Greg is a Garden Gnome

Episode 1: The Interview

Ryan — Fri, 25 May 2012 18:54:35 +0000

I posted this over on channelate.com, but I figured I would post it here too, since all future episodes will be posted here.

Dan.

Ryan — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 18:40:37 +0000

I meant to post more often this week, but I’ve been working hard on the voice overs and animatic, which have all the jokes in them. I want to save the good stuff for when I release the video, so I decided not to post those things that have to do with the script. I did, however, get Greg’s pet quail all rigged up and walking, so here he is. Also in the video is the background I made for Greg’s living room. Vee did all the design for the house. She drew me a floor plan with ideas of what furniture would go in what spot.

Manny scootching.

Ryan — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 22:08:10 +0000

Manny should be fairly easy to animate. His eyes and torso were the hardest part to rig, since I wasn’t sure how to tackle the setup. But, other than that, his scootching takes very little time to do.

Greg walking.

Ryan — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 12:55:44 +0000

Thought I would put Greg’s character set up to the test with a couple walks.

Manny.

Ryan — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 21:10:06 +0000

This is Greg’s best friend Manny. Obviously he’s a snail. He also works in an office.

Mr. Dee: Animation Test

Ryan — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 13:15:36 +0000

I’ve been using After effects for just under two years for general compositing, but I’ve never done any real character animation with it. I did this animation test with Mr. Dee to see how the character set up worked. His body is animated by tweening parented pieces, while his wings are an actual hand drawn sequence. I like the mix of the two. Gives a little extra life to the puppet style animation.

Mr. Dee: Sketches.

Ryan — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 12:53:46 +0000

One of the new characters we came up with is Greg’s next door neighbor. We were calling him Mr. D (demon) temporarily, but have grown to like the name. So he is officially Mr. Dee. He’s a retired shoulder devil. I did only these three sketches of him before settling on the final design.

Greg’s face lift.

Ryan — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 14:46:50 +0000

Since I’m doing the new animations in After Effects instead of XSI, I took the opportunity to give Greg’s design a little upgrade. I like it much much better.

Gnomes and shrooms.

Ryan — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 15:31:03 +0000

Greggin’.

Ryan — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 15:28:31 +0000

Doing these sketches last month is what initially made me want to start working on Greg again.