Monday, 5 December 2011
Client Proposal
Monday, 21 November 2011
Client Project
Axis Animation is where my client is based, and I have been speaking to the production manager about ideas for the project quite often. My client has been extremely helpful and has given me so much advice and information helping me decide on a route to take with this.
So far we have decided on a character animation piece. I was worried about the rigging of a character so I have been sent some links with already rigged characters I can use. I am currently in the process of finding a good line of audio as coming up with a script is slightly adventurous! I think I would like it to be something funny, with not too much dialogue in which I can show off some animation. Once I found the right audio I can select what type of character will be suitable to use.
So far we have decided on a character animation piece. I was worried about the rigging of a character so I have been sent some links with already rigged characters I can use. I am currently in the process of finding a good line of audio as coming up with a script is slightly adventurous! I think I would like it to be something funny, with not too much dialogue in which I can show off some animation. Once I found the right audio I can select what type of character will be suitable to use.
Exhibition Package
I need to create 5 images that would be suitable for the catalogue entry. As it is only a mock of what may be used in the catalogue I am using some images from work from year two. I plan on creating at least one image for this assignment as I feel I don't have many in the actual area I wish to focus on throughout the rest of this year - Character Animation.
Possible images:
Research Project
I've realised I haven't been blogging much this year due to the amount of work being set for term one, and the lack of design work thats needed to be produced this term also. Much of it is writing! But the research project has been useful in terms of inspiring ideas to create artefacts in term two.
The question i decided to research is:
What are the key principles of animation and how can they create a more believable character?
I have chosen to focus on four principles to focus on and research; Anticipation, exaggeration, secondary action and timing.
Books that I have found extremely useful are:
Acting for Animators, Ed Hooks
Character Animation in 3D, Steve Roberts
The Animators Workbook, Tony White
The Animators Survival Kit, Richard Williams
How to Draw Animation, Christopher Hart
These are the books i have reviewed for the Lit and Works section of the project. However I need to include works - Looking at the bonus feature on a DVD is supposedly very helpful for this. I want to find a clip that focuses on the four key principles I have chosen.
Illustrations I may include I will use from these sources. I will scan them and post them on here soon.
The question i decided to research is:
What are the key principles of animation and how can they create a more believable character?
I have chosen to focus on four principles to focus on and research; Anticipation, exaggeration, secondary action and timing.
Books that I have found extremely useful are:
Acting for Animators, Ed Hooks
Character Animation in 3D, Steve Roberts
The Animators Workbook, Tony White
The Animators Survival Kit, Richard Williams
How to Draw Animation, Christopher Hart
These are the books i have reviewed for the Lit and Works section of the project. However I need to include works - Looking at the bonus feature on a DVD is supposedly very helpful for this. I want to find a clip that focuses on the four key principles I have chosen.
Illustrations I may include I will use from these sources. I will scan them and post them on here soon.
Tuesday, 1 November 2011
Tuesday, 25 October 2011
Monday, 24 October 2011
Simulated Client Project Process
I have finished rendering my simulated client project but for some reason wasn't able to render it on Premiere Pro. Still need to find sound to go with it, still unsure what type of music would be best.
Here are some snap shots of the rest of my project:
Here are some snap shots of the rest of my project:
Wednesday, 19 October 2011
Alumni Progress
I've decided to go with the maze idea after having a tutorial session. I've started to render a few bits out but it is taking ridiculously long! Here are some screen shots:
The first scene is a fly over of the maze so the setting is made obvious straight away.
The next is the character walking through the maze (although I'm currently re-rendering this bit as the walls in this were my original maze and then i changed it to what the first scene is)
Close up of the first cancer awareness fact.
Character shows a shocked face at the fact.
Turns to carry on walking through the maze.
The next fact is 'thats one every two minutes' which follows 300,000 people are diagnosed with cancer every year. (the first one) This is currently being rendered. I have one more fact after this '1 in 3 people will develop some form of cancer' and the character gets more scared each time he sees a fact and tries to get out. I will edit in text saying 'the only way out is to donate' something along those lines and will end with the character finding a way to an exit with lots of piggy banks.
The first scene is a fly over of the maze so the setting is made obvious straight away.
The next is the character walking through the maze (although I'm currently re-rendering this bit as the walls in this were my original maze and then i changed it to what the first scene is)
Close up of the first cancer awareness fact.
Character shows a shocked face at the fact.
Turns to carry on walking through the maze.
The next fact is 'thats one every two minutes' which follows 300,000 people are diagnosed with cancer every year. (the first one) This is currently being rendered. I have one more fact after this '1 in 3 people will develop some form of cancer' and the character gets more scared each time he sees a fact and tries to get out. I will edit in text saying 'the only way out is to donate' something along those lines and will end with the character finding a way to an exit with lots of piggy banks.
