Our box of joy and trinkets :)

So for next wednesday, Andy asked Charlotte and I to produce a box of everything that is inspiring us and our 'vision' for the project. These are a few pictures of our afternoon making a mess and having fun!

Its all Change

So after our supposedly informal prsentation on wednesday,which needless to say did not go well, Andy asked Charlotte why were we not doing the Lady in the Rain for our final project and encouraged her to do so... So we are. And here are all the images the I can find for it because Charlotte's Hard drive has just died, and I would like to feel safe in the knowledge that our work is somewhere.

A little Design work

These are just a few concept pieces for our third year final project, for the proposed idea of animation Aesops fable, the four oxen and the lion.

The Beginning of the 3rd Year

This year I have two major things to complete. A short film, which I am co producing with Charlotte and will be a short adaption of aesops fable ' the four oxen and the lion'. Also my Dissertation, for which I have chosen quite a feminist topic.

So far, with regards to the film, we are still at the research and pre production stage, of gathering together our ideas and coming up with some design work. Hopefully we will have enough to get the go ahead for our project by the time we face the panel in November. We have written up a schedule and plan to stick to it, having remember to allow plenty of contingency time for set backs and problems.

Some concept work

Third Year Final Major Project

Goodness that post title makes it all sound rather scary. Today I have been looking at more of Aesop's Fables trying to decide which one deserve some attention and animating. I think I have finally settled on The Four Oxen and the Lion. The moral of the tale is United we stand, Divided we fall. It involves four oxen working together to protect one another against a lion by standing together and presenting him with their horns at every turn but they argue and move away from one another and are taken by the lion one by one.

These are some character designs I have been working on.

Egon Scheile

This is my interpretation of his piece, I hadn't seen this work before Sean showed it as his example of what he thought good design for animation would be. I liked his relaxed pose and the use of colour in the piece.

Drawing Project Background work.

I looked at Fern Gully, as they have small human like figures small, living in the rainforest.




Also, I have tried to keep the colous quite subtle, and tried to make sure they complimented one another.

Character and Background Design

These are just a few pieces that I have worked on in my own time, that I thought I would share.

The Drawing Project.

These are the two pieces I have submitted.

Film Analysis... Complete.

I have finished my Film analysis today. The film I chose to look at was Cinderella. I decided that would be a good choice because of the array of female character in the story. It has the main female types of Heroine, Evil Step mother, and Fairy Godmother. I felt this would be good to analyse as it will relate to my dissertation topic. Hopefully I've done ok. Still not too sure about whether I've reference correctly, but we'll see.

Talking Dog is nearly finished

Yesterday I finished animating for the card trick. I had to make a few final changes to some of the scenes, and Andy, helped change one of the landings and take offs of the female astronaut. I then moved on to listening to tracks to underlay beneath the soundtrack which was supplied by the bbc. The original soundtrack consists of speech and beeps. The track which I will use needs to fit in well with this. It has also been suggested that I should find some sound effects to go along with the arrival of the space buggy. Here is the piece without the extra sound effects.