Saturday 27 October 2012

27/10/12

Today, I have been developing story ideas for this project and have come up with an idea about a short animation on monsters that live underground and come up to the surface for food.
I will be making a short storyboard and Anamatic for a certain scene of my animation and I will be producing  a range of different animation tests to see what the animation could look like.

Lecture - 19/10/12

On the 19th of October, Our lecture consisted of reading through short treatments and creating pictures relating to the writing. First off, our task was to create a character using Google images and Adobe Photoshop to cut out and make using collage, where the character was based on a more evil than good character.
Our next task was to create a landscape relating to the written treatment, which was a wrecked landscape that had been destroyed due to industry, so we had to make it look gloomy and dark.

Friday 26 October 2012

Lecture - 26/10/12

In yesterdays lecture, we were shown examples of different types of storyboards, ranging from detailed (full) storyboards to small (thumbnail) storyboard pictures. I found out that for this project, any type of image would be substantial to hand in, but I would prefer to hand in more detailed and complex pictures rather than simple ones. This is because I want to show all the detail I will be putting into my final animation, and so that I can get a rough feel of what the final outcome will look like.
We were also shown a documentary on the making of 'Creature Comforts' at 'Aardman Studios' which was really interesting to watch, especially for me as my speciality lies with stop motion.

Friday 12 October 2012

lecture - 12/10/2012

Today in our second week's lecture we did some contrasting storyboards using short treatmeants to refrence from.
we also watched several short animationed films and wrote short treaments about those clips and shared our writing in the class.

Wednesday 10 October 2012

First Lecture - 10/10/12

My first lecture on the module 'Research and development for animation' started on the date 5/10/2012 in Harmer, room 2302 where we had a lecture from our tutor 'Melvyn Ternan' who highlighted the project brief as well as showing video examples of why this module is so vital in terms of how it helps us students learn the theory behind producing great looking piece's of work that sustain both a good storyline and structure.