Background: Dark. Makes the back objects almost invisible. Helps with the front object.
https://zety.com/blog/artist-cv-example
Why I chose this CV: The CV is an example of an artist’s CV. Given that I’m studying Art & Design, this is one of the best examples to look at for a CV regarding the topic. Also, while showing an example of a CV, it also gives tips about how to write an Artist CV in thirteen steps.
https://zety.com/blog/illustrator-resume-example
Why I chose this CV: This CV is an example of a career I’m hoping to pursue. It’s very helpful because it explains how to write an illustrator’s CV in ten steps and has a template to give an example.
https://zety.com/blog/animator-resume-example
Why I chose this CV: Like the other two, this CV is an example of an animator’s CV which also shows a good and bad example of a CV and gives tips for those trying to make a CV like this.
To use the Laser-Cutter, always design your sculpture through Ethos.
To draw your design, use the line icons just underneath the tool bar at the top.
Start off with the straight line, then when you need curvy lines, change lines by clicking the tool with the curved line.
Use the mouse tool to move the drawings about.
If you already have a design in mind, take a photo, import it into the app then trace around the lines.
If you want a basis for a design, copy an image from Google then paste it on and trace along the lines you want to use.
If you’re using letters and are trying to fit them onto a piece, write them out big then crop them down with the mouse tool.
To change colour, go to the ‘Cut-Through’ tool and change the colour on your design before you proceed to laser cut it.
If you don’t want to cut fully through into the material, use another colour to show what to cut through or not.
For my Final Major Project this year, I had decided to step up from my comic sketching skills to create an animation. Due to the COVID-19 lockdown, I had to make a few changes in terms of presentation and quality due to a lack of resources.
At the end of Project 3, we had been tasked to research into what we wanted to do for our FMP project and show two initial ideas from our research. My two initial ideas were isolation and memories, to which I was inspired by various artists and animators that had once covered both topics, however, I believe my inspiration was further pushed by the likes of Disney Pixar’s ‘UP’ and Warner Bros. ‘Batman: Under the Red Hood’, two animated films that covered the topic of memories. Isolation was more to do with personal experience. Looking back at it now, I’m glad the latter (memories) was chosen between the two because I got more depth and ideas out of it.
Once decided, I had started my research into animation, taking suggestions from an animator as to which animators I should look into, and in addition, look into animators I had come to take interest in after seeing their work. For example, Richard Williams, Tyson Hesse, Chuck Jones and Youtuber Pedro Araujo as well as looking into other media such as the Snoopy Dog comics and the Felix the Cat cartoons. Their work helped me to narrow down the basics of animation as well as made me think of comedy and humour to which I wanted to also express in the animation in some scenes.
Once I had an idea of what I would do, after the research, I started doing draft character designs, using the storyboard I made by taking photos of Lego scenes I had developed to help with the story. Then, I started to do animation storyboard drafts in my sketchbook before trying the actual animations as preparation for the final animation.
Unlike last year where the idea had come from a visit to London, the idea for this topic and how I’d present it wasn’t actually planned until nearer the time. Last year, I had already planned at the start of the year of what I’d do for FMP, then I simply developed an idea months before the actual project, but this time, I actually had to research to decide what my topic of this year would be. However, how I’d present the topic was already on my mind during Project 3 as we had been introduced to animation and when our teacher had introduced me to an animation app, the plan for the FMP presentation this year was sealed and set in stone then and there.
After I had a zoom meeting with said teacher, I was given a link to an article online which had templates to use for animation storyboards, I used these to draw the main draft storyboard. I had already made up the initial storyboard in the sketchbook on Day 1 but didn’t expand upon the scenes until I was full prepared to do so. I had printed out a template of six frames and used it as the main storyboard. This helped with time because had I done each frame separately, I’d have ended up with more than 29 pages.
The initial story itself was meant to be a little longer, with approximately 67 scenes, however, due to time restraint and some irrelevant scenes, I had cut out a few. This shortened the animatic and saved time as I had literally just finished it all the final week before the Exhibition. In addition, the animation was meant to be a full-blown animation, however, again, time restraint has forced me down, and in retrospect, I think changing it to just an animatic was a smart idea.
