Let the Animating begin

So I think I have finished the backgrounds, and today Charlotte and I are going to start setting up the shot folder, with each of the backgrounds and elements that are needed for each shot, ready to be opened in ToonBoom's Animate Pro and doing some test animation.

We are hopefully seeing Kat this afternoon, as she said she was going to pop down to the L3 studio and should us the drawings she has done so far of the old man, and I think she has some questions about his legs when on the bike. So I think I will show her the video Charlotte posted on her blog of a robot cycling.

completed house background

This is the background for the middle section of the film, everything is on separate layers, and the door is movable, with a hall way behind it.

Background in development

More Backgrounds

Backgrounds... from the beginning..

So after our chat with Georg the other day I realised that I was probably going to have to re draw all of our background, as they were too small and the quality when zoomed in was very poor. Also I needed to cut out each of the Elements in the shot, so that they could be on different layers. This is my first one, though it is yet to be even coloured. I am a little worried that this will set us back a little from out schedule.

Life Drawing

So Charlotte and I finally went to a life drawing session at woodlane, yesterday evening, with some fairly poor result on my part. I wasn't very happy with the work that I produced, but I am going to put up this one piece, not very happy with the final outcome, but really liked the technique that I used, Charcoal and Chalk on brown paper, using a rubber to clean up the edges.


But I do plan to continue to go from now on, practice makes perfect and all that. :)

getting a bit of perspective...

This is the City backdrop, altered using the perspective tool in photoshop to see how the taxi sits in the shot.

Taxi

this is the taxi prop for the shots in the city. I have been working on it in photoshop, and the bottom picture was used to check that the prop would fit in well with the backgrounds.

City Backgrounds...

Backgrounds

Been working on these in photshop. Layering and stealing textures from some of the earlier mood pieces.

Dissertaion Draft Feedback

So I submitted about 3000 words for the draft, and wasn't overly confident about the quality of my writing and so didnt carry on, until I had heard back from Ann, who is supervising our essays.

Although my introduction was good, I haven't referenced properly yet and as soon as I begin to look at background theory, the structure gets very messy. I thought she may say this, as I didn't quite know how to approach the structuring of the individual sections.

Also I had not numbered my pages, or included a word count.

To help with tthe structuring Ann suggested the I label each paragraph. For example, Attitudes to parents, agae and sexuality, social ideals. And make sure that each sections builds and follows on from what has been said before.