My contribute

My contribute to the collaborative project, our group had four animators all together and we each had our own section of the advert to animate, so instead of each of us having our own part or character to animate throughout the advert we split it into four parts and did it that way, so what we needed to do was to link the scenes all together to have the style of our animation the same, so we had the illustrator design the characters and we all had to copy it.
The second thing we needed to do was to have our first and last frames draw and completed so that the person before and after ourselves could link up the whole video and have it without any jumps.

Show Reel full

Here my show reel

L5 Animation - Pre-Production for Specialist Study
The youtube link here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OL345WBkPo
That e-mail no longer exsits, my mew e-mail is: 021ssmith021@gmail.com

Evaluation

Animation Unfinshed

link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUY6caM_o_A

Evaluation
Here is the start of my animation, i am extremly disappointed with myself in not completing a finished product. This term has been by far the worst term ever for myself in not being able to work to my full potential, somehow the time on this project has just flow by but thats no excuse.

I had a very well planed out story by my standards and i was going to put my up most determination into the the movement of the characters in this animation but time went by and i found myself producing this failed attempt and i was having to rely on the animating tools in adobe flash which was a hugh let down.

My Animatic

the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nChdkIQLUFQ
because my blog has gone and cut the ends of the video again

Heres a bad animatic with an even worst audio dubbing over the top of it the voice is mine, the idea was to ask someone i know that person has a good voice and was right for the project but in the end he let me down and with no time left on the clock i had to swollow my pride and do the recording myself.
The story is able a nice guy who is in a conflict with himself and in the process he has developed a split personality, this story is about how one can over come that little voice in your head and not to do any bad thing it tells you to do FIGHT BACK!

Final Mock-up Character

This is the final mock-up of the character im going to be using in my animaition, i know the colours are borrow but there wasn't many colours to choose from because im goin to be usnig alot of greens and browns in the backgrounds of my animation and most of the colours would either clach or i didn't like them.

Character Mock-up Testing Colours

Here's just a few ideas for what the colours of my character is goes to be, to be far i'm not that keen on any of them, colour pallets has never been a strong area for me it's something that i need alot of practise with.

Final Character Design

My final character design it had taken me a while after lots of drawing all looking very similar it this out come if i may add but i had finally came up with a design i liked and that i would enjoy animating.

More Research and Inspiration

gris grimly, four above






jen wang, three above

Its been hard i couldn't find or think of any other animations that have this slim, bony style to them but i did manage if find some inspiring illustrators like gris grimly and jen wang.

Research and Inspiration

Corpse Bride

nightmare before Christmas

Here is a couple of film that have inspired me for this project, not for their unique storylines or their dark fantasy persona (which are great by the way) but for the style in which they were created, i love the tall and thinness of the characters and i find it fascinating in the way they move.

piggy project!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJqT61ZJuRg

Its long over due had problems rendering it in short with the sound.
The link is below the video because for some reason the video has been croped on my blog.

Evaluation

To begin with i thought things was going pretty well, i did get off to a slow start with this project but throughout it i was keeping things pretty much up to date. my final produce was starting to get abit frustrating because my animation was going to have alot of detail within it, im not one of those people who can just create something as simple as a pink ball with eyes and a nose and call it a pig, i have to draw the whole thing out properly.
So before i could even think about using the Adobe flash programme to animate i had to have everything draw and coloured before hand, so i drawn the whole animation out first in programmes like photoshop and sai using my storyboard as a ruff.
had to practise using the flash software to begin with first because i hadn't used it much in the past but lucky with the two training i had within the project helped alot, but because i had already got go the images all i had to do was import them and line them all up to where i wanted them.

Overall it's been challenging trying to create something for a live brief and nerve racking as well because it need to be aimed at a selective audience. sad that my final animation can't be completed jew to problems but hopefully my final outcome is enough.
principles:
Timing.
Pose by Pose.
secondary actions.
slow in slow out.

Failed Animation

play 38 seconds into the video to get the full.

I have basically had a big problem with my flash programme and its gone and crashed and back logged to days ago, meaning i can't get my animation back even tho i have been saving constantly and now when i even try to continue with the saved file i've got it wont let me save or expert any move video's.
i'm going to have to keep trying or restart all over again but they is not where i can get it finished now. I have explained about the whole video in my previous post with my animatic.

Full Animatic

Here is a full animatic of my story ad for my digital animation project,
it start off with the piggy sleeping and out of nowhere a coin falls down and hits him on the head, he then takes the coin and keeps it and as he does it starts to rain down more coins and in excitement he dashes over to put them all up, now at that point its suppose to represent saving and with that the piggy is showing greed and wants to keep it all.
It then continues on showing him spending out of control buying things left right and centra until he has barely got anything left, when that happen all the bills catch up with him and box him in and they end up taking his money leaving him with one coin to his name.
final walking back to his muddy side of the fince where its not so green, he walks up to the sign sticking out the ground saying savings but in the final animation ill be changing that sign to the student services logo, its basiclly telling him to start saving now before you have nothing left so he buries his last coin in the ground. final after awhile his money count starts to increase. showing furture plans to take about care of your money to begin with.

