Year 1 Term 2

Browned Rattie

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So because I haven't-10 we have this thing up on our phones we can create a face and we can talk into it, to get the character to move its mouth in the way you want it to so I thought would be really interesting to see an actual character saying what I needed to say and see how that changes and moves overall was quite interesting and amusing to watch however it got across what I needed it to so the overall piece did work out really well and it did help me in terms of understanding how to create a mouth chart and how I want the piece to move.

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These are crazy images of me and saying each word for the actual piece and also saying the valves on different letters just to see what mouthpieces I created out of it and how my mouth actually looks because when actually talk you don't think about how your mouth looks and moves but when looking at photos of myself doing it and dislike valves how I am meant to do my piece and overall drawing so it was interesting to understand for my lip sync.

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showreel

I'm really happy with how my Chauvel turned out it really allows me to explore a rule passed of myself and looking at how far I've come along this year how much of developed how much my skills have improved just general things and I'm really for like I've just come a long way from being a person who did know nothing about animation to being a person who can actually get given a character a puppet and armature and make that part come to life than beings work as a team and understanding things and working on my skills and developing ways that I can just explore myself through the use of animation although premiere pro was quite interesting and tricky at first because things in going order and I could get these wines it was an interesting process of China learn shortcuts and not having to do think the long way which did save a lot of time.

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presentation

My presentation went really well I was really happy with the end result the progress I for like as a team we did really well because we were able to come together of all our collected ideas research will found out and produce something really worth remembering because all the information I've learned from doing the project has helped me understand where I want to go in terms of my career in animation and come across in a way that I know what I'm talking about the presentation I found was difficult because I don't not rework public speaking but it was a key school that I have to learn and although the words kept moving around on the screen and proud that everyone in my group we managed to do the presentation out any cue cards or any sort of things and I presentation very clear and concise the way we just use bullet points I just use images we don't have any big blocks of chunks of information or it would be into factual or just too much for people to be able to understand so I felt like that was really necessary in terms of trying to understand animation as a whole and the way we went about it ever was to do my presentation differently I would start off by maybe having everyone having a basis and everyone trying to work out what way they wanted to go into animation themselves and are maybe not stop to one genre I be in stop motion because then I for like everyone could have branched out a bit more I felt like some of us were kinda constricted in what everyone else wants to and can really explore things to another level and but that I for like that maybe could be another source of we have to do it knowing and self-development.

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grufflo

Julia Donaldson, writer

I used to write short plays for schools. In 1994, I was asked by a publisher if I could come up with something based on a folk story. I unearthed this tale about a girl who goes for a walk in a forest and meets a tiger who threatens to eat her. Thinking quickly, she says: "I'm the queen of the forest: if you eat me, everyone else will take revenge on you." It's a lesson in how to harness a greater power than your own. I decided to turn the girl into a mouse and add some more predators – and at that point I thought: "This has the makings of a good picture book."

 I quickly realised that using a tiger would be a problem; I had to invent a predator who wouldn't really have been in the wood. It was then that I came up with the "Silly old fox, doesn't he know/ There's no such thing as a …" couplet. "Gruffalo" just fitted the rhyme.

  I submitted the story to the publisher, and they sat on it for a year. I started to think it would never see the light, but one day my husband said: "Look, it's so good. Why don't you just send it to Axel?" So I did, although I hardly knew him; he'd illustrated my first book, but I'd only met him once or twice. Within a week I got a letter from Alison Green, Macmillan's picture book editor, saying he'd shown it to them and they were desperate to publish it.

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It wasn't all plain sailing; Alison phoned me at one point to ask: "Do you envisage these animals wearing clothes?" Axel's first sketches had the mouse in a checked shirt and the fox in a frock coat, which was almost OK – but the snake in a bow tie was a definite problem. The Gruffalo took a couple of attempts. I still have some original sketches: in one he's very upright and ogreish, in another he's on all fours and looks like a wild boar. I'd originally imagined him as a bit more colourful and weird – but he's absolutely right the way Axel drew him.

 Axel Scheffler, illustrator

As soon as I passed the text on to the publisher, she saw the potential. A text generally goes through some editing, but The Gruffalo went into print exactly as Julia had written it.

