So here is the final version of my final animation for Uni. Altered a few bits from the animation which includes the change of the title from ‘The Jolly Awful and Really Quite Wretched Conquest Of Colchester’ which was quite long to a simpler ‘Fake Essex History’. Which now includes below a poster from the end of year show, one side of the business card, and screen shots.
But, for now see you in 2015. Bye.
After more than seven months of pre-production, animating and post-production I have finished off my final animation for my MA degree. Since, after the assessment was over and a few days off, I altered some bits of the animation from previous feedback needed to change that I didn’t had the time, tuning the sound at the start and adding credits I’ve finished off my animation.
Next stop showing it to the audiences, to see their opinions.
Bye.
As you can guess, first post in a few months, as the image below shows on video 5 timeline (21/4/14) that I did almost 90 seconds worth on animation done.
And this image below shows on video 5 timeline (12/5/14) that I need to do almost 90 seconds worth on animation to do within the next three to four weeks I’ve got left.
And within three weeks between I have been animating the difficult scenes that needed to animated, which includes, the last scene,
the last but one scene,
and the Alfa scenes, which gives me 90 seconds left to animate to complete my final animation.
Also, I had my final rough cut viewing for the animation (8/5/14) with Pete Bishop. I think it went well. No major complaints, just minor changes with timing and laughing from my peers which is still a positive so its still funny.
Also, here below is some testing with some of the minor characters below, which includes Essex Girl, Chicken, Donkey with walk and run cycles from Essex girl and Donkey.
Bye.
After weeks of getting the animatic sorted out, I am now starting to start of my animation. Firstly, I have been testing in CelAction2D with simple character designs that will be in the animation. To start with a squirrel that we see at the start of the animation, I started to work on simple walk cycles, run cycles and experiment with shadow effects too on Monday (3/3/14).
Then I imported a rough version of Claudius on Tuesday (4/3/14), this time I worked on a simple walk cycle and an improve one from yesterday. Also, experiment with shadow effects, and simple expression with Claudius as-well.
Then finally on Friday (7/3/14), I done an much improve version of Claudius with any colour. However, I didn’t had anytime to animate him in CelAction2D.
More time in CelAction2D next week with more character development I am hoping to do.
Bye.
Rough Cut Review of the animation so far, with the Key frame animation so far in for review for the 22nd May meeting with the British Postal Museum and Archive (BPMA) as the video below shows.
For feedback and the main one I got to do, is to add a final scene to the animation. And the final scene I ask for feedback is the St Martins-le-Grand building in Central London, as this link shows.
So I used the St Martins-le-Grand building above for my final scene as reference, as the image below shows.
Finally, another bit of feedback is to make the animation a bit more gritty in style or more old fashion. This can be easily done with filters in After Effects. And that is all with feedback so far.
Bye.
Last year for my Final Major Project for Animation I created a two minute animation called ‘Donny and Pete’ (2011), were you have a smart cat called Pete with a dumb human who knows nothing called Donny.
Donny and Pete
If I could have put this in my research I would have I saw this last year on the Aniboom Youtube page called: ‘Max and Monkey- A Bromance Aniboom Animation’ and was created by Alex Fass (web-site).
Max and Monkey- A Bromance Aniboom Animation
Alex Fass stated on his own web-site that the “Max & Monkey” concept was created both for the production and the pitch of an adult humored, animated television series. Max is a not so intelligent person, while Monkey is the intelligent one out of the pair of them, possibly the same characteristics as my characters, I think Donny is more stupid than Max in my opinion.
Max & Monkey was created by using three programmes:Autodesk Maya, Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop. Also, using Cintiq, a graphic tablet you can draw into Illustrator and Photoshop instead of using a mouse.
My thoughts on the two animations. The first animation above have it’s own unique style with Maya, Illustrator and Photoshop altogether. The second animation below, if I didn’t know that the animation was created in Photoshop, Illustrator and Maya I think the animator was nearly copping my style with Donny and Pete. But, yet again I don’t believe his copping by style at all. But, personally the first animation has its own style more on its own compared to the second animation which was a bit more flat without the 3D style.
Anyway, great animations altogether.
Max and Monkey Ep. 2 – An Odd Couple Aniboom Animation by Alex Fass
Bye.
Here is an up to date version of the showreel, which the old vesion is on my portfolio page. This showreel includes some new animations from this year which also includes animations and films I’ve done over the past five years. So here’s the showreel, enjoy.
Bye.
Last year I entered myself in the Red Bull Canimation competition back in November 2011. I was influenced by the Red Bull Racing team and Sebastian Vettel recent glory for my animation.
Most recently, I have seen this is animation below, created by Animateer and Illustrator designer Ruf Blacklock.
The creator of the animation Ruf Blacklock, who is a big fan of Formula 1 himself, wanted to created an animation that shows the evolution of Formula 1 car from the last 62 years and has not been shown on any video streaming site until now. Each car is the winning chassis from the respective seasons, for examples the 1978 Lotus 79 and 1983 Brabham BT52 was drawn in. Even the evolution of the steering wheels from 1950s to the present day was included. Also, the animation was created in Adobe After Effects.
My thoughts on the animation overall, I felt that the animation worked really well throughout the 60 seconds. I felt the background music and sound effects worked really well. The sound effects were spot on with the noise of the formula one car of present. I felt the styling work well and using simple colours, reminds the styling of the Tron films. The big positive point I felt that the timing was right, if it was longer than 90 second I think it might not work. If it was 45 seconds it would have been too short for the animation, so a minute was spot on in my opinion. Is their any negative points, nothing I can really notice.
Overall, I enjoyed the animation altogether. Despite, I am a big Formula 1 fan myself.
Bye.
This is an animation I have recently seen, I was very impressed by it. The animation is called ‘our new world’. Took the animator over two years to create/animate. When I first saw it I thought it was created with Maya. But, the creator said it was created on Blender 3D programme. Here is a link from the creator, who’s explains about the animation more on how he create the animation.
My thoughts on the animation, I felt that the narrative worked really well with the animation. Also, I felt the use of black and white colours and then adding red to animation made it more like something out of a Frank Miller’s Sin City comic book styling to the animation. But, overall I enjoyed the animation, very cleaver animation in my opinion the creator has created.
That is all. Bye.
Jonathan Hurlock 