Collaborative Project

For this project the animation students will be working with the Advertising students and the illustration students. We have to choose an item of confectionary and come up with an advert and advertising campaign for it.

Once we were in groups we had to choose a product to advertise, my group chose Cadbury Flake. Before we start planning our advert we looked at previous adverts as a starting point.















The original ads had a lot of sexual connotations then in 2009 Flake has gone for a comedic take on their original ads but the latest ad has gone back to the sexual theme. As a group we have decided to go in a completely different angle with our advert, by moving in a different direction we have made this completely our own idea. Our target audience is women aged 25 to 35, women with busy lives, mums and business women.

Brain storm

What does Flake make you think of?

Yummy
Ribboned
Sweet
Crumbly
Flaky
Moorish
Comforting
Blissful
Luxurious
Intense
Silky
Smooth
Rich
Warming

After brain storming we then started thinking of advert themes.

'Flake out' - Busy women working all day sit down for a while with a flake and chill out before they 'flake out'.

'Stressed' - A stroppy woman is angry and stomping around slamming doors etc she sits down and eats her flake and her stress melts away.

'Accessary' - The Flake is an essential for women, something they cary around and are seen with like a new mobile or designer bag.

We then started coming up with advert ideas. After everyone in the group had come up with a few ideas we chose three to present to the class. After preenting our three ideas we decided on one idea and started working on fine tuning it.


We have chosen to set our advert in an aeroplane with a hostess as the main character. here are our story boards.





Animatics












We then started developing our character designs.




Revised story board






Finalised Storyboard



Once we had a finished story board we then started animating. We split the work between the two animators each taking one half. I will be animating the last half.

Working progress
Animating templates









Animation test



New background



More Tests

Amazing art

L6 Presentation

A presentation By Claire Hanson

Hello my name is Claire, and this is a presentation showing what I have to offer.

My area of practice is stopmotion. I love all aspects of this medium, set building modelling and finding solutions to animating restrictions such as making a character jump, I think stopmotion is the most rewarding form of animating due to the fact that I am a very hands on person, I love creating and take pride in my work particularly the small things.





In this picture the model was launching himself off his back onto his feet we had to use a hair tied around him to keep him suspended without our hands being in the shot.


Strengths
I pride myself on creating movement that shows personality and emotion, I also put a lot of effort into my characters expressions. I would say I’m a good person to have on a team because I look at the fine detail as well as the obvious. I may not be the best with flash, Photoshop or Maya but I'm confident using them and I am a quick learner, plus I’m willing to try anything and will do so to the highest possible standard.





I found Flash fairly easy to use once I knew the basics and picked it up quickly. I am confident animating with flash and find it enjoyable to use but would like to improve my skills further and develop a higher standard of animating.





Maya I found to be more challenging but enjoyed working in a 3D space, I found the modelling to be the most demanding and I defiantly would like more practice using this programme and hope to develop my skills as I feel this is my weakest area. I would also like the chance to play around with different textures and lighting, and generally improve my knowledge of this programme.







I’m not phased by new things and am pretty much willing to try anything, the more new experiences the better, whether it’s using a new programme, a new material or new equipment, I am hoping to learn as many new techniques and skills as possible.

I feel I would be most useful working on a stopmotion animation as this is what I enjoy most and is my strongest medium.

Thankyou.

Disney Brief

The aim in this brief is to create a new childrens character for Dinsey! I decided to make a stopmoation character as this is one medium that we hardly get to see in disney cartoons. I wanted my character to be a Non language speeking character like Morph or Pingu as i am aiming ay character at the younger age group 4yrs to 10yrs. I started by looking at existing characters.

My Anamatic


My finished Animation


After animating this project I found several issues with the final movie.

Aesthetics!

