story board art work

Storyboarding

So another project that is on the go at the moment is to produce a professional quality storyboard of how I would animate to a set of narrative lyrics.
The song I have chosen is 'Put your records on' by Corrine Bailey Rae, which isn't strictly speaking telling a story but it does have a lot of visual references, which I intend to use. So far have done a little reseach and some sketching, which I will upload tomorrow. We were told to think about how we use colour in our storyboards carefully.Its quite an uplifting set of lyrics so I want it to be quite cheery in its olour palette but I am aware that too many colours can seem messy.

Character animation

We have been set the task of animating to a sound clip from the Kung Fu Panda film. The quote is 'ahh.. maybe I shoudl just quit and go back to making noodles.'
My character is Bill, He is entirely based on a little plastercine character I made last term. I photographed the model and put him into photoshop and played about with they way he looked a little.
Started off by making him into a cutout style using a filter, then set about removing the shadows of the background so that I could move him about easily.
After working on Bill I then set about coming up with a background for him to move around in. My idea was that Bill is a failing florist, who accidentally allows all of his flowers to die. Upon realising wht he has allowed to happen to them he then says his line. I wanted the Florist shop to reflect the simplicity of Bill's design but still be a little more colourful so that you can register the change when the flowers do wilt and die.

Waltz with Bashir

Charlotte and myself went along to the Poly to see the film 'Waltz with Bashir'. We werent really sure what to expect apart from we knew it was about war.
The film really shocked me as I had no clue about the first Lebanon war, or the dreadful things that happened. I thought the film was really sucessful in exposing these things in a new way.
The people in the film were real people that fought in 1982, trying to recount their experiences and understand why it all happened.

It showed a darker side to what can be achieved with 2D animation. The opening scene of a pack of dogs running wild through a town had a huge variety of camera shots and was, i think, terrifying.

And the dream scene in which three soldiers float towards a beach has an amazing use of light and dark.


It was definately worth the watch.

Feedback

maybe I shouldn't say how I think project I am barely involved in has gone in my eyes. It's clearly more trouble than it's worth.

Next time I 'll just offer my services for everything I can and get my 'hands dirty'

Waiting to hear...

back from the Universities that i have conatced with regards to the Student Panel for Animated Exeter. Susannah sent Charlotte an email today asking us to chase up the people we had already contacted and to let her know which universities we had contacted. I have sent her an email asking her to let me know as soon as she gets any sort of response from any of them so i can send them some more information! But i can't give her a list right this minute as the list is in the folder that andy currently has in his possession. I get the feeling we are being to layed back about it all when really we should be panicking!

Masking... quite possibly the dullest thing to spend your time doing.

Ok so today, we arrive to lend a helping hand, on to be confronted by art director, ben, who just bark orders at us. Just how everyone wants to begin their monday. I was quite willing to help but there is a right and wrong way of getting people to do things for you and manners dont cost anything. As far as I know anyway.

So this is what i spent my day doing.
Keying out the green bits of 10 shots.
Seriously dull, not in the lest bit theraputic. mind numbing. and after the barks i am not expecting any sort of thanks either.


Selected the brightest parts with the magic wand and delete them, on both layers. once this is done, I could delete the duplicate layer.


And this was the end result.

BIG CAREERS DIASTER...?

We haven't had a meeting about what is happing in over two weeks. None of the four of us know what we should be doing now, or what needs doing over christmas, we are all home for a month but surely things will need doing? Feel like this has been side tracked by the other two projects. I realise that they are important, but if this day goes badly it will reflect back on us despite our best efforts.

the elderly woman

I made a little plastercine model of how i imagined her to be.

the Mini Bible

Today, whilst hol and charlotte get on with finishing the stopframe for the ident I have the tedious task of resizeing all of the pages for printing, checking the font looks right, that there are no mistakes I might have missed before.
The script is all done, just needs to prctice it, and practice with the powerpoint.
Hopefully once Andy has finished listening to everyone's pitches this morning he will have time to help us fix our moodscap/animatic.
Also I need to find Richard and ask him how to put a link to the moodscape at the end of the power point so its runs through smoother because in the practice i had to moved between two programmes and it just look messy.

I'm done with foley

I gave Adam the final half of the foley today so that is my contribution to the Exeter ident finished with. I would have like to be involved more creatively, but I have been busy with the pitch project as the background artwork took a lot of time, along with creative some of the shots.

I hope the sounds I found work, but it's little late on in the game if they dont. And I hadnt spoke to Sound producer once thoughout the whole thing.

Practice Pitch

So we had our practice pitch, and despite the fact that we hadnt practiced it, and i only made the power point for it this morning it seems to have gone ok. @I am now working on ammending the script so that it will run much smoother come friday, not too much missed our though. just need to remember to introduce ourselves and give more detail about who our audience is, a little more about fables and cautionary tales, and in the end more about what the potential for it is i.e. a series, the interenet, before feauture length films, and festivals.

Andy suggested that it would be quite nice to actually follow through this project, which has got us all thinking that yes. it would be good, after putting so much into its creation to actuallly make it would be great!