Elective : Animation - anamatic

My Animatic

I have to say i have really struggled coming up with the idea, letalone having it done in 2 weeks, i have found this 5 week animation course so far really hard (still learning from it) but after many hours of making small little ideas and speaking to people, i came up with the idea of using my parents anniversary bear, i always said i was going to steal it and take it to halls with me. (poor thing just sits on the shelf all day) so this is the story i was going to say journey but i found it more fun calling it escape, like its the bear running away, i have found a font on dafont.com where i found a font called Namafont, which is a very strange font, its created so u look at the negative rather than the positive of the letters (boiling affect)
During my experiment i started of making a pattern grow, i was going to animate this but found i wanted to do something that i would learn from, i felt like i hadn't accomplished anything from this (stop motion)
so this is when the film really starts and the bear (yet to name him) is sitting on the top shelf of the book case above the tv, and hes thinking away , on what life would be like living with sam in halls, and thinking of memorys between them (stop motion)
thinks about the fun times they shared
suddenly puts his foot down and says hes going to go but how to get there, something speaks to him and says to get into the car when they take sam back to halls, (stop motion)

he leaves the shelf and drops to the floor .....(stop motion)
and then he was gone!(stop motion)you see him wave and then he drive off, on his way to halls (rota scopping)
pattern disapears slowly (stop motion)
then words say the end in Namafont (boiling affect)

boiling affect with "Animated by Sam Borton" in Namafont again


Over all i live the story, i think its going to be a lot of work, i may struggle slightly as i don't know, after affects and final cut pro, but i can get the images done then im half way there!

Elective: Animation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vN83DfmH9Tw
this one is funny, its all about a man and his alarm, where he needs to wake up so he sets loads of alarms to wake him up, cleverly animated,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBH1dcHoL6Y
WE SHOULD CELEBRATE 25 YEARS OF PIXAR
i can honestly say i do not hate, not even one, of the films or small animations
but i have to say Finding Nemo is my favorite and the gentlemen playing chess with himself as the small animation! brilliant


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4_LpSBA22Y
Its a lady's opinion on life withing adult animation, once animation in mainly called Waking Life, which was filmed the Rotoscoped after frame by frame, its interesting how some frames can be realistic and some are really abstract, i personally think shows the mood of the person but there is no speech in the film so its up to the ardiance to make there own opionion


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lcTP9p7d9I&feature=related
BRIlLIANT Stop Motion animation, all the way though i was left guessing, with the music there to it kept me interested (knowing now the song goes i could guess when something was going to happen beucase of the increase of imotion withing the song) even though it had a (slightly funny) sad endeding, all the way through the illustrations was clear, so u didn't need speech

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UocF4ycBnYE
A matrix spin off, starts of slow to show that its frame by frame, page by page and then gets faster to show how detailed it is, a black and white design, ii think if it was in colour it wouldn't be as amazing as it looks now !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=fvwp&v=-IzuDMAiyFI&NR=1
Brilliant, even though its not done professionally, its all done on a bunch of postetnotes, but the idea is really good, and not bad illustrated either. impressed !!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=b0eW4i7ghKM&NR=1
FLIP BOOK, 2 flip books and a person draws a person in each and they slowly move though, the books get close and they kiss and turn and it looks like they swop over the pages and then the books seporat and they swop sides, and she blows him a kiss and it ends but u see hands all the time so you can see there trying to portray a flip book but the way its draw looks like a animation placed over another one!

Elective: Animation

A friend, kindly put my film 2gether for me, as i've never done it before and not sure what to do, but as a tester this is how it turned out


im very happy with the outcome, it turned out much better than i expected and although its given me ideas, im still very stuck for what to do as a project ????

Elective: Animation

Looking at an old holiday, i came across a film i took, of a train, where it was changing sides,
i managed to stop the film every second or so and take a screen shot, and slowly i managed to make the film come to live, over all i've got 350 frames, with 10 fps , if i had 25 fps it would go to fast and you wouldn't see the detail within the film.

these are just a couple of frames to show now much they move each time

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i came across this image on a google search on line drawings and i liked it, what if i could draw each frame like this and make it more, this would be brilliant if this would work.

After picking a photo i tried drawing around the image, only using the main lines of the people

but to be honest the picture is good, but the faces are really scary, what ever i did, didn't matter how many times i re-drew it, the faces just kept getting worse, i think its just because its in black and white which makes it worse


so i had an idea where i do the background picture in a filter and then draw over it using the graphics tablet giving it a slight cartoon affect i really like this outcome, it works and i think if i could do this with every frame it would work and it would have a nice touch to it.

