week 2 class 2

working on your own project

came up with a simple story concept and idea,

Name
Mr. Dee

Personality: reserved, sad, driven by office work, Hardworking, Punctual
Habits: Drinking alcohol and smoking cigarettes.
lives in an apartment, urbanized and city life.


Title Page:
Content Page:
Logline and treatment page:
Character Bio pages:
World pages:
The Storyboards:

Story Concept 1

Mr. Dee is a hardworking 35 years fellow whose daily life is to go to the office and work like a robot and come back home. He is unmarried and doesn't prefer being in a relationship either. His parents got separated when he was 13. He loves cars and has some old collection of cars like Maserati Ghibli, Chevrolet Camaro. He makes quite good earnings from his job and considerably successful.
But he tends to be very isolated, sad and lives all by himself. He doesn't have any friends to hangout or any pets to pet. This is all because everyone is busy with their work earning cash and no one has extra time to indulge in for a conversation with each other.

Early in the morning, he wakes up, tries to lit a cigarette. but suddenly an owl brings him a gift and a letter that says, "try this you will feel better". Inside the box, he sees the number of rollies. He thinks they all are cigarettes but those are some think else, It was made up of psychoactive plants that could make one high, namely Ganja or Cannabis in English.

As soon as he tries it, the First thing he does is simply smile and becomes headlessness.
He carries his bag, heads out to his work. he seems to be very happy and cheerful. As he enters inside the office he greets people around. Everyone is shocked. He was the only one who seems to be happy entirely in the building.

A group of people from his workplace are very curious to know the reason behind his happiness, they search in his office table and cupboard. but don't find anything. But while leaving something moves inside his office bag, when one checks it, it seems to be a number of rollies (with cartoony smiles from rollies), they want to try it. heads outside and tries taking turns. afterwards, everyone smiles and enjoys their work happily. When he sees everyone happy and laughing at work. meanwhile checks his bag and sees it empty, he points out the finger to other mates and laughs even harder.( crowd joins, laughs even harder)
He leaves from his work. reaches home, An owl brings the same thing every day. and he takes it to his office to share them, The whole building seems to be very smoky, the smoke goes in the sky, goes up and up. Finally, the meditating Lord Shiva gets the smell of it, sniff it while his eyes are closed. He simply smiles.

End

To be continued......

week 4

Watching some stop motion in the class

a cool game like stop motion with square, digital squares
emoji.
by Savana college of art and design

Talkin about organization
Working according to the time table is very crucial in order to achieve the best results.  Therefore the following techniques would help us a lot to carry on with our stop motion video.

Gantt Charts
A type of bar char
on the right is what and when



Opening excel

sticking with this chart is very useful and we get successful

the time change from American to new Zealander

It helps you get better and organized on a specific task.

The material list was hugely needed in the video shown above.
A proposal has started can use the Gantt chart

Video 2 Walking Pig
wolf head, picture animation
photographs stop motion
logical, lots of aligning with the photograph,
Organize where they were shot, since its complicated scene, material list

Budget list and material for stop motion.
You gonna list props, character, budget for the material list,







consider going to the library, provide the tutor with all list of the material list by the 26th august.

Stop motion shorts!
Chess
hall of the mountain king
material list, nice concept

video 3
fisherman
sounds well organized, eaten by a whale, tides,
real animation and a real boat.

week 4 semester 2

proposal day, animatics should be done.
know how to export an image from harmony.


story ideas,

shared my stories about but it tends to be a bit long.
thought next

Week 4 Semester 2

lightning the environment to show the mood and feelings of what character is feeling.

coloring:

today's class: Presentation  on

digital art
template
character, animatic,
film
compositing, these are some of the things to keep in mind.





For my project, I am doing a simple compositing task as a part of my project.
I would be shooting some footage around the cities, here in Invercargill. They may be on daylight exposure or at night.

Procedure: extract different elements from different footage . and have a cut out of it. align them in the scene with the right perspective angle.