Wednesday, 12 October 2011
Assignment 1: StartUp Factory
The brief is to devise and model a new start up company which should combine my specific multimedia practice with practitioners from another multimedia discipline.
Things i need to consider:
>>Determine what kind of market the product exists already
>>Is this a new market?
>>How can this market be grown?
>>Who is the audience?
From this mind map there are two ideas that I think could potentially work. The interaction location finder ( firstly needs a better name) and the Animated Apps/ eBooks.
The location finder would be placed in the main areas of a town, such as the railway station, centre of town, shopping centre. The main audience for this would be people who are visiting the town, such as tourists, and in need of finding a certain place, seeing whats around or nearby or generally for something to do. It would list such as eating places, and then name lists specifics, such as Italian, Indian, Chinese, etc where you would then see the list of different places for each. Phone numbers and addresses would be included, with a map telling you the distance and the best route to take, via car, train or in walking distance. Maps could be printed with a 20p fee for instance. There could even be the opportunity to view a menu and place an order to collect or eat in. Other things include listing nightclubs, and special events of whats happening in the area. This is something that promotes local businesses and would need to be regularly updated.
The animated Apps/ eBooks idea I also like as it is an idea which specialises more in my interest , where I can involve character animation. To make this interactive I would need to collaborate with an Interactive media practitioner. I would be interested in creating this service with an audience of young children. I think animation is becoming much more widely used for teaching and learning, and would therefore create children's stories and learning apps.
Things i need to consider:
>>Determine what kind of market the product exists already
>>Is this a new market?
>>How can this market be grown?
>>Who is the audience?
From this mind map there are two ideas that I think could potentially work. The interaction location finder ( firstly needs a better name) and the Animated Apps/ eBooks.
The location finder would be placed in the main areas of a town, such as the railway station, centre of town, shopping centre. The main audience for this would be people who are visiting the town, such as tourists, and in need of finding a certain place, seeing whats around or nearby or generally for something to do. It would list such as eating places, and then name lists specifics, such as Italian, Indian, Chinese, etc where you would then see the list of different places for each. Phone numbers and addresses would be included, with a map telling you the distance and the best route to take, via car, train or in walking distance. Maps could be printed with a 20p fee for instance. There could even be the opportunity to view a menu and place an order to collect or eat in. Other things include listing nightclubs, and special events of whats happening in the area. This is something that promotes local businesses and would need to be regularly updated.
The animated Apps/ eBooks idea I also like as it is an idea which specialises more in my interest , where I can involve character animation. To make this interactive I would need to collaborate with an Interactive media practitioner. I would be interested in creating this service with an audience of young children. I think animation is becoming much more widely used for teaching and learning, and would therefore create children's stories and learning apps.
Simulated Client Project
Our brief is to make a multimedia product for the Alumni Association. Such ideas include encouraging people to donate to help priority projects, such as cancer research and scholarships.
I brainstormed a few ideas, bearing in mind the timescale of the project:
I think I will go with the 'Police Line-up' idea, as it involves a few characters and character animation is my main interest, although the animation will be minimal as I have less than 3 weeks to complete it. The aim of the video is to show facts about cancer, and to encourage people to donate to the Alumni Association, which give to the cancer research department.
Facts I wish to include in the advert will be:
>>300,000 are diagnosed with cancer. (one every two minutes)
>>150,00 die from cancer
>>27% of all deaths is cancer (UK)
>>1 in 3 people develop some form of cancer
>>Today 230 people in the UK will be told they have either prostate or breast cancer.
I brainstormed a few ideas, bearing in mind the timescale of the project:
I think I will go with the 'Police Line-up' idea, as it involves a few characters and character animation is my main interest, although the animation will be minimal as I have less than 3 weeks to complete it. The aim of the video is to show facts about cancer, and to encourage people to donate to the Alumni Association, which give to the cancer research department.
Facts I wish to include in the advert will be:
>>300,000 are diagnosed with cancer. (one every two minutes)
>>150,00 die from cancer
>>27% of all deaths is cancer (UK)
>>1 in 3 people develop some form of cancer
>>Today 230 people in the UK will be told they have either prostate or breast cancer.
PRP Project
Within my pathway I am specifically interested in Character Animation. In particular, I was thinking about focusing on either the principles of animation, facial expressions or a characters body movement, so therefore maybe also including the understanding of acting.
I started off by brainstorming these ideas.
Questions that I came up with:
1. What makes a good character animator?
2. What does a character animator need to make a characters emotions believable?
3. What are the main principles of animation?
4. How can you display life in inanimate objects?
5. How does understanding of acting help with animating characters?
6. Are facial expressions the ultimate demonstration of our emotions?
7. How does a characters body language portray its thoughts without a facial expression?
8. What triggers a characters emotions to change?
9. Does a characters body movement and emotions have to be exaggerated to be believable?
10. How are different emotions portrayed through facial expressions?
My next steps would be:
STEP 1: Choose and develop a topic
STEP 2: Find background info
STEP 3: Find books and videos
STEP 4: Find Articles
STEP 5: Find Internet sources
Defining my research topic; things i need to research:
>>What is the history of the topic?
