Over this summer I was giving the assingment to create an animation short expressing a flow of a characters movement. Well I did complete the task but think I failed to meet its true aim.
This is the map (like the example I was given) to layout the character. My personal set action goal was to arm and shoot an arrow across the screen.
The animation did come out okay but it didn’t flow like a cartoons over the top actions. In some ways I think my mind is too hyper realisic which I would love to break. Also working with a bad library scanner and an light box in london doesn’t really help.
So here is a reworked version of the arrow animation. To solve the problem I added more of a character flow and a more cartoony direction. I maybe even go back to reworking into it.
However I did work on a more realisic verson which I will post soon.
In our project “Re-adaption” My group (Andrea, Steve and Matt) chose the story “Star and Chain”. We changed the story into a Christian theme with a Nun and Orphans. I wont tell you what its about. If you can follow the storyboard and see whats going on then we where successful.
These are some images on which I drew in charcoal of Silhouettes. One is of emotions through lines (see if you can guess the emotion), imagery of objects and storytelling of actions.
The thing with myself is that I’m too uptight and by doing this block shaped characters has allowed me to open up. Normally I always seem to draw detail pictures. But these blocked images still present detail just aswell ^^
This is my cannon animation. I’m quite happy about this animation. I’m happy with the form and the cannon blasting out. Hmmm wait thinking about it… the cannon needs more power!!! It needs to feel like it’s bursting out the cannon ball with more pressure!!! Needs more time length at beginning and at the end. I’m happy with it after that tho!
This is another animation which I created. As you can see it is of a rock rolling then falling off a cliff. Now the problem with this animation is the cliff… it looks a little to smooth and rounded. More importantly, the rocks physics is wrong. It needs to roll down and away from the cliff. The rotten cherry on top is also the fact that it is too fast.
Below is the final version:
This version includes more frames at the beginning and correction to the physics of the rock falling off the cliff. This version is so much more better from the one on top.
Besides the ball animation, this is the first real animation on created on the course. I say this because, I enjoyed doing it. However this is not the original animation (It will be uploaded soon). The original was extremely robotic. This version however is much more improved!
This is the original version (Below):
As you can see the flower just seems too straight forward. I think I had way too much frames of bit by bit movement the flower animation start to end. Also the camera seem too close. In the most recent version (above) I removed a lot of frames and added frames for the blooming of the flower. I still like it even though I could work on it more (Feel the love).
Taking about robotic movement check this like down below:
(This work is NOT my own!!!) It is quite beautiful if your into robotics and stuff
These are quick drawings of work I did for supportive studies class.
Abstract work by listening to FM and AM band radio. Then listening to a piece of text from a science fiction book. I miss creating art like this. I use to do it all the time but to tell you the truth, when you do too much of a good thing it get boring. Media use was Red and Yellow paints, Green and red markers, Water and charcoal. First time I really used water and charcoal. It gives it more texture.
This image has been touched up on photoshop due to poor image capture quality
This was one of the final images of the day. Visuals created from the same passage as the image above. This image is made from Charcoal and water. I like this image but I think I could have worked on the man a bit more.
This is animation exercise that I created a couple of weeks ago. This is the first real
animation on which I used 3 different camera angles. It’s incomplete but the updated ver. will posted with the angle plans.
The male character is more or less based on my brother. Since I plotted the mini drama scenario on a couple having some kind of tension between them, I wanted to capture some one just viewing in. Like seeing them on a street or flicking over to a TV channel then seeing that scene. It is know what they are arguing about, if they are: married, dating or even related. This is up to the view to decide.
What need to be in proved is the length and extra shots need to be added in angle 2.
This is the last edit of my Slap video. Changes to this clip are more frame time added at the beginning and more in-betweens adding in angle 2 and 3. I think I’ve worked too long on this small clip and at this point of time I don’t think I’m going to rework into it. However you can see progression between the too. This exercise it different from the other because of its angles, action and prospective.
Angle 1: Displays both the characters. Imagine! You are walking around town and you happen to see this action taking place. The male rests his hand on the female… but why?
Angle 2: The Connection. This focus’ on the females re-action. Still you wondered why she gets angry at this “friendly” gesture?
Angle 3: This is the response to the whole chapter.
Different from the other animations I worked with prospective. The characters are at some kind of an angle so this was good excerise to try and understand visual measurement.
In terms of the action camera angle 2 and 3 needed a better cut in receiving character response (“A miss calculation on my part” ~ Trunks).
