This is the storyboard for my final fairytale piece.
i am doing King Arthur.
There are 6 scenes within my future animation and i am hoping for it to last around one minuite possibly a minuite and a half.
i drew stickmen to save time even though it took me all morning.
The set for thos animation will take place within a carboard box.

Vincent critique

I think this animation could have used stop motion and Claymation because of the movement and the backgrounds

The story was about a seven year old boy who was very troubled, and thought he was someone else, after being grounded couldn’t leave his house.

Yes he did. I found the clip to be effective, because the narration was very ear catching, because it was meant to.

I do not think there were any visible weaknesses, I don’t know how it could be improved I think it was good enough.

P- the script was very effective.

N- even being a dark story I feel the video its self could have been lighter.

P- the visual animation was very clear and well done. It looks like they have put a lot of time and effort into the project.

Character biography

Film: Kingdom Of Heaven

Actor: Orlando Bloom

Character: Bailian of Ibelin

Quote: “What man is a man who does not make the world a better place.”

 “How can you be in hell when you’re in my heart?”

Why they’re my favourite: The dedication to the characters cause was extremely impressive with the emotion in his eyes through out the film. The way the character was portrayed by actor was amazing easy to connect to and he made it simple to understand how he was feeling as you went through the film. Also the characters heroic personality and pure desire to help humanity and do good anyway possible was inspiring. The character based on a real historic figure can be hard to play but Orlando really did Bailian justice and showed how he lived with honour and valour.

Finest hour: Ending the battle for Jerusalem and agreeing on the term of surrender for the lives of his soldiers and civilians.  

South park reveiw

The show's style of animation is inspired by paper cut-out cartoons. the standard stop motion technique was used for the show for the pilot episode and few episodes after that until the show was taken to computer animators, giving a similar look and feel to it but only taking a fraction of the time to create. Before it is animated the artists have to draw up the storyboard which still takes a while.
the background is composed of primary shapes and colours, the child characters are the same basic shape but are distinguished by the colour of there hair or hat colour. their movement is choppy and they purposely do not have as much free movement and hand drawn characters to keeep the original south park feel to it. they are all voiced by the same by the same people and guest stars are used as photographic cut outs.

Final piece evaluation

I pulled two images off of the internet one of Ewan McGregor and another of a saber tooth tiger.
Then I put them into Photoshop I had some trouble with they layering so more use of photoshop is required for next project. then i place the picture of the Saber Tooth on top of the image of Ewan and then fiddled with the trancparancy to make the the saber tooth slowly become visable.

for this project i used photography, internet, cgi, photoshop and premiere.

the most challenging part of this project was figuring out how to work photoshop, because i have never used it in this way before this project. after and hour or to i started to get a hang of it  and then it was rather simple once i had my head in it.

my biggest achievement for this project is problem solving with premiere wen i ran into a problem where i remembered it had to be black and white once i had completely finished, so i looked for a way to fix it with ot having to start again.

i can make the transition look alot smoother.

Evaluations

I.D. Cards for this project i used photography to convert into animation using premiere. my potos where dark because i thought the projecter would add a good effect, but it just darkened the photo to much so you could see the facial expressions which was the basic point of the project. Next time i will check to see if the affect is taking effect before doing the work.

Countdown i used pencil and pen to do the hand drawing the was sent to take photos of my respective number around the college. my number was oplicay inspired because i had to show a facial feature.
everyone in the class had to randomly choose a number i got 8. after i was finished Cam took all of the projects and edited them together into an olympic inspired countdown.

Paper faces for paper faces we used a black backdrop and used different coloured paper to create facial features, while taking pictures every step of te way for extra tracking and taking pictures after every little movement for the stop motion. then imported the pictures into premiere and editing the pictures into a stop motion and then importing the audio.

beads we rented an over hed light, camera and a tripod rom the ERC and drew up a background of a highway toward a city and used beads to show a man walking away rom the city the used a stop motion tehnique and then took music from my phone and imported it it into premire (songs gredits will be at the end of the post) and then added a cedit and title sequence and i was finishe was dissapointed with the ende result though the music was too fast for the video.

Song name: Memphis May Fire - Alive In The Lights

Grindin'

This morning our tutor cam showed us a music video called grindin’ by 3 musicians named Nobody Beats The Drum.

I do not know the meaning of this video, although after watching a small video (which I will provide a link to) I know that every single block had to be done one by one in a stop motion technique, so this being a very long and time consuming technique as it is it would have taken long due to the fact that every block had to be measured and painted individually by hand by one of the members of the band.

I myself did not so much like the song but appreciated how it corresponded with the song.

The editing took the creator months maybe even a year at least.

Here is a short four to five minute video about the making of this video, done and produced by the band themselves and a few people who helped produce the animation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=XBqxjvDAAWE