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