27th and 29th of September 2011
For our animation assignment we were given the task of creating in at a small animation about 3 min long about a place in Birmingham called digbeth. Our 1st task we did was go to digbeth and write what came into mind to give us an idea of what to make the animation was about. We walked around digbeth for a while and felt it gave off a modern style, quite noisy, colourful, old-style buildings, industrial feel to the area.
The idea came to me of thinking of how would look in the day and is well the night from this I got the idea of making animation inspired by Alice in Wonderland theme. The idea is to start off in the daytime showing digbeth colourful and old classical buildings giving it a style of happiness while at night time showing its more modern and shadier side.
The idea of the animation is a beautifully dressed manikin with a masks (to portray happiness) comes to life inside the art gallery and begins to wander and looks around while looking around the area which seem almost like a dream the manikin wanders off towards a fountain where the time between day and night changes. The manikin finds its self lost in a dark and unknown place where all is dark and different to what was seen before. Lost and alone the manikin sees a butterfly of light (still an idea) shows the manikin the way back.
From what I know of Alice in Wonderland I remember that the story is based around a magical place that seems almost perfect until the very end where it shows its true colours this is what we want based the animation around.
2nd of October 2011
As we went to make our animatic for animation we came across a couple of problems that we would encounter later on in the animation itself, where our character who would have been played by a person would may or may not be there for the animation most of the time instead we replaced our actor for a more animation style character drawn on pieces of paper which we could rapidly change to make the animation. We would still keep the storyline that we created 1st off but our character would be drawn instead of acting. From our new idea we worked around a base that would use our animation from 2-D side point of view to a 3-D illusion
To give an idea of how we would make an animation around the 2-D character we did some research on animation that use this type of style. The style were using is known as paper child, paper child is commonly known for 2-D characters drawn on pieces of paper that are cut out and react with the real world this is used in both still pictures and animation.
Video references:
Information on paper child: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/paper-child#.Ton9yHNuH9A
14th of October 2011
Today we discussed what roles we would be playing for this animation, what we decided was one of us would draw out some parts of the animation another would help support the characters look another on design.
The job that I was given was to create a body portion that we would use for the main character that I would draw, they came up with 5 body designs 1st before creating 3 test designs and used the ideas from the 5 body designs that I had already drawn. Out of this the group decided that the test design 3 would be appropriate, as the character looks doll like.
17th of October 2011
This week I will be testing out the cut out animation to see how we will use it in are main animation and if we can use different styles (squash).
Ref of character movements:
18th of October 2011
Today we had one-to-one tutorials where we discussed what we would be doing for our animation and how far we are. Most of the discussion was about how we were going to take our animation and where we were so far.
Throughout our discussions we talked about the sound effects or would be used in it, as a storyboard would portray the character what would we be using for references and what jobs each person had to do.
After further researching up on the animation style will be using for animation I found. The animation style is called cutout, but I can use any type of material to create an animation for example Elizabeth Hobbs used for the felt material for her to short films Glenda and over-excited. The technique you will be using is similar to the cutout style only based in a 3-D environment with the 2-D character
24th October and onward
24th October and onward
Throughout the project there have been many ups and downs within the project itself. Our 1st problem created was getting a character for animation we then find a solution to this problem by making the character self eliminating the volatility of an actor. While we were going through the project we realised we could have also used stop motion animation in the form of a model doll which we could have clothes as the character, this would have made the process much faster but in the end we were quite pleased with how the animation came out in 2D
The work is required of me was to create the body of the character and animate throughout the animation process I found it quite difficult to draw step-by-step of animation such as walking and keep it consistent so I developed what I call a doll in photoshop where the parts of the character were all movable in which I simply could move them without changing the body form of the character.
From this dull character I created 3 different side views1 from the side front view and side view, From this I worked from the animatic picking out the individual scenes that were needed for this animation I then worked scene by scene to create the animation of the character.
Throughout the making of this animation is gone across a lot of problems which have caught is out along the line some such as finding a character model to choosing what style of animation we were going to do and also getting the film we need for the animation. From these problems we have created other ways to get around them for example while we were shooting for our animation which was based outside we found that our spot for 1 scenes the nighttime scenes where the character would run across the wall past some graffiti was coloured over and so our idea of capturing Digbeth urban style in our animation had to change slightly so that we could still keep the urban style but worked to our aromatic.
From this dull character I created 3 different side views1 from the side front view and side view, From this I worked from the animatic picking out the individual scenes that were needed for this animation I then worked scene by scene to create the animation of the character.
Throughout the making of this animation is gone across a lot of problems which have caught is out along the line some such as finding a character model to choosing what style of animation we were going to do and also getting the film we need for the animation. From these problems we have created other ways to get around them for example while we were shooting for our animation which was based outside we found that our spot for 1 scenes the nighttime scenes where the character would run across the wall past some graffiti was coloured over and so our idea of capturing Digbeth urban style in our animation had to change slightly so that we could still keep the urban style but worked to our aromatic.
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