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This is my final version submission for VCD2501 Animation Practice and Creative Workshops: Year 2 (two- minute film). FINAL FILM FOR DEFERAL DEADLINE

My overall thoughts on this project were particularly interesting, from originally planning the pitch to directing a team. At first I thought I was able to manage the workload when it come to producing a production bible as the director however, I should have communicated better with my team and gave the more role to help out with when it came to putting the bible together and as a result I ended up working pretty late for most days in order completely finish the production bible before hand in. Although I would not change my team as they really did help bring this to life, and I am glad to have them both.

Continuing on with post-production, my team and I decided to change a few things with the story and with that we create a better narrative structure after showing the previous animatic to a couple of people and receive feedback to make the story more clearer. Once we agreed on the final outtake of our animatic we started pre-production and at this point we had more of a 3 minute film which then we decided each of us would have about a minute to animate, although, I felt we could have picked one minute from the rough animatic to animate instead of each picking a random scene to make a minute, that way it would have kept more consistent with who animated what part.

Finally it came for us to meet composers and recruit them. At first we couldn’t decide who to pick and eventually we went with this amazing 8-bit style artist. We felt their style suited our animation quite well. They responded quickly which was great, we got to talking and explain what we needed, however, communication on their side die out and we couldn’t not get in contact with them for a while, luckily we sort it out with getting another composer who was glad to lend a hand and we were extremely happy with the result, it was a lot better then what we expected.

To conclude, animating had become more difficult for me over the past few months, as my equipment started to become more and more faulty and I wasn’t able to replace it for a while. Although I am happy with the result of my scene, I definitely felt I can do a lot better with the animation and lineart.

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Grad-assist rough animation.

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This is my final version of the background and including my short rough animation I also did for my grad assist on Becky film: “Bring in the night”. The whole experience from start to finish was interesting, I learned a lot from Becky especially when working on the rough animation (even though it was a simple head shake). Designing a background what was consistent was actually a challenge for me, and a all of redo’s, but eventually I manage to design something that hopefully she’d enjoyed and something I was proud of too. Also working on grad assist while working on your two-minute film definitely was stressful and I wasn’t able to reply or do work for Becky for a week and so.

Overall I enjoyed working with Becky (she was really nice) although I do wish juggling grad assist with and other work together was stressful and perhaps working on gran assist earlier in the year could have worked better.

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Final Rough animation two minute film crit. My group and I really tried to complete as such as we can, before the crit so I’m grateful for my teammate.

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Companies I found Interesting:

Blinkink Studio- Tramways HouseUnit 1, 377 Camden Road,Holloway, N7 0SH

Passion Studio- 33-34 RATHBONE PLACE LONDON, W1T1JN

Bluezoo- Chesterfield House, 385 Euston Road London NW1 3AU United Kingdom

Freelancer I follow on Instagram:

Carles_ dalmau

Remusandkiki

Hamish Steele

art_of_emfitz

Jimek_draws

M_layzell

My research into companies/ freelancers and the people that replied back too me:

Passion studio director- Anna Malin Mantzaris is a Swedish Animation Director based in London, she has over 50 international awards on her short film enough (one of my favourite animation production by her) Mantzaris was very easy to get in contact with, plus I really was interested in her stop motion design and films, especially the action in her films is pretty realistic and relatable, which is why I am glad she responded so fast to my question.

Blinkink Studio director- Remus Buznea & Kyriaki Kyriakou are both based in London and originally starting up students. The relationship they have as co-workers, really made me wanted to contact them, although it took a much longer waiting time to get a response, I was presently surprise that they did, because I was really interested in how they started from students and defiantly their animation and character design skills. I was eager to learn a lot from them and was really glad they responded.

My thought of the whole experience:

The two studio I deiced to look into was something I found Interesting and Creative with their Films, most of Passion Studio directors I got in contact with Inspired me with their characters design aesthetics. fortunately I got a really nice reply my a person I found amazing. Finally after contacting many directors and freelancers, and having no luck with other director I really hoped to get in contact with, I’m still very glad to have gotten a reply.

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This was relay that I got from one of the directors I contacted at Passion Studio: Anna Malin Mantzaris from email. and directors from Blinkink: Remus Buznea & Kyriaki Kyriakou from Instagram. after researching my chosen directors I then started to asked them all a few question regrading their experience as an animator.

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