Practicing Facial Expressions 2

Some more character designs,

Trying to come up with a style that suits my animation and matches the other characters, I found it quite tricky as you can tell from this image above the bodies looked like they were to manly and the head portraits were just wrong. So worked needed to be done so the plan is to practice on drawing the female body and also keep working on the look of this character too.

Practicing Facial Expressions

Here i have started with both some character designs for my animation and some emotional expressions.

 These are just some rough designs on what one of the characters may look like and the style that Ill be using, i am pleased with some of the drawings but practice is still needed and practice I shall do.

Primary Research, Animation artbooks 1

Tangled art book examples.

Practicing face expressions

By looking through this art book is a great way to find excellent examples of good character designs and facial expression, exactly what i am aiming for at this stage of the project. It is good practice to draw as many different character expression as i can because the more i do the better i will become and it is needed for my video because I'll be animated mostly to a dialogue.

Statement of intent for Specialist Study 2

WHAT

I will be producing a short animation based on an 11 second audio recording from a website that conduces competitions each month and awards a winner for the best animation, by doing this it sets me a deadline (for the end of February)and makes me start my final animation early. I won’t be aiming for a final completed film by the end of this month I’ll only be producing the animated side to it for now.

I would like to also set myself a few mini micro projects, meaning I would like to apply for some free-lance jobs just to get myself started out there in the real world but I won’t be applying for anything to big for now because I don’t want it getting in the way of my SS2 project.  

My final outcome will be to project a professional looking and finished piece of work to the best of my ability.

HOW

I will achieve this be setting myself goals at the beginning of each week to keep on top of everything (because it’s something that I have lacked in, in the past).

WHEN

One self given deadline for the 29^th February for a completed animated sequence, project deadline 24^th June but will be aiming to finish one week early at least. Everything I need to do will be mapped out in the next few days (Time Management).

Primary reference video's

This video below is a friend of mine and he agree to do some of his sets out of his martial arts practice, which is karate. Just some live reference to help me out with this project, i did do a couple short animation tests of this video but i dont have them with me right now to upload to compare but i will add them at a later date.

Evaluation & Project Brief

Project Brief:

Developing animation skills

Learning Outcome:  Gathering a better understanding of the human anatomy

                                        Animating skills & Style

        More understanding of the animation principles

Purpose and intent

With my animation skills being the main area of interest, I want to challenge myself and get a better understanding of the human anatomy. And with this I can get the opportunity to improve my drawing skills and my style through tests and my final outcome, all this will hopefully help me out in my future projects.

Target Audience

A more younger audience, who enjoys the thrills and experience of a hard worked animation 

Medium

Purely 2D hand drawn animation, to get across my expressive imperfect hand drawings. Other I’ll be using Photoshop and Adobe Flash for editing and composing the final outcome.

Platform

A hand drawn animated video that shows my animation skills and tells you that I have a better understanding of the human body.

Learning Outcomes

This project will enable me to get a better understanding of the human anatomy.

My preproduction skills will be improved greatly through choreographing action scenes

It helps me to improve my animating skills and prepare me for my final project.

Evaluation

Looking back on this project and I’m thinking to myself I could have done so much more, I think that’s what everybody thinks most of the time but the problem that I had was from the start I didn’t quite get what I could and couldn’t done I was getting different feedback from both my tutors, so for weeks I was confused and I ended up starting what I eventually have weeks into the project, but I only have myself to blame.

In summary, even though I wanted to focus initially on my animation skills alone this was not enough I know that, after just randomly throwing a quick narrative together it doesn’t really show that I have any clue in what I’m doing for this project . So next time around I’ll have to put my thinking cap on, use an existing story or work on a live brief because my story telling skill aren’t up to the mark they should be.

Improvements for next time:

Create a good story narrative that will excite the audience or use one that works.

Gather all the Intel I can for preproduction including more primary research then secondary, don’t be happy with the minimum.

Better preproduction in my storyboard/animatic make it clear and easy for the audience to understand.

Final Animation

Any feedback would be appreciated.