tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35730851024306297802024-02-18T23:53:35.316-08:00laura keerAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03559269175799398809noreply@blogger.comBlogger52125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3573085102430629780.post-20976072081172744772015-02-09T08:05:00.001-08:002015-02-09T08:05:26.283-08:00adding visuals <div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; min-height: 13px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">part of my plan for this animation had been to combine 2d with 3d stop frame animation as into the scenes heres a example of a butterfly piece i had been working on.</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I wanted to develop on from the earlier idea of using 2d within my animation characters as i returned to this aspect i had been interested in before i noticed that drawing on the details of the eyes also being tedious but also unnecessary instead the character could pass more emotions and depth within just eyebrows and a small mouth . </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">looking at developing this concept of the character to make the eyes less focal worked better i felt with the shadow and lighting as well as body expressions of the piece</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Over the past months I managed to get through all of my stop frame animation scenes here are a few giff examples of the classrooms scenes i finished. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">As managed to finish the last of my animated scenes </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">i spent a few weeks sorting through them on premier to get a idea if anything was missing or if any of the frames timing should be extended of shortened.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Over the course of the animation, something that has always been playing on my mind was
who would be narrating the audio to my film with
reading the poem.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Initially, I had
thought about asking a child from a drama school, but I felt while animating the actual piece that I wanted a voice that was unpolished, possibly stuttering, shy and sensitive, which would match the context of the poem. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">It struck me when
walking through the playground of Hungerford school, (which is attached to the
workshop) t</span>o see if any of the
children would suit the role. Who could bring the right shy emotional feeling
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I asked the school and
they suggested a year 4 group’s as they would be the most qualified for
reading.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">This was a really
interesting, casting the class as the teacher asked them to read out a line. It
was engaging to hear all the different voices of the children and the
characters they could be. There were three children that stood out to me as
having the right sound for the storyline feeling, both shy, nervous
or stuttering in the pronunciation of the words.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In some ways the sound
of there voices were quite similar, as they where all boys that had a quiet
disposition, sounded young and with a relatively neutral tone, t</span>hat I was looking for.</div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Picking between the
voices was more of a difficult task as they all has positive and negative
qualities when I auditioned them. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span>Voice options</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">-Chris</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">-Voice has a charm with the slight lisp</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">-and a higher lift at the end of sentences.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">-Sounds very young and cutesy</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">-Struggles with reading words and pronunciation</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">-Kan</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">- Very quiet in the way he speaks and timid sounding</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">- Tended to get quieter with the lines and
use of words</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">- When he speaks louder has a bit of of a
dry sound</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">- Had difficulties with the bigger words</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">-Ron</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">-More of a cleared pronunciation in the words</span> </div>
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<span lang="EN-US">-There is a nervousness in the voice</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">-Slight lisp on letter “s”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">-More of a sad undertone.</span><br />
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-Who's voice stood out <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Chris</span><br />
<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> voice was
most infant like and had a cute lisp in his pronunciation<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-who had the most
character<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Kan<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-who read the lines
the best<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Ron understanded
lines best<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Which matched the
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Ron was able to read
through the story and struggled less with unfamiliar words and so was able to
focus more on telling the narrative. His voice may not have been as cute as Chris or as in character as Kan which had a quiet disposition, but overall they
struggled with telling the narrative of the story.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Some close-ups of animation angles.<br />
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Animating the earlier scenes where there were more faster movement, was easier to plan through each action in the stop-frame and the timing was quicker between each frame.<br />
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In the classroom animation scene, there was more difficulties in timings, between frames creating something, that was subtle movement, such as a slow sigh or hunch of the body.<br />
