Self initiated animation story board

For my self incited animation I decided to find facts on the internet and add visuals to them. The style of animation would be the same seen in my videos for duck test and the skeleton walk cycle, where I get images from the internet and animate them using the Duik plug-in in for after effects.

one thing tutors said about the project was that I should retitle it so that it could be a TV series, with this episode being on animals. 

The first fact is about crows playing pranks on each other. I decided to do the idea of using the fake can of pea nuts that is filled with spring loaded worms prank, we have one crow fall for the prank, then pull back the camera to reveal that there are other crows think the spring loaded worms are real and they want to eat them

 

This fact was about how the extinct colossus penguins where as tall as basketball player Lebron James, so thats where the idea of basketball came from. In the idea a basket ball player tries jump for the ball that is in the penguins hand, the penguin throws the ball at the guys head, and it lands in the net.

In this one we see some lamp post being knocked over by a mysterious force, the camera then moves out to show that acid in a dogs urine has been corroding the lamp post metal.

This is one about whales singing the same song, as the song is spread among the whales. This is shown with the whales playing instruments. The fact then says that the music changes as the song is passed on, this is shown by showing a different set whales singing a remixed version of the song but in a different musical genre. I was also going to work in the fact that sea lions are the only animals who can keep a beat, so I made the drummer a sea lion, still not sure if I will include this in the final product.

the camera then pans up to an angry person in a boat who is trying to sleep but can't because the next fact is about how whales make the loudest noise out of any animal. He is hitting the floor with a broom stick in try and get them to shut up. Similar to how in TV shows, when the person living above them is being loud, they start to hit the ceiling with a long stick.

The final fact is about squirrels being able to remember 10,000 places they burried nuts we show this by having a surreal think of a map with all the locations marked with an acorn icon. the fact then says that they forget some locations, causing the nut to grow into a tree. We show this by having the squirrel burry a nut, leave, then come back to try and remember where he put it, as he searches we see  that the buried nut is growing into be a tree. The squirrel gives up his search and puts up a missing poster for the missing nut on the tree that the missing nut grew into.

I may not do all these, as there is potentially some other work that I may be doing for other peoples projects. To make time for this work, I may cut scenes from this project.

Interrupted multiple character Walk cycle

As part of one of Elroy's workshop, we had the task of making a walk cycle then multiply the walk cycle by making duplicates, then would have one walk cycle refuse to tow the line, do something the others don't do.

Another part of the task was to redo the cycle from different perspectives, using the original as a guide. I wasn't able to do this due to time constraints but I did animate the character coming to a stop and start a walk from a standing position.

I also animated the character falling, the narrative of the animation would be multiple characters walking in single file, then stoping, however one character doesn't stop and just keeps going, knocking over the other characters like a chain of dominoes. Animating the characters falling was a bit strange as rather a character just straight up fall I wanted the character to fall and grab onto the one in front of it. To help do this I drew the frames below in order of right to left and had the pose shape around the character in front of it.

The final product

Drawing- 13th march

In todays lesson, we had access to props that would normally be used in medieval live action role play, so we had our two models use them in poses. One of the models was a student, we switched student after each pose. We also took turns being the "director", the director would just tell the models what to do.

 For the first set I used a pencil

after the break used black charcoal

Drawing- 6th March

We had two models in this session, one male and one female. for the first two images we drew either the top or bottom half of one of the models

Female on top, male at the bottom

Male on top and female at the bottom

For the third image we were supposed to draw a different gender on each side of the vertical centre line, somehow my brain made me believe that tom said to also change the genders after each head measurement.

Overall I think I did a good job at putting together two different halves together almost seamlessly (at least for the first two drawings). The leg measurement are way off though, the knees are to low, I may have to begin to ignore my own measurements on the legs and just go with what looks most anatomically correct.