More reference videos

animals walking and running cycle, to get a better understanding of the way four leged animal walk and run




advertising video reference: 2008 Olympics bbc ad
i find this ad very interesting in how it goes very off topic, it gives you hints thoughout the video on what its meant to be advertising and you dont quite get it untill the very end, till they all end up inside the olympic stadium, if it wasn't for the ending i don't think people would have gathered that it was for the olympics and i'm saying all this because after looking at my pig animation i don't think either that people would get what its meant to be advertising untill the very end.

Video References

video references for youtube: five little piggy's




youtube video: walking pig

Evaluation For Sound Project

Producing all these screenplays, storyboards and animatics this term has been rough, but has taught me a lot over this past module all about the use of film language and cinematography.
I'm happy with the script i wrote in the end although i couldn't quite make it long enough to my standards but that's something to work on more in the future.
Also disappointed that i didn't spend enough time propel drawing out the storyboards to the standard i wanted them, i would have liked to add more detail to the backgrounds of the scenes and also would have liked to ink in the final produce to give it that more profesional look.

Animatic For Script

here is the link to the youtube better qualtiy verson:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiIr36haBkM
Here is my animatic for my scritp, overall my happy with it the outcome of the story but im disappointed that I didn’t spend enough time on drawing the panels, I would have liked to add more detail to the backgrounds of the scene and also would have liked to ink in the final produce to make it look more professional.

My script (One Man's Tent)

EXT. Forest. evening/night

It's the middle of the forest, damp and its starting to go dark.

A scared man is running through the forest trying to get away from something, he is terrified but he can't see the thing that is chasing him he can only hear a constant loud beeping noise.

The man stumbles all over the place and even falls over a couple of times, dropping his glasses in the process but always making the effort in picking them back up again otherwise he would not be able see very well with his beady little eyes.

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Finally he makes it back to his tent (which he was camping out for a few nights in) he is exhausted and out of breath but that's not his concern right now all he is thinking about is that he needed to be in a safe and familiar place. In an attempt to get the tent open quickly he Struggles and ends up fiddling with the zip for a few seconds, finally getting it open he throws himself in but in his state its more like collapsing.

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int. tent. evening/night

Finally in his tent but not yet feeling safe, he zips the tent up behind him and out of sheer desperation he grabs a plank of wood out of nowhere and starts to hammering it into the side of the tent where the entrance is, thinking that it would somehow save him from whatever is out there. Still in a confused state he panics and crawls over to the corner of the tent and picks up the radio and starts fiddling with it,constantly changing the stations with the knob, thinking that its some sort of communication device he shacks the radio and shouts into it thinking that he can call for help on it.

scared man

Hello hello, help... can anybody help me!

He starts getting angry and frustrated that he isn't receiving anything back, so he raises the radio into the air with both hands clenched tightly around it and brings it down with all his force slamming it hard into the floor and breaking it.

It's all gone quite now not a thing can be heard and the man is able to take a few deep breaths to calm down, whipping the beads of sweat from his brow. But seconds later that same beeping noise starts up again slowing getting louder and louder. The man begins to get scared once again and is now desperately looking for another way of the tent.

A rustling sound appears for outside, the tents zip begins to slowly unzip. Finally the man gives up trying to escape, he drops to the floor like a heavy sack and curls up tightly into a ball, as the zip continues to unzip the man scrunches he's eyes shut and rocks himself backwards and forwards muttering.

scared man

why?... why does this have to happen to me. I've done nothing wrong please just.... go away.

As he finishes muttering to himself he realizes that he couldn't hear everything so he slowly opens one of his eyes to take a look at what is going on but it is to dark for him to see a clear picture all he could see is a tall shadowy outline of a figure standing just outside the tent blocking his only way out. Their hand enters the tent holding something that appears to be an alarm clock and it's making the same beeping noise that his been hearing this whole time. The shadowy figure pulls back their arm for a second or two but to the scared man on the floor it seemed like forever. Then the figure hurls the alarm clock at the man with it is still beeping, it hits the man on the head hard and falls to the floor.

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int.bedroom. morning

Before he knows it he wakes up in his own bed with the alarm clock next to him still going off and a painful bump on the head, the clock had started to go off and it had eventually fallen off and hit him on the head.

Sitting up slightly he realizes that it was all just a bad dream, he begins to rub his head with a little smile of relief on his face. Then he just flops back onto his pillow and bursts out with laughter.

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animating piggy

piggy animatic