 In my first sketches, the animals wore German fairytale clothes: the mouse had a Bavarian hat and lederhosen. But it was right that they ended up without clothes. My original Gruffalo was scarier, with smaller eyes and bigger teeth and claws. The fox was tougher. I'm not very good at drawing foxes – look at mine next to a real fox and you'll see the difference. I hope I got away with it.

 I also found the backdrop a struggle: I used to send a daily fax to German illustrator friends complaining about my troubles. I went into a forest near Hamburg and took some pictures for inspiration. Looking at it now, the forest is too light and bright: if I did it today, I'd make it far murkier.

 It wasn't an overnight success: it built slowly, through word-of-mouth from librarians and teachers – a bit like Harry Potter. It's not my favourite book of all those I've illustrated, but I don't mind that people identify me with The Gruffalo. He's a good character. It's fine.

This is an article that I found that I am where the character designer for the Gruffalo talk about why they made the Gruffalo the way needed and how they care about the Gruffalo story as the way my character is designed around the Gruffalo I thought it was key that his information is actually in my work as he does pay a really key factor in my character design and I think that the fact that it being based off a old tale and it being based of characters and and have the humeral of being a really old children's book a does I had that certain quality to the piece for me and designing my beast kind of off the Gruffalo had the effect ofCome put this in because a lot of character. But like my character is a mix of different things so he kind of represents like things that represent me guessing my childhood because the Gruffalo was one of my favourite books growing up as a child dragons I always love so thus representation trackable the purple is my favourite colour reason why his clothes are purple and Lions are one of my favourite cats so it all kind of links into everything and it kinda shows what I like as a person but also different areas of my life.

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lion tails

The tail serves a key purpose for the big cat. The lion is the only member of the cat family with a tufted tail, which is used to communicate to other members of the pride. Messages vary from directional commands to flirtatious signals. I've chosen to look at tales just because I want my character to have a towel on him and I kind of that wanted to cut lines tells because he does have a cat features about him in line is really dominant animal in the kingdom so I want to see why this the significance of them having a tale. This

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cats

So I decided to look at cats because they have like an interesting feature towards my character as I believe that the Gruffalo does have some cat qualities about him so of these claws and fighting going or forced says the reason why I've decided to look into cats just to get a better understanding of how cats move to walk so I know how I want my character to be .

The cat is a small carnivorous mammal. It is the only domesticated species in the family Felidae and often referred to as the domestic cat to distinguish it from wild members of the family The cat is either a house cat, kept as a pet, or a feral cat, freely ranging and avoiding human contact.A house cat is valued by humans for companionship and for its ability to hunt rodents. About 60 cat breeds are recognized by various cat registries.

 Cats are similar in anatomy to the other felid species, with a strong flexible body, quick reflexes, sharp teeth and retractable claws adapted to killing small prey. They are predators who are most active at dawn. Cats can hear sounds too faint or too high in frequency for human ears, such as those made by mice and other small animals. Compared to humans, they see better in the dark (they see in near total darkness) and have a better sense of smell, but poorer colour vision. Cats, despite being solitary hunters, are a social species. Cat communication includes the use of vocalizations including mewing, purring, trilling, hissing, growling and grunting as well as cat-specific body language. Cats also communicate by secreting and perceiving pheromones.

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last 2 weeks of uni

While these last two weeks have been the most stressful ones ever purely because it's like handing day and everyone can do work and stuff like that but I didn't think I'd be this not I'm not stressed out but I'm not like intense but it's been a really good two weeks in terms of the fact I've learned that I need to maybe Pat manage my time better. So for the beast of the I can feed it during the Easter break so I just spent the first day back I did the 3D turnaround for him so he now and fully turns around and it came out pretty good I was really proud of it and and it was really clear and the overall turnout of it I was really proud of because it just shows like how if you put your hard work and you pub a concentrate on something and you make it your goal to complete it it will turn up for the better and it did so I was really proud of it. For my show reel I found it quite interesting but not hard that it is interesting task of trying to go back and find work I guess China's see and where I've been over the last year and how much my work is changed and how much I've grown as an animator at high can do basic walk cycle and I can get a character to fully move in motion and briefings to life and to me that is really showing change of growth fund has been really proud like to be to be an animator and just to show my progress may be really happy and my Cheryl went pretty well and managed to amounts to 11 seeing  And the overall effect of it came out across pretty good and it stands out really well so I'm really happy with the overall effect of my show reel .