Although, these were easier to move into, getting used to animating a slower pace between scenes could be difficult to adjust to. Timing out and holding frames between animated and still shots.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03559269175799398809noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3573085102430629780.post-2189633066209013452015-01-05T06:44:00.004-08:002015-01-05T09:38:17.452-08:00angles of animationThis was the first scene for my short animation. Most of the movement was focused on one character and in the confinement of his desk.<br />
By this point I had got more at ease with using the Dragon Frame software, so aimed to move quickly between each shot but setting up the initial set, lighting and scene was also a necessity in presenting the project story.<br />
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Recreating some of the angles I intended was also a difficulty, as my initial rough drawings of the class were larger than the space I could work within. So adjusting the camera to suit to this was also important.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03559269175799398809noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3573085102430629780.post-75687834659291227442015-01-05T05:28:00.000-08:002015-01-05T09:41:36.008-08:00xmas new year break Ok, I have been a bit delayed on the posts again recently, as I was previously packing in all my remaining scenes before the animation workshop stopped for the Christmas and New year break.<br />
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Anyway, I'm back now and willing to fill in on all the the progress<br />
I have been making from the end of 2014 and into the start of 2015.<br />
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Eyes and expression
placements.</span><br />
After doing all of the stop frame animation I had initially planned to
add expressions on top of my stop frame characters model face.. However, this
was more of a challenge then I had intended.</div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Initially, I had
planned to use motion path tracking and hoping by learning this I could already
use the dark beads I had placed for guidelines for the eyes but ..Unfortunately
when I was testing this in animation clips it continued to crash after many
attempts I decided to try a few other ways of working on this </span>piece,</div>
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attempt 1</div>
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With mask shapes (weird shape movements) </div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p>Applying photoshop shapes to frames (distorted effect) </o:p></span><br />
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">This was the most effective in shape and matching the movements but overall this has been too time consuming to persue as a final effect even if it is what I would have initially preferred. </span></span></div>
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The classroom was more difficult, as making functional items for my child character to be sitting in like the chair had to be designed to be supportive, but also to an appropriate scale and sturdy. This and the desk has taken two attempts to make properly using diffent glue and wood.<br />
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The original worked as a good mock-up to get a idea of scale and that I should have used a different wood base and a more strong adhesive then than glue gun which only had a temporary hold.<br />
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I also worked on props within the set that, I remembered seeing in a classroom environment, like the teachers desk, bookshelf and chest of storage drawers.<br />
I tried to duplicate this style with blocks of wood, priming the first before working out where I would apply the detail with paint.<br />
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Other things I hand painted where the walls of the classroom, which I designed to still fit within my chosen colour scheme of blues oranges and browns (instead of the typical white wash walls).<br />
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As I started working on my animated stop frame character, I realised the small and slight movements that make the character appear more life like in moving between scenes and less focused on just timing out a planned movement, or in-betweening each scene. </div>
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Starting with the garden scene, I felt was best, as this was a good way for me to adapt to the animated challenges. Such as the interaction between the two characters, making the dog and child appear to walk and react with each other. Was difficult as some of the movements could become in sinc with one character but appear jittery on the other. After a few attempts I became more relaxed in using the two characters and therefore easier to understand, being less focused on any of the individual movements. </div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03559269175799398809noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3573085102430629780.post-2955357475039134672014-11-22T07:26:00.001-08:002015-01-05T10:00:29.447-08:00accidents happen<span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 11px; letter-spacing: 0px;">Animating in frame by frame animation had its </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">benefits</span><span style="font-size: 11px; letter-spacing: 0px;"> in being able to quickly place out the movements of the character at ease and once i got into the tempo of that way of working i could get 2 secs done in a few hours. Which would take much longer on a computer system.</span></span><br />
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But once I got the hang of the use of onion skinning, between positioning shots it was easier to quickly take shots of all the various movements of my character.</div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">each shot had to remain consistent so figuring out a set settings i would take the photos at for my animation was important as well as the file size i should ideally work to not saving it as too largess impossible to edit or too small so impossible to enlarge or display with out a fuzzy result.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03559269175799398809noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3573085102430629780.post-28013382542010159192014-11-08T08:30:00.002-08:002014-11-08T08:30:26.325-08:00 Working on the setup <span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; letter-spacing: 0px;">After building up my characters and the the props of the backdrop I started to put the actual pieces into place and to see how the composition</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; letter-spacing: 0px;">worked with my characters and the painted scenery.</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Even when the trees where fixed into place I still felt there could be more added to the environment so I hand painted on some card a grass like texture which I cut out and individually pinned into place where i felt there was need for foliage.</span></div>