Once all of the scenes were finished, I imported each one onto iMovie and made the final edits, changing the speed time on some scenes, adding some background music as well as changing the screen from normal to vintage to give it an experimental or draft like look to it. (that and mainly because it was in black and white, and when I tried adding the title to it, I discovered it was in complete white, and so I thought the best option was to do it in vintage mode so the audience could see the title and credit at the beginning)
Last year, I had used the Medibang Paint Program App for my FMP, and originally had intentions of reusing it this year, however, when I was introduced to the app, Procreate, and discovered it had an animation assist, I had decided to use that instead. This worked out much better in terms of time and scene sketching as I could draw one layer then in the next, draw another frame while looking back at the last frame because it was visible in the other layers until I played through the scene or took them off for more concentration.
I think I had a few more issues this time around as I was pushing myself out of my comfort zone and reaching out into new territory, but the main issue was that I had a lack of resources and we were on lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This caused us all to stop going to college and gradually caused motivation to carry on to slowly become less and less, and at one point, I had almost given up from the worry that I wouldn’t get the animatic done on time. But self-determination, encouragement and confidence made me push onward, and I became more dedicated to it. There were less issues from this, but I think if I was to say there were other issues I had experienced during this project was the timing, but all the same, I managed to meet the deadline on time.
Before starting the real thing, I had done a few early animation drafts which were supposed to be 3 edits (this was mainly because I didn’t understand what 3 edits were at the time), and when I started the actual animatic, I went back, extended and edited these three scenes.
In terms of this year, I think this was probably the most ‘trying’ project, but at the same time, the project I enjoyed the most next to Project 3 because I was going out of my comfort zone, showing how much I’ve learnt as well as improving on my art style this year and working to solve my own problems as I have gone along. I have worked hard to continue the project despite the lack of resources, as well as the pandemic and achieve the best outcome possible within the time constraint of this project.
Here is my FMP animatic of the year! I have to be honest, I’m proud with how it turned out. After two-three months of being on lockdown, throughout, I still worked on my FMP and it feels like now all the stress and strains to get to where I am now feel like they have payed off.
I covered all the scenes in these three articles,
https://euansblog.home.blog/2020/05/18/fmp-animatic-act-1/ https://euansblog.home.blog/2020/05/26/fmp-animatic-act-2/ https://euansblog.home.blog/2020/05/28/fmp-animatic-act-3/
However, for the shorter, simpler version, I’ll explain what’s going on here.
At the start, we’re introduced to a small house, then go straight into the living room where we find an elderly man, looking through what appears to be a book. We then cut to see that this book is in fact a scrapbook and while the photos seem blank at first, as we zoom further into one of them, we see an actual image which then starts to move as we do so. Two children are then seen running through a field. The boy squirting water at the girl who runs away as he chases her, but then the boy starts to brake as he sees the girl heading straight for an adult in front of them. He shouts to her to look out. Too late, she sees the danger and bumps into the adult, forcing them to move down a little while the boy bumps into her and accidentally squirts water up to the adult. The two topple down and get back up to find the adult facing them. Knowing they’re in trouble, the boy hides away the water pistol while the girl attempts to do the cute look.
We cut to a few years later where the pair are teenagers. The girl is still playful as she makes a spin around the park, near bushes. She awaits for the boy, then gets the feeling someone’s watching her. She looks towards the bushes then suddenly finds her eyes covered by someone. The boy reveals himself from the bushes and uncovers the girl’s eyes as she looks unimpressed from this cheeky move. The two then head to the fountain in the park and have a laugh with each other as they catch up since their last meeting. About a few months later, that very spot in the park would later come to be where they have their wedding party as they have their photos taken in front of the fountain.
