INSTRUCT

for this brief we were expected to make a 1 minute how to instructional video. for mine i chose to do an origami butterfly, i have three versions to choose from but i like the V1 better, and really its the easier to make out of the three in less then 1 minute.

i first intended to do the V2 butterfly because it has rounded wings and looks more realistic, and because of the size i thought using cartridge wold work. But as the folds tighter got it became harder to fold.


So thats when i decided to make the V1. as it has less folds but still maintains a butterfly shape and it. but because of time, and i used the last of the cartridge paper i had to you plane boring green printing/craft paper. But here is the final result.

risk assessment

After agreeing on the emote “fight” and the story/choreograph was set, before any filming could be done, a risk assessment as needed

Because of the original ideas having slow motion when the punches connect this would proved to Corse physical harm. As well as the small blackout area we were to film in. so this is my risk assessment and it covers the basics. Actor’s safety, surroundings and equipment 

like it says "they are fine with this" as the full body contact was their idea, they didn't want it to look fake. and over all the risk assessment was carried out and no harm was made (other then stuart's beating)

making a set

This was a new for me, I make characters and I never really took much interest in to the environment / set. But saying this I set my self a challenge. The characters I made live within the woods, this meant I needed to draw a forest, and I found it… I’m really bad at drawing trees.

Because of the background and physical description I made of the “twins” , (see  archetype blog) this meant the “twins” and the tribe/clan they belong to live within the woods and in round huts high in the trees using treetops to travel, And straying off the ground. With this in mid I created this mood board, most of the trees here are willow trees, as they grow tall, strong and in such a way it might me possible for live to live within or on them.

Studio brief 1 royal armouries/ Photoshop into

For this brief we went to the art gallery and royal armouries to take a range of imagery to us in Photoshop. I’m not the best at taking photos so the quality was not to good some were out of forces and others were to dark,

On the 26^th of September we had a Photoshop induction. In this we were show the right way to use Photoshop to it’s fullest and show some techniques and tricks. We were shown how to use a script that took three images of a cityscape and seamlessly merge into one to make a panoramic view. With the techniques we had learned over two days, we had one day to make something out of the images taken.

This is the monstrosity I created. It’s a mixture of about 25 different images, weapons, cloths, armours and bones and some animals

Character development

I enjoy creating characters but this was new for me. I’m use to just making one from the top of my head without needing to thing about its background.

In this brief we needed to make a development sheet on a character, information such as family background, their education, what they like and don’t like, and their personality. My original idea was to make “twins” a brother and sister, but I decided to develop one twin more.

 Following this we had to make an mood bored, and idea generator for the characters looks and behaviour based on the bio I made. As you can see the images I chose most if not all have some kind of armour piece or markings.

Now the background task is out of the way, I put all the ideas and background information to come up with this character cone named “ryuu” right now I am currently re-modelling “ryuu” as a 3D model using Blender. but i'll get back to that later

Animation/ after effects into.

Animation/ after effects into.

Following the previous brief where made a character. This brief will give it a life of its own.

in this brief we were shown how to make a two second animation (12 frames per second) using after effects. But 1^st we had to make a six key images they would be in the 24 frames. I chose to use both twins “ryuu” and “amaya”

I was happy with the outcome but it is also a little jumpy; I would have liked it to be a bit smoother flowing actions. And maybe added some colour to animation, and make it longer.

Bradford animated festival, BAF 2012, PART 3

Mark shapiro, LAIKA Studios (ParaNorman)

This was one final seminar I attended; the guest talker was Mark Shapiro, who is the Marketing and Brand Manager at LAIKA. He was here to give us a behind the scenes of the making of ParaNorman, and he took use through some of the processes taken when making ParaNorman and even some things about their last film, Coralin.

Mark Shapiro even had a model of  Coralin,  Norman ad one of the zombies, i regrettably was unable to take an pictures of it.

ParaNorman is about an eleven-year-old boy called Norman Babcock who is considered an outcast in his small New England town because he can see and talk to ghost. When a horde of zombies is unleashed on the town, Norman learns he must use his powers to make things right again. This film takes the classic stereotypes characters and gives them a twist. And this is the same with the evil ugly which that is protruding in a statue and towns history, but this is not the case... The un-dead are also not what they seem, they have they own story and goals.

In all ParaNorman is a very good stop-motion film, and because i loved Coraline i had high expectations of this film, and i was not disappointed. Some parts of the story may drag out for a bit longer than expected but it’s funny all rounds.

Conclusion, the three days spent at BAF 2012 was worth every second, in the time there i have seen the other side of animation, from student work (good, bad and high level work) to professional. And the one thing that was said (or suggested) in each event was no matter what level you’re at in animation, games or visual effects, they is a place for everyone.

The was also things said and shows are an event exclusive, meaning most of the stuff you can’t find in research or on the web.... in short if the opportunity should arise again, i would enjoy going again.

Bradford animated festival, BAF 2012, PART 2

Student panarama 2:

In student panarama 2, I watch 8 different students work ranging from traditional animation, drawn to 3D, but the one I enjoyed the most was Right of passage

Ride of Passage was directed Christian Bøving-Andersen from Denmark and the short animation is about a small child called Toki, who is sent into the woods by his tribe to bring back the dead of the biggest animal he can find. In return he will have gained the respect and honour of the tribe. But things don’t quite go as planned..

I like this because it uses a mix of 2d and 3d animations. At the start its 2d silhouetted and shows the right of massage (three tribe members each with a bigger animal then the other) and again at the end credits, with Toki and the chameleon. And the 3d element was beautiful animated and designed, with simple ‘chunky’ shapes and limbs.

The animation didn’t have any speech, so it relayed heavily on the action and pace of movements. But also the fantastic facial animations done to show Toki expressions and the animals. In all a beautiful animated short, and a very nice story. It’s a must see.

You can watch the short here, aswell as a making of..

http://theconceptartblog.com/2012/03/28/ride-of-passage-curta-para-o-the-animation-workshop/

http://rideofpassagefilm.blogspot.com.br/p/awards-festivals-press.html

Ride of passage EVAN feacher in 3D world magazine

http://www.3dworldmag.com/2012/05/21/new-cg-short-ride-of-passage/

Bradford animated festival, BAF 2012, part 1

I attended Bradford animated festival  [BAF] for three days, in that time a number of talks, screenings and seminars, and were shown not only professional work, but also students work. Out of the tree days and ten events/showings i attended here are three of the events i enjoyed the most.

Valerie kausen: chuck jones centenary:  Feed the Kitty

We had a guessed talker, Valerie Kausen, Chuck Jones' granddaughter.  She talked about her memories of working with her grandfather. In this seminar they had three of Chuck Jones most loved animations. before showing us ‘Feed the Kitty’ Valerie Kausen mentions about how hard Chuck Jones worked on getting one Sean too look perfect. The Sean is where the dog ‘Maec Antony’ has an innocent look on his face and pointing to his self as to say “who me?”

 The only work I saw of Chuck Jones was Looney Tones (bugs bunny and daffy duck) . i had never see the tree that were shown, and instantly liked ‘feed the kitty’

‘Feed the Kitty’ is about a dog named Maec Antony who brings in a stray kitten into the home and try to look after it in secret afraid his owner would take the kitten from him

I enjoyed this animation over the other two because it was funny from start to finish. And it had a nice story. The emotions shown in the dog were over exaggerated but it worked.