Under the weather production bible project.

Like for my last previous card exercise. This one was the first set of cards Katie, Charlotte ,James and I got.

The cards were :

-Britains got talent for genre
- the phrase ' Under the weather"

So the story we came up with was a show where contestants were forced to perform under serious weather conditions. We refined the idea and created a more developed concept of life after death and the contestants are souls that must perform infront of judge panels ( which in this case were turned into gods )  to gained a chance of ascending to heaven or fall down to hell.

Katie and I chose to work together for this production bible. James chose to work on the same idea but will put his own spins and interpretations from the original draft.


So here are the character research and designs. I chose to do the designs on Buddah and Anubis. The style that we both went for was Tomi Ungerer, which I've used for my previous story : The Hare

Did some research on the talent show's setting which is the stage.

A mixture of the ancient Colosseum and a theater

  

Creative cards.

Here's a challenge. Creating a concept story from a random word on cards.
The cards I got were:
Character - Hare
Set - Beach hut
Show - Talent show
Artist style - Tomi Ungerer

 At first I was rather worried about my artist since he has done a wide range of style. I could probably pick up his rough lineart style.

The story I've come up with so far is about a hare that somewhat lives in a beach hut restuarant. His owner works in the restaurant in a way but that is not an important info. So the Hare dwells about in the restaurant and one day they host a talent show. The hare looks at a magician performing his trick with a rabbit and wanted to be that rabbit or at least be part of the show. When the Magician does another trick involving him climbing into the box(perhaps a dissapearing act). The Hare thought it would be a good idea to help out with his trick and hops on the stage and did the " cut the box n half trick".

Concept design on the hare with Tomi Ungerer style

Secondary character : The magician and perhaps the little rabbit

15 second of funny

The first group project of the year. Create a 15 second film that will make people laugh. Comedy is always a challenge.

In this group Emily came up with the plot of a little girl and her pet rabbit and taxidermy. Lovely little story.

I provided the group with a rough story board.

a rough animatic was put together by Emily Henshall and sound effects by Georgi Urumov

I've made some short animation test and some concept for the background. Mostly it will be the same through out the film with the exception of the ending scene with the rabbits and in the closet. The background idea so far was to be made in 3D but we are still decided of what to do with the final scene.

More work

Getting back to working on my task. Kinda exciting in a way, exploring more design method and gathering up new inspirations. I've been practicing and trying to improve my drawing and colouring skills, hopefully on my story telling as well.

Been doing more art. I'm practicing comic style panel in my free time

And another new colouring style I'm trying out is cel shading

Personal art work

Disappeared for a while during the summer. Family, travels and work.
Been practicing my digital paintings. Backgrounds are the most I have to practice with .

First year animation film - the sea tale

After weeks our film project is done. I am so happy to see all our work  been put together into this film. 

It was such an experience. I love my team mates. I love our meetings and brain storming sessions. I think that we work ready well together and was able to keep it together until the end.

We've put alot of thoughts into the sequence. Manipulated scenes and effects as well as our thoughts on the music to accompany the scenes. There were more ideas to the ending from the idea of having the character being a ghost from the beginning to the idea of having a grim reaper standing behind him but on our final decision we decided to go for  the simple crane smash. 

Sea project scene shots

Working on full speed for the sea project. I've been working on the 2D scenes for the flash back section of the film.

The most difficult part is doing them from different angle as well as making the movement as smooth as i can because its a slow sinking scene. foreshortening hand reaching  I had to redo so many times because I just can't seem to get it to look right.