Asthetically the animation needs work. The lighting is very inconsistant, we can see the changes in light from the windows. The movement is also very jumpy, this is due to the timing and spacing. The use of dope sheets did improve the quality of the animation to begin with but when the mirror brakes the movement is very quick as the glass falls our of the frame, this is because i had no way of suspending the glass in the air and had to balance it on my character.
The camera movement is also very broken i tried to stop the camera moving by taping the tripod down but the desk it was attached to wasn't the most stable so there is alot of unwanted camera movement causing the tracking to be unsmooth.
There were also a few incontanuity problems, things in the background can be seen moving of their own accord this was because my set wasn't very accessable and i keept knocking the props when animating my character.

Content.

I was happy with the content, i believe my character shows a range of emotions and expressions. The most emotive aspect of my character is his eyes i was very happy with the way my modle turned out, his appearance and demena gave him personality and depth.

Narrative.

My narrative was also good. i felt the story was fairly origional and gave me the oppertunity to display a range of reactions and emotions. I found this animation very enjoyable to animate as well as watch!

Student Services Finance

Our task was to create an advert for student services finance,
we had threem topics to cover in the animation Spending, Saving and budgeting i was working in a group of three so we each took a topic and came up with a theme that ran throughout the three topics. Our character for the advert was the student services finance pig.



Our group decided on a medical theme and then started on our character designs.



After we developed our character designs we then found out that we couldn't change the appearance of the Pig so we adapted our designs to match the origional design.

We then came up with our story ideas and started story boarding.

Audio Animation

In this task we have been given a selection of audio clips and have to create a story based on the sounds. I have come up with a scary story of a girl in a house haunted by strange sounds which she investigates. The story starts with the girl in the kitchen cooking strange things start happening, as she sits down to eat the tv turns it self off, she turns it back on and it goes off again then there is a strange noise upstairs so she goes to investigate even stranger things happen when she is walking around the house so she runs back to the kitchen to call for help when the door shuts on its own and then she hears footsteps walking towards her...

Home Alone script

INT. KITCHEN. NIGHT A girl is cooking diner while watching TV. She sits down to eat and the TV turns off.
GIRL (under her breath)
Oops
The girl picks up the remote and turns the TV back on and carries on eating.
A few seconds pass and the TV turns itself off again.
GIRL
Ugh!
Girl stands up and goes over to the TV and tries to fix the problem.
CUT TO: INT. CLOSE UP OF A CLOCK The clock stops ticking.
CUT TO: INT. KITCHEN. The girl notices the absent noise of the clock in the silence and turns around to look at it.
GIRL (to herself)
What's going on?
There is a sudden thud from upstairs.
The girl jumps and looks at the sealing listening to the noise.
CUT TO: INT. HALLWAY. BOTTOM OF THE STAIRS.
The girl sneaks out into the hall and moves warily towards the stairs.
Peering around the banister she sees an open window blowing.
There is a vase on the floor at the top of the stairs.
GIRL
(sighs and starts walking up the stairs)
CUT TO: INT. UPSTAIRS. At the top of the stairs the girl closes the window, turns around and picks up the vase, as she does so an old radio on a table next to her turns on, she freezes for a second then turns around slowly, puts the vase down and switches the radio off. The radio carries on making static noises.
GIRL
(whimpers)
The girl takes a step back then yanks the plug out of the wall but the radio carries on making noise.
GIRL (Under her breath)
Oh my god!
The girl rigidly turns around and runs down the stairs.
CUT TO: INT. HALLWAY. The girl runs through the hall and into the kitchen, as she does so we see upstairs become very dark and the darkness follows her down the stairs.
CUT TO: INT. KITCHEN We see the girl in the kitchen with a phone in her hand dialing frantically.
GIRL (in panicked breaths. trails off at the end)
0..2..0..7..1..6..3..
The kitchen starts to get darker and we hear the door close then someone shuffling towards her as though their feet are shackled together.
CUT TO: CLOSE UP OF GIRL.
GIRL
(looking scared)
The girl is staring into the darkness breathing quickly.
CUT TO: BLACK SCREEN.