(ive never been drunk) i was just thinking about the nite and just remembering a girl that was so drunk, just thinking what she must be like, what she must have been feeling ????

Elective : Animation

i came up with the idea of re-appearing a nice memory, so after finding the image and putting a filter on it, i found it pretty much straight forward to make it appear and making the image form again

Elective : Animation

I came up with the idea of using a single picture, making it appear and disappear over frames
and the idea is that friendship thicken over time

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Testing Green Screen



We was being introduced to all the equipment and the boys are going first trying a scene and putting an image behind to make it look like its actually happening

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TIME LAPSE TESTER !
My first ever ever attempt of a Time Lapse, I've seen them been done before but never really had the change and the experiences my self to have a go at it
I had the opportunity and the time to place around with the picture on my way to work, making picture as i walk every 15 to 20 steps, and if something catches my eye i took a few more and explored the shapes and lights within the composition of the picture.

This Time Lapse was places in my home town of Faversham, this is 6.15am on Sun 5th of Feb, me walking to work in the cold snow (everywhere is empty)

Elective : Animation

I have come up with one idea where i do a plan stop motion (black and white) patten design just using a simple pattern affect and watch it grow


Maybe starting it off with something like, "Tell me about your self, using pen"




and just have at the end saying "I'm complicated "

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I am interested in the different techniques of animation i really want to try a bit of everything, some are not very populate as others but if i try a bit of everything then i can not go wrong on my experimentation

i have to say the only one i have tried so far and not really enjoyed was green screen, although the outcome looks amazing, the lighting set up and the camera, along with the movement of the people is such a long process, i got bored easily and found it hard to concentrate, i will still keep it in mind if it is relevant to my project i will try my best to have a go but no promises !

Boiling animation, (where u have a picture or a film and u single handle draw over each frame to create a more sketchy effect animation) i could do this on any of my animations, using my graphics tablet, making quick and easy (to a point)

I have found that Stop Motion is very popular, and one of them most easy things to do, simply changing the frame slightly each time and u got ur self an animation, EASY!
(i found this one of YouTube and it just made me smile, its really simple but funny and effective)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoOn0LDHafo&feature=related

As well as, Time Lapse animation, i have also found this quite fun, experimenting on my way to work, just grabbing myself some ideas, (although my ideas are not strong as there either not relevant or not a strong outcome (picture wise) but the ideas are still there processing


over all i would like to do an animation the is more hand crafted, still with photography, but more handcrafted too, i would to avoid film if possible as im not really interested but i do find the stop motion interesting, after doing my first Time Lapse i might find a way of incorporating that too, as well as a bit of boiling will spice it up
i just need to find a subject ??????

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After doing some thinking ........ and still struggling, does it have to be relevant, does it have to mean anything, does it really have to have a narrative, if so then i can still make it simple, it would be easier if i could find a subject to animate that i would love to do, instead of something boring ????

Elective : Animation, Techniques

"Boiling" this is the shimmering effect in hand drawn animation where lines are copied over and over in a sequence of drawings. Originally due just to the mechanics of trying and failing to copy lines exactly by hand, it is sometimes introduced deliberately as a stylistic feature in computer generated animation - random fluctuations in line quality may make the animation look hand drawn

"Rotoscoping" is an animation technique in which animators trace over live-action film movement, frameby frame, for use in animated films. Originally, recorded live-action film images were projected onto a frosted glass panel and re-drawn by an animator. This projection equipment is called a rotoscope, although this device has been replaced by computer in recent years. In the visual effects industry, the term rotoscoping refers to the technique of manually creating a matte for an element on a live-action plate so it may be composited over another background.

"Green screen" technology is the basis of the effects seen in everything from the latest Hollywood blockbusters to the weather forecast. The idea is simple. If you shoot a video with a single coloured backdrop (blue or green is often used) Pinnacle Studio allows you to make that colour transparent - replacing it with any other video clip, graphic or still image.

"Time-lapse" photography is a cinematography technique whereby the frequency at which film frames are captured (the frame rate) is much lower than that which will be used to play the sequence back. When replayed at normal speed, time appears to be moving faster and thus lapsing. For example, an image of a scene may be captured once every second, and then played back at 30 frames per second; the result would be an apparent increase of speed by 30 times. Time-lapse photography can be considered to be the opposite of high speed photography.

