Animations from Portsmouth by Rosie : November 2014

Friday, 14 November 2014

Week 8: Sound

Not strictly visual research but research that has guided my plans.

So I talked to a tattoo artist about tattooing on hands and he said he wouldn't tattoo someones hand unless they have both sleeves done. This made me look into full sleeves and a general dress style that came up a lot with females was a 1940's esk style. This has also made me think of the long distance relationship being one about the war and having it start in the 1940's in grayscale black and white and progress to a modern day setting as ultimately this story is about long distance relationships.

Once I have some initial designs I will be taking them back to the tattoo artist to get some feedback.

I also started looking at music:
All about the bass - Meghan trainor
Sing sing sing - Benny goodman
Goodbye mr A
19 said (xxxholic)
Diver english version
Merry Go Round - howl's moving castle

And decided on 100- 110bpm and came up with a rough melody. And skipped the repeated phrases.

- will add links to audio files soon-

Character design characteristics 1940's

Dude
- slick black hair
- white sleeveless top
- black suspenders
- black skinnys
- army
Lady
- black pinned up curled hair
- nurse

Week 8: General update

First storyboard, roughing out the ideas based on the written plan.

I went to the natural history museum sadly there weren't many owls as the bird exhibit was being re done but here are a few of the drawings.

From lessons here are a few more life drawings

Week 8: Green screen, final plans.

Green screen animatic

Mike did the first 34 seconds and I did the rest putting all of the green screen footage together so it works to the correct timings. We had to jiggle the plans around a little bit. But now that's done we all sat down and decided on who was going to do what. As you can see below.

Written storyboard allocation

Rosie Jess Mike

1-4 "cut video" style eye + iris after effects

4-6 3D clock cut video of hand moving down, ink in flash in sea colours

6-9 Flash sea, cut out clouds sheet music, photograph of sky then manip to fit mood, 3D bed orange (Cuddling a koala who is wearing a hat)

9-10 Masking the green screen, changing transparency scene being scrumpled, ink dropping flash, next scene behind scrumple already

10-13 Drop falls in center, 3D bed, mask, green screen flash, Goes to put feet in slippers that warps around nicely at same time blue at start as it wraps around it starts to turn black and white

13-15 3/4 view on left B&W video chop

15-18 video background, rotoscope face, many textures playing over the top

18-19 Black and white kettle, just kettle changes to trippy colurs as water bubble we boil the universe

19-23 Take picture of BG, Kettle, then distort kettle and click apart in photoshop

23-25 Pause 3D bathroom Steam and water after effects

25-28 Dripping that gets longer than steam transition

28-32 Mirror mask, move mirror to left

32-33 Eye blink - same as start

33-35 (Green) One colour, Second skin pulling up, Onesie (zip face) B&W photograph as he zips up, rotoscope green doll movements, after effects

35-36 (Blue)New colour, show him brushing hair, Hair brush as passes over hair changes to a brown texture (leather)

36-38 (Red) Starts to fall behind and blur and warp

38-40 Music sheet lines dripping (actual lines and notes)

40-44 Purple, blue,pink pastel calm, on left human shrinks, making breakfast 3 stills of him doing so with a slow turn to face camera by end frame.

44-45 Fast zoom on face, as spoon goes into mouth show next scene in mouth already

45-48 Chaos walls starting to merge, 3D bathroom just about to touch go to top view (1 sec) Solid bathroom floor just bathroom walls moving, bath, toilet, sink, in 3D he's on back wall. Human "cut video"

48-52 Chaos - Abstract video colour , Hand reaching forward, Slow motion, background super speed

52-53 Show his back (colour/black) in warped background room (bathroom)

53-54 Show his face brushing his teeth, Zooming out

54-56 Show character in bathroom, bathroom isolated in black space, music surrounding, flowing around the room almost hugging it

56-57 Splashes water on his face and stands up straight - Water masks as another layer

57-58 Character : Jacket, Layers, man shifts over onto jacket When he's in jacket have live action sewing video playing on jacket

58-59 Keys : Briefcase : Character(now in Jacket), move items onto page

59-1.00 Open 3D door and drown in the white light and outside noises

1.00-1.06. He floats in water towards the light. Breaking water and breathing in. floating in water

1.06-1.07 Float completely up, smooth motion

1.07-1.11 Piano steps (piano key)

1.11-1.13 Standing outside a door, goes to knock on lion and it roars interrupting music flow. Lions mouth stretches and you go through it into next scene

Pan up his body to show his face, him in Black and white and people walking behind in normal clothes
1.13-1.16 3D different doors textured , Series of doors open in real life, go through a door this is another door etc.

