere to be found (talk about a dying art form) we had to get crafty. Paul brought his digital camera from home, and we taped it to the edge of my desk on an empty compact disk case. We then piled up some paper, a trash can, and the top of a box, and taped a peg bar to it. We shot it in a program called “Frame Thief” and then exported it into “Quicktime”….CRAZY! But…it worked! Thank you to my mentor from Disney, John Ripa for taking the [Read more…]

Here are some more incidental characters for you all to see..some have larger parts in the show than others. How do we do it? I design the character, based on the storyboard, and then Paul “puts it through the Paul filter” by doing a stellar job cleaning and coloring them in Illustrator! One of the things Paul and I have fun doing, is making up stories about each character in the show..we do it mostly for fun, but I think it also adds dimension and makes each character, (no matter how small) unique and interesting.

I know you have all be dying to see what the world of Yaki and Yumi looks like..and here it is! Paul Stec has literally invented a new super secret process of creating background designs just for Yaki and Yumi. I have spoken with both Yaki and Yumi this morning, and they are quite pleased that they get to have this wonderful arena to romp around in. Yaki is particularly interested in getting to finally find some food! Yumi however is looking forward to meditating on some billowy clouds.