http://www.zerotheseries.com This is the production blog for the upcoming animated series "Zero". We talk about the software, hardware, tips, tricks, discoveries in writing, developing and animation that are uncovered while producing the series. Fri, 02 Jun 2006 20:42:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've been playing with character color in flash and after a few iterations. I come up with a good color scheme. http://www.zerotheseries.com/?p=25 This is Jaye the stories only major Female character. She appears well into the stories but more than makes up for the tardy entrance. http://www.zerotheseries.com/?p=24 These are some roughs I banged out while in california on vacation some are more refined than others. http://www.zerotheseries.com/?p=23 This is a sketch I whipped out while at the NCAA College Baseball Tournament. The University of Alabama was getting creamed, so I focused on something more positive. “Click the image for a larger version” http://www.zerotheseries.com/?p=22 Sorry for the lack of posts. I've been hard at work on multiple projects. But here is a Ward desktop I put together. http://www.zerotheseries.com/?p=21 It came as a ring of energy. Blue fire with flames that licked hungrily back to it's point of origin, instead of upward to the sky. The event was worldwide and the panic it created was as well. Mere seconds after the event an explosion occurred. It was so ... http://www.zerotheseries.com/?p=14 Greetings fellow web-heads, bloggers or whatever cybernized term you wish to attach to yourself. My name is William B Strickland writer, animator and content provider. I have earned my mutant ability to snow-blind the unfortunate passersby "I'm very pale", from 10 years of Web, Video and Animation development. Some of ... http://www.zerotheseries.com/?p=11 In the telling of this story I wanted to accomplish some things in my writing. I wanted to tell a story from a single location or room with flashbacks telling the back story as the characters were dealing with their situation in the here and now. I wanted to tell a story ... http://www.zerotheseries.com/?p=10 I was over at a friends home the other day. He was just starting to do flash based animation and wanted to show me some things he was working on. While I was there he also showed me, a set of tutorial movies he had bought and really liked. Called ... http://www.zerotheseries.com/?p=8 If your job in the context of creating animated, is to write the script. Odds are you are very familiar with Final Draft or Movie Magic Screenwriter the two most well known applications for that job. But if your on a tight budget, these applications are out of your reach. ... http://www.zerotheseries.com/?p=5