11 Second Club January Submission: Edgar & Philip

Heard the audio, sketched up two old farts and started animatin'! Fair amount of work but so much fun. Can't wait for February!

Four Main Characters Down, Turnin' Round.

I'm feeling a lot better about my coloring for this one. I think I've found the ratio of hard outline shadows to soft gradated values.

Cesar is sort of the moral compass of the story. I wanted his character design to reflect a certain meekness to him, something he has to push through in order to reason with Blanco.

More Coloring... More Turnarounds....

OK. I think I know what needs to change. I've had this habit of doing crisp, darker values (look at the far right hand). It's just not gelling with the softer values like I want it to. I think I'll tone that part down to just creases and facial details. Otherwise, I can take the softer values and create them as their own separate layer in Flash (still the solid vector shapes), take that into After Effects, blur it and set the layer as a clipping mask for the main color layer.

Coloring Exercises and Turnarounds.

Trying to get better at coloring. Trying to see how much depth I can add to this character design. Not sure how well adding real textures will look animated. Need to try that next.

Lofax Animation Clip from Kyle Stephens on Vimeo.

Here's a better quality version of "Lofax" for you all.

McDonough: A Steampunk Stop Motion Musical

McDonough: A Steampunk Stop Motion Musical from Kyle Stephens on Vimeo.

Aaaaah McDonough's finally up online. Feels good, I tell ya. I want to thank my crew again and again for all the work they put in and all the patience they had with me. You guys are amazing, and I cannot wait to see and work with you again.

My Tribute to Carl Sagan

I've been trying to get more caricatures of famous people going for a while, and I like this style a lot.

Also did a wallpaper version. :D