It's finally here! The Box-Bot Boogie animated special I promised years ago is finally available on my Newgrounds and YouTube channels and right here on this website!
After presenting it as my thesis film for Temple University's Film and Media Arts program (Yes, I graduated!) and it's screening at the diamond screen film festival, I'm proud to present what I hope will be the first of several Box-Bot Boogie animated episodes.
Been working on a fighting game project in the Godot game engine. Finally got together the basic template/structure for one. These two crash-dummy-like place-holder characters can kick, punch, jump, duck, throw, and perform unique special moves with the classic motion inputs. Plus they each have a life-bar that depletes as they take damage and a winner is declared when someone runs out of HP and is KO'd.
Now it's just a matter of creating characters and fleshing out the mechanics. I've got a sketchbook full of ideas!
A little Halloween special using paper cut-outs in a 3D environment. A bunch of ghosts are terrified by a possessed trick-or-treater who chases them through a graveyard. This was my final for "Animation Workshop" (a class that focused more on traditional animation techniques rather than pure CG) this semester and I thought I'd do a fun little combination of paper cut-out animation in a semi-3D digital environment.
All the animation is real paper cut-outs, but they were scanned into the computer and combined with digital backgrounds in 3D space in Blender. My professor really liked the combination. Enjoy this year's Halloween Special!
Hey, I know it's been a long time since I updated anyone on the animated Box-Bot Boogie special that I promised years ago. Well, that's about to change! I'm pleased to announce that I'm finally working on the special as my BFA final project at Temple. This behind-the-scenes video above was presented at the "Soft-Where" exhibit at the Diamond Film Festival at the Temple University Performing Arts Center.
By the end of the next semester, I hope to have the whole special finished and ready to present! Frederick and Zoki are back!