Anamatic

Screneplay writing

Group script writing.

In this task we wer given a short story and in groups we had to come up with a Screneplay and story board.


EXT. COUNTRY SIDE. NIGHT
An old car drives along a deserted countryside.
CUT TO:
INT. CAR. NIGHT
A man in his mid forty's is behind the wheels with his teenage daughter beside him. The radio plays in the background with distorted frequency. The daughter gazes out the window.
FATHER
You know you could have just grabbed a taxi. I mean, God only knows how busy I am just to make ends meet.
The girl rolls her eyes and huffs and tries adjusting the radio's frequency.
FATHER
Ah, honey I...uh..Sorry I didn't mean...It's just, you know how it is..for me working a double shift..mine and your mom's divorce.
As the daughter adjusts the radio frequency which fails to work properly, she hits the radio real hard in anger and it switches off. Silence creeps in and the daughter continues to gaze out the window with her arm leaning on the arm rest. Suddenly, her gaze turns into a stare as something grabs her attention.
DAUGHTER
Dad stop! Stop!!!
The father abruptly hits the sudden break and jolts.
FATHER
What the?!?
DAUGHTER
Someone's back there!
FATHER
In the middle of nowhere?!?!
The daughter leans out her window and looks out behind.
CUT TO:


EXT. COUNTRY SIDE. NIGHT
A young girl sits curled up on the side of the road, wearing a pink frock and clutching onto something like a part of a stuffed toy. The daughter looks at the girl and calls out.
DAUGHTER
Are you alright there?
The young girl remains still and quiet. The daughter looks at her and tries to question again while her father observes from the rear view mirror.
DAUGHTER
Are you out here all by yourself?
The girl remains unresponsive.
DAUGHTER
Do you need a lift?
The young girl gets up, slowly walks towards the car and enters at the back seat.
CUT TO:
INT. CAR. NIGHT
The father squints and observes the young girl from the rear view mirror. The daughter looks behind.
DAUGHTER
Do you know where you live?
After a moments pause, the girl responds.
YOUNG GIRL
Old country house..
FATHER
That's about 5 miles ahead.
The father accelerates further.
CUT TO:
EXT. COUNTRY SIDE. NIGHT
The car drives down the road.
CUT TO:
INT. CAR. NIGHT
DAUGHTER
So what were you doing out there by yourself?
The daughter turns back to look at the young girl, who does not respond but coldly glares out the window. The daughter notices the girl is holding onto what appears to be a broken arm of a stuffed toy bear. She turns back to the front, looks at her father and shrugs.
CROSS DISSOLVE TO:
EXT. OUTSIDE OLD COUNTRY HOUSE. NIGHT
The car slowly pulls over right outside the Old Country House which appears to be slightly dingy.
CUT TO:
INT. CAR. NIGHT
The father glances at the house from the front window.
FATHER
Well, here we are...
The father looks into the rear view mirror and is startled. He quickly turns his head to look at the girl behind, who is not there anymore.
FATHER
Where'd she go???
The father and daughter exchange mystified looks to each other. They sit there, perplexed.
CUT TO:
EXT. OUtside the door of old country house. night
The father and daughter walk towards the front porch of the house. The daughter looks at her father with an apprehensive expression. She knocks on the door and within a moment the door opens and they are confronted by a couple in their mid fifties. The couple doesn't seem surprised to see them.
WIFE
Don't worry. We know why you're here.
The father and daughter are puzzled.
DAUGHTER
Wha?!?! Huh?!
HUSBAND
You thought you found our daughter? She disappeared 20 years ago.
The father and daughter listen intently but baffled.
HUSBAND
Every year, on this day, we get people on our doorstep, just like you.
The father and daughter appear dumbfounded.
wife
Today was her birthday...
The father and daughter exchanges glances to each other and look down at the lady's hand, in which she is gently holding a stuffed teddy bear with a missing arm.
FADE OUT: