Monday, 8 June 2015
Thursday, 4 June 2015
Rough Cut - Animation
After showing our rough cut to some people in our class they gave us some feedback on what we can do to make it better and what we could change. This is what they said...
What they liked...Loved the frog changing scene, was smooth.
So far looks good and cant wait for the whole thing to be finished.
What they would change...Some of the blue tints need changing or would get rid of.
Dont use titles from premier pro, create paper ones so that it fits in more
Dont understand why the yellow guy turns into a white piece of paper when turning into a frog.
Editing.
As this is a stop-motion animation, we took hundreds of photos. I sped the clips to make it flow as it was really slow as some points, this happened because we took a lot of photos for a small movement of the paper man such as climbing up to the table.
I changed the brightness and the contrast of every single frame. For example for the title, I increased the brightness so the background wouldn't be as dark and it stood out to make the letters moving way more clear. I played around with the colour balance and in most of them i increased the green to give it a different look to the overall animation.
I increased the contrast in some of the shots such as when you see the black convers on the screen, i did this to exaggerate the darkness of the converse.
Even though we filmed the orange paper man climb all the way up to the table and then do the same with the white one, I decided to use cross cutting between the characters to add tention to the animation as the orange paper man is being followed.
I also used match on action often throughout the whole animation to make the animation flow and make it look like a film in a way.
I also sped up the part where he transforms into a white frog as we took too many photos of this action as it was quite difficult to fold a piece of paper lots of times and its hard to keep it where you want to it. i also thought that it would look better to cut to different angles so the audience wouldn't get bored as there isn't much going on on the screen apat from a piece of paper folding itself.
When the converse walk towards the camera i've decided to keep it as a video but just cut a few frames in between to make it jump a little. Then i decided to cut the shot after the screen goes black (caused by the shoe getting too close to the camera)
I changed the brightness and the contrast of every single frame. For example for the title, I increased the brightness so the background wouldn't be as dark and it stood out to make the letters moving way more clear. I played around with the colour balance and in most of them i increased the green to give it a different look to the overall animation.
I increased the contrast in some of the shots such as when you see the black convers on the screen, i did this to exaggerate the darkness of the converse.
Even though we filmed the orange paper man climb all the way up to the table and then do the same with the white one, I decided to use cross cutting between the characters to add tention to the animation as the orange paper man is being followed.
I also used match on action often throughout the whole animation to make the animation flow and make it look like a film in a way.
I also sped up the part where he transforms into a white frog as we took too many photos of this action as it was quite difficult to fold a piece of paper lots of times and its hard to keep it where you want to it. i also thought that it would look better to cut to different angles so the audience wouldn't get bored as there isn't much going on on the screen apat from a piece of paper folding itself.
When the converse walk towards the camera i've decided to keep it as a video but just cut a few frames in between to make it jump a little. Then i decided to cut the shot after the screen goes black (caused by the shoe getting too close to the camera)
Wednesday, 13 May 2015
Wednesday, 9 July 2014
Animation schedule
Producer : £13,879
Director: 28,356
lighting and composition: 4,674
Storyboarding and animation : 20,614
Recording dialogue: 2,056
Production Design: 1,502
production design and visual: 6,967
Total per episode: 78.048
Tuesday, 8 July 2014
Storyboard
2.High angle of the paperman transforming
3.High angle of the paperman moving
4. High angle of the paperman climbing up the bin.
6. Long shot of the paperman starting to climb onto the table leg.
7. Long shot of the paperman climbing and finally getting on top of the table.
8. Long shot of the paperman walking across the table.
10. Mid shot of the other two paperman climbing onto the table.
11. Long shot of paperman walking across the table trying to get away from the other two papermen.
12. Long shot of the other two papermen trying to catch up with the paperman.
14. Close up of paperman getting out his magic umbrella.
15. Long shot of paperman about to fly off with his umbrella.
16. The two papermen trying to get him before he flies off with his umbrella.
18. Long shot of paperman flying.
19. Long shot of paperman walking.
20. Long shot of paperman turning into a frog,
22. Long shot of paperman jumping as a frog trying to get away from the other two papermen.
23. Close up of paperman as a frog,
24. Close up of him turning into a butterfly.
26. Long shot of the two papermen walking fast.
27. High angle of the butterflies flying trying top help paperman.
28. Long shot of the butterflies getting closer to the two papermen.
30. The two papermen falling into the pond.
Process of our animation
Its really easy to use and not a lot of things you need to learn about it.
