YesYesNo - more background designs.

More background work for the YesYesNo project. This is for the seagull's bell ringing scene

And for the fight scene on the boat, a simple design so other factors can be incorporated and not to distract the viewer from the fight itself

Yes Yes No - Barmaid Test

Still working on the Yes Yes No project, a quick test of ther Barmaid and the finished background of the pub behind the counter. Hopefully soon, we'll begin animating.

Animatic, Tests and Suzie Pea

The late upload of my Animatic and Animation Tests for my 'Underground Circus' project. I've been pretty slack with my blog, so here's a huge update and I'll keep updating it regularly!

Animatic:

Sounds from FreeSound.org

Two Test Animations:





Aside from that project finishing I've also been working on a third year project 'Suzie Pea'. A cut-out animation based on a little girl and a dream she has with her companion, Teddy. I've been making some of the puppets, here are them so far:

Pre Production Work

After our hand in yesterday, here is all the turnarounds, backgrounds, storyboard and concept work I produced for my project;

concept pieces:

turnarounds:
n.b. After critique on Jim the Seal, I changed him to be much curvier. His body seemed a bit angular, so I re-drew his turnaround.

Backgrounds;

 Concept Storyboards;

Pre Production and Group Project

A lot of development for both projects has ensued. The animatic for the YesYes Group project has been re-edited. I am just needing to add sound to it now. However here is the priliminary animatic and the recently re done one too.

Preliminary hand in before critique:


Recently edited (minus sound) after critique:



So far the project is going quite well. Lee has begun some animation tests too. With the deadline approaching soon, we can begin to hopefully get the animatic completly smoothed out and sound added too.

The Pre-Production project I'm doing is also going well. After critique, a slight re-design of the characters went into progress to make them feel more 1950's inspired. I researched into a lot of animated 50's advertisements;











and this blog which has helped me an incredible amount for research:

http://cartoonmodern.blogsome.com/

Re design of Jim the Seal, Mark & Martina, Tilly and Lionel.
Turnarounds for each character too.

Group Project - Animatic

Our storyboard for our group project has developed now. The story runs much more fluidly and we being the story outside The Sloop Inn in St Ives. From there the pirate walks in, scares a local and heads to the bar. From the bar he orders a pint and chips from the Barmaid (Inspired by Betty Stoggs) He heads outside. Seagulls are flying around, with a one  waiting on some bunting just outside. He notices the pirate's food and calls in reinforcements. Just as the pirate picks up a chip, a seagull swoops down to snatch it. The pirate notices this and looks up. Several seagulls now head towards him, causing him to fall face forward into his food. He runs back to his ship, a seagull takes a chainsaw and cuts into his wooden leg causing him to slip and fall down into his ship. He runs aboard, there he stands off a seagulls. He shoots it with his pistol. Using the style of the old cartoons, only a hole is visible in the seagull. He grabs his cannon and begins firing. One small seagull heads away from the crowd as a larger seagull divebombs onto the Pirate. From there a mass of seagulls begin to form around the pirate. The smaller seagull sits and watches whilst he begins to eat the Pirate's chips. The pirate eventually shoos all the seagulls off, only to see St Ives up in flames from his cannon balls. The setting ends with the seagull sat merrily on the edge of his boat eating his chips whilst the Pirate screams "Nooo".

We've been working on animatics, so far we've done two drafts and currently working on the final version;
First draft:


Second draft:




We've made some changes, after a tutorial from Georg. The local was the wrong way round, so we've changed that. He also gave us the idea to begin it from the outside of The Sloop.
We've begun sound as well, soon this will be added. I recorded some non-diegetic background sound of the seagulls in Falmouth along with the sea. So far it's going quite well.

Pre-Production. The Underground Circus.

My Pre-Production work has now been titled 'The Underground Circus'
There are 3 Human Characters;
Tilly the Clown (Main protagonist throughout)
Mark the Acrobat (Brother to Martina)
Martina the Acrobat (Sister to Mark)

Along with 3 Animal Characters;
Daniel the Elephant (Ringleader of the Circus)
Lionel the Lion,
Jim the Seal. (Youngest character, only has 3 whiskers)

The concept behind it is to teach pre-school children about respect, etiquette, responsibility and friendship. With each episode a new dilema will happen, in which the characters will have to solve it. The main character Tilly the Clown will be the focus point and the character who tends to most of the problems, except her own, from there she will have the help from her friends. The series is based on and in the Moscow Underground. From there the characters get on the train to The Underground Circus station where they live. Various characters come to visit them. The characters also leave the station, as some episodes feature them in Moscow.

Each episode will be about 5 to 10 minutes long with a simple progression through  disruption - problem - resolution.

The final characters have been designed and turnarounds are in progress. Concept work of the characters on the Moscow Underground has been produced. I am using a mix of collage and pro-markers to produce a textured effect. The skin for Daniel the Elephant is produced by colouring over brown paper in a light green pro-marker.