reference for my violence and blood

Matthew, you'd better not watch these videos below. They are all bloody and violent.

1) Blood Bath
I can use the moment that blood come out like spring as reference in my story. My story has a moment that each blister explode when the temperature of the room became so high. I think when the blister explode, blood will come out like this movie.

2) The Flying Eye

In my story, when the man use his tongue that comes out from his eyes, the shape of eyes can like the eye in the movie. 

3)  Laughing Deer

Look at furnitures in the movie. All of them laugh like they have life. In my film, I have one scene that all the furnitures become junk food and attack the character.

Happy notes to the second presentation

I'm so happy that Matthew said my story can reflect the message, although he doesn't like bloody and violent film.
I can carry on working now.
By the way, I can't connect internet for more then 3 days at home, that is really a bad experience. How can a 21century person leave internet!!!

Feed back
Matthew doesn't like horrible film, but he said I can do it if I like it. My story reflects the message well. He suggest me do a cut in my story as Lewys suggested. Just begin with the man became fat; play computer games; eat a lot. At last, Mat suggests me if I can try different way rather than 2D drawn animation, as it is not easy to show my story in 2D hand drawn animation.

My target
1) decide the script;
2) create storyboard;
3) do animatic;
4) I'd like to put violent and bloody things in my film, but it is only a way to reflect my story and my message. Don't lost in bloody and violent.

Learn from other students
Lewis
1) I quite like his reference of UP.
2) All of his characters are started with the same shape. The same shape, but different details. I think it is a good way to create different characters in one film.

Lewys
1) He puts most of his work on his blog and his blog is really funny, so I can always get inspiration from his blog. Like this time, I found the link of disney's storyboard is really useful.
Lewys, Can I add them on my blog? 
2) He put his storyboard on the wall, then see how it flows. I think it's a good way to test my storyboard. I can learn from him; put storyboard on the wall; perform it shot by shot; and then adjust the order until find the best way to show story.
3) I like the colour of his logo--the fly
4) His animatic mainly reflect the lady's movement and simplify the background. I think it is a good way to show our story at the first step. We can use simple drawings to show what's happening in each shot. Then detailed them. For me, I think it is easier to use drawings (even they are rough)  to show my story than use words.

Agnes
1) I can find so many creative things in her blog.  The video showed below is from her blog. It is an excellent example for real person and cartoon transformation.

2) When I saw this video( showed below) in her blog, I found combine stop-motion with real person is a good way.

concept art

When I am thinking the story of my final film, these poses always come into my brain. So I record them, maybe these poses can help me think out interesting story. Sometimes, concept art will give me inspiration.

rough concept of the room

deformation that I will use in my story

My character-concept art

I try to use different materiel-soft pastel

soft pastel-concept background

I try to use photoshop draw background, but I feel when I hold the tablet pen, my mind is stopped. So strange. I think I can have more freedom in photoshop, but it's not.

The man pull his intestinal.


Next I use several pictures to show what I want to do in my film. It's just a part. If my story can work, I will draw storyboard.

I found an interesting book named Lost and Found, by Oliver Jeffers. I like water colour style in thie book. Each picture use simple shape and light colour to show story.
 By the way, I found Oliver Jeffers' website is great as well. http://www.oliverjeffers.com/

Notes - from The art of Monsters, inc

The colour script defines the mood of each scene in the film through the use of light, colour, and atmosphere.

That was somthing we definitely learned with Sullivan: It's pretty design a charater unless you know who he is. Otherwise, you don't have anything on which to hang your design. Like Sullivan, he was the most difficult to design because his part in the story changed many times as it evolved. So when we do our animation film, we need to know what is our character looks like; we need to know their characteristic; we need to think of our characters like a real person who stand near us.

There is this wonderful cycle of inspiration, traveling via drawings, betwwen the story and art departments, each inspiring the other.

Carry On-ideas

Lewis suggests me some crazy film, I got some ideas from them although I feel so scared!!!

1)Im A Cyborg But Thats Ok - Shooting scene
 My charater can be crazy like her!

