Here's the final dooflip with all the individual animations put together. My part comes in at 0:33.
In my harsh criticism mode, I'm a little annoyed that my suggestions for a more zoomed in view fell on deaf ears. Apparently it was kept at a fixed angle to replicate the experience of sitting in the theatre, but I'm pretty sure all video/tv/dvd representations of theatre productions had different camera angles in order to keep the audience engaged. This just feels too zoomed out and, since additional crazy elements such as Rocket Rabbit couldn't be added due to time constrictions, it just makes the thing look that much emptier in my opinion. It's also a shame that my little dude's colours got a bit washed out in the After Effecting process. =(
Showing posts with label audiences and communication. Show all posts
Showing posts with label audiences and communication. Show all posts
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Sunday, 7 June 2009
Audiences and Communication
One of the modules we currently have to do at uni is Audiences and Communication. The main task for this is a group animation, advertising the animation side of the university, but pitching it in a style that would be appealing to 7 year olds.
We first thought of mind charts about what being 7 is about. It is clear from this that my memory sucks various spherical objects.
For the animation, we thought about doing something that involves a variety of different animation styles (eg. flash, stop motion, cgi, etc.) and tried to design a plot based around that theme.
Whilst I came up with ideas of a kid travelling through various worlds, or pushing a button that changed the style, those were shot down due to their complexity.
We eventually decided on a theme of wizards. The basic plot being that the wizard is attempting a magic trick with a hat (ala Presto), but it all goes horribly wrong, and he keeps getting zapped by the hat and transforming. I came up with a few designs of how one of the designs would look, taking into account successful wizards like Harry Potter and Magical Trevor. I eventually came up with a simple kid, whose clothes changed from casual hoodie and shorts, to a slightly oversized robe. I liked the idea of having a starry pattern on the kids shirt. I also thought of various objects that could fly around during the chaos.
I have so far, animated my wizard segment, in which the wizard gets blasted by the hat and transformed into a kid, noticing the chaos around him, getting mad at the hat and then getting blasted by it again, going into the next animator's segment. It's a little tricky since I can't really tell what the start and end frames of the other segments are, but I like the animation.
I might animate some other elements to throw into the visuals. Bunnies riding rocket powered characters per instance?
We first thought of mind charts about what being 7 is about. It is clear from this that my memory sucks various spherical objects.
For the animation, we thought about doing something that involves a variety of different animation styles (eg. flash, stop motion, cgi, etc.) and tried to design a plot based around that theme.
Whilst I came up with ideas of a kid travelling through various worlds, or pushing a button that changed the style, those were shot down due to their complexity.
We eventually decided on a theme of wizards. The basic plot being that the wizard is attempting a magic trick with a hat (ala Presto), but it all goes horribly wrong, and he keeps getting zapped by the hat and transforming. I came up with a few designs of how one of the designs would look, taking into account successful wizards like Harry Potter and Magical Trevor. I eventually came up with a simple kid, whose clothes changed from casual hoodie and shorts, to a slightly oversized robe. I liked the idea of having a starry pattern on the kids shirt. I also thought of various objects that could fly around during the chaos.
I have so far, animated my wizard segment, in which the wizard gets blasted by the hat and transformed into a kid, noticing the chaos around him, getting mad at the hat and then getting blasted by it again, going into the next animator's segment. It's a little tricky since I can't really tell what the start and end frames of the other segments are, but I like the animation.
I might animate some other elements to throw into the visuals. Bunnies riding rocket powered characters per instance?
ps. I hate this blogging format so much. D=
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