Things to consider while carrying out the task.
The proportion of an element.
lens distortion
grain, noise
blur and sharpen
coloring

software that I'll be using:
Adobe afterEffects for overall compositing,
Mocha Pro for camera tracking,
Adobe photoshop for matte painting


Inspiration:




Inspiration: after visiting Dunedin as a college trip, there I got to see some of the best work of the various artist, Among those, I was very fascinated and interested by this image below.





This image is moving footage actually with still camera movement.

Inspiration: 2 Zachary Micheal King (Zach King youtube)

I

how can I create a cinematograph of Invercargill city nightscape that explores composition?
mention the question regarding what if the origami jet plane meets footage.

https://youtu.be/4Z3r9X8OahA

Andrew Kramer( Video Copilot)

https://youtu.be/ds3Ba9RlO7s

https://www.fxphd.com/




Useful link for Film editing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ehvh5adVqMo


Reference
The Process
Concept and Blockout
Digital Matte Painting
Projections in Aftereffects

Moodboard / Reference
color palette

week 3 (1960's animation)

Animation 1960-1969
Croatia
Similar to infographic animation
2d animation very distinct mostly shapes like triangle circle, very interesting, distinct, mice with stick legs, nicely done animation, definitely need to search how it was made, because I like its style. story concepts were simple awesome.one of my favorite so far

Russia
Fyodor Khitruk
looks like paper cutout, voice-over very real, might be recorded in a real environment, cron ani city life is shown very interestingly, people working at office shown very interestingly while construction goes on at outside, character animation is quite unque, and background music is cheerful, real moving human  footage played inside television, wonder how they made such composition at that time,
funny movement and dance moves by a clock, teapot, photograph,
silhouette animation for a character is impressive, background sound is adjusted accordingly , such as sweeping up glases, dumping rubbish, clock ticking, water droplet,footstep,

character bed scene has a interesting story, the story behind his action to the ladis screaming has definitely has a definite reason.

China
Wan laiming,
Monkey king

monkey flying in the sky, traditional music played, vibrant color composition, monkeys are train to fight , animations and character movements are appealing, mostly stretch and smooth, sword animation and smear effects are been used, most of the character in the video moves very flexibly, tortoice marching carrying heavy sword animation looks cute,

Italy
Osvaldo cavandoli

Shape animation, great transition between shapes from one to another , even forms a different shapes, looks more like white board animation, bouncy and stretchy lines, lipsync is also included which makes the overall animation exciting,

Spain
Francisco, Macian

Very cute character of kids animation, 2d animation and interesting color and shadows.
Sound was not vey loud so referred to another video

Poor graphic , mtivador professional, a baby girl having conversation with shopkeepers, looks more like mickiy mouse animation and or traditional animation, story seems interesting but couldn't understand the Spanish language. shopkeepers gets bored listening to a baby girl who is a chatter box.

Andrew
Russia
There lived a kingdom
the animation style is much more similar to superman cartoon,

Landscape animation with city building, wide zoom, glow effect, closeups, 3d like machinery object shown, might be papercut outs, scale applied to the object, interesting way of visual representation, nice light effects shot in the dark where Luminant objects are visible, and their opacity or transparency looks real, wide-angle shot with long shadows, cool wind blowing man's shirt and suits,

Japan
Toei Doga
Astro boy
very deep color composting as well as animation,
car object  morphing looks more like a comic, car chase, 3d looks given to car and character,

Vietnam

USA/ Japan
Jules Bass
Popet animation / object animation, funny

Japan
Drawing animation, animation similar to Tom and Jerry,

Belgium
Asterix the Gaul 1967
animation similar to snow white and seven dwarfs, popular way of animation

Croatia
Professor Balham
Very cartoony, with vibrant color,
mostly shake effect used to character, speed position and transition to the character, smooth animation. snow falling effects, fade in and fade out, characters shivering, nice story shows the love and caring between man and a bird.

