I hope this works.

UPDATE-
It did! I won a 2013 Ford Focus Electric, courtesy of TheVerge!

Lloyd's on Cold Hard Flash!

The pilot for Lloyd the Rock'n Unicorn premiered at Channel 101, and was well received. Along with working on completing the second episode, I'm shopping the show around to a couple different outlets and seeing what comes of it. So I was pretty thrilled to find out that Lloyd made it on to Cold Hard Flash. http://coldhardflash.com/2012/04/lloyd-the-rockn-unicorn-screens-at-channel-101.html Pretty damn cool! Now if I can just convince someone out there to give me a little budget to make a bunch more episodes....

Lloyd's in!

 I just checked the Channel 101 Twitter feed, and I am pleased to announce that Lloyd the Rock'n Unicorn will be having its world premiere at month's Channel 101 screening this Saturday (03/31/12) at 8:00 pm, at the Downtown Independent in Downtown LA! http://www.downtownindependent.com/events/channel-101-14 If you don't know what Channel 101 is, well your in for a treat. Check out their site. Now.  www.channel101.com

Recording Dialogue for Lloyd Episode 002!

So last night we recorded the dialogue for the second episode of Lloyd the Rock'n Unicorn. This time I put together a 4x7 ft. PVC pipe frame so we could clamp blankets onto it for a quick sound booth. It worked out really well, (Even though it was a little wobbly. I'll fix that soon.)  Now onto cutting the dialogue and creating the animatic.

Here's John standing by the booth.

And here's me standing by the booth.

Things are developing

So its been a little while since my last post. Well that's because I just finished a 5 minute pilot episode of Lloyd the Rock'n Unicorn. So here's some stuff from the creation of the first episode.  I'll be posting the episode soon.

Some thumbnails for various poses and stuff.

Here's some boards n stuff.

Some more boards.

Some more boards. (Not exactly in order or anything.)

 Lloyd standing at the portal to the Real World.

 Lloyd driving home.

Snakeface loosing it.

And here are some stills from the finished episode, weeooo.

 Here's the wireframe of one of the fancy shots. 

 And here's a still from the finished shot.

So there you have it. Lloyd the Rock'n Unicorn. I'll post the episode soon.

Working out the BGs

I'm trying to utilize photography for the BGs in the Lloyd pilot. For one, it will help to make the real world that Lloyd lives in more real, and it could help speed up the process of creating BGs for the pilot. I think I need to simplify the look more. but its a start.

SnakeFace!

Once he was the most evil villain of the Enchanted Forest. Then he showed up in the real world at Lloyd's apartment... and never left. Once again hes Lloyd's problem, but this time hes a problem in the form of a terrible roommate.... with magical powers, and no job.  Everyday, he serves as a constant, annoying reminder of the past Lloyd so desperately wants to forget.

Lloyd Animation Library

So I'm moving forward on creating a short pilot for Lloyd the Rock'n Unicorn, and to help keep things moving smoothly when I really get into production, I'm making a library of basic actions for each of the main characters in the show. I'll be doing the animation on my own, so I want to have as much of the basic stuff taken care of ahead of time, so when unique animation is needed for a scene, I will have more time to focus on just that. On top of creating libraries of animation, I'm also working on a look for the show, so I've applied some compositing tricks to the animation in post.