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.

Comments

Pendulum - Stop mo

First off I have to start by staying this was definitely the most painful day I've experienced. The unforgiving nature of stop motion angers me to a level I can't understand. I will learn to love this as I can see the benefits and skills it teaches, a real life practical application of timing and spacing. Joe and Johnny always say don't start an animation without planning so I've been strictly abiding by those rules, which tends to mean I spend a good amount of time planning before I even enter the stop motion room. This being my second pendulum animation, I decided it would be best this time to have an actual video reference which was a crude video of a pen swinging from some headphones, I was in a public space so it was a bit embarrassing to record. From the video what I learned was how the pendulum comes to a stop, the swings a short obviously but they are incredibly slow, and moving in other directions rather than just left to right. I did a bar she

Using indesign

Another program I'm going to haven't to get to grips using. I don't know why most of the features are so different to Photoshop where I'm sure it would be easy enough to do the same thing. But alas we have been told to learn this program. Johnny showed me a way to get the master pages numbered, but for some reason it wasn't working for me. I guess i must of done something wrong but i couldn't figure it out even after an extreme google search. So i did the next best thing and asked Kira how to do it and she showed me a different method but it work fine and i think it was easier to remember. so her method was to use the rectangular frame tool then use the text tool inside that frame right click and place a special character in for the current page number. It did exactly what johnny had showed me. these are some inspirational magazine articles i found that i would like my final design to look like.

Perspective 1

Honestly I cant understand how I've become so bad at perspective. Maybe it's I used to do from a full technical way and I never really did it free hand. But even still I'm shock how hard i found it and it looks so shit I think it's kind of good in a way. Finding my weakness and strengthening them will only help me as an artist. Need to do further research either by ready books or watching YouTube videos and practice, practice and more practice. I hated doing the floor plan. Working out the measurements and scale did my head in. I'm pretty good at this, better than perspective anyway but I know 100% this isn't what I want to do.

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