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What’s in the box?

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This project is similar to the fashion project, this project is only two weeks long. Were we had to think about a character receiving a box, taking something out of the box, reacting to it through facial expression and then passing the box.

I started of by filming someone acting by picking up a box reacting what the present I picked up through facial expression and then passing the box.

Then I started off by drawing my thumbnails/storyboard down, this was basic drawn down due to I didn’t know the style and the design of my character will look like. I scanned in the thumbnails anyway to do an animatic.

Then I went into Flash, to do another animatic, this time for timing reasons and get the timing right.

Then I figured out what the character will look like, I based the character similar to the lost boys from “Peter Pan” (1953) and Bloodhound Gang music video “The Bad Touch”.

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Then what the character will look like, I went back into Flash to do the keyframes and create the animation as-well. Got some feedback, but it was more of styling rather than the keyframes which was the main problems and also adding a neck to the character.

After I got the styling right from the feedback and added a neck to the character, I completed the animation with the remaining in-between frames to completed the animation.

Personally, I enjoyed this project much more than the last fews projects overall.

Bye.

A Fashion animation journal, week two

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Second post of Fashion fall animation.

Day 6: 28/1/13

I showed off my rough edit, three things I need to improve on, one was make the crack sign more larger, the other was make the fall faster and thirdly add another frame for the impact when she hit the floor

Day 6: 28/1/13, Day 7: 29/1/13 and Day 8: 30/1/13

After this, I went back onto the light-box to draw the whole of the animation with a few cheap blue biro’s instead of using a blue pencil, which will give an edgy style to my animation.

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This took around three days to draw the whole animation. After I drawn all of these I scanned them into Photoshop. However I wasn’t satisfied with the last few frames with the laugh. I felt that the head needed to move more. So therefore I jumped back onto the light-box re-edit the last few frames, then re-scanned into Photoshop.

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Day 9: 31/1/13, Day 10: 1/2/13 and Day 11: 2/2/13

After all the images were scanned in, I went back into Photoshop and retouched the images and delete the backgrounds which had white in. After this was complete, I took all the images into Flash and place all the images onto the timeline. After that was done, I exported the movie as a quicktime file. Here is the animation below of the final piece.

Overall, great challenge to do within in two weeks to animate.

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Followthrough test 3 and final animation

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The third and final post of the followthrough tests and the final animation. I redrawn and developed the followthrough of the shark fin as these two animations below shows.

However, I need to go back and develop more on the followthrough because of the stark fin isn’t doing the followthrough right. Even I got onto a lightbox and draw it down rather than using Flash. Saved the file onto Flipbook to export as a Quicktime file.

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However, that really didn’t work well, due to the followthrough didn’t work altogether. Then I redrawn the followthrough once more in Flash.

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Which worked much better then pervious tries. And then I had another go in Flash to get the followthrough worked. And this time it worked well. So here is my final followthrough animation.

Overall, a difficult challenge to animate the followthrough. But, try, testing and try if the followthrough worked, some tries almost worked and some tries didn’t worked well. But, in the end I got there with a reasonably good followthrough animation.

Bye.