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We’re going to BronyCon! Be sure to watch Zach Rich present Double Rainboom live at 3 PM EDT on Saturday at BronyCon Summer 2012!
We had a great meeting today with lots of new animation! We’ve got work done on animatics and backgrounds and we’re almost done with the Fluttershy puppet!
We also went over the marketing plan our new marketing lead, Rachel McWhirter, has written up which includes some great contests for when the Double Rainboom trailer is released!
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Stay tuned!
- Cara Ann Murray (Assistant Producer)
Yesterday at our online meeting we went over all of our animators’ puppet tests, animated shots, and backgrounds. We also looked at new versions of some of our animatics and critiqued the changes.
Recently, we found out that one of our crew members (Rachel McWhirter) was hiding her marketing experience from us so, instead of making backgrounds, she’s now working hard to make three different trailers to promote Double Rainboom. At the meeting we got to see a Double Rainboom trailer in the works!
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Stay tuned!
- Cara Ann Murray (Assistant Producer)
We’ve just released some stunning new backgrounds as well as version 1.1 or our Twilight Sparkle and Rainbow Dash puppets! Take a look and don’t forget to visit our other Double Rainboom pages!
http://doublerainboom.com/index.html
http://www.facebook.com/doublerainboom
“Animating with puppet rigs in Flash is - shall we say - a sort of hybrid between traditional animation and animating with a 3D model in a program like Maya. You have a puppet broken into dozens of different parts - and you animate each part separately from one another. For example: You’ll animate the head for the entire shot - then the torso connected to the head - then the limbs - then the facial expressions - so on and so forth. Approaching the animation in steps is the way a skilled puppet animator will get a shot done.
If you’d like to learn more about the different ways to animate puppets - then we can send our "Smiley Face Demo” that we have all of our animators work through - to you.“
- Zach Rich (Director/Producer)
Howdy everypony!
Our first online meeting was so big that we couldn’t figure out how to get everyone in on an audio discussion, so Zach chatted away on livestream and we all typed back in one big Skype chatroom. We had 39 people in attendance from all over the world! All-in-all, in went really well.
For the first time, all of our online crew members got to see all the work that’s been done on Double Rainboom, including our animatics, storyboards, backgrounds, and animated shots. We also went over our pipeline and how the project has developed over time from The Ballad of Mecha Pinkie Pie and Present Prank. We then recorded who need what files and who was interested in doing what kind of work.
Right now we’re working on version 1.1 for our Rainbow Dash and Twilight Sparkle puppets for our next web-release. There will also be some new backgrounds and updates of our crew and contact pages.
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Stay tuned!
- Cara Ann Murray (Assistant Producer)