28/10/11 This week Cubey was to stand in the middle of the scene in which an object would suddenly fall and land next to him and he would react to it.
I chose my high heeled shoes as my object and filmed my roommate throwing them out the doorway of our room into the hall. Using quicktime I broke down the frames so I could draw out each one. This took a long time due to the shading of the shoes. The difference in styles between the basic Cubey character and more detailed shoes reminded me of the clash of real life actors and cartoon animation in the film Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), though obviously not to such an extreme level.
This was an experiment of using layers of paper, with Cubey on one piece of paper and the shoes on another. When put under the line tester I realised it was extremely difficult to see Cubey, even once outlined in black fine liner. I had the shoe layer on top of the Cubey layer, as you couldn't see the shoes at all if the order of layers was reversed. The outcome makes Cubey look like a ghost, which could be interpreted into why someone is throwing their shoes into the hallway, in terror from this strange,little ghost.
The last couple of frames should have been repeated to make Cubey's expression of anger last longer so that the audience could pick it up as most of the attention goes onto the shoes, which turned out very well despite my initial fear of them being unrecognisable in the individual frames of them being thrown as they become blurred from the movement. I may try line testing this again with a light lit underneath the paper to make the layers show up together better.
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