--Who invented/created the area?
--Who broke the rules?
>>Specify a specific development
--What changed recently?
--Who changed it?
--What are the new opportunities?
I started off by brainstorming these ideas.
Questions that I came up with:
1. What makes a good character animator?
2. What does a character animator need to make a characters emotions believable?
3. What are the main principles of animation?
4. How can you display life in inanimate objects?
5. How does understanding of acting help with animating characters?
6. Are facial expressions the ultimate demonstration of our emotions?
7. How does a characters body language portray its thoughts without a facial expression?
8. What triggers a characters emotions to change?
9. Does a characters body movement and emotions have to be exaggerated to be believable?
10. How are different emotions portrayed through facial expressions?
My next steps would be:
STEP 1: Choose and develop a topic
STEP 2: Find background info
STEP 3: Find books and videos
STEP 4: Find Articles
STEP 5: Find Internet sources
Defining my research topic; things i need to research:
>>What is the history of the topic?
--Who invented/created the area?
--Who broke the rules?
>>Specify a specific development
--What changed recently?
--Who changed it?
--What are the new opportunities?
Thursday, 1 September 2011
Thursday, 26 May 2011
500 word rational
Our finial project brief was to interpret an existing script. I decided to choose the Frankenstein script, the book by Mary Shelly. I chose to do this script, as I wanted to focus more on the visualisation side of things, rather than a great deal of animation, such as The Matrix script. I also wanted to improve on my modeling skills as I feel my last project was slightly basic.
To re-interpret my chosen script, I decided for my environment to be set in space. I included two characters, an alien – the scientist, and a human – the creation the alien makes come to life.
I started off by sketching and storyboarding what I needed to do. However, I made several environments throughout the project, mainly due to file sizes being too large, causing the corruption of my work. This made it very difficult under the time constraints. By starting various environments over, I feel my ideas did however progress and improve from the previous ones. There are still areas I would of liked to improve on, having had more time. There is a lack of animation, which I feel doesn’t portray the story very well. I would of also liked to of concentrated more on using effects, such as smoke, fire and particles, effects I originally wanted to include. I feel these factors would have definitely enhanced my project. Although I spent too much time trying to perfect my characters and lab, I am fairly happy with them. It is a definite improvement from my last project.
With the animation I do have, it took me a while to get to grips with. Eventually I had a reasonably good walk cycle for the alien. I also had a living object inside one of the tubes, which I created bones for and animated wriggling. I also unwrapped this, which was something new and challnging I had learnt.
Adding sound was also a challenge. I found many ‘lab’ sounds, such as bubbling, but I felt there wasn’t enough animation to add a specific sound to. I therefore found a track to play in the background.
In conclusion, I have enjoyed producing this project. I feel I have learnt a lot, and I am more aware of timings for specific tasks. I feel lack of animation has let down my project in terms of the story. Although the script I chose is more of a visualisation piece, I would still like to become a good animator. This project has made me feel that I have a lot to improve on, which I am enthused to do before and throughout next year.
To re-interpret my chosen script, I decided for my environment to be set in space. I included two characters, an alien – the scientist, and a human – the creation the alien makes come to life.
I started off by sketching and storyboarding what I needed to do. However, I made several environments throughout the project, mainly due to file sizes being too large, causing the corruption of my work. This made it very difficult under the time constraints. By starting various environments over, I feel my ideas did however progress and improve from the previous ones. There are still areas I would of liked to improve on, having had more time. There is a lack of animation, which I feel doesn’t portray the story very well. I would of also liked to of concentrated more on using effects, such as smoke, fire and particles, effects I originally wanted to include. I feel these factors would have definitely enhanced my project. Although I spent too much time trying to perfect my characters and lab, I am fairly happy with them. It is a definite improvement from my last project.
With the animation I do have, it took me a while to get to grips with. Eventually I had a reasonably good walk cycle for the alien. I also had a living object inside one of the tubes, which I created bones for and animated wriggling. I also unwrapped this, which was something new and challnging I had learnt.
Adding sound was also a challenge. I found many ‘lab’ sounds, such as bubbling, but I felt there wasn’t enough animation to add a specific sound to. I therefore found a track to play in the background.
In conclusion, I have enjoyed producing this project. I feel I have learnt a lot, and I am more aware of timings for specific tasks. I feel lack of animation has let down my project in terms of the story. Although the script I chose is more of a visualisation piece, I would still like to become a good animator. This project has made me feel that I have a lot to improve on, which I am enthused to do before and throughout next year.
Monday, 23 May 2011
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