1.16-1.20 Him looking through an open door and seeing a hat swinging, slow zoom out to show replica hats and walls, Background is video hat and him animated

His P.O.V show one room but lots and lots of hats (double mirror effect)

8 snaps of the hat hidden in the video

1.20-1.23 show his brain cut out with music escaping

1.23-1.24 Him lying on a psychiatric 3d couch, the couch changing pattern musical notes flying down screen,

1.24-1.25 Zoom in on his face as he buries it in the couch, the couch still changing

1.25-1.26 Show a dull world within him standing in the middle, music and colour inside of him, that is the released and everything becomes colourful

1.26-1.28 Him standing Black and white against colour background, soothing image, slight breeze very soft

1.28-1.30 Lying in musical ocean sun glare slowly rising across screen as sun rises and fades to white

1.30-1.32 On fade to white have a slight glitch showing the hat

We then made deadlines as to when we could get it done by. Mikes doing the 3D modeling, Jess the liquids and I'm doing the main rotoscoping. The deadlines are something I went through with each person to make sure they could keep to it.

Deadlines

Mike

3D Clock
3D Bathroom

3D Bed (with koala)
3D Piano key

3D Door
3D Couch
3D Hat

Week to make, week to texture - 25th
Cut frame kitchen scene. - 28th (wait for Rosie)

Jess

Beginning eye

Lion eating him
Hats swinging
Sea, clouds, sky flash/photoshop manip

Water that he drowns/swims in (Same as above)

Ink dropping flash
Slippers ink dropping and wrapping around feet

Music lines dripping - 25th

Music flowing around isolated bathroom (Wait for Mike)
Musical notes falling down the screen like rain (Wait for Mike) - 28th
Rosie

Rotoscope all of him - 18th

Take a picture of BG/Kettle
Green/Blue/Red cut scenes
Jacket, layers man shifting over jacket
People walking behind him in normal clothes as you pan up his body
Show his brain cut out music escaping - 25th

Piano steps (Wait for Mike)
Sunglare

Iris music effect - 28th

Unassigned (to do after 25th)

Colour inside him spreading out into the world around him (Wait for Rosie)
Distort kettle and click apart in photoshop (wait for Rosie)
Bathroom steam and water effect (after effects) (Wait for Mike)
Splashes on face with different masks (Wait for Rosie)

Thursday, 13 November 2014

Week 8: Textures, Reference, Scenes, Trello

Textures

This was from around week 5, were I went back over one of Lily's concept works and did my own focusing on texturing which helped with the hippo and assets.

Rocks

Waterfall

Video Reference

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLR1rG2A6V5MSAHG0DYY5Hf55STx6cAnXR

Lily acted the hippo, Sara the boy and I was using the camera as the only one trained in it.
We took over the light box room for an hour or so as it had a projector which we showed the animatic onto and also a full scale mirror.

We will now be using it as reference ^^

Putting it all together

Using Sara's animatic I deleted the boy and hippo from the file and concentrated on getting all of the scene scaled correctly and textured using both Lilys and my textures and also changing the assets so that they had the correct uv mapping. Making sure the assets are on different layers so it's easier to navigate. This file was then imported into the original animatic scene.

This file named "Animate on me" doesn't have the textures yet but will have them added later. Callums initiative managed to get the rig to work and the hippo to be able to be scaled when that was added. And the key frames from Sara's animatic fit to correct times.

Planning

Week 6-8

Blocking didn't happen on time because

- animatic time was incorrect and needed to be changed

- We had a problem scaling the assets to the animatic

- We had a problem with adding the rig to the hippo

- Paint weighting and rigging the hippo had unexpected problems

- We were a week behind on assets and caught up on those

But! All of these are now sorted and over the next week we will be focusing purely on the animation. I've split the work so everyone is doing 50% of one character and we all know what section we are doing. Using the new pri vis we will be using the same file and making sure the key frames stay relatively the same so when everything is put together it will all work.

Week 9
So the aim is to get all the blocking done, the concentrate on lighting and polishing next week and then to start putting it all together in premier. All in all we are back on task, just will have less time to polish it all off.

I've also moved all the needed files into there own section as it was becoming unorganized in looking under done. So everything is easy to find and work from.