Pre Production Slides

With my pre production handed in today I thought I would upload some of slides which I liked the most and didn't get around to uploading during course of blog updates.

Production Test

Today I started and finished a two second clip of what my final film will look like (although this clip is missing shadow effects and at this moment I've ran out of time to speak and need to get other tasks done first.

New Animatic

So far this week I have been putting my slides together as well as putting the final animatic together. I did come across a strange problem when attempting to render  the video but I did find alternative solution in the end, but because of this alternative solution the video does blur slightly.

New Animatic (No sound)

A few days back I finished off my second animatic with all the changes I made to script, I haven't got around to recording the dialogue and will the soonest date I will be able to record it is on the 3rd of January.
But here's the version without sound (the timing is completely off but soon as I get the audio I can then fix that problem)

Character Outline

Tomorrow is Christmas so everyone is rushing around doing what needs to be done and I'm still trying to get through the new second animatic as well as my dissertation.
I've gotten a fair amount of Concept background done which I'll show when I but them into slides but for now I thought I post the slides detailing the backgrounds for my characters

Characters Expressions

I managed to finish off all the character expression sheets today and tomorrow I plan to work on more background concepts

Protagonists Turn Around

Since my last post I have either been updating my CV and cover letter, drawing some expression sheets or creating some concept backgrounds. But haven't done anything that I'm willing to post yet apart from finishing the turn around of the three main protagonists (which are shown below).

I hope to post some of my backgrounds I have done in the near future and also finish the new animatic I'm doing creating. 

Character Development update

Through out this week I have been working on my characters. Finishing their design, creating a turn and making action/expression sheets. Below are a few turnarounds and expression sheets.

Ruff Animatic

I finished my ruff animatic over the weekend which compared to the storyboards I changed a few scene's because either it was difficult to understand what was going on or film worked better without the that scene. There is still one or two things I want to change (mostly characters expressions and how characters interact with other characters) but the main scene I want to change is the end because currently it doesn't work that well.

Story boards for third year film

First half of this week I spent creating my storyboards for my animation so everyone can get a better idea of what I want to do and how it is going to look.

The second half of this week (carrying over into the weekend) is changing it into an animatic. I have put the scene's together and recorded the dialogue but I still need to gather some sound effects and then put them altogether in Adobe Premiere

Three Protagonists Complete

Today I completed my third and final protagonists design (which I have shown below). The original back story of the characters where very different from what they are now. Although this doesn't effect the plot at all for the animation I thought it would be interesting to bring up.
Originally the  three characters are unrelated and work for the one character Trixy, But after designing the third character I wanted to change it to that the third character is the father and the other two are his son and daughter.

Again although this don't changed anything for animation I'm creating, it would if this was to go onto be on going series.

(below are two images of my first initial sketch and the final characters I decided to go with)

Protagonists Character Development

This week I have been working developing my three main characters for my current project.
I have finished two out of three but still need to create a turn around and expression sheets but I decided I wanted to leave that till I finished that until all the characters are designed for two reasons:

First, I want to see if they look had staying power, because many of times I have designed a character and thought I liked the way they looked to completed all the expression and action sheets and find out I didn't like the design as much as I thought I did and then I wasted a day or two.

Second reason is I don't want to spend all my time on some of my characters expression sheets to run out of time which results in maybe the world design being cut short.

Maybe this will come back and hit me back of the head or maybe it wont, time will tell.

Below I have posted images of two of my characters (final design... which might change if the staying power doesn't last) and concepts for my third character

Character Trixy's Clothes

For the last day or two I've been developing my characters but to be specific gathering research images and drawing what clothes they should wear.

I've done a few concepts for one of my characters (Trixy) but I still got a few more things to want to try before I going to detail. Below I've posted some of the concepts I have done.

Starting New Project Pre Production

Monday I was given my new brief for pre-production for animation of my own creation.
I already had an idea of what I wanted to do so I could jump straight in., so far I've written an outline and started writing who the characters are (name, age, history etc).

But at the same time I have my first hand in for my dissertation Monday coming up so I have to put this project on hold little bit until I am up to scratch on it.

Creating a Google doodle

I've started on my Google doodle idea and after a number of concept ideas I settled on the idea scarecrow field idea (which I posted below)

(this is a ruff design of what I'm going to do, the red text are click able events and the blue text are objects in constant motion)

My progress so far on creating my Google doodle is I have drawn the basic images and labelled all the separate layers so I know which is which, my next task is to colour all the images and then start transforming them into buttons and then animations.

Slides update

A lot of what I've been doing lately is putting my slides together ready for the hand in Monday. So I thought I'd just show (for now) some of key slide like the turn around and character line up as well as some colour swipes for the alien world.
I'm planning on colouring in the turn around but at this very moment they're on the top of the list importance.

Final Animatic and Outlines

This week got around to finishing my final animatic which includes sounds and I've also taken this time to upload the slides which describes my character in a bit more detail and some history about them which isn't told through the animatic. I'm currently recreating one of my background concepts in illustrator to see which style works the best with my characters, I've already tried hand pencil drawings and bold line drawings (using photoshop). Once I've finished illustrator I can decide which one works the best.

Storyboard of "It came from the planet earth"

"It came from the planet Earth" is more of a working title till I can think of something better but it's probably going to be offical title. Anyway I finished my second animatic and competed a final turn around for all my character but I'll upload them at a later date when I have the files at hand and the time to upload it all. For now here a few slides for my project (3 out of 8)

Spaceman Animatic test 1

Below is my first animatic test and from this first draft I have noticed a few things I wanted/need to change.

The first thing I want to change is when the spaceman is reveal for the first time I want to make the reveal a bit more grand, so I was thinking of doing a low angle shot of the door when it open and the spaceman obscured by smoke.
The second thing add is the alien creature stalking the spaceman from bush to bush then the spaceman notices something is quiet right.
The third is the dog alien and monster roaring at each other. It's not clear on what going on and if I experiment a bit more with angles I think I could a more interesting animation also show a bit more clearly whats going on.

The last thing I want to add is a seen showing the spaceman making the dog his pet, just showing a dog isn't enough I don't think.

When made these correction I'll also add sound until then here is the video so far.

Reworking Dog Character

I spent my last weekend re-doing my dog character with very little progression, I try looking up and watching animated film which had dog character such lilo & Stitch and bolt to feel more inspired and generate ideas. No matter what I did I didn't like any character I designed.

Below are images of the ones I felt sorta worked but overall I didn't like them (no. 1 is the character I was reworking)

It was at number six I decided to just draw my number one again but with a more solid construction and I felt this is character I want to stick with and I need to spend more time getting on with my animatic and thumbnails. Below is my design of my dog character (although the colour isn't set in stone)