We connect the camera to the laptop and we take pictures pressing enter on the laptop and it pops up on our screen.
Then there's a red circle which is called the onion skin and if you move it to the left of the line it tells you where the characters and everything was placed on the last shot meaning you have control over the whole project helping you move the characters a little bit further.
After we import our mp4 clips on premiere pro and then we speed up or slow down the clips to make it seem more real and flow naturally.
Where i am in the animation
We managed to finish all the animation but a few titles are still missing as we ran out of time because we had a few days off. We managed to change the soundtrack as well as long as the filters used.
Project 1 Autumn: I have done everything in the checklist yet I am still on 97% only as there are two stuff in orange but they have been completed over the past weeks.
Project 1 Spring: There are two things that are missing but I believe I have done them two over the past week. Im on 94%.
Project 2 Spring: I have done everything apart from one thing which is done but its on my laptop which I cant have access to at the moment therefore I cant post it.. Im on 95%.
Project 1 Autumn: I have done everything in the checklist yet I am still on 97% only as there are two stuff in orange but they have been completed over the past weeks.
Project 1 Spring: There are two things that are missing but I believe I have done them two over the past week. Im on 94%.
Project 2 Spring: I have done everything apart from one thing which is done but its on my laptop which I cant have access to at the moment therefore I cant post it.. Im on 95%.
Monday, 23 June 2014
Wednesday, 11 June 2014
P2. Animation Comparison Write-up
South Park:
Everything starts up with the storyboard and thy usually spend about an hour on each page of the story board. they also mentioned that the storyboard had to look sort of like a comic to begin with.
Every time there is a new character they compare it to a main character to know how tall they will be compared to them as the main characters from south park are pretty small.
The also do the front, side and back of the character which will help them remember what they look like and also makes it easier for them to draw it.
After that they bring sound and start to work with it.
The first thing they see everything that has been done the storyboard come to life is with the editor.
The whole idea of South Park started by a 2 min project at college which was directed and mainly writen by Trey Parker and Matt Stone who also do most of the voices along with co-perators.
The did cut outs instead of drawing every frame because none of them could actually draw and it was just easier as they sort of worked like puppets.
Dot:
To make this awesome animation they used a nokia phone and a microscope as shes 9mm tall which is absolutely tiny therefore it was hard to film.
A day all they can manage to do is 4 seconds which is insane because it would take them months to do a project with dot worth a minute considering all the little dots they have and how precise they have to be with the background and also the moves.
You cant actually manipulate her as she is so fragile and they also mentioned how you cant make her smaller than that without their heads falling off.
The also change the hair as she runs to make it look more realistic and make it flow.
They did a 1000 frames and they were 3/4 of the way so they werent even done after all those frames.
Peppa Pig:
Peppa Pig was made with the CelAction 2D programme. This is a really high quality programe.
its all made in London and they have about 30 people producing the animation.
They also try to make an animation/week and the have 4teams and 4 animators.
They decided to set on pre school animation and thought of the idea of making an animation out of an animal such as a pig.
And the first thing peppa pig did was step put of her house which was made by Aaron.
To create the first series of Peppa Pig cost them about £1.4 million to make which is fairly cheap compared to stop motion.
They made a 3 minute "trailer" which they did by making a storyboard and a script which they then brought with them to a broadcast to present their idea.
When he said he was going to show some of the first drawings he could find of Peppa i was so surprised by how rough they were and how simple yet the animation itself its really good and well made.
Everything starts up with the storyboard and thy usually spend about an hour on each page of the story board. they also mentioned that the storyboard had to look sort of like a comic to begin with.
Every time there is a new character they compare it to a main character to know how tall they will be compared to them as the main characters from south park are pretty small.
The also do the front, side and back of the character which will help them remember what they look like and also makes it easier for them to draw it.
After that they bring sound and start to work with it.
The first thing they see everything that has been done the storyboard come to life is with the editor.
The whole idea of South Park started by a 2 min project at college which was directed and mainly writen by Trey Parker and Matt Stone who also do most of the voices along with co-perators.
The did cut outs instead of drawing every frame because none of them could actually draw and it was just easier as they sort of worked like puppets.