I found an interesting web-for better or for worse comic strip

for better or for worse comic strip
http://www.fborfw.com/

Carry On-ideas

1)   Destino - Salvador Dalí and Walt Disney and Arvo Pärt
Lewys suggests me some short films. Suddenly, I found that I can have some inspiration from famous paintings.  Analyse how can they explain their ideas in a less obvious way.
Two or more pictures in the same painting.

2) Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs

wow`` I just thought why not make my inside backgroung by hamburgers and other junk food while outside background by salad and running shoes , then I saw this amazing short film.

3)Waking Life Official

ok, I don't know why I share this film, I just feel the style is so different. All the things in the film are shaking like wave``` crazy

4)Yellow Submarine

I saw this film few years ago. I don't like the story of this film. Actually I don't think there is a story of this film. But when I watch it now, I really moved by its imagination. OH` My belly can eat food itself!!

How they express their mind by shapes```

5)A Scanner Darkly

Maybe the man in my film at last, take off his technic hat that can show future time in his brain. He feels terrible. But luckily, it's just showed in the machine, he can change it from now on. So he threw all his junk food away, use healty food instead.

I can add some silly parts in my story. For example, the man use his tongue to take food, and his tongue can go outside from his mouse, ears, eyes and nose.( so many tongues do the same thing at the same time)

Maybe the man became fat fat, then became a chiken drumstick or a hamburger.

6) Paprika

I quite like the moment that the man run from a deformation space. The place is collapsing, the man is running away. Maybe the room in my film expand too much and nearly explode, so the man run away, but he is so fat that was stuck by the door. Maybe there is a hamburger shock wave, so the man go out of the door by the wave. Then he takes off his hat (the technic machine can see the future), back to real life. Throw away all the junk food.```



7) Afro-Samurai

violent and bloody```



8)Fantasia (1940)

OH` Maybe junk food (hamburbers etc.) can move thenselves. They have life,they perform themslves.

Ideas-before going to sleep

1) When the man stuck in the door, he found his neighbor on the opposite, right, left side are all stuck by their door. Then zoom out, the whole earth expand too much and nearlly explode.

2) When the man stuck by the door, he found the outside world became a junk food world. It's full of hamburgers, potato chips, etc. People in the street became chiken drumsticks. Then the scene goes back to the real world, we saw a scared face, the man took off his technic hat, clean up his house.

3) When the man stuck by the door, zoom out with laughing. Large numbers of audiences watch movie in the cinema, and what's happening before are the story of the film. But the audience are all huge. Maybe when they leave the cinema, they will find that they are stuck by the door. ha~ha~ha~

great example

I found an animation film that use simple pictures and story to show a deep message.
Here is the animation---
El empleo (Extract) - FIPRESCI Award 2009
I watch it from other place, so I can't show the whole film.  What I can see from this film is everyone is a tool that used by other people, we use others while at the same time, we are used by them.
All of the furniture in the film are human. For example, the lamp, mirror, chair, desk, taxi, clothes stand, traffic light, lift, etc. The man use them normally, while at last he was used by other people as carpet. We are employee. The last scene of the film shows that the "lamp man" throw his lamp hat away, leave the place--maybe it is a portent that we human will leave the employee world one day.

other part of this film

reference for my crazy!!--part 2

Lewys gave me a website, I like the character showed in the website and games.

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/

7)Chump And Clump

I really like the performance of this short film. Look at characters' expression!!! Much better than words.

8)I Live in the Woods!
http://vimeo.com/14191230
Some thing violent in this film. Bloody!

9)Mac 'n' Cheese
The moment that slim man breath sth in his nose, the feeling became crazy.

10) Bill Plympton's film
What's in Bill's head???---CRAZY always crazy
horn dog

guide dog
simple story but express a strong message, show exaggeration in the film.

Bill's Dirty Shorts (Trailer)
What do we usually think about sea? Look at what Bill thinks``` Naughty+crazy man

Think something in an unusual way

Some Joker

why Bill can express one thing in a so crazy way? I will never think of it if I didn't watch his film.

oh! It can be happend like that---that is my feeling when I watch his film.



11) Tex Avery

Why audiences will laugh when they watch this animation? How can I make people laugh? How can I add humour in my film?

