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LSAD First Year Student
Animation
Wednesday 24th April 2024
Today I did my main parts of the storyboard for our nursery rhyme which were the robots noticing murmurings of a rebellion in the town
The robots in the town communicate with the robots at the gates of the castle and the robots approach the townspeople that are walking over a bridge towards the castle
The crowds stop in their tracks at the sight of the guards that are cocking their guns
Storyboard and Visual Research
On Monday our group had to make a storyboard for our animation. First, we all made separate drafts, then we read them all and picked out what we liked from them. We then came up with a finalised storyboard together. This was actually really hard to do as we had to make sure everything was cohesive.
We finished it on Tuesday morning and then talked to Paul about it, and he recommended switching some scenes around or taking scenes out to make it more fluid. This included putting the courtyard scene at the beginning, and taking out the scene of the robots being built in the factory.
We put the final storyboard together and then changed the script to match it.
We then started the visual research, where we looked at clothing, backgrounds, architecture, and incidentals.
We then had to pick an existing animation that we want to do our animation in the style of and we ended up looking at the episode "Beyond" from the Animatrix and the show Violet Evergarden. We picked these both for the character design and the incorporation of nature, as Mary's garden is a big part of our story.
Beyond:
Violet Evergarden:
We then worked on a moodboard to find a colour palette, using the three locations of the town, the courtyard and the castle. This helped us with creating a colour palette that would distinguish between the three locations. We tried to show the town as gloomy and lower-class while the castle and courtyard are bright and detached, unaffected by it.
Character Design and Backgrounds
On Friday our group started on character design. We made a list of our characters which consisted of Mary, the robots, and the townspeople. We had decided for the robots that we should have two slightly different uniforms for them depending on their ranking, as we had robots in the town and then more important robots guarding Mary herself. We also had to look at the storyboard to figure out how many townspeople we would need.
I decided to do the townspeople and also work on the town backgrounds. To me the two most prominent townspeople are the character ringing the bell and the character holding the crowd back from the robots later on. I decided to work on these two first.
Because we had been looking at Le Misérables as a references for the townspeople clothing Yvonne recommended that I look up the costume designer for that, and see what they were referencing. The costume designer for that was Paco Delgado, and I found an interview where he said that he used paintings by Goya, Delacroix, Jacques-Louis David and Ingres as references. I looked at those artists too to see what people were wearing.
I ended up using the painting "Liberty leading the people" for two characters costumes. I had to be mindful though of how French these paintings were, so I tried to make them a bit more ambiguous but I don't know if I succeeded.
This is the development of the two "main" townspeople:
These are the other townspeople, I only designed their upper-half's as there aren't any shots where their lower legs can be seen.
I found it really difficult to alter my own style to fit with the reference. "The Animatrix: Beyond" has a semi-realistic style that I tried to imitate but it was really hard.
I then looked at designing a background for the town. I took a shot from the storyboard, where the crowd is gathering in the town to revolt against Mary.
I tried to make the buildings look a bit steampunk-y with different patterns that you wouldn't see in the actual 1800s. I also tried to make them look a bit more run-down with some destruction on the buildings. I might try and re-create this digitally to neaten it a bit.
I started working on a second storyboard today using our current visuals. We're only going to detail and colour the key shots for now.
This is the first shot, of the castle above the town:
This is the shot of the townspeople seeing the robots in front of the castle.
Re-Invention in Storytelling: Monday, 12/4/2024
We each had to make our own storyboards using the script we created. Here is the rough draft that I came up with:
We then came together and selected our favourite aspects from each of our storyboards to create a collaborative storyboard that we planned to put together on Monday.
Storyboard and Visual Research
On Monday our group had to make a storyboard for our animation. First, we all made separate drafts, then we read them all and picked out what we liked from them. We then came up with a finalised storyboard together. This was actually really hard to do as we had to make sure everything was cohesive.
We finished it on Tuesday morning and then talked to Paul about it, and he recommended switching some scenes around or taking scenes out to make it more fluid. This included putting the courtyard scene at the beginning, and taking out the scene of the robots being built in the factory.
We put the final storyboard together and then changed the script to match it.
We then started the visual research, where we looked at clothing, backgrounds, architecture, and incidentals.
We then had to pick an existing animation that we want to do our animation in the style of and we ended up looking at the episode "Beyond" from the Animatrix and the show Violet Evergarden. We picked these both for the character design and the incorporation of nature, as Mary's garden is a big part of our story.
Beyond:
Violet Evergarden:
We then worked on a moodboard to find a colour palette, using the three locations of the town, the courtyard and the castle. This helped us with creating a colour palette that would distinguish between the three locations. We tried to show the town as gloomy and lower-class while the castle and courtyard are bright and detached, unaffected by it.