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Easter Holidays

And the Easter holidays has been filled with a lot of doing work and a lot of research and a lot of designing and processing in a lot of exploring my skills to a whole new different level. For media rolls I actually managed to all my research my presentation and now are starting to put it all on the side so that I can then put it all together and be able to do my presentation and perform my piece I for like my research has gone really well because I looked into different areas such as illustration as well as animation plus being able to find my own designer and person that I've looked into has been quite interesting in terms of the way that I didn't realise how in-depth you have to go with character design and different levels you can actually take the process and how it can come across as being really in-depth and detailed. For the beast it has come a long way I've actually managed to finish it a has been very painful China design near costume it painted it all the other things about it because it I didn't realise how much detail is necessary in trying to produce an actual puppet life thought it of it on the scale is where you just do it you design it and they go it's done but you have to actually take in so many other things into consideration in terms of like the fabric like you can't use to fabric away to calm me if you can't use fabric alleged can keep breaking you can't use certain things you can't do certain things were puppet you have to take into consideration the masses of your puppet because you won't be able to to stand but you will make sure it has enough detail when it and I found that because obviously my character had wings has wings and him and I had to really think about how I wanted to design and detail his wings because I couldn't make them heavy so I wanted them to have wires in between them like each like part of it because I wanted to add that detail in terms of like I wanted to add each individual scale which I was then gonna cut out and stitched by hand however when weighing up it was actually makes the backend to hit piece in the front and can support it because I made the henhouse copy that does add quite a bit of weight so I've had to then think about how would reposition it so then I ended up making the wings out of fabric and the head in a way so that it didn't fall over and it just now stands up and same the other things but has really opened my eyes to actually see the painful this will not necessarily paperless but the the depth of detail and the silly things you have to think about when designing a puppet and actually building it and what materials you use because each part and each one of them plays an important part of how the overall effect and design of the puppets actually going to turn out. In terms of my lips think I managed that you do my lip sync and do the mouthpieces and be able to make my animation move the headpieces everything so it turned out pretty well however it and due to an issue that having at the moment I'm not able to add in detail to my piece because it just doesn't work out and it basically falls apart and I can't add in detail to the animation because I my hands are very shaky so the piece and succumb not really scribbling which I don't really want so I am I have decided that I am I just left it I got the basic outlines of pencilling and my mouthpieces move and he does turn but I'm not gonna do any further development on it just because I cannot get to details that levels I want to get to but in the brief it says that you can do is have the rough outcast which I do have even though I wanted to really develop it and push it to a whole new level I'm not able to but when I get better I hope I will be able to further develop my skills once again on doing 2D.

I also managed to do another iteration of my mystery box piece however and it didn't go very well and I just did not like it and nothing about it because I had to use pins rather than using the magnets due to reasons and I felt like it wasn't the same and I can add the same characterisation into my piece because the armatures are proportioned and everything was so outthink that you just couldn't I can work the puppet the way I wanted it to and I don't have enough space and the lighting was in writing and so many other things that were wrong with the piece however I'm really proud of the iteration I did for the second time so I am just an estimate that piece even though I would love to have got the chance to be able to have done another iteration make the piece better I feel like now I just I just can't and I for like next time when I do have this situation again rather than wait till like another situation where is it holidays of the advanced Chinese the labs and staff are trying do it straight after so therefore I can always get my another iteration in.

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So for these two pictures and I managed to find a Lipson, who I did it realise he actually did this type of industry and called Dominic he created his own mouth char and so when going through his YouTube and I found the poverty he does the someone at Google and found his actual charts I can use it as I a basis and an understanding of her how I want to get my chance come across and basically how it can look.