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After creating my stop motion characters I now had to build the set for them to be filmed in there where two sets for my storyline one being the classroom the other being the garden.<br />
Where the boy interacts with his pet dog i had done some earlier drawings of what I wanted it to look like ruffly in developing my concept of being a yard or garden fenced in with lots of greenery and a peaceful an slightly magical place.<br />
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I also wanted the foliage not to be 3d, but flat framing the characters and not overpowering them similar to my reference of earlier paddington style of animation.This way I could build-up a ornate illustration on the flat face of the cutouts to keep with my illustration style and to add a bit of magic to the set.</div>
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Using the guidelines of the cut out drawings i had worked on earlier. I then individually cut out these details with a electric saw to matchup as closely as possible with my initial shape.<br />
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Then bringing them to life with acrylic paint which gradually brought these flat pieces to life.<br />
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Even in creating the opening door to the garden i added details like brick work drawing this out in a paint pen in a mismatch pattern added to environment an effect of being handed crafted .<br />
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After making my characters from scratch in the previous week this week I spent testing out there scale with drawing out cut outs of the garden environment an getting idea of the ideal size of the set.<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">After building the body structure of my character earlier, I started to spend time crafting his clothes to cover the foam silhouette. The character I had designed had quite a set outfit style with a pair of stitched pleated </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">kaki trousers and an orange jumper (which where the intended colour palette choice) as well as a small blue rucksack which also played a part in the story.</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Making all of these was an individual task in itself as they all had different fabric types to work with. For example making the trousers had to be done twice as I initially picked a fabric that was more suited to a structured cut, but given the small size of the puppet the trousers ended up looking baggy and stiff on the model. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">So changing to using a stretch cotton in a similar a tone meant, the garment could fit closer to the model, as well as bending for the required movements.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The jumper fabric was a bit different, it was a fleece texture so in some ways suited to not being too tight which worked well with the roundness of the body of my model. Adding little edges like the cuffs and collar gives room for the changing of posses with the hands and head.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">His shoes where made of an imitation suede fabric, that I stitched into little panels to give the appearance of a moccasin shoe or loafer. I didn't want it to be too formal in it's appearance and a style and also that they would be able to cope with being pinned into position. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Even the backpack was something that I had to custom make, spending time to make it both the right size, but also with the finishing details like the outer pocket and the handle which were quite fiddly to construct. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Similar to the boy puppet, I created the dog using repeated methods in the feet and legs for the basic 4 legs. These I trimmed down to create a more paw based shape the body. I supported with a thicker wire that was twisted in 8 strands so stronger for suport but still dextrous in allowing the frame to bend.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The wire was threaded through two wood doweling i made so it would have a strong shoulder and hip structure guidelines so the puppet would not become to contorted and snake like in the spine.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">This I then coated in glue gun, as it would give support to the wire as well as stretch for the poses I required.Pushing it in to the wood doweling</span> was initially a little difficult as the glue was thick and dries quickly. </div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">After giving this a bit of time to set, gave me a initial support structure to build on the neck and tail and attach the legs.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I started adding foam for making the character form and trimmed it best i could with scissors and a scalpel to give a shape similar to my dog design.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">For this reason I sculpted the faces like blanks with no visible eyes or mouth details except marking out where these would be applied digitally.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 11px; letter-spacing: 0px;">Initially, I made a scruffy mockup carving out of foam to get a idea of the size of my characters features but it </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">wasn't</span><span style="font-size: 11px; letter-spacing: 0px;"> rigid enough to work as a supporting head for the actual sculpture, </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; letter-spacing: 0px;">I recreated the base of the head shape with a block of balsa wood as it is light and was about the right size I needed to create the </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 11px;">head shape.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 11px;">Even though it was easy to sculpt as a material, it is also very soft to leave pressure marks in, as even a finger nail should scratch it and could be quite difficult to cut out a solid shape, in a more dense block of balsa being to brittle for a saw but too strenious at points for a scalpel.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 11px;">For this reason it has taken me a few days of cutting it bit by bit before I could form it into a </span></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px;">ideal head shape.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 11px; letter-spacing: 0px;">I then sanded back the remains of the head shape to appear more rounded </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">a swell</span><span style="font-size: 11px; letter-spacing: 0px;"> as cutting off sides to add ears of the character an facial depth.