Below shows my full keyframed animatic with a rough soundtrack. This video also shows the last sequences to the story and shows it is ready for creating the in-betweens aswell as adding colour and better background with incorporated sound effects.
The prey keyframed aniamtic with rough soundtrack from matthew danks on Vimeo.
What also happened this week in relates to 6DM022: major project is that we have to start making plans for our final evaluation towards the project itself aswell as a reflection the course as a whole through the past three years. This would have showcase key events that have made an impact in our education whilst at university aswell as the full run down process of the final film itself and talking about how we felt whilst making it and how it would have changed.
Below shows the full rough plan of the report but this could be changed over time as I create the actual report through next two months.
My
experience as an animation student (might need changing)
Content
·
Illustrative Images of my previous learning
productions including screenshots of my final project of innovative animation;
character development and creative composition aswell as screenshots of the
final look of the final film, ‘The Prey’ and also a recent animation production
from the professional project module.
·
Introduction into what this report will discuss
and conclude through my experience at the University of Wolverhampton.
·
The evaluation of the final film
·
Reflection on the overall experience.
·
Conclusion on what I expected to gain in future
from the overall experience.
Main
Section:
Evaluation
This section will discuss several topics of thought process
into the final idea of the film aswell as stages they undertaken to gain the
final result I want as I approach the end of this course.
The thought process will include what inspired me to go with
the idea of using a horror genre for an animation short; why this particular
one was undertaken in terms of using certain themes from the genre including the
use of famous creatures and the tone in the production; and how this selection
helped extend my profession as an animator aswell as an artist in terms of
looking to how the film would look and sound to truly feel like a horror short.
The stages section will discuss the process I went through
to create the result I ultimately want for the module including a how I created
the concept for short and how it was changed over time with help of feedback to
improve the narrative structure, playing a better angle for the twist I wanted
the story to go aswell as the research I conducted to get the right look and
feel I want.
The pre-production stage which includes the discussion of
creating storyboard, character developing from initial sketches to character
sheets, animatic, using a placeholder soundtrack in the animatic, concept art
that broadens the final look for characters and scenes and colour script to
help what short of common palette colours I would use in each scene aswell as
how they all improved over time with the help of feedback and discussions with
fellow students and lecturers.
The production stage where the main animation process was
undertaken which included the plan of how each scene would be produced in the
right direction to run smoothly, last minute improvements on the story before
conducting the keyframing for each action which helps show what needs changing
in terms of pacing, timing and character movements from pose to pose since the
film has no spoken dialogue and also sound production linking all back to the
initial research
The post-production would include the discussion of the editing
within the initial changes of cutting and adding extra setups to animation from
title sequence and credits to music and camera to make the scenes more dynamic and
fluid especially with the help of music/sound effects, aswell as promotion to
how I would sell it out on the market.
A little side note as I am discussing the production stages,
I will also the mention how I made sure to evidence that I was making this film
through behind the scenes photos, referencing back the blog, keeping a
production schedule that would constantly change and also the software I was
using for each production stage.
Also whilst talking about the use of the twist is to mention
how I wanted to create my own way of telling a horror story instead of sliding
away into the usual tropes horror would normally undertake such as the monster
gets the victim eventually.
Reflection
This section will discuss the overall experience of how I
felt making this final aswell as reflecting on what I have gained throughout
the past three years at Wolverhampton University.
This section would discuss key moments that have a better
vision of how I would take animation to the next stage when going out into the
world. This can be from how certain skills have been improved as time went on,
learning more advanced techniques and software to create different and dynamic
outcomes in animation, working towards certain goals of client briefs and also
working in a team. These relevant descriptions of key points can help evolve my
experience after university even making an impact on what sort of choices I
would make as a career path. Also, these points will be chronologically descriptive
through my 3 years at university to show when I made these improvements as an
animator and how learned knowledge of a previous years helped influence my
workflow and advanced skills in the following year. I will reflect what I would
have changed in the outcomes of key modules that I would have got the best out
of.
Conclusion
In the last paragraph it will discuss what I want overall
throughout the experience and how this can influence my career path in the
future aswell as discuss how this sort of workflow can generate my own way of
making films from the given description of my final film at university to show
reflection on how this can be better and what mistakes that need to be avoided
to know what to expect in creating a good film.
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