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Beast

This is in the first stages when creating my mini beast so when I'm can apply all the different fabric texture detail to him as in all the little quirky part of him I am going through the stages when doing this I was like I don't know how the hell am gonna do it as it hung adding that much detail but again it was one of those ones I had to sit there take my time take my patient and the end for the evaluate like revaluing on it I realise that having to time and patience is really worth it and when it's actually finished you can actually really pleased with the result because I know I take my time and put my full potential into this piece.

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This was I am the first life during session able to go to the next copout in the past months and also the last one but rehoming to able to go due to my doctor's appointment however I'm really curious and that bit freaked out I dunno every going to return going to a life during lesson always freaks me out a bit however I do enjoy the overall result I feel like I progress every time my understanding of the body and the anatomy always tends to grow and over a schools assay development.

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These were the intro slideshows that we had for lip syncing to this was me I have a look at what I can she do lip sync and how to go about the actual piece and put it all together in China learn and understand how to create a lip sync myself at first been given the project I was a bit daunted because like I don't understand how you can create a mouth chart create mouthpieces and put the whole thing together however when actually doing so it the end result of my piece I'm actually really proud of because it works and it actually does relate to what the person saying over the voice-over so all round I was pretty happy however I wish I could have done it when it wanted to.

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Beast model

These are my overall finishes designs for my actual beast character and I I thought I lost these images at then refound them but this is what he overlooked that my mini version of him I was really proud of it because it was like something I actually have done on a detailed level in terms of a puppet again 3D angle and something I was happy with the matter detail I could get into it he does look really scary and not like a typical mushy cute character that most people do have but it was something I wanted to try something never done before I used cream in the scary character but I think it did turn out pretty well and I really did I do really love the overall result of him as a beast.

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Lip syncs

So this is the status I went through to create my lip sync project unfortunately the end result is as detailed as want to be purely because my handshake too much so I can't add all the detail I've got basic sketches of it but the rest of it so if I tried at that intelligent comes in so inconsistent just that horrible.1st of all I started off creating all the mouse charts to all the Martock pieces were done first and then I plied into TV paint so they were all ready to go the stamps then I went through and signed a headpiece for him to try to figure out his head was going to be how big goby and then put that in TV paint as well and then took out the bottom side of his chin as we had to make matching move up and down and it was a case of Chris going through the stages I've signed off doing a basic design for him went through major the whole piece of flat and then I did order the mouthpiece just to make sure all wiped out really well which did which I was really impressed with and then I went back through the pieces and creating the turnaround that he does and just in going over the chin and making sure it does me I try to get an eye movement in their internal and as well as eyebrows.I'm happy with the piece and I'm not unhappy in the way that I couldn't finish it to the full potential I wanted to buy happy the way that I've able to get a basic understanding of how lip sync works and how the overall effect tumbles into each other and how all the pieces are now collaborative enough to work through.

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These are some notes I was think about in the park when actually think about hunger and do my lips think so rather than thinking about our this can be really difficult I was decided to actually sit there and go through each piece so each individual word actually look at what sound they make what mouthpiece have got I to design for my character so when actually animating him and cradle the mouthpieces are not repeating the struggling I'm actually knowing which word price to which mouthpiece I also started to design some mouthpieces in my notepad and then continued to design the best the match up when I came home.

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Idea pictures

these are some of the images I had done when designing Dave my beast and these while I was watching the figure his paws his fingers his wings et cetera and overall I'm really proud of my first puppet has been a big achievement for me because I thought it was always giving the hard out but was it things will be that difficult as it was I found hanging at the texture detailing all the intercom parts of it were quite hard but it was like a learning curve like I learnt had to be patient with it I couldn't rush yet you couldn't pull it at any type of point and when actually watching the 3D turnaround back I am really proud of everything that I've done with him he is able to stand on his own doesn't need any support yes that I'm at the bottom of the turntable there is simply tactful his toes that is purely because when turning the piece and the toes kept coming up and I wanted them to stay down so that's why he's stop that bit struck down with Blu tack however the rest of it and really proud of because it all worked out really well and for my first puppet I don't think I did too bad but however if I were to do is pop it again I would try and make it a bit more realistic in terms of maybe go through and actually so on the third over and so on the scales and maybe put I have fickle wiring so in afterwards which and animating move around its more substantial and can hold the weight of all the fabric plus the school be.