Uni Adventures

G. Carpenter Year 1. Welcome to my documentation blog for my animation journey at MDX! :-) • 1 min. film > production > pre-production • stop motion • workshops (photoshop, AE, cinema 4d, tvpaint.) • animations • after effects work • life drawing • soundscape • (artwork) • (storyboards)

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Here is a folder of most of my completed animations from 2021 onwards! Click here for my Storyboard PDFS.

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This is the video my partner edited together well as part of the project using Cinema 4D. Due to technical reasons, neither of us could fully use cinema 4d, so we switched to blender and applied the same knowledge we learned from the workshops to the movie!

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Soundscape: Hear No Evil

This is a resubmission of my last version of my Soundscape film, here the colours have been adjusted to be lighter, using feedback given during the crit. I’ve also added a slight vignette to add to the suspense, which is an effect i was taught during making my 1 minute film.

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30/04/2021

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The last drawing was 1 full hour.

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Dante Inferno life drawing session.

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29/03/2021

Composition!

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19/03/2021

Composition focused!

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A small set of planning for my production bible I made in my sketchbook!

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1 Minute Film

My (indefinite) final version of my 1 minute film, with the forest scene having a tree passing by to mark the transition of the cuts between the forest landscapes, and more animation for the ghosts in the beginning as suggested in the crit.

Evaluation

This film was a tremendous learning curve into animating and taught me a lot about how to use TV Paint, a program I had never used before. I think I achieved what I wanted to with this film, particularly with the spooky storytelling atmosphere. A few things went well, such as keeping the same colour palette throughout the film and using varied shots to show tension, e.g. the dutch angle. I think it also had a good pacing and had all the information I wanted to portray in it. However, there were a few things that I think could’ve been improved upon, such as consistency in the character design since their faces change proportions a few times, as well as improving on my transitions between scenes. I could’ve also included some more animation during the scenes to make it more lively, since some scenes hold for a few seconds too long without much happening in it. It was also drawn in a style that was unfamiliar to me, so I think I’d like to try a different drawing style next time I make a film. Overall, I learned the value of using everything that was taught to me during the term and how to apply them in film-making.

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This is the final sequence of the film but with the edited scene added in at 0:04. Though I think it works well in giving context to the running scene and could give good tension to the atsmophere, I think that it looks awkward and it is difficult to transition to within the running sequence, therefore I wont be adding it into the final version.

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A short clip of what the running scene would look like. I am on the fence on whether or not it would suit the end part of the film due to it not fitting my original vision for it, but I will slot it into the clip to see whether it blends in well.

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Some sketches in response to my feedback at the Wednesday crit for my film. I was suggested to see if i could add in an extra scene at the end where they are running. I’m going to experiment to see if the clip would fit during the sequence and animate a brief running clip thats from the point of view ‘from the forest’.

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My completed 1 minute film for the crit!

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Some samples of transparent frames I used in my film!

Since I wanted certain camera movements that werent possible to do in TV paint without messing up my files, I opted to exporting the frames and putting them into Sony Vegas (my editing program) and using the Panning tool. This definitely got the effect I wanted, though the colours came out slightly different on the rendered preview for some reason, which I was able to fix.

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A short clip from the last scene of my 1 min film.

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Updated preview for my 1 min film!