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We had a great crew meeting last week! We went through every animatic that has been constructed and critiqued them together as a group. With all the fantastic critique we’ve been getting, these animatics are going to be amazing when it comes time to go through them one-by-one at the giant online crew meeting next week!
While Zach’s working on all the animatics, all of the crew members waiting for animation are working on warm-up exercises to familiarize themselves with Flash and the pony puppets.
At the meeting Zach also announced that we will be adding more content to Double Rainboom so that it will be a full-length episode!
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Stay tuned!
- Cara Ann Murray (Assistant Producer)
“We’re currently unsure as to how easy it’ll be to have a preliminary reading of the screenplay since all of our voice actresses are in different locations around the country. We hope to be able to get them all on a conference call and have a reading of the screenplay then - but right now it’s looking like we’ll have to record each character separately and work from there.
We’ll keep you all updated on the progress.”
- Zach Rich (Director/Producer)
We just updated the Double Rainboom website! We have a bunch of new backgrounds, a new poster, new concept art, and our new Rainbow Dash puppet!
The Double Rainboom DeviantArt is also up! Go here to visit: http://double-rainboom.deviantart.com/
Yes we have! Anyone and everyone is welcome to help animate Double Rainboom, but we’d like you to have some prior experience working and animating in Flash first. In fact, about half of our crew (26 out of 58 people) are not affiliated with the Savannah College of Art and Design at all. Zach is great at working with people through Skype, so communication with our online crew is not a problem.
“I definitely can! Once production starts and we’re well under way - I’ll livestream an animation of a shot for everyone. That’ll most likely be around late June, early July.”
- Zach Rich (Director/Producer)
To make the the puppets for Double Rainboom, Zach first studied the way the ponies moved in the show. He had to look for clues whenever a puppet broke during animation and was eventually able to understand their construction (the legs and hair are the most complex parts). We then gathered screenshots of all the different parts of the puppet and traced each individual shape with the line tool in Flash. They were then re-sized, organized, and nested into the puppet rig of Twilight Sparkle on the website.
Animators get ready! As soon as Rainbow Dash is done we can start handing out shots! We only have a limited number of shots without dialogue though, so if you don’t get a shot this time, we will make sure you get one over the summer.
At the last meeting Zach also announced that part 3 is going to be completely scrapped and re-boarded. But don’t worry, Lenny, one of our fantastic storyboard artists, is on it!
We also saw some incredible backgrounds, progress on some animated shots of Twilight Sparkle, and a nearly complete animatic for part 2.
We have been amazed by all the tests we’ve been getting of the Twilight Sparkle puppet. We really appreciate your feedback and help finding any flaws, keep it coming!
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Stay tuned!
- Cara Ann Murray (Assistant Producer)
Our Rainbow Dash puppet is scheduled for release this coming Monday along with some backgrounds, concept work, a new poster, and an updated Twilight Sparkle puppet. Included in the Raindow Dash puppet will be wing and hair cycles. You are welcome to recolor them and change the puppets in any way you would like. Credit isn’t necessary, but appreciated /)^ɛ^(\
At our last crew meeting we went over our Twilight puppet and we realized that it still needs the back 3 quarters! It isn’t priority right now, but a version 2 will be available in the future. We really appreciate all the excellent feedback we have been getting and Zach’s amazed no one's discovered any problems.
We also have an awesome new background lead who did the staging study of Twilight’s bedroom (which will be released in a couple weeks). She also stepped up to help us block out all the backgrounds in the bedroom because the camera angles were confusing us. Great job and congratulations Jourdan!
At the meeting, we also saw some fantastic Ponyville backgrounds. Prepare to be amazed!
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Stay tuned!
- Cara Ann Murray (Assistant Producer)
The 3D concept art in Maya was used for staging and getting a feel for the space we will be animating in. Double Rainboom will be done completely in Flash.
Zach is technically a senior so Double Rainboom is also technically a senior project but it doesn’t quite fit into the curriculum at SCAD so there is no “deadline”. We expect to finish the episode for release this fall.
Yes! Pinkie Pie will also be featured with a speaking part. You can also expect cameo appearances by Applejack, Rarity, Fluttershy, Spike, Derpy, Doc Whooves, Cheerilee, Rose, Lilly, the CMC, and others!
Our website is officially up! Now you can see all the work we have been doing for Double Rainboom in the past few weeks. In the gallery section of the site there are six buttons: concept art, storyboards, animatics, backgrounds, puppets, and extras.
In the concept art area you can find color studies and staging studies of Twilight Sparkle’s laboratory. Part 1’s storyboards and animatics are in their respective sections as well as 5 of part 1’s backgrounds. Our first version of our Twilight Sparkle puppet is now download-able in the puppets section and our first promotional poster is in the extras section in case you want one for yourself (I know I do!).
In the next few days we will be releasing more backgrounds, a staging study of Twilight Sparkle’s bedroom, updated versions of our Twilight Sparkle puppet, and a new promotional poster!
Right now Double Rainboom is estimated to be about 14 minutes long, but we still haven’t completed 3 out of 6 of our animatics so that number will likely change. Originally Zach had planned Double Rainboom to be the full length of an episode, but unlike the live-action rule that one page of script = one minute, animation comes out to be closer to 30 seconds per page.
At this week’s background meeting, Jourdan finished an amazing staging study of Twilight Sparkle’s bedroom! Did you know that there is a second set of stairs and a secret door in her room? I wonder where the secret door goes…