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Ace & Aqua

Steve

Ace & Aqua is done and ready for your viewing pleasure!!! It’s been one hell of a journey, and this being my first feature short, I have learned so much. With a deadline of less than 2 months to animate the short, I didn’t think It would be possible, but I did it. I would like to thank all of my supporters, family, friends, and anyone I asked for advice on the short.

Post also comment about the short below, and ENJOY!!!!!

Ace & Aqua

Steve

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January 26, 2006. I had a meeting with Fred and I was pitching an idea for Random! Cartoons. Fred asked me if I was working on anything for channel frederator…and I was not. ( How do I remember this date? Well, its a day before my birthday so i was excited to turn 15.)

I had been thinking about what Fred said for weeks.

February 7, 2006. I sketched some stuff in class of basic character ideas and drew them this date. Scanned em in, colored em, and out pops the first pass at the Ace & Aqua designs.

The next thing to do was come up with idea’s about them, personalities and how they would interact. As you can tell in the above drawing, Ace is beyond crazy looking, and Aqua just seems so humble. I liked the idea… Ace & Aqua’s designs tho didn’t seem to be very cartoony. I wanted to make this show for young kids. 5-11 age range.. something along those lines. I wanted tho, to make sure I kept Ace’s crazy look, and Aqua’s humbleness. I’m not sure what age group Spongebob is for but even I find it hilarious. So anyways I started to draw. These designs if you can or maybe can’t tell went through a lot of design work and changes. Ace I think I changed 3 times, and Aqua about 4 times ( those numbers are correct, I didn’t post all the reworked designs ).

My second pass at the characters was this:

But something about them seemed a little funny to me, at least ace’s design. So I started sketching out some more versions of him that I would try and find myself more to the liking of.

And this of coarse, these ended up being my final designs for Ace & Aqua.

Ace & Aqua!

More to come!
Steve

Why is Ace naked?? Find out soon!

Ace & Aqua!

More to come!
Steve

Hey Everyone!!

Steve Levinson here! Fred generously gave me a blog of my own! Don’t worry, I’m still going to be posting on the Channel Frederator blog!

What the heck am I doing on this blog?
Well I’m here to talk about and post up my animations, animation tests, drawings and more importantly Ace & Aqua and what went into making it! Ace is pictured above. I’ll talk about my methods, post up sketches, storyboards, animatic, rough animatic, animation, writing it, everything! I’m going to be releasing a sketchbook of all the things I’m going to post on this blog and much much much more! It will also come with a copy of Ace & Aqua on DVD!! Stay tooned!

What is Ace & Aqua?
Ace & Aqua is my short 5 minute cartoon that is going to be released soon ( only a couple more weeks! ) about how a crazy kid becomes friends with an intelligent abominable snowman. It’s an idea I have had for awhile and I have decided to make it into a short film to pitch!

Ace & Aqua!

More to come!
Steve

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