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 11px; letter-spacing: 0px;">after smoothing down as much of the face shape as i could i added </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">acrylic</span><span style="font-size: 11px; letter-spacing: 0px;"> paint to create a skin tone over the wood grain i liked the concept of keeping its tone similar to the balsa wood colour.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 11px; letter-spacing: 0px;">As i </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">wasn't</span><span style="font-size: 11px; letter-spacing: 0px;"> going to add eyes detail in paint I placed to black pins as </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">guidance</span><span style="font-size: 11px; letter-spacing: 0px;"> as where the eye markers would be on the face. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 11px; letter-spacing: 0px;">I later added a yarn as hair glueing individually little small </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">wrapped</span><span style="font-size: 11px; letter-spacing: 0px;"> circles </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">shapes that gave the appearance of curly hair.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Anyway this last week I stared building the structure to the stop frame side of my animation and making the wire armature for the boy character, </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">To start with this was a bit daunting as I was not used to this style of animation and although I had done a bit of sculpture in my past the structure within the puppet had to be both sturdy and strong as well as flexible for allowance each of the puppets movements.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Making the feet out of a particular type of foam meant the character could easily be pinned down onto a board in animation as well as the wire structure could be easily added in for support.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The wire density also varied on parts on the body that would be used or parts that may have needed more bend to those that needed more support also by twisting the wire over itself made it more Endurant for supporting some of the characters positions.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Redrawing out the character quickly in scale, meant I could outline a supporting wire structure to build the characters body from. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Drawings like this would help get a good idea of building the wire for the body base as well before adding on the balsa wood to stiffen the structure </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">I researched into armatures and was slightly scared at how costly a pre made armature could be an was unsure on how to make the structure myself. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">So I was able to get help from the contacts at the animation and film workshop who where able to get Kevin to advice me.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">(contact details here)> </span><a href="http://www.puppetician.com/">Kevin the Puppetician </a></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">The workshop was useful in how to make about making the animated characters structure as well as finding ways of creating it on a tight budget.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Of the project movements planing it out it can be quite a daunting an time consuming task but drawing out these scruffy frames in flash gives me a idea of the movements I wanted the characters to create an build on in animating it fully. </span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03559269175799398809noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3573085102430629780.post-40140491679804915512014-09-15T09:13:00.004-07:002014-09-15T09:13:36.110-07:00concept arty stuff<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">As I have started the project Im now investing time in drawing out all my concept work visuals from the earlier research I already have a vague idea of how the characters will look like.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">and from the mood boards I created what I would want the animation image style to look like </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">In drawing it out it would be easier to get a plan on paper of the character forms and environment they will be walking in as well as the style aspects would be represented. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">As I had planned the animation to be styled in a way that mixed the two forms of drawing in 2d as well as creating 3d characters for stop motion and how the background could mix the two styles with my trademark detailing.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">In my story the kids would be represented by as both children but also a representation of what the character fears so having them able to develop into another form is suiting. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The outline was important so redoing in pen showed off the more graphic style.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I also wanted the character to be textual in its crafted 3d form like felt or fabric. so colouring it out in pencil shading is what i felt would come closet to that parts of the character like the eye and mouth expressions i think i would like to animate in flash as a way of bring the character to life aswell as working in the deadline time constraints.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Backdrops work as a bit of a happy medium between this 3d world and flat 2d form I also want it to be quite detailed with patterns on leaves and objects I tried to get a idea of this in fine liner.</span></div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03559269175799398809noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3573085102430629780.post-49824307760644524782014-09-14T13:11:00.004-07:002014-09-14T13:11:59.900-07:00Mood board inspirations <div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; min-height: 13px;">