Croatia
The masque of the Red Death
very different painting animation, stone-like structure, shows war and smoke coming out, looks 3d with shadows but, seems to be like a very old animation, not so fancy, mostly monochromatic,
greenish, reddish, black, guitar playing synchronized with music, but not so perfectly done,

Canada
Eva Szasz
Powers of Ten 1968

real life footage captured by camera, boat and a boy and a dog, paintings, zooms out to be a city and finally forms a world map, space universe, sun and other solar system, planets, continuesly zoom out with planet vanishing,

zoom in to the boy's hand , in a molecular level, sin cell, rbc, plasma, mitocondira, nucleous, nucleolous, continuesly zooms in and appear new structure at everytime, later zooms out to the original

Ryan Larkin
Walking 1969
nominated for best Oscar in 1970

glitch effect used over a peson walking, drawing and paintings,

uk/usa
Terry Gilliam, Death Breath 1964

UK Oliver Postgate & peter Fir
The Clangers
stop motion for a mouse character

Home work
screenshot, picture

Week 3

Dynamic posing

shows that they are doing something which makes it look alive and interesting

storytelling
Something like bugs bunny

Dynamic: foreshortening

Display: Showing something could be like gun, Goffin

Alluring: Show of the character


These might be the cover of your comic.
These four ideas might be handy for your comic.



Storytelling:



Dynamic Foreshortening










class activity



Reference
https://www.youtube.com/user/LaffertySketchCards/videos
https://youtu.be/V36LpPkwJ7I

class 2 Semester 2

Preproduction time
Working on your story ideas for
Develop your Story idea if you haven't
communicate



Need to watch lots of movies for story ideas, since I do not watch a lot.
Style of animation

https://youtu.be/aUN6RPMIoeo

Refine your thumbnails, story, provide much info

http://www.filmscriptwriting.com/the-opening-scene/

week 3

Check out some video reference link
markilier youtube content.
Cranbersher Youtube



What kind of story can you tell in a minute?
salt and pepper
logline: salt and pepper

a life: create life from nothing.
logline: life is fragile, growing up,

Gran: granma being theft; successfully defeated.
beginning:
middle: granny has a solution
end: granny's solution chases the thief and


Iron man and the bruce lee

Special effects
liked the camera movement.
Real background use
toy animation

Candy
separated from the family
sad ending
 eaten up by a person at the end.



A midnight snack
facial expression of the man looks realistic.
object animation with clay animation
special effects

pes
fresh guacamole
stop-frame animation

create
the cool soundtrack and story concept, two different faces of a kid,

brainstorm ideas with the group







sample
title genre
character
logline
synopsis
act1
act 2
act3

concept art for chara uni
at least 3 artist model
575 words

the video is shown in the class
pals puppet
stop motion drawing to
the cost advantage for a walk , talk cycle
concept to replace

Plastiphobia
pioneer in animation in Newzealand
how a doe of clay can be manipulated to different
nicely synchronized with music
scale, length, position changes

Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin
bagpuss
narrator telling the story
fade in and fadeout for images widely used, dissolve
concept to replace

object animation with poppet and clay animation can be seen throughout the video
made with lots of patience, nice movement for a bird.
cutouts
narrator, paper cutouts, it was something with memories, really good documents for how its made

Stan Vanderbeek
science friction 1959 9 minutes
very different from stop motion animation with picture cutouts, lots of head replacement and hiding, kind of funny, a real actor acting.
wil vintin and bib Gardiner
first worlds to win oscar for the first time

lyke entertainment
drunken old man, visits art Galery, clay animation with lipsync, man thinking of object seen in the wall, cool color splash dance, nice facial expression, and transit, must have taken lots of hard work and time, like the sound elements in the video like background and men and women, robots voice,
at last a drunk man turns out to be a statue.

