ELIZA KINKZ

So with my main character in Chocolate Milk, I made 3 different Character Model guides to chronicle her change in appearance.  (Her name is “Izzy” BUT you never hear her referred to by name in my film!  A lil trivia for you ha-cha!)   

Her changes in appearance happen every time she enters the teen rehab center to signal she has gotten worst in her addiction.  Personally, I really love the hair design in the 3rd model sheet.  

In animation, a character’s look often stays the same as to not confuse the audience and for continuity purposes especially in TV shows.  So I’m always excited when the opportunity comes up to go against the grain in animation.  And this worked especially well with my film “Chocolate Milk”!  

PS In other news, I’ve been pretty busy as I’m gearing up to teach an animation class at UCLA in July.  So unfortunately some work on the film has been delayed.  But its still moving along and will hopefully speed to the finish line in August!!

So in the coming months I’m going to post some about the process of how I made my film “Chocolate Milk”

I put up images of the same scene as it appears in my storyboard, animatic and Film so you can see the progression.  When I was looking at the really old Storyboard image, it amazed me that it still pretty much looked like the final.  A lot of times I actually like the Storyboard image more than the final product.  Not just with my work, with most everyone’s work from big studios to other small artists like me.  There just seems to be such a care-free feeling in these drawings.  

My progress with this animation was starting off with a ton of notes of different ideas for scenes then slowly figuring out how to bring them all together.  I definitely did more than a few animatics but I think it shows in how tight the story is.  For those of you not familiar, an animatic is a series of still images edited together and displayed in sequence.    And check out this Gorillaz Music Video Animatic if you want a good example. 

And please be patient with for the Trailer.  Still trying to edit my animation a bit more.  :)  

So here are a few final stills from my film “Chocolate Milk”.  For the look of my film, I wanted it to feel vintage, be very murky, sepia tones similar to chocolate milk and look like teenage doodles. 

I used a mixture of digital, watercolor painting and hand-drawn to create every shot.  I used an old brick for the Rehab, just cause that idea always made me laugh.  Because I feel like a lot of buildings in Texas just look like a big brick.   I got  the brick from someone on Craigslist . They were trying to sell a ton of them but were nice enough to leave me a few outside their house for free.  I had emailed someone else about a brick but they said me buying 2 bricks for a dollar wasn’t worth their time. lol    

I’ll probably put a separate section on my site next week with more info about the film. Stay tuned…