Evaluation

I found producing work for some else not hard but difficult to in-vision what they wanted but was a good experience to how it would be to produce work under someone. This project allowed me refine digital animation skills, in drawing a animation from the start on computer instead of by hand on paper. Produce backgrounds for animations which I ain't done yet but I know I will definitely need for my final major project next year. I feel I've gained a lot from doing this because I know now that I can produce work at a faster speed than I could before.

Something extra

I got the bird to fly across the screen at different sizes to you it more than once and get to see the detail when it is closer up :D

Finished Animation

So this is the complete animation. I've thought to make it smaller and make it fly across the screen to see if it will work which I will post up soon.

Bird flying semi complete

I've coloured it all in and I am happy with the end result, Just need to edit the wings so the start point is all the same because it moves around too much

Bird Body Colour

I coloured in the body to get a idea of how it would look. I made it slimmer than the temp body of the line test because it was a bit too big

Bird references

Being my favourite type of bird for its colouring and how it looks, I thought id base the bird on a falcon.

2 wings

I added 2nd wing in at the right points which was simple enough.

Starting off Bird flight

I got the basic shape and added the wings over, i only put the 1 wing in just to get the main wing moving 1st, i was pleased with this and i would improve it by addingin the 2nd wing at the right points. This was my 1st animation drawn all digitally.

How Birds Fly

A good video reference on how birds fly :D

Test and Final Crater

This is the final which i sent to the l6 student, he didnt end up using this one because it didnt match his style of animation, i found it a challenge achieving this because i was unsure of how to get the roundness of the crater so you can see it. i used his storyboard drawing as a reference also.

This is just a test of achieving a round shape of the crater, the depth is lost and just looks a mess, I wasn't happy with this test but was just a see how it goes piece

Research 2

So i looked at craters for the 2nd background to get a idea of how that would look.

Wasteland Final

This is the piece I came up with and when I sent it to him he was pleased with it so that was one sorted :D, I quite liked this one because I tried various brushes in the Sketch Book Designer program to produce different textures.

L6 Referance

So this is what he wants his background to look like so i will sketch something out quickly and come up with something.

Final 1

So this is the final which I produced in the end, I sent it over to the l6 student but found this wasn't what he was looking for so I would have to re do it using the source material that he gave me, I kinda got confused on what he asked for because he said he wanted horrible looking scenery which is what I was slightly going for here.

Tests

This was my 3rd test which I did and was what I was considering to keep it as but i needed to add more greenery because I felt it lacked it and looked too bare, so I considered adding grass from the second to bulk it out, working with layers allowed me to do this easily.


2nd test I liked this one but i needed to have more detail in the background.


1st Test to sketched and didn't look like dead long grass, I did like the blurred affect at the back to show contrast in foreground and background.

I had to get used to working on my screen tablet drawing out the images to I did a few practices before I was able to know what would and wouldn't work for my work.

Research

I started off by viewing what the L6 student had done so far so I got a ruff idea of what he had done. I went onto looking at forest images and dead wasteland images because I was later on told that is what id be doing instead in contrast to the forest version

My Tasks

So I've been set to do backgrounds for certain shots in the animation and produce small animal movement animations. ill try to send tests and samples to get feed back on what to change and improve upon. ill be keeping in touch with my L6 student via Facebook and email.

style and effects for final

so I'm going for a very sketched look which I could do all using sketch book design which should look good when its animated, i have also experimented with a haze look on the image to cause a fantasy look to it. I think that would look good, showing it to my group we talked about it may need doing to the all of it to give consistence.

Animating 5

Edited the parts which needed it and this is the end product. I feel comfortable with this filming and the finished ink product should look good.

Technique's
For this piece I had to insure that I got the timing and spacing right, I gave a little anticipation at the beginning to cause the viewer to think what will he do. Exaggeration was key because fantasies usually are and I feel I got the right level of exaggeration in his actions

Hows it seem with sound???

yeah seems like it works :D

animating 3

I added the exaggeration but also removed the 2nd turn of the head back to keep the pace going because I felt it kinda slowed it down and wasn't needed. I changed the flex at the end slightly but still needs improving. I need to make him hold his head back for longer because its too quick at the moment and just looks weird.

Go Group!!

We communicate alot via facebook and texting. to regualy meet up and discuss whats going on and progress our project so lets keep it up!

Animating 2

I got the movement smoother flowing but it still needs some editing with the timing and his poses need to be a bit more exaggerated. so more gust going through his hair while he arches he head backwards and more flex of the muscle at the end.

Technique - Image replacement

I learned after awhile that I didn't always have to draw out everything but could just draw what was moving and add it to a full drawn image to speed up the process. It saved me having to draw it all and having to scan it all into my computer so was the technique which I used.

1st & 2nd Key Frame attempts

Style 2


Style 1

So this was both attempts which I came out with, the 2nd was much better defined so was the one I went with. the 1st lacked much to it so it didn't work for me when I animated it but the 2nd looks nice a clean and will be good to work with.

thought about the product

Target Audience - Aimed at women mainly

Previous Adverts - Are of women enjoying the chocolate bar and feeling good about it.

Our Concept - Same theme of galaxy ads but with a twist of a parody of the music video Take on Me.

Strap Line - Indulge In Your Tastiest Fantasy

Character Development - Using the Character from the music video but make him comical.

Colour Schemes - Mainly brown chocolate. I thought for the animated part of the guy it could be hazed to show it isn't real and is a fantasy going on.

1st animating test

So I had a attempt at animating my first drawings which i drew out but found that trying little short cuts that it made it look really cheap and not fluid in the movement so I would have to re do this and draw everything out but it hgave me a good idea of getting perspective right when drawing it out.

Video Referance

So i had a go of taking my top of to get the smoothness for me to draw it.

Take On Me Special

Looking at this was a big help on how they created the piece. And from doing it myself I only feel a small piece of the long progress of making the animation.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11485702

BBC News report on the music video from it coming out 25 years ago.

Simon's Cat

I've always liked Simon Tofield's animation style for this series and the smoothness to it with very simple lines. I know that it was a good link to what i was doing being the piece which we was going to do.

Thought Of You Shortfilm

I looked at this video because it was very similar to how we was making our piece of watching someone do it and having to draw it so I found this piece inspirational to try and get it as fluid movement as possible when creating the take on me advert.



http://conteanimated.com/the-animation-2/the-documentary/

I also looked at the making of to get a better insight to it.

More style research

It was easy to find images on Young groups so research for that was easy so from that it was a case of producing a unique style that people would remember. We wanted to keep things simple to save us the hassle of making us have a lot of work to do.

Research

These are various Characters and Styles which I looked at for each project. For Werther's I had to look at various child cartoon characters to design the kids and for lion bar I looked at um bongo for the animal designs. For take on me it was a case of looking at the Take On Me music video to get that style down.

Lion Bar Storyboard

This is the storyboard for the lion bar ad which was drawn out by the illustrator in our group matt. It had a lot of detail in this idea, but was very creative would of been fun to make but i'm sure it would of taken awhile to all of it being probably one of the longer adverts so may have needed to have been cut. In the pitch we was told that it was too random and didn't have a strong enough ending.

I would of uploaded the animatic but it seems to be having trouble uploading such a big file.

Werthers Animatic

So this was the wethers animatic which i produced and got pitched for one of our three ideas. The concept worked in my eyes but a few points were pointed out that it was a bit hard to make a cool sweet being it isn't a cool sweet. I did like this idea though because out of the three it had cartoon fun style to it.