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">After getting selected I've been working up these visuals from the past week but also looking at other animations that can help inspire me with there story or style.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I always wanted to create a animation that mixed animation mediums in a Un-convental way my previous projects I have been focused on making my illustrations appear to come alive in flash or after effects. But I was always interested in creating something that was 3d in form, yet still working with the skills i have acquired animating in 2D in either a graphic styled way.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The mixing of something that feel real as a 3d form so had been hand made with the style of something flat an graphic is defiantly something i wanted to try out. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Heres a mood board of various animations i found did this or played with the movements in a similar way.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Also here are some illustrations that also interested me as a style of the work i wanted to create helping me generate a mood set of colours.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03559269175799398809noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3573085102430629780.post-10685980471425993722014-09-14T10:35:00.004-07:002014-09-16T03:40:23.707-07:00starting a fresh project<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">I recently one a computation for an animation nursery with the animation and film studio London, to help support and launch from a animated short film of my creation this will be shown with several of the big UK animation festivals.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Winning this was a big achievement as there is often very little support for creating independent animated shorts so although it is a bit daunting i didn't want to let them down in creating something I would be proud of and hopefully they could launch an show off too.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The story involves a little boys fear of speaking and contributing to a class environment an so looses the ability to speak with this fear. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The subject of inspiration was selective mutism that many kids grow up with and have a difficulty in explaining how they feel as well as finding a way of overcoming it.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> This story was something I had been interested in creating, as visualising a feelings of the condition as well as a narrative understanding was the point of the story. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">This subject has a bit of a personal link to me in my upbringing as something I suffered throughout most of my childhood and adolescence in education system as a strong Fobia of speaking in group environments and the social paranoia that often came with it of having my words dissected or twisted against me left me often without a voice, As well as this gave me a distant disposition which could often be mis interpreted with hostility.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Growing up I have been able to overcome this by gaining confidence in myself from my creative attributes, so the poem hopefully will give people a better understanding of what its like as well as inspire kids with a similar mentality to overcome it too with focusing on something they enjoy. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">My story animation was built around a narrative of a short poem i wrote to pitched to the animation bursary competition and a series of visual storyboards both are below.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; line-height: normal;">There once was a child that lost their voice,</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; line-height: normal;">Their words disappeared but it wasn't a choice.<span style="line-height: 18px;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; line-height: normal;">It was built in fear for when they spoke out, <span style="line-height: 18px;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; line-height: normal;">That others would laugh, tease and shout.<span style="line-height: 18px;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; line-height: normal;">This fearing of when they spoke,</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; line-height: normal;">The words be turned against them like a sharpen poke.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; line-height: normal;">Each word became a fear, which caused them to choke.<span style="line-height: 18px;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; line-height: normal;">When they where told to speak,</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; line-height: normal;">Their body trembles and they would feel week <span style="line-height: 18px;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; line-height: normal;">SPEAK , SPEAK !<span style="color: #cf70ff; line-height: 18px;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; line-height: normal;">But there where no words to fill the silence<span style="line-height: 18px;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; line-height: normal;">It was only seen as an act of defiance.<span style="line-height: 18px;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; line-height: normal;">Then at home alone in their thoughts fled,</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; line-height: normal;">To try and forget from what people had said.<span style="line-height: 18px;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; line-height: normal;">Into another world instead,</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; line-height: normal;">For their are other things that couldn't speak, <span style="line-height: 18px;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; line-height: normal;">That didn't make them feel a freak or week<span style="line-height: 18px;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; line-height: normal;">Perhaps, their voices overshadowed simply</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; line-height: normal;">What can truly be heard with empathy?</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; line-height: normal;">Outside the ordinary world, looking for something more. <span style="color: #cf70ff; line-height: 18px;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; line-height: normal;">This curiosity drove on more, to look deeper study and draw <span style="line-height: 18px;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; line-height: normal;">Understanding simple actions alone.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; line-height: normal;">Instead of a sharp gossiping tone<span style="line-height: 18px;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; line-height: normal;">They see what as unheard in this world that was never alone.<span style="line-height: 18px;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; line-height: normal;">Finding other ways to communicate in paper and pen,<span style="line-height: 18px;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; line-height: normal;">Till finding the lost confidence and to speak again.</span></span></div>
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