this is a picture of my production schedule. i pretty much managed to stay on task with this, although i slipped up on different parts on a few weeks. its colourcoded towards each learning objective, and is set out in an easily readable format.

this is a picture of the storyboard i created. i took some of the main images i wanted to show my characters in, and put them into a larger scale. i didn't use all of these images as you can probably tell in my animation, but they were used at milestones in my production.

this is just a picture of my initial ideas after some minor tweaking. it describes the way in which i wanted my characters to be portrayed, and gives a brief description of my storyline.

BACKGROUNDS

This is the first background used in my animation, as you can see it's a ski slope which is represented by a white whiteboard and transparancies coloured in.

This features in the scene where the two characters fall in love. I found it hard to fit the background in because its so different from the previous scene, but i think i managed it okay.

Again, the beackground featured in the previous scene minus the character face.

The background at the end of the animation when the two finally fall in love. This is also made by using transparancies.

The background used when the two characters crash into each other on the slope. This was made from just a piece of plain paper.

PLANNING

This is a picture of what i was hoping to make one of the main shots. it didn't end up featuring as a keypoint in my animation, but it did help me to link my idea together in terms of character emotion.

This is a close up shot of one of my characters. he realises he has fallen in love with the mysterious pink creature, and this is the expression he produces.

This is another keypont in my scenes. you see this image appear after the close up of the dog character, as a way to show the detail of emotion. i used two transparacies to create this background, and it seemed to work out quite well.

CHARACTERS

This is just a picture of all my different characters.

The two different sillouhettes of the dog character,

The three different angled characters used to create the movement effect.

The images of the second character and its features.

All the different parts needed to create the dog characters changing faces.

PLANNING

All of these pictures are of my progress throughout the unit. They are self evaluations of my work progress this term. I looked back at various points to see how my skills had developed, and used these as points on my development scale in progress.

POWERPOINT

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This powerpoint is a description of some of the factors we used within our animations and factors used in general animation. Its not the best piece of work i've produced, but its quite detailed and gives out the description needed.

PLANNING

These are pictures of the planning that i've done throughout the production of my animation. The pictures include my individual characters, backgrounds, storyboard, production schedule, and my initial ideas..

TIM BURTON - VINCENT PRICE

Tim Burton was born in Burbank on the 25th August 1958. His family knew from a young age that he had a high imagination, and he would often watch low budget horror movies to help him escape from his reality. Tim Burton has brought some of the best animations and films ever into our lives including “The Nightmare before Christmas”, “Edward Scissorhands”, “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”, and “Big Fish”. All his films have a somewhat noir effect to them, bringing dark storylines and characters. Tim Burton has had an extremely successful career, and is a legendary figure in the film making industry. Alice in wonderland his latest creation starring Johnny Depp has already been sold out. Vincent Price was the first short film 6 minute black and white animation written and directed by Tim Burton that was released on 1st October 1982. Based on a poem that Tim Burton wrote, Vincent is a 7 year old boy who wants to grow up to be like his hero Vincent Price. His character is disturbed and twisted within his imagination and has a somewhat split personality. He lives in a world inside his imagination where he is the equivalent of Vincent Price – the popular horror actor. Vincent Price is actually the voiceover for the animation which says a lot about the animation in itself, as Tim Burton was the only man at the time who managed to get Vincent Price to participate within a film. Tim Burton uses rhyme and gothic features to create an atmosphere full of darkness and hatred. Vincent is a very disturbed child who turns anything good into something bad. The animation has a noir effect to it, contrasting with the claymation and adding to the bizarreness of narration and imagery. It seems as if the animation is reliving Tim Burton’s childhood, and Vincent is really how he was as a child, pretending to be in horror movies and causing havoc.


I think the animation as a whole is a great success because of how its pieced together. The techniques used create and illusion that Vincent is dreaming, but it then links with another scene that brings him back to the sincerity of reality. Its mesmerising how the character is in his own world one moment and then in reality the next, as its shown in a way thats truly remarkable. I think that the only problem with the animation is that you have to really concentrate on what’s being said and shown, instead of being able to use it as a source of reflection. I liked the animation however, and i don’t think Tim Burton could have started his career in a better way.

websites: www.youtube.co.uk
www.googleimages.co.uk
www.imdb.com

PIXAR

FOR THE BIRDS
For the birds is a computer animation, that was created by pixar. Computer animation is an effective technique, because you can visually portray absolutely anything without too much hassle. For the birds is an interesting animation because it seems to hide a moral within it. All of the smaller birds make fun of the largest bird because he's so big, and try to exclude him for being different.
They try to push him off of the wire they're all standing on, and eventually he falls off. As he's so big and heavy, the wire weighs down so he's pretty much at the floor, so he falls off without having any injury. The small birds however who aren't so heavy are all thrown off by the force released as the bigger bird steps off the wire. They all come plummetting to the down in a pile of feathers, bare skinned and ugly. The story relates to real life situations because people are often excluded for the way they look. The idea of the birds being hurt in the end is a sign of karma and what goes around comes around.



The feathers used within the animation were all real, and the short clip used over 10000 of them. I think the animation is really effective because its simple and creative. The idea in itself has an impact on its overall appearance. I enjoyed it due to the idea behind it, and i'm sure others will too.

Websites used: www.youtube.co.uk www.googleimages.com

FINAL ANIMATION ONE

The video which you can see above is my un-edited final animation. To make my animation, i used a medium thats called transparancies. As you can see in various points in my animation the transparancies don't work so well, but because of the storyline i'd chosen for my animation it seemed the best option to use as i could change the facial expressions of my characters sufficiently. It took me quite a while to get used to using the medium, but after about 2 lessons i got to grips with making it look effective. I found that using white paper as backing made the colours seem bolder, and made my animation look a lot less like an 8 year old had made it. The various stages if making my characters were irritating, because i couldn't get them to look the same each time but with different expressions. It took me quite a few attempts to get there, but i think it worked pretty well towards the end. My animations quite unusual, because its storyline makes no sense. I'd started off with the idea to have a love story where two characters meet on a ski slope from knocking into each other. It started off okay, with the downhill skiing, but as i progressed to zoom in on their facial expressions to show their emotions it became quite hard. You'll notice that at a point in my animation it zooms in on the orange characters face then changed into a heart background with him being in love. I had absolutely no idea how to combine these two parts of the scene together, but the best i could come up with was to try it by zooming in. I'm quite pleased with my animation because honestly, i never thought i'd have had the patience to see it the whole way through. I'm still browsing for some sound effects to put in the backing of it, but once thats done it will be fully complete.

There are a lot of strengths and weaknesses within my animation, which you can probably see for yourself. Th transparancies are a weakness in a few parts, because the colours appear different shades and you can actually see the outline of the transparancie. This makes my animation look quite un-proffessional, and i cant say im pleased about the way they turned out. Another weakness would be the movement within the animation. When the character is skiing down the slope at the beginning it doesnt look too disastrous, but once he meets the 2nd character it all seems to go downhill. The camera photos are out of sync so the animation is jumpy, which is really uneffective. There are some strengths with my animation though. I think the skiing scene actually works quite well with the arm movement, because it gives a real effect f skiing. I also think that how the facial expressions change is quite good, because it seems to run smoothly. Overall i don't think my animation was anything special, but i do have to say i'm pleased with it. Even though it doesn't look amazing i put a lot of effort into it, and just to see a finished product is good enough for me.