some notes

David showed me a great animation film- Thought of You, I was moved deeply by the beautiful emotion and the movement of the film. Then, I search some information about Ryan U Woodward online, find some target of the film that Ryan set for himself. These targets are useful to me as well. Here is the link that I found:
http://conteanimated.com/
 In this link, we can see Ryan's life drawing. He use simple lines to show the body movement and the emotion.

showreel idea

Today, I watched an unique animation -Charlie and Lola, here is the link.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXMNrcHAynI

I quite like the paper-cut style of the film. It doesn't have so many persipective scene in the film. The colour of the film is bright and clear; the author sometime use hand-design drawings, sometime use real life pictures. And the combination of the cartoon and real life is really perfect. The character design is simple but proper.
Later I will read more in the film.
Now what I want to know is how the author make the film. I want to know if the style can use for my showreel.

Final Film idea

The link following is a very powerful animation film; I got some ideas from it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flCpfrQojg8&feature=player_embedded
I thought maybe we can do an animation film about a girl's growing up.
Use ice-cream as the link, connect each part of the girl's growing up, and then use the ice-cream as the ending.
Or I can use a real baby's photo as the beginning and use the real college graduation photo as the end. I could get some references from Evy (Bev's daughter) - it is the childhood of the movie's character. And when she grew up, maybe we can got some references from Aliana ( Anna's daughter)-that is the adolescence of our character. Then the character grew up, we are the reference-Adulthood.
I quite like the style of the animation in the link I show before, I want to challenge myself.

First, the idea is for the group work, but my group use the other idea instead, so I do it in my own film idea. I will show the idea to my tutors, and got some feedbacks, then make a decision.

Professional Case Study-showreel

I quite like the style of the film of the following link.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHe4dBGnGLc
I hope if I could create my own showreel like the film that showing in the link. I could add some of my favorite works in the showreel to show the studio what I could do.

Group Work

We have a group meeting on Friday afternoon, here is the content.
David give us a good link to learn animation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHbA6lG79Eo&feature=player_embedded

 Story/narrative ideas -
I think my script( Flight of bumble bee) is too complicated, it has so many characters ; and the brain one is it is not suit the target of the module. Then I told others, and we talk about other ideas of the module.

David has done some initial thought process research and come up with images to do with rain.
The basic idea is that there could be a lot of narrative to explore - moods of people in the rain, interesting cinematic angles, slightly abstract.

We've agreed to go away to research our own ideas about rain and water (to create a mood board) - textures, colours, images, mood setting, etc. It can be very loose, doesn't have to be of rain or water as such.
Next Monday, we have a presentation about the module, we can look at each other's findings and choose things that we think look good.

And at the end, we talk about the schedule.

- Scheduling - It will be enriched after we got a story
1. Research/idea gathering - looking at the images or water/rain (where we are now)

2. Visual concepts - looking at characters, scenes, time of day: visual cues for creating a synopsis

3. Create character scenarios

4. Write synopsis or just a simple beginning, middle and end

5. Create character sheets

6. Storyboarding

7. Animatic and sound

8. Animation production (separate schedule to be done)

This process totals around 7 weeks work if we have a week for each item (apart from the initial research). That only leaves us with 7 weeks for animation production.

- Roles and responsibilities -
David and I would like to concentrate on the story telling side, so storyboarding, narrative, scenarios. And David has said that he can help with the sound as he has experience of editing sound.

I'm interested in animating movement as well. But I am afraid whether I can do it good or not. But I wil try my best. Because of the animation is not a light job, maybe all of us will join this part.

Then, I collect some pictures about the camera angle and raining, I will show on Monday.

Here are some:
1. unusual camera angle

2.raining and water

3.style

New page for the Group work-G106828 part 2

I set an new page for the group work~

Here is my animatic for the storyboard. It is started from the music Flight of the Bumble Bee. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiSUZILLm2c