Semester B Work In Progress

Finally completed the props, I am about to make a start on shooting the scenes. Here are the finished props cut out and scanned in (scanned in for the blog)

Work In Progress Part2- Almost Done

Almost done as in drawing and colouring the sets of course, i think i did quite a fair bit during last week's workshop, not much to say on what i want to do in this post since i have already covered it in last week's post, but after a afternoon of trying to fix my printer scanner here is my work.

I may make another backdrop or two, we'll see what'll happen during the workshop

Work Update-Props & Backdrop

These are the props and backdrop i have been working on within the past week, for reasons i don't understand my backdrop came out pretty bright when i scanned it in so i when into a photo editing application to darken it, when the time comes to photograph i might need to print off the darkened one if the camera picks up a bit too bright.

Here are the first four props i have been working on, the accordion which i plan on making it look like as if i was playing, prop #2 is a sign that shows that the accordion is very cheap (i am trying to make a humorous theme to my segment) and props #3 & #4 work together. I'll cut out all the props when i have everything ready, maybe i might need to make another backdrop for another scene. We'll see!

and this is one of the backdrops, i plan on making a office/indoors backdrop, just to even things up. Only because you don't often get offices out in the open in the middle of a field.

Finished Storyboards..What's Next?

Here are the completed drawings to my storyboard, some have been revisited and some are ideas to bounce off on the final project, for Wednesday 20th i plan on making a start on a set since i want to try out stop-start animation, they should be small sets since i am taking a few shots from my camera and recording eat move.

With Sketch 9, i plan on making the leg kick
For Sketch 2, i changed my mind and used a safe instead of a tone of money, it just looked better and it was more easy to draw.

Semester B- Drawings, i.e storyboards

First the rough ideas, i wanted to try and get the main images in my section

A few notes to explain what's happening in each section

Now i went back to the drawings and made them slightly more presentable

Semester B Project Style Ideas

Just researching and taking a look at other people's work and trying to get a good idea on what i could do for my side of the project. First i am taking a look at the animations on Vimeo and seeing what they have to offer, first i am taking a look at the 2D section of animation first i took a look at a animation called 5 second Project - Made of Paper it was exactly 5 Seconds and i thought it looked pretty cool, and me personally i am not the worlds greatest artist when it comes to drawing i thought something like this would work nicely but it all depends on when i hear the audio.

5 second Project - Made of Paper from Rickard Bengtsson on Vimeo.

and something else on relation to this i also found a nice animation called Swing it's about a little girl who goes on a adventure on a swing, it is quite different to the 5 Second Project, i feel that this animation has more of a storybook feel to it.

Swing from Aya Zakaria on Vimeo.

Cellegratonia is another animation i found yet it is extremely different to the two previous projects i have posted, i have always wanted to start a stop-start animation, it may take time but it would be really cool to start something like this, i have no idea if i would need to build anything exactly but drawing, yes. I can pull something like this off.

Cellegratonia from NEWWORDS on Vimeo.

That's just three style ideas that i would like to try out for this project.

Update On Project-Digital Media

From since i have last posted there has been change to my image, i am slightly puzzled on what to add..there is only so much you can do with a short space of time. At first i wanted to add a bit more of the castle behind but after a few adding and removing having a bit of the castle through the windows felt a bit more better but also i wanted to add a forest in the background, in the day there wouldn't be or not as many houses or other buildings as there are today, also i had a go at smudging the trees it did take a while to do but i do think it looks pretty nice, again i added more greenery around the trent and fenced off the rest of the field and added a bit of cobblestone since from another recreated image i saw that was the area where the cannons and other weapons and machinery was left to defend. This is my image in question.

I did try to make the castle look a bit more brighter and i tried to clean it up a bit and it was a struggle, also i made the top smooth/flat or somewhat flat because during the time it was flat but the battles did cause it to crumble up. I honestly don't know what else i could possible add. Here is the original image i took.