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This is my progression reel for twice as mice. It’s all the works and experiments I’ve done since Jan for the project!

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This is my progression reel for Error! It’s quite lengthy - but this is all the work/experiments I’ve done leading up to the final result from Jan!

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This is the end scene for the holograms. This is where everything goes to chaos and the meeting man tries to disconnect them all. It took quite a while to scale these all down, especially where I had to reanimate most of them to fit into the animation Isa had done and then animating the other scenes for the animation as well, but I like it, my only problem is with the hologram in the background, doing the ‘okay’ sign. He’s a little too big for the scene so he doesn’t fit quite right - so i need to animate him again for the degree show. AE also didn’t export it properly with the hologram’s opacity either which i also need to change.

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I’ve been putting my personal portfolio together this week and this is what I have so far. I;m still adding on different animations to it, but I think I’m only going to put up recent works and works that I’m proud of on the site rather than everything I’ve done during the course. I also will keep updating it every chance I’ve done an animation so I don’t want to overcrowd with irrelevant work. 

For my ‘about’ page I’ve kept it short, and not too preachy. I’ve included a sentence from my CV profile but I go on to describe that I’m a recent graduate of NUA and what I do in animation. I wanted to keep my layout simple and clear.. pretty minimalist, so I didn’t want to add in a form box to get into contact with me so I provided hyperlinks at the bottom of my email, CV and instagram account. 

I wasn’t too sure if the my illustrations page was too much, as it is the same content as my instagram account at the moment, but after speaking to Peter, I realised that rough sketches and illustrations/WIPs would be on there for everyone to see, whereas I’d like to keep the website more professional and use finished pieces. 

For the picture, I wanted to have a high res one of me animating something in the stop motion studio, but I had the idea of making a gif of myself. Originally I planned on having a claymation GIF of a phone turning into a laptop, but didn't have time to do it, so I thought a picture of myself, and then maybe the 2D swirls I’ve done in my showreel going around me instead - just to make it more fun and personal. I also need to start editing my showreel so I can put it on my homepage. 

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This is the second example I’ve done for the zooms. Jamie liked the idea of the hotel being revealed in the zoom, so I did one from the sky and then zooming out to reveal the hotel in a wide shot and then zooming back into the window where it would stop to have the fade in. I was a little bit skeptical from this idea because of the resolution of the image. The reason why I had stopped at a certain point in the animation for the hotel was because it had lost resolution so it would work better by fading it out onto his set. I think it goes a bit quickly so that you don’t notice the resolution too bad, I also put motion blur on the camera for when it moved out so it would be quite blurry anyways. 

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Continuing with Jamie’s intros and outros, I did a couple of different zooms. 

This animation starts as a wide shot, and then zooms into the right hand side window. I’m still testing out different speeds for the zooms, but this one i think goes way too slow, and by then the audience would lose interest, especially where there is no other movement but the clouds - so it’s needs to go quicker than that.

I’ve shown Jamie these and he’s given me a few examples/ideas to try, so I’ll be animating that this weekend. 

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I did a lot of practice with Jamie’s intros this week. This si the final parallax movement for the clouds. I had to change the colour of the sky quite a lot so that you could see the clouds moving and I think I finally got the right tone.

They move slow, but it’s not too slow that it’s unrealistic. 

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I tried again with my title card, and thought it would be a better idea to have the liquid form the dots around my title. 

It’s worked out okay so far, it’s a little bit of a pain trying to remember where all my dots were, but it’s  coming together. I think this is a better idea than the previous as it’s not too much going on, and it incorporates the dots too.