The Completed Video: The Presentation Slides: Evaluation: I think struggling to learn a new piece of software at the same time as trying to produce a new type of animation (commercial) could have been a great challenge, however with very few

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Producing the screenplay(s) and storyboards/animatics for this module has taught me a lot about the production methods used for getting an animation off the ground and onto the screen. Form working with different sounds and sources, and working towards a desired effect, to

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And here it is with most of the frames improved a little, this could be the final one depending on time, I'm pretty happy with it, even if some parts are a little hodge podge, but that's what animatics are

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A few added sounds and some improved frames hopefully make it all a bit clearer!

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I have done all my previous animatics and such in iMovie, which was pretty easy to use and did the job nicely, but I felt I should move onto something a bit more professional so I set about  making this one

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Just a few progress shots of how the Student Financial services animation is coming along. Getting the hang of Flash slowly, working out the motion editor and its graphs etc, and making sure to keep everything labelled and organised, not only

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Here is a very rough animatic of the sound project, still with a fair few sounds missing, but you can get the general idea of the story and how it's going to go.

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Just thought I'd start sharing some of this year's life drawing work on here. There are currently 2 ongoing major parts to this module, the first being the studies during Uni time, and  weekly tasks. The latest one of these was to study

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Just looking at colours and textures and getting some feelings from media while thinking about my sound project, wondering how to incorporate these feelings and atmosphere into it.

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Using shared documents on GoogleDocs, we decided to set up a timetable for the group project so we can keep each other informed of progress etc

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Little bit late but here is the feedback from our presentation of the animatic etc: "Good idea to have text at the bottom to help explain your narrative – correct the typos. Type out any written text in your animatic and

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Pick a film of your choice.  - 'Varmints' Write a list and identify- 1. the archetypes in the characters - Main protagonist is the focus of the story and is played by a good-hearted, well-meaning, anti-hero insofar as the fact that

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Looking for some inspiration for the Student Financial Services animation, I remembered some older music videos I had seen that had a quirky style and I feel would be ideal for the style of animation for this project, so hopefully I'll put these ideas forward to the

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Keeping with the watercolour style and colours I got some rough ideas down for one of the characters. Pre-lines is quite nice also. Could use this throughout?

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Having a go with creating a still looking at what colours to use to create the atmosphere I want within this animatic and storyboard. Watercolours are a really nice, if quite slow medium to work with for this, covering a lot

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Enhancing the older storyboard, trying to keep to Tom's style to keep it consistent.

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First draft of the storyboard of the new script we were given, couple of scenes missing off the end, and its all in pretty basic form but it should hopefully all be clear what each scene conveys.

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Points Raised: Get some colour in there Make day/night atmosphere clearer Make important plot points clear (ie bear) Remove cross from house - be careful of making things look like something they are not. More reaction shots and dialogue shots etc

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Early Storyboard ideas for the edited together sound files so far (see previous post on this project for that)

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Here is the finished new animatic for the Student Financial Services Pig Project, awaiting feedback as we speak.

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Ignore the strange looking player, it should play the clips though. This is a rough guide as to how I'd like to use the given clips. I've managed to use nearly all of them, and have a good story and

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Just a quick look at progress on the re-doing of the animatic, here it is so far: Any feedback welcome as always!

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I was rummaging thought some of my favourite short animations and came across these, thought they seemed very applicable for the study of dialogue-free but sound based animations. This top one, 'Moon Boy' is my favourite I think and holds so much character

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No, not a form of water torture for pigs, but storyboarding this piggy animation. Here are a few still from the various parts, before being put into an animatic:

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As we're working in a group for this project we needed a way to coordinate our work and make sure we were all aware of what each other are doing. We have a couple of systems set up to manage this,

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