That I Learned 2.

"Do ANYTHING a day."
Anything you do on your short film brings you that much closer to the finish line, it doesn't matter how little or "insignificant" it is, just do it, a background painting, a pose, even a stroke, push yourself to do ANYTHING a day.
And just so I don't bore you with my blabber I would like to share with you a color script in progress. Hope you like it.

Exciting Updates and "That I learned"

Hello,

Just like the title of this post states I have a couple of exciting updates for you. 

  First of, the next production video "which is coming out soon" I will be showing some animation demo (moving from animatic to animation) and TVpaint workflow, Boom!!!

  Second, aside from the "Production Video" section and the "Updates" section on this blog I will be adding a new section, I will call it  "That I learned!". In this section I'm going to post all the ideas, advice, and experiences I'm gaining while working on this project, who knows, some might find them helpful.

  Last but not least "and most exciting" I officially HIRED the first artist on this project, yes, I'm paying a fellow artist to help me on Dirty Laundry Day, and it feels awesome. I'll keep the artist's name a secret for now but I promise you a "Production Video" specially for art and color soon, and "THAT I LEARNED" this week: Don't be a fool, "friendship" isn't always enough of a motivation for people to collaborate with you on YOUR personal project, so pay your fellow artists, period. It doesn't matter how much or how little, they're your friends and you can always discuss it with them and be honest with what you can pay them upfront, just be reasonable and respectful and you get yourself a mini team of artists that you like to work with, plus when you pay them you can review things with them without feeling bad about wasting their time right?

Thanks for checking in.  

Production Video #2

There it is finally, my second production video I hope you like it. Enjoy.

Second Production Video from Jamil Lahham on Vimeo.

Another background done.

Hello followers,
I know I promised you a second production video, I assure you it's in the making, I just have to edit it. This weekend I decided to work on the cafe scene background. I realized it's gotten a VERY positive response on vimeo (Which is very flattering) and I tried to stay as close as possible to the original art. I hope you like it.

Updates

Hello followers,
First let me say THANK YOU SO MUCH for sharing, tweeting, commenting on my first production video, it was amazing to read your awesome feed back and comments, please keep checking in as I will keep posting and updating. My next production video will be up soon and I'll address the story/story-boarding and animatic phase, till then here's a still from the last shot I've been working on.

Production Video #1

It's finally here, and holycrap did I underestimate it!! Making these videos take more time that I anticipated but I finally did it. By the way this is the link to Kevin Parks' site http://music.thmm.org/

First Production Video from Jamil Lahham on Vimeo.

Sunday Updates

Another post in one day...Lucky you, or me !!
Anyways, this is the opening shots' background, and good god is it taking me a long time to finish each one of these!

This is how I laid it out in the animatic:

And luckily I found a very close room to this layout at my friends' apartment, there it is:

And this is the result of many hours of fucking with it:

One of the lucky accidents here is that when I initially drew the apartment it looked way to spacious but this photo brought things together a lot more and made it more cluttery and claustrophobic.
I hope you like it ..I'm pretty happy with it regardless.

See you soon with more updates.

My "Miniature" shoot

Yo yo followers, all two of you, how's it going? so I've been busy, a lot, and here's a little photo of me working on some "miniature" shoot for the short as a proof that I've been keeping myself real busy.

The big picture

Hello all,
Things are going great on Dirty Laundry Day. Just last week I recorded a news anchorman audio and it turned out GREAT, this week I'm going out with my brand new Zoom Digital audio recorder to record fley, ambient noise and whatnot. A couple of shots have been finished and still have many many more to do. Here's how many I have to finish.

Animation WIP2

Hey Folks:

   Here's another shot in the work, I have to admit it's taking me a lot longer than I expected to finish every drawing...it's frustrating. Anyways, pretty soon I will be posting short production videos to share and give an even closer look at what I'm doing so keep checking.