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Animation Proposal: Report
This was my final submission for this assignment, containing a report on my proposed animation, which consists of the introduction, theme(s), target audience, setting, plot, plot analysis, information about the main character and landscape (e.g. description, personality, appearance, habits, colour scheme, art style and character references/inspirations) and finally the bibliography.
Animation Proposal: Storyboard
For my storyboard, I wanted to do it like an animatic instead of doing a normal storyboard where you have multiple panels in one page showing what is going on in your animation.
I made this by drawing each frame in Adobe Photoshop and once I was finished with the frame(s), I exported them as png files and imported those images into Adobe Flash where I put them in multiple frames and adjusted the gap between each frame with an fps of 10.
Animation Proposal: Finalised Plot
I made a few changes to the plot, although it is still very similar to the previous draft of the plot and this new plot doesn’t change anything important.
The year is 2500; London, along with the other major cities on Earth end up being an apocalyptic wasteland due to a massive storm that engulfed the planet a few hundred years ago.
Life has bounced back, although the storm had taken a toll on the population of all lifeforms on Earth. At a glance, the only lifeforms that seem to remain are small creatures such as rodents and reptiles, although there are bigger creatures that are also present; mainly deadly, tiger-like predators that feed on other mammals, and have started to devour humans over the past few decades to the point where humanity was nearly wiped out. The remaining humans stay in hidden shelters to protect themselves from the harsh weather and mainly, the man-eaters. The humans only come out at certain times during the day when the predators are inactive.
The main character is a lone traveller located in London who thinks he is the last human remaining on Earth due to the death of his partner, who was killed by a man-eater while gathering resources a few years ago. They always travelled as a pair, searching for other humans, hoping to try and rebuild society; but have not found signs of other human life in the area, which had led them to believe that they are the last humans on Earth and due to her death and years of search for human life that have led to nothing, he now truly believes that he is the last human on Earth.
A few days later, a small earthquake occurs, which caused some old, abandoned building to collapse. The earthquake damages some parts of the main character’s shelter and after a few hours of light aftershocks, the main character surveys the area to check how much damage the earthquake had dealt. He decides to look around the area for some parts/materials that can be used to repair his home and stumbles upon a tunnel that was revealed by the earthquake as it was once covered by sand. He decides to go in to see whether he could find something of use and discovers an old, but operational radio. He goes through the different frequencies and hears some muffled voices that later turn out to be other humans. He later learns that other humans from different locations scattered around the globe have been communicating through radio and he also finds out that they are planning to travel to a central location to try and rebuild society.
Animation Proposal: Concept Art
Initial sketch for the main character:
Second draft:
Final draft:
Animation Proposal: Mood Board
I created a mood board, which contained images portraying the art style, character design and setting I thought my animation would look like. I also added some notes containing information such as the target audience, theme, character description, etc.
Animation Proposal: Initial Plot
After writing down my ideas, I created a first draft for the plot of my animation.
The year is 2500; London, along with the other major cities on Earth end up being an apocalyptic wasteland due to a massive storm that engulfed the planet a few hundred years ago.
Life has bounced back, although the storm had taken a toll on the population of all lifeforms on Earth. At a glance, the only lifeforms that seem to remain are small creatures such as rodents and reptiles, although there are bigger creatures that are also present, mainly large, deadly predators that look like mutated animals that feed on mammals, and have started to devour humans over the past few decades to the point where humanity was nearly wiped out. The remaining humans stay in hidden shelters to protect themselves from the harsh weather and mainly, the large man-eaters. The humans only come out at certain times during the day where the predators are inactive.
The main character is a lone traveller located in London who thinks he is the last human remaining on Earth to the death of his partner, who was killed by the man-eaters while gathering resources a decade ago. They travelled as a pair, searching for other humans to try and rebuild society, but have not found signs of other human life in the area, which had led them to believe that they are the last humans on Earth and due to her death and years of search for human life have led to nothing, he now truly believes that he is the last human on Earth.
A few days later, a small earthquake occurs and caused some old, abandoned building to collapse. The earthquake manages to damage some parts of the main character’s shelter and after a few hours of light aftershocks, the main character surveys the area to check how much damage the earthquake had dealt. He decides to look around the area for some parts/materials that can be used to repair his home and stumbles upon a tunnel that was revealed by the earthquake as it was once covered by sand. He decides to go in to see whether he could find something of use and discovers an old, but operational radio. He goes through the different frequencies and hears some muffled voices that later turn out to be other humans. He later learns that other humans from different locations scattered around the globe have been communicating through radio and he also finds out that they are planning to travel to a central location to try and rebuild society.
Animation Proposal: Ideas
I did some brainstorming to see what elements I could put together to create the story for my animation.
As I did with my other assignments, I wrote down my ideas in bullet point format as a starting point:
Post-apocalyptic genre
Occurs in the future
Uses dark colours
Time period: year 2500
Art style: 2D - most likely digitally drawn using Adobe Photoshop
Target audience: teens/adults
Main character: male, lone traveller
Plot ideas:
The character is alone due to his partner dying due to an incident that occurred many years before the story takes place.
