I have looked into what colours would be appropriate for my character. I have tried to associate the colours with the mood I am trying to portray during my animation. I first looked at a colour wheel to see what stereotype colours are linked with each emotion. I decided to make a mood-board to help create the mood for my final character.
This is the mood-board I have made for the colour scheme of my character. I have decided to use these colours because the darker tones are perceived to warm earthy tones that I thought would link well with the angel idea being in touch with earth. They are also meant to invoke the thought of being cosy. The other colors are linked with tranquillity and serenity. I also wanted to add some happiness and friendly colours so I used the brighter golden colours. I want the audience to get a strong sense of what the character is about. I believe I have done this with the colors I have chosen.
This is theexploration that I did with the single line drawing, I decided to do a portrait. Again I like the roughness of the lines I have gone over a lot of the lines to see what it would look like in comparison to the bus picture. I think that it does really look like the. person also.
I really struggle with profile drawings however I think in this picture because I didn't think about it is the best profile drawing I have done. I think it is also slightly caricatured. I also think it is nice to have a different colour marker. I like the eye underneath I have drawing lots of eyes and i really like the emotion through the eye which is another thing I have struggled with.
Today we had our formative assessment for our Drawing and Visualisation module, I did a five minutes presentation to show the work that I had done over the course so far.
I think I delivered the presentation quite well considering I had a small amount of time to prepare with being away ill. I tried to communicate my 'journey' and the way that I have explored ideas we have looked at briefly during our lectures.
In my presentation I decided to start with the British Art Show and one of the artists work that I liked because that was the start of my year and the beginning of my 'journey'. I have participated in many lectures that have taught me a lot about the way I perceive the world around me and how I can experiment. I have taken what I have learnt from these lectures and built on that outside.
I created a mood-board for my carers character and put a twist on negative space by using a single line to create a rough texture. The feedback that I received from my presentation was that I was exploring ideas well and just need to continue what I am doing. I am going to do a lot more research to allow me to create something unique to me.
Young carers a day in the life of Eddie, first light…
The animation is made using stop motion and quite crude
models, I think it creates the feeling that a child has made it rather than it
being a polished and very professional, I think this is an important aspect to
keep the feeling of the story coming straight from the child. For the project
we are doing at the moment I would like to make it a bit more professional
looking. I think that the story is also aimed towards children and getting the
message across to them that there is help available and they don’t have to give
up their dreams or give up helping their parents.
Although this is a very
important message to young carers I think that I will concentrate on creating
the message, to make more people aware of young carers, what they do and what
they can do to help the situation, as well as alerting carers to the help they
can receive.
The story in this short animation is that a young boy looks
after his mother, and his little sister, it shows him going after a dream and
having to give it up to look after his parents, because he has no other
support.
My idea:
Possible perhaps the two children playing a game close up
shots while talking, in a way you see their faces and not their bodies. Everything is normal. Then you draw out
somehow and the younger brother is in a wheelchair and the other brother is
helping him, shows him helping him then everything goes back to normal?
Or something to do with the football…creating the harsh
strong side of being a carer along with something soft to portray the love for
his brother and the need for him to help.
Disney Pixar is a very well-known and respected company, Toy
Story the original was the first animated feature film. The characters that
were created the first time were few, in Toy Story three there have been over
one hundred characters created for this film, including all from the day care
centre. One of the main characters created for this film was Lotso Huggin’
Bear.
The picture above shows the range of characters made
for this film. When creating toys the animators have created well-loved toys like
the Jack in the box, and other plastic dinosaurs.
Lotso huggin bear, the first time you see him he is smiley
and very fluffy the animation show him as a big cuddly huggable teddy bear,
that also smells of strawberries. He is very large so he comes across as the
leader of the day care centre and he has a walking stick which shows he is very
old, he moves slowly and almost slides across the floor. This gives the
impression he has been through a lot because he is very heavy on his feet,
however in contradiction to that he is very fluffy which gives the impression
that he is cute natured.
The personality of a character is very important, especially
when the characters are not human, because when objects or animals are animated
you don’t immediately link that object or animal with an emotion or
personality, so subtle things have to be carried out and thought about such as
movement and posture.
The first thing you notice about Coraline is that her hair
is bright blue, this is to make her stand out from the rest of the characters
in the story, she also wears very bright clothes, and for example she wears a bright coat. This is to make her stand out as a character against everyone
else in both worlds; this creates a focus on her as the main character. She is open
and wants to spend a lot of time outdoors; you can again see this from her
clothing in the beginning of the film. Coraline is very brightly coloured in
comparison to the other characters in the ‘boring’ world this is to show she is
interesting and is adventurous.
The character of Coraline is animated using stop
motion the faces are used in a way to show a great amount of expressions, the
bottom of the face is clipped onto the model to allow a range of animations;
also the top of the head can be changed the way in which she is animated;
movement wise is very strong she is a girl a girl that knows what she likes.
She is also very caricatured, she has extremely thin legs and she also has a
very skinny body. With regards to her face she large eyes and the rest of her
features like nose and mouth are very small; I think this gives focus to her
eyes and eyebrow so the audience get the emotion that is being emitted from the
puppet.
From the way that Corlaine has been made and the way she is
animated, she is slightly ‘dorky’ with the larger ears. From the research into
this particular character I have found out that a large amount of work goes
into stop motion especially when rigging is included. To create the complete
effect of Coraline CGI animation was also used.
The cat in Coraline
is very mysterious and is animated in that way as he slinks around and appears
and disappeared, the voice actor used for the character fits the idea very
well. To make the character shadowy like he has a secret he is animated very
slowly and walks light in his feet, he is all black and his eyes are huge. As
an animal that can talk anthropomorphism is used and this makes the cat a very
important character. Again stop motion is used which creates a unique finish
that makes the cat very rough around the edges like there is a story behind his
life and like he is very old and has gone through a lot. He is wise and knows
what is going on in the ‘other’ world.
This is the design that I came up with for the studio to represent the stages of production in the studio. Pre-production, production and post-production. I thought that it was a good way of portraying the animation and the film industry in a practical way for our studio. I also decided to keep the colours neutral to make the importance of the numbers stand out.
