more concept expriments

The images below show my experimentation with creating ugly female figures who think they are beauty through adobe Photoshop. The images I referred from the internet are manipulated to look more ugly to show off what type of trait and personality I wanted for the end result.

all group projects

this posts shows the videos of finished projects I was apart of within different groups:

week 1:BLU's MUTO inspired graffiti animation (chalk) 13th-20th October 2014 Matthew, Keiran, Richard, Shain

Week 2: Black card stop Motion animation (lotte reiniger) 20th-27th October 2014 Matthew, Chris, Natalia, Stee

Week 3: Time lapse animation (photography) 27th oct-3rd November 2014 matthew, chris, natalia

Week 4: multiplane animation 3rd- 10th November 2014
Matthew, Chris, Andrew and Peter

Week 5: sand animation (Sandman) 10th-17th November 2014
Matthew, Rob, Peter, Andrew

full line tests (rotoscoping and shaping)

This post shows the full before and after stages with one vid displaying quick frame sketches of  rotoscoping filmed footage that shows my character's natural movements I would like to present her in on screen. Then the other vid shows the shape of the character coming to form on top of the rotoscoping sketches before applying the features.

Full line test (30 seconds)

 

 

Margaret's full shaped line test



margaret line test

This post shows a quick line tests that displays how my character Margaret would move and walk.

jousting animation (final outcome and module reflection)

Jousting match animation (Final outcome)

Evaluation and reflection

At the beginning of the Innovative animation module, I worked with a number of people on different projects throughout the first five week period. The techniques we learnt through course of each one included the Artist BLU street art animation which we did through the form of chalk; Lotte Reiniger’s silhouette style; time-lapse method through photography; multiplane method of using multiple frames going over on top of each other and Caroline leaf’s oil painting style of animation through using sand materials.

What’s worked best through all groups I’ve been with is working with different people, building confidence on leading, helping and communicating at times with other members; planning, executing and finishing the main scenario before deadlines. Even learning many ways animation can take form from through useful experimentation that would help build ideas to make my animations unique and different.

What didn’t work well in groups was in some case the lack of communication, mostly online and worrying that myself or other members aren’t contributing enough towards the projects as other group members.

In the last half of the module, our task was to create an individual animation inspired by the group projects we did at the beginning. First approach was planning decent ideas that would fit the outcome. The main ideas include faces that morph into different emotions or features and the other was a jousting match. The idea I chose was the joust as it fitted the criteria I want for the outcome. My original though was to use the silhouette technique as it was a method I enjoyed when filming. But to make my animation more interesting I decided to use mixed media elements, comprised of drawing, puppeteering stop motion and multiplane. For starters I produced character designs for the puppets and a storyboard to form the main scenario of the scene. Then I started to rotoscope footage from internet research of the jousting scenes I needed which was done on TVs paint; drawing the outlines of the jousters then filling the colours in with backgrounds. Next, I used after effects to form multiplane backgrounds to move with certain scenes in the animation which once each background is positioned in the right time length, it blends into tv paint with the scene.

Next was filming the puppets, which were made from black card for body parts and white paper to create different emotions for each character. Once each scene of stop motion was done, the next thing to do was blend them in with the backgrounds which were both done in tv paint aswell as placing them in between rotoscoping scenes based on the storyboard. Once that was done, the last thing was blending the puppets with the rest of the animation, by using the drawing tools to sketch the shape and shading onto the puppet images using only black and white colours.

The final thing after exporting was putting a decent soundtrack based on sounds that would be normally heard in a jousting match through adobe Audition then placed with the footage on premiere pro from the free sound website and YouTube.

The best part of this piece was creating my own technique by mixing drawing with stop motion. What I could improve on is mainly time management when planning and executing the production stage and being able to do all scenes I planned from the storyboard; and I would like to improve my sound making skills to make the animations more interesting.

references, puppets and backgrounds

 Reference links
This section shows the links to the rotoscoping references and inspirations I used within the animation. But only four were used in the production stage. The asterisk * links to what was used.

• Amazing galloping horses 1080p hd (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OapMBWNgTzU)
• Arabian horses by felix redkov YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHNF6kI5slI) *
• Full metal jousting s01 e01 the ultimate extreme sport YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48BS6mM8vd4) *
• Full metal jousting the biggest hits YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWVZgp-eQG8)
• Greg robinson horsemanship intro to the turn around YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihXYcwQgX_g)*
• How to fit horses with english saddles how to hook the girth of an english saddle (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DOpH7p_2oE)*
• Most beautiful horse film ever (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apXGSzStESI)
• ser loras tyrell vs gregor clegane tournament (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcnFPp2mFoc)

original main background drawing

This is original drawing of the main background used in most puppet scenes and some rotoscoping scenes. This was sketched through pencil then pen using a set of three A3 paper sheets.
Edited main background

This shows the edited version of the background which was done through adobe photoshop which was then used for most of the scenes in the animation and was used for some scenes that had multiplane elements to it.

Puppets 
this images show what some of the puppets look like before the filming process and the editing within tv paint.

 

Margaret 30 second scene storyboard

This post shows the storyboard of the Margaret scene I want to represent my character in through personality and characteristics towards other people.
But this might be change as the outcome for the module would need to be a line test and it should mostly concentrate on drawings of margaret which in turn can save alot of time towards the deadline.