LSAD First Year Student Animation
Monday 22nd April 2024 until Tuesday 23rd April 2024
Doing sketches and colour studies of the castle and robots in our Re-invention of the nursery rhyme "Mary Mary Quite Contrary"
Below are the colours my group is using for the Mary's robot soldiers which are reds and cream and gold
To distinguish between the ranking in the robots one of them has a sash and the other has buttons the queen has similar colours
The castle/ courtyard consists of colours such as cream and gold. The bridge going towards the castle is grey
LSAD First Year Student
Animation
Monday 15th April 2024-Friday 19th April 2024
On tuesday my group which consists of me, gabs, AJ and Sarah. We researched different things got to do with our reinvention of the nursery ryhme "Mary Mary Quite Contrary.
My job was to research about steampunk outfits which are a mixture old fashioned and futuristic items
So a powerpoint was made and the steampunk outfits were my contribution
On thursday and friday of last week my job was to incoroprate uniforms of soldiers during the industrial revolution with robots
I also drew a picture of the rose that Mary in our story cuts with hedgecutters and the incidentals/weapns that were used in our story
My group's combined storyboard we did today
Storyboards I am doing for the reinvention of Mary Mary Quite Contrary
LSAD First Year Student
Animation
Thursday 11th until Friday 12th April 2024
Re-invention in storytelling
Yesterday my class was put into group of 4. My group consists of Anika, Sarah,Gabs and me.
We had to re-invent the story "Mary Mary Quite Contrary. I found out the Mary that was mentioned in Mary Mary Quite Contrary was Queen Mary The First.
The genre of our story is sci-fi . The era our story is set in is the industrial age which dates from 1760-1970
Below are my ideas of what could happen in the story but I feel that my story doesnt grasp the genre of sci fi . My idea is more of a horror/thriller genre
LSAD First Year Student
Animation
Monday 8th April 2024
Teambuilding exercise
On Monday our class were split into groups of 3/4 people and were ask to play different games such as lego, farm animals etc
Two people out of each group were asked to sketch the other two people eho were playing with these objects
We then were split into groups of 5 or more people each group did different sections if a body.
My group did heads ehich could be an aliens head ,human head etc. The middle group did the torso and the third groupd did the legs
Each group werent allowed to see ehat the other dree so obe oif them could have had an alien head with a snake torso and a tutti and hunan legs.
LSAD First Year Student
Animation
9th April 2024
Trip to Fota Wildlife Park
Today my animation class went on a trip at 9am to Fota wildlife park to do some drawings of animals and also before we were drawing the animals we have to understand the anatomy of the animals
Now i understand why i need to understand the anatomy of an animal. It is because you will get the right proportions and angles of the animals if you realise that all animals anatomies are slightly different to each other
i realised that i was able to get better focused photos when using the Nikon Camera compared to my phone camera
Above are photos i took in Fota using a Nikon camera which was better at focusing and getting a sharp picture of the animals because the lens had a great zoom on it
Above are photos I took of penguins, giraffes etc. Although the look good enough from using my phone I think the photos I took on the camera stand out and have more detail.
LSAD First Year Student
Animation project Mini Me World building
Friday 22nd March 2024
Today we used Adobe animate and were shown how to attach mouth pieces to a face
We attached the audio and the phenomes which are the shapes and sounds that the mouths make in order to create an animation of a face talking
Today was a practice run as I never knew how to create an object that talks a sentence through animation
I think my animation was a disaster as the face was talking too fast a kept looping instead of making a sentence
The way I can improve it is by researching how to make a successful lip sync on YouTube and keep experimenting with Adobe animate and finding out what each Icon does
LSAD First Year Student
Animation project : Mini me and Worldbuilding
Thursday 21st March 2024
The first three photos are of the frontal view, side profile and rear view of my mini me
Today I took photos of my mini me in front of a green screen using my phone and a ring light to take the photos. I use a light behind my mini me and turn off the main light and just left the ring light on to create shadows
I then uploaded these photos to my OneDrive and downloaded them onto the Desktop of the computer where I then brought the images into photoshop in order to edit them
I brought my mini me image into photoshop and erased the green screen so that my mini me sculpture would have no distractive background
I could then replace the green screen with my background for my animation as the project is about a mini me figure and a building and scenery as the background
The mouths were made out of carboard and will be swapped with each other as each mouth has a certain word associated with it in order to make a sentence that will be in my animation along with the audio files that were recorded of my voice
LSAD First Year Student
Animation project
Mini me and World Building
Tuesday 19th March 2024
Today we did a route around town. First we walked towards St Mary's cathedral where we went on the river walk
I could see King John's castle, Arthur's Quay shopping centre and Warfield house in the distance where I was able to do sketches of buildings
These pencil sketches will help me develop my drawing skills for my digital animation in the future
Then I used watercolour pencils to do a watercolour painting of St munchins church but on a bigger scale than in my sketchbook
LSAD First Year Student
Animation Project called Mini Me and World building
Thursday 14th March until Friday 15th March 2024
Yesterday I started making a version of myself using paper, cereal box, tape and a marker for my animation that involves me recording a sentence to say for the animation
Although it doesnt look like me i made a good sculpture of of a face and shoulders which is very sturdy
Today I painting the face of my Mini Me and cut out cardboard mouths to stick onto my sculpture
We recorded our voices to add to our mini me that we will be using as part of our animation aswell as drawing of scenery that we will use in our animation as the background
