HyperBole Update 9_5 (Patreon)

Been letting myself enjoy the last few weeks of summer (I feel like Winter's going to be a tough one), but I've still been working hard on the HyperBole scene!

Just finished the scene below. I was imagining compositing one of the HyperBole contestants into some sped-up drone footage, skimming over beaches and deserts, and it got me thinking about the old salt flats and other Prime Racing Landscapes , and how it'd probably be way more interesting to show all the training than the actual event itself (the whole, "since I was a kid I always knew I wanted to be a HyperBole Champion!!!" schtick).

I'm still super tempted (it'd be fun to release it in like 1 minute episodes, all done from one POV, kinda Isometric god's eye (always wanted to do an episode of something isometric))- but I really gotta finish up some of these other episodes, first.

Haze can be so hard. I always make it just a little brighter, then just a little darker, then brighter, then darker, tweaking the contrast forever. 

I was trying to dial in a sunshine version for a while, but I just wasn't feeling it compositionally. ACTUALLY, I started this scene in the pouring rain, then turned it into a day scene, then kinda back to a murky foggy evening look, so kinda went full circle. 

Also made a quick popcornbot (a cousin of TERD from the upcoming Dynamo Dream episode). 

I did a version of this scene before, with a mocap crowd, and it looked SUPER bad. I couldn't remember how to cheer, so I was just flailing my arms over my head and Kaitlin was cracking up (maybe a little too hard?). I ended up re-animating it and it worked significantly better, but I still ended up adding the popcorn robot mostly to distract the eye, hahaha. 

ALSO! Finished up this shot! You can download a preview here (download it, don't use the google drive preview- it looks SO bad (this stuff doesn't compress well)). I'm pretty happy with how it turned out- I kept going back and adding more little details, and I'm glad I did. There's still stuff I could update (the wall on the left is clearly the blocking geometry I never really got around to doing anything with), but I think it's done for now.  

Actually, I'm not a particularly great animator, so I'm really pleased with the animation flow- it's more what I was hoping to get with the whole sequence, kind of this flowing kinetic energy, go go go type thing. I want to see if I can get one more shot like that in there, and then I'll call it good.

Ideally I'll be able to upload the whole thing to Instagram, which gives me a convenient limit of one minute (honestly I wouldn't bother with tailoring anything for instagram, except I really do need to put some sort of cap on this.)

I have Impossible Acoustic lined up to do the audio- I'm very excited about that, and Wilbert Roget II might be composing some music- we'll see. 

Also working on a little title shot- it's not quite punchy enough yet, maybe?? The animation is basically just a flyby of the neon Hyperbole logo with wild background graphics. 

Also, I'm kind of just following my gut in terms of what I'm sharing here, so you guys can see what's going on, but also not everything, so you still get the experience of watching the final for the first time, because I feel like that's the most fun? But maybe that's just a me thing, and you guys would rather just see stuff where it's at at all times? I dunno! Let me know!

Anyways!! Talk soon! Just wanted to show you some of what I've been busy with!