storyboard - global bird

Framing the Story

I had specifically requested to be the story-boarder as this a field of animation/media i can see my self pursing. From the knowledge i gathered last year about shot progressions and film grammar i applied this to the best of my ability. The majority of the information I got was from Sherm Cohen video, i have a more in depth blog on that video

https://muntyac.blogspot.com/2018/03/sherm-cohen-story-boarding-genius.html

I started off with initial sketches and then doing a rough grey scale over them as i thought the white was too bland and the grey added a bit of depth.

I had planned for the video just be a simple slide show but Annabeth said it would be best to have the bird moving around just with simple tweened animation so that the video could explain of the movement I want to portray. As i was just drawing them as single layers i had to back and separate the birds from the backgrounds, so I could use Premier to animate them easily. I enjoyed this whole process and did it rather quickly in about two and half days. I finished animatic i think clearly shows the story we decided on and works well to sample to audiences as well as useful for animators and background artists to use as reference.

I think the drawing could be cleaner and clearer but maybe that's me being a perfectionist but i know i can do this even better. I think i might have been too ambitious with the shots i have chosen, and i wont be mad if the group want to remove some scenes as I'll let them know that the animation will be difficult because of the perspective. One thing i did keep in mind through the whole of the video was to be able to reuse the bird animations to decrease our work load and still add an extra scene in. I do think that the backgrounds are equally important if not more to the whole overall animation. Definitely my best ever Animatic.

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Trying to give triangles life

I knew Chris was going to be in the afternoon lecture and i hadnt gotten much round to doing any character designs for script to screen, mainly because they were traingles and i didn't think it would be too difficult. When i got round to it i was struggling to give the characters personality and they just looked really flat. I experimented with creating more complicated designs using a verity of triangles but because the story i had in mind was light hearted and comedic i thought it'd be best to keep with a more cartoonty simple style. Howver i was still left with the problem of the designs looking lifeless When lecture came about chris thought it'd be best to go back to basics and focus on gesture lines and had us in groups create actions and to draw them out. I enjoyed working with my group, but talking to people after class it seemed like half the class didn't enjoy it which kind of baffled me Near the end of class i got chris to look at my des...

Creative play with digital media students

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Video Essay

I knew it would be best starting off before getting into editting that gathering some knowlege these two videos were pretty useful even though i didnt use any after effects but its useful to know that i can easily work between them Looking at other peoples making of videos as well as the stuff Annabeth posted on Blackboard i was pretty confident in what i needed to do. So i started writing down what footage along with what i wanted to say Gathering the footage was a bit tedious, and i tried to cut out footage that i didn't need, i felt like the 3 minute mark was a good place, not too long not too short. I thought id had confidecne with my voiceover but it was horrible, i was lucky that the room i recorded in had good aucoustics and it doesnt sound ultra horrible i was pretty happy with how the video essay turned out even though its a bit cringe

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