He could be travelling alone, searching for something or someone, maybe find other people.
Perhaps the reason why he is travelling alone is due to him being the ‘last man on Earth.’
And since I chose to base my animation around the post-apocalyptic genre, I looked at some movies/shows/games that I could look at for more ideas; I chose to look at mainly Mad Max: Fury Road (movie), Mad Max (video game), The 100 (TV Show), Avatar: The Last Airbender (TV Show) and Legend of Korra (TV Show).
I decided to look at Mad Max (the game and the movie) and The 100 for ideas on the landscape/atmosphere, as well as the idea of rebuilding civilisation that The 100 has. Even though Avatar and Legend of Korra aren’t the same genre as my proposed animation and the other sources I looked at, I wanted to use the art style as an inspiration for drawing my storyboard and concept art.
Animation Proposal: Brief
Our new assignment was to create a written treatment of a proposed animation with a duration of 4-6 minutes. We had to plan the creation of an animation but not make the actual animation.The treatment includes the plot, target audience, character description, genre, art style, the theme and the setting and the report containing all these needed to be ~2,000 words in length.
We also had to create a mood board, concept art and a scene by scene storyboard.
Essay: Submission
This was submission week and like I stated before, I will be comparing Eastern and Western animations and how they show emotion.
Essay: Finalizations
In this week, I was finalising my ideas, as the essay was due the next week.
I decided that I would focus on writing about emotion and that the two animations I would compare would be the anime “Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day” as the Eastern animation and the video game “Life Is Strange” as the Western animation.
I chose these two animations because these two animations are full of raw emotions, ranging from hapiness to sadness, so I thought they would be the perfect animations when talking about how emotions are expressed in Eastern and Western animations.
Essay: Western vs Eastern Animations
In these two weeks, we had one-to-one sessions, as well as group sessions with our lecturer(s) where they check on your progress with the essay and helped you build your ideas.
I showed my lecturer my notes and told her my ideas on what my essay will be about and based on my notes/ideas, she told me that I should consider writing my essay about a comparison between an element in eastern and western animations. She said that I should consider writing a comparison because it is generally easier to talk about the similarities and differences between two things because you can talk about multiple topics this way.
After the session(s), I wrote down elements in western and eastern animations that I could compare:
Facial expressions
Exagerration
Art style
Emotion
Culture
Character depth
Storytelling method
I then looked at possible animations to get those elements from:
Eastern Animations:
Zoids
Naruto
Inuyasha
Anohana
Western Animations:
Avatar: The Last Airbender
Happy Feet
Courage the Cowardly Dog
Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy
Life Is Strange
Inside Out
Essay: Ideas
In this week, I just wrote down some ideas/bullet points on what I could write my essay about:
Manga (for the art style & comic layout)
Anime (specifically, Zoids - for the facial expressions)
Facial Expressions
Black & White
Use of time in between panels
Action to action comic transition
“Leap/jump” drawing on page 2 of the comic - compare it to the jump scene in the film Happy Feet (facing fears/peer pressure).
Essay
This week was the start of coursework two where in the first week , we were shown the assignment brief on what this coursework was about.
It states that “ This coursework requires to write a 1500 words report closely analysing an artwork (comic, graphic novel or animation) that has influenced the production of your coursework 1. This report should critically investigate its theoretical, cultural, industrial and historical contexts and attentively analyse it with close reference to the dimensions of visual narrative specific to its form. This should include analysis of the three key areas of coursework one: it should analyse the specifics of its narrative structure and themes, the illustration style and the way of its production. You will be required to construct arguments based on your own critical readings of film and comic structures and support these with research and referenced sources. You should be highly critical reflect and evaluate on your work rather than describe it.”
- Taken from the Coursework 2 pdf File.
After showing and explaining the contents of the next coursework to us, we were asked to borrow five books from the library that could be used as an inspiration/influence for the topic of your essay.
During these weeks I was unsure on what I was going to talk about in my essay so I looked for books that were related to anime, comics, drawings and animation in general.
These are the five books that I chose to look at as a starting point for my essay and to gather ideas on what to write about.
Comic: Submission
This week was submission week and this was the final draft of my comic, which is to be printed on standard A4 paper.
First Page:
Second Page:
Comic Draft: Art Style
Before drawing my comic, I looked at different other comics with different styles, mainly manga because of the drawing style used in it i.e. black and white drawings and the usage of a lot of lines.
I also wanted to use the font style that is used in most mangas, which is called Anime Ace. I wanted to use this font style together with that same text bubble style in manga; I wanted the text bubbles to be different from the generic, round text bubble and use a text bubble with pointed edges.
Comic Draft: Script
I also created a script for all the text that goes in each panel in my comic.
Most of the text that are in quotation marks in the script below will go in speech bubbles, the only exception being the text that only use uppercase letters, as those will be in bold and would have a much larger font size than those in the speech bubbles to add emphasis.
Comic Draft: Layout
Since I was mainly looking at mangas for my art style, I thought I would also use the same comic panel layout that is used in most mangas - a combination of different sized panels placed in different positions instead of using panels with the same sizes that are placed in a neat format, as seen in some comics.