The Sandcastle 1977
sand animation leads to different ways and writes a nice title for the video,
closeup shots,
the emotional, isolated character that builds, made objects come to life such as octopus, snail-like creature, a walking pig, lizard

Framceso misseri

origami, duck ducking, singing, cat origami

Moomin 
looks more like 3d. colors were vibrant. I personally liked the cartoon ever since I was a kid.

John Hardwick and Bob
The trumptonshire
clay-like toy animation with awesome wardrobe for a different character like a soldier,

Mike Jittlov
Mickey Mouse

mouse mania Walt Disney treasures- lots of toy animation of Walt Disney character, smooth animation of mickey.

Industrial light and magic and phil tiplett
Eliot Noyes Jr
Sandman
cool transition and background music, different than other stop motion animation, lots of shapes movement,

peter lord and David sporxton
great clay animation body movement, well sync lipsync,  conversation among men,

Nick Park and Aardman Animation
Jiri Barta
Henry Selick( do research about him)
james and the giant peach

Wes Anderson

Cameron Chittock
Life on ben
interesting story concept and character animation


do not neglect your concept art,
must do in Microsoft word.

Week 3

storyboarding and thumbnailing in the storyboard.
The design character should be handed in the 6th week.
know your character and how they are presented is important.

Principle stuff that we did from the previous semester can be very handy. it's good to develop these work in preproduction time.

When rigging/how are eyes made up, talking,

Break down days for character and story to carry out the task.

Adding snapshot in storyboard pro.

file> Exporting>Bitmap
for pitch bible, bitmap format: Jpeg, Until all the options and check export all snapshots.
In export, range checks all.
choose a destination folder in the appropriate folder, otherwise, it will spread everywhere.

And later on, put it in the photoshop.
speech bubble shape can be found in the custom shaped tool. in the top menu, In shape, you can see lots of symbols and shapes. more options can be found in setting like button in the right-hand side.

in terms of storyboard Make it all at the moment all the scene and concepts




 In the edit,> preference >import-export >export to bit map> untick the limit size allowed for bitmap
Ideally, for photoshop you can use a transparent background and print camera frame, allow the camera scaling allows you to have a bigger background.
Include Camera PathExpand Render Area to Shot Cameraprint all the camera frames.

Exporting in harmony

can use either vector map or bitmap.

Semester 2 Week 3

providing instructive criticism to the classmates. Building up.

Some of the criticism and positive response I got from my fellow mates are as follows.
1. A bit lacking information but cool concepts.
2, I like how you have a lot of element in mind.
3 I don't really know much about compositing though I'm assuming you have your ways to go about it. - Ben


preparation for the presentation,

I submitted the draft of the powerpoint document on the blackboard.

My goal for the upcoming assignment is at least give it a little touch to compositing using available software like Adobe After Effects and Photoshop. This could be abetter opportunity for me to carry out what I like and I am very thankful to my Tutor. As she is very inspiring and professional to English literature. I could learn a lot from her as she has very high energy and speaking skills and dealing with people.

Week 2 (Cinema Verite)

Discussed what we watched this week?
Any Movies and video games?

Missing link:
After hearing that there have been many efforts put in the movie " Missing Link" I decided to download a movie and watched

work by Ruby meads
Cover
animation
overview
influences
motivation

The tutor wants to include a lot of experience.
Not to follow her way of doing, assessment examples can be found in the college drive.
The requirement for our project is a bit different.

Cinema verite and Direct Cinema 

Impacting on the subject, indirect cinema we don't see the subject

Week 2 (Shapes drawn different body shapes & Colour theory)

Character design silhouettes drawing shapes

Finish writing stories, Character bios & designs

Shapes:
Taking Aladin as a reference for a different character.

The different character has a distinct Geometrical shape. like
How different shapes can affect the feeling of your character.

Even the same Character might give a different feeling according to their gesture.


Color for Character
Superheroes follow: Primary color
back in the day used green purple
Secondary for villain

Cover pictures does affect the whole comic book.




Color Pallete