Processes that would normally appear subtle to the human eye, such as the motion of the sun and stars in the sky, become very pronounced. Time-lapse is the extreme version of the cinematography technique of undercranking, and can be confused with stop motion animation.

"Stop motion" (also known as stop action) is an animation technique to make a physically manipulated object appear to move on its own. The object is moved in small increments between individually photographed frames, creating the illusion of movement when the series of frames is played as a continuous sequence. Dolls with movable joints or clay figures are often used in stop motion for their ease of repositioning. Motion animation using clay is called clay animation or clay-mation.

The term "stop motion", related to the animation technique, is often spelled with a hyphen (stop-motion). Both orthographical variants, with and without the hyphen, are correct, but the hyphenated one has, in addition, a second meaning, not related to animation or cinema. Stop-motion: "a device for automatically stopping a machine or engine when something has gone wrong" (The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 1993 edition).

Stop motion is often confused with the Time Lapes technique, where still photographs of a live surrounding are taken at regular intervals, and combined into a continuous film.

I want to keep my options, after watching loads of examples from 2nd and 3rd years, my brain is on an overload, with a limitation of Topography (meaning mapping) (to be honest not really sure, how to take it, weather i should make it simple and incorporate the map (normal every day maps and signs into it, which might add another twist to it, or think of mapping as a though, a ways of getting every little bit of information down...... either way i do it, fingers cross it will be good

Elective : Animation

I started this project with an open mind, looking at other peoples work, grabbing ideas and taking notes but as soon as they say " OK. I WAS YOU TO COME UP WITH UR OWN IDEA, DO 5 FRAMES, THEN A NORMAL STORY BOARD, THEN I WANT U TO PUT IT ON A PROGRAM, NUM OF U HAVE USED BEFORE, AND THEN TELL US THEY WANT IT DONE BY MONDAY!"
I think once i heard them say this my mind went blank !

OK so the them is TOPOGRAPHY (AKA, mapping but in a open way)

working in groups, we came up with ideas on what we thought it was, this is what we came up with :
> terrain of a map
>defining an area of its inner core
>map to show its texture
>something simple yet detailed (flatly)
>texture shows in 2D (in a typical map)
>process of things happening - series

but still i have found this hard to come up with an idea for
so i decided to look on YouTube to give me more ideas, which i came across this one recommended by a friend Click Me and discovered i can actually do pretty much anything as long as i make a developing outcome so to speak.
So i need to have a proper think for ideas !!!

packaging project printed ... but does it work ???

Packaging printed, cut and ready to be folded, fingers crossed it will work ....So happy it all works, never though it would work, it is held together with masking tape, just so i could try it out, it will be glued eventually.



So over all the outcome was a success, the template works and the design is really good, i think if i was to do it next time i would, take my own pictures and because i think the pictures are the only thing that makes it slide slightly where they are slightly pixelated but im very happy with it for my first go!

Franks Packaging project

Although this started out as a group project it had to change to a personal project as people didn't turn up to the next lesson so this is my packaging

I started of drawing the packaging, (not easy, this was the hardest part of the howl design) if this wasn't right this wouldn't fold into a proper piece of packaging
with all the guidelines it was hard to keep track with which line goes to what part, but once i had done one side i could just flip it and group it all together
once i had finished the outline i needed to find picture to make the packaging shout out to customers, i looked into 'Birds Eye' and a few other fish products and they always show the dish with a nice landscape in the back. As mines fish and chips i decided to go with a sea background
i found this picture, i chose it as it was fresh looking and it looked top range, suitable for my product
i then thought of copy right and photoshoped both picture together to make one, making the image my own work
once i had done the images for the packaging, i had to make all the small pieces that completes the packaging, i used illustrator to create this affect, using shapes and text
i created the barcode by hand by counting the lines of another and making lines on illustrator and making them different thicknesses, it turned out pretty well
once i was finished the back of the packaging looked like this, i found that all i had to do is place it in the spot on the packaging, along with the other little bit i designed with it my final before printing, most of the type is is between size 4 t0 12 with the title being as big as 26, i found this packaging a challenge, i think that's why i enjoyed it and the hours put in was between 8 -9 hours over 2 days. im glad its finished though, i feel like i have achieved something, where others left it, i finished !!!!