Dot:
To make this awesome animation they used a nokia phone and a microscope as shes 9mm tall which is absolutely tiny therefore it was hard to film.
A day all they can manage to do is 4 seconds which is insane because it would take them months to do a project with dot worth a minute considering all the little dots they have and how precise they have to be with the background and also the moves.
You cant actually manipulate her as she is so fragile and they also mentioned how you cant make her smaller than that without their heads falling off.
The also change the hair as she runs to make it look more realistic and make it flow.
They did a 1000 frames and they were 3/4 of the way so they werent even done after all those frames.
Peppa Pig:
Peppa Pig was made with the CelAction 2D programme. This is a really high quality programe.
its all made in London and they have about 30 people producing the animation.
They also try to make an animation/week and the have 4teams and 4 animators.
They decided to set on pre school animation and thought of the idea of making an animation out of an animal such as a pig.
And the first thing peppa pig did was step put of her house which was made by Aaron.
To create the first series of Peppa Pig cost them about £1.4 million to make which is fairly cheap compared to stop motion.
They made a 3 minute "trailer" which they did by making a storyboard and a script which they then brought with them to a broadcast to present their idea.
When he said he was going to show some of the first drawings he could find of Peppa i was so surprised by how rough they were and how simple yet the animation itself its really good and well made.
Monday, 9 June 2014
P2. DESIGN AND TARGET AUDIENCE
T.M.N.T - they fit their characters well because they have an athletic body and you have a well built up body as their ninjas whereas in Adventure Time for example its all more about princesses and saving them which explains why this turtle has a crown and long hair whereas in T.M.N.T they have swords.
In Pokemon the turtle is blue, small and round meaning he's good and he's a water pokemon whereas in adventure time and T.M.N.T they're green meaning they belong on the ground. Also i believe the fact that they have made him small and round is for it to appeal cute and sweet as its aimed at children. Also in adventure time, its for children but also for grown ups therefore the design its not as childish.
Whereas Octonauts is for really young children which explains why his facial expression is really simple and he's smiling.
Monday, 12 May 2014
Planning
Origami Characters:
We need to make a few characters before we start the animation project such as :
-Dragon
-Butterflies
-Stick men
-Frog
Then after we will make a separate stick man to be our main character which he won't be origami and also an umbrella which is used in cocktails as its more realistic than an origami one.
Background:
For the background we won't need to get anything planned as we will use real life places such as a table, a window etc…
We will need to get colourful paper for the different character apart from the stick mean which will be plain white.
Thursday, 8 May 2014
Wednesday, 7 May 2014
P3 INITIAL PLANNING
Idea:
Boner man:
We are going to make a short film which we will make by using stop-motion.
We are going to do stop-motion because its different and its not seen as often as you see animation series or adverts as they are well seen on Tv.
A yellow piece of paper ball gets thrown into the bin after getting bullied by some white piece of paper (stick men) He turns into man climbs up to the table grabs and umbrella and flies off to the window.
He flies out of the window and as he drops he turns into a frog, later on when he jumps up he turns into a fluffy butterfly and he flies away.
Stick mean running after him throughout the whole video and the butterfly flies back as it turns into a dragon and it burns them with fire and the stick men have turned into cocktail sticks.
Then the dragon turns into Boner Man who then sticks his boner out and slaps the cocktail sticks as they are running away from boner man and they get hit and fall to the bin.
Its going to be a mixture between comedy/adventure and fantasy.
Boner man:
We are going to make a short film which we will make by using stop-motion.
We are going to do stop-motion because its different and its not seen as often as you see animation series or adverts as they are well seen on Tv.
A yellow piece of paper ball gets thrown into the bin after getting bullied by some white piece of paper (stick men) He turns into man climbs up to the table grabs and umbrella and flies off to the window.
He flies out of the window and as he drops he turns into a frog, later on when he jumps up he turns into a fluffy butterfly and he flies away.
Stick mean running after him throughout the whole video and the butterfly flies back as it turns into a dragon and it burns them with fire and the stick men have turned into cocktail sticks.
Then the dragon turns into Boner Man who then sticks his boner out and slaps the cocktail sticks as they are running away from boner man and they get hit and fall to the bin.
Its going to be a mixture between comedy/adventure and fantasy.
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