12) Robert Crumb Laughing Rag

Seperate our head, what's inside?--

My idea:--Maybe the character seperate his own body, we can see what's inside, Maybe he opened his Intestine, take food in it to eat.  

references for my crazy!

I ask Lewys for help, find some crazy, exaggerate or silly animation film.
Thank you so much Lewys.

1)Harvie Krumpet

2) haha~~I like this one.  Tiny Chainsaw
How can we think of a chansaw in our trousers. It did! Crazy Crazy~~





3)Ormie the Pig
So funny! Amazing performance.
Suddenly, I found it's a good example for taxonomies.

4) oh~I like the style and hope I can do similar one

5)  La morve

silly~silly~silly.



6)Full Adventure Time Episode

Movement (the funny way of the man running, dancing```) can be used as reference. Character of this film is very simple, maybe I can use it in my final film.



Notes after tutorial with Leonie

What I have showed before are cases that I can learn, but in my own film, I need to know what I want to say.
1) I quite like to bring humour, exaggeration, craziness in my film. So I'd better establish the craziness of the "world" in my film.
I have some crazy ideas in my story at the moment (like the man is stuck by the door, he became thin outside while fat inside), but only part of the story is. Leonie suggests me to make the other sensible parts became exaggerate and crazy. Make a whole crazy film!!!
(maybe people go thin outside and fat inside```maybe outside is made of salad+running shoes and inside of hamburger+computer```)
2) I need to express my message which is keeping a healty life style in final film.
3) I had better to use less obvious way to show my story.
4) I gave my character a reason for staying at home ( online chatting, junk food), and gave him a reason for going outside (rope snapped, he needs to go outside for his food). But both of them are weak. I'd better to give him a strong reason that stay at home or go outside. Keep it crazy.

result:
Leonie gave me some suggestions for helping me open my eyes.
1) Maybe the girl on the internet is also fat and stuck by the door, at that moment they saw each other. they are both lying to each other online (slim or sexy photo)
2) Maybe they meet outside in a paradise of salad.
3) They both want to get back to their computers to "talk" to each other, don't realise they are neighbour and could be happy together outside.
4) Love as a force for change. Love yourself, love your body, love your health. (quite like an advertisement)
Think out more crazy, exaggerate or silly things that will be happen in my story and then list them. Talk with Leonie next time. Maybe we can connect each part then create a strong story.


PS:
Thank you so much, Leonie. You spent more than an hour to help me think of my story.

Notes after tutorial with Leonie

What I saw in this film is really a very simple story and simple characters. But it express a strong message. It includes metaphor in the simple story. What I want to show is quite different style animation film, but I can  learn storytelling from it-- less obvious way.

ideas of my final film-after tutorial with Leonie

What's happening of my storyboard are interesting, but the story is so weak. Some parts of my the movements can be used, they are quite funny, but I need to make my story stronger.

Notes:
1) Usually, the hero wants something, but what does he really need? How do I shape the story, so that he learns what he needs more than what he wants. 

Nina Shorina-Door   
 We had better do something in a correct way, but we always do it in a wrong way, what control us? For example, we can see in this stop-motion film, after a long time compression, people forget how to go upstairs by the normal way, they use several way to do that. The old thing occupy his mind. This film give character reason of why they do that. I should do it in my own film. Give my character a reason for going outside, and do a comparison for inside world and outside world.

take photoes for my final film background

some drawings

Why I draw these? I want to record every idea in my mind. Even it's not that good at the moment,  I can improve it when I have inspiration later.

concept art reference

I found some concept art that I really like. So I upload them as reference first, then draw some for my own.

These two pictures show the same place but in different angle. In my opinion, drawing one place in different angle is useful for us creators to know the space of the backgroud.

Rough storyboard of my final film

I think drawings will do better work than words to me. So I use pictures to think of my idea and show it.
Here are the first version of my story. It's about a man who only want to stay at home, eat at home, then he became so fat. I try to say we need to keep a healty life style.

I am back now!

My dear friends, I came back from China now, I cannot open my blog page in China due to the fire wall, are you missing me?