Roughly about five or six years after their wedding, the wife becomes pregnant and rushes to her husband to tell the news, passing two pictures of the two. One being of their wedding, then the other of the times they spent in the park by the fountain. The husband is reading a newspaper when the wife enters. She pants a little as she’s still shocked, and her expression is enough to tell the husband what’s going on. He smiles from the thought of becoming a father, which makes her smile, knowing all was well and they’ll work things out.
During the months of the pregnancy, the husband gives the wife a cat to keep her company as he goes out to work. Months later, the baby arrives. The husband is overjoyed that he takes a selfie of them in the hospital. However, about four years later, they give birth to another baby. This time, the husband is more professional as he has to hold the daughter back from her excitement as so not to frighten the baby, and has a friend take a photo of the four together.
Ten years later, the husband is working in his office, writing something. (it could be a letter, a form or a script, whatever you’d like to interpret) He sits back a little to take a breather when he hears a giggling noise coming from outside. He looks out the window to find the son and his friends playing football in the field while training for their football game. His friends cheer the son on as he hurries along the field, kicks the ball and scores a goal. The husband sees it all, impressed with his son’s skills, then smiles. Months later, he sits down and watches as the daughter gets ready to play a song for them. The wife holds a camera to record her as she starts to play her guitar.
Some time passes when the daughter and son collaborate to work on a project the son is developing for college. However, the daughter had applied for University starting in September, and this unfortunately made her unable to help her brother with his project. The son is upset as she promised to do the music for the project and because he was unable to get ahold of her as she was too busy getting ready for university, the two have a fallout to which escalates from bad to worse as they continue to argue to the point that the son turns away, sticks his tongue out at the daughter and causes the daughter to get infuriated, she storms out of the room, go downstairs and leave the house.
From then on, the family doesn’t see the daughter for sometime as she had moved away to university shortly afterward, which made the son guilty for their falling out that he begins to miss her more than he would have. It soon comes near to where the project is at its final stages and the son is doing the final touches before going back to edit it all when the laptop crashes, losing the work he had just spent a week on! This frustrates the son enough to bash the laptop only to look down, worried he won’t be able to get the project done in time.
Then, a surprise comes into the room as the daughter reveals herself to them. The husband and wife are pleased to see their daughter back since it was a holiday at uni, but the son still felt down from their fallout. The daughter asks her parents to have a private word with her brother. The husband and wife respectively leave the room so they could talk. The son still didn’t feel like talking, but the daughter simply brings out a CD, explaining she had worked on the music they had planned during her university course and gives it to him, making the son feel much better. They make up for their feud when they hear a creek from the door and turn around, seeing just the door open, not knowing the husband and wife had heard and seen everything.
Afterwards, the son successfully graduates from college and the daughter goes on to work as a freelance musician, travelling the world to provide music for songs, films and television. The husband and wife meanwhile just stay where they are, living their lives while they still had time left. They go for walks, have fitness training and spend most of their time going to the park.
We come back to the present day after coming out of the photo we had just seen. The elder continues to look through the scrapbook when a hand lowers it down to reveal the son all grown up. The elder smiles at him as they embrace in a warm lovingly hug. We then see a small box on the table as we fade to black.
Continuation of this article: https://euansblog.home.blog/2020/05/26/fmp-animatic-act-2/
Scene 32: Medium shot of the top of the staircase, then the camera shakes as we hear a shout from the room. The camera shake hear looks about right, but I just don’t know what to think about the staircase. I think I need to work on that. The shakes might be a bit wonky though.
Scene 33: We truck into the son’s room where the two siblings are fighting. The story behind this is that the daughter has applied for university abroad and hasn’t time to help her little brother with his video game project to which she promised to do the music for. However, when she explains she won’t be able to, the son feels like she’s going back on her word, leading to the fallout, the son turning away and sticking his tongue at her, making her outraged enough to storm out of the room, slamming the door.
Now here, where the steam comes from the daughter, I had done this deliberately because I didn’t have plans to voice act this, and so decided to show how angry she is through expression and emotion. The shake of the room afterwards is another way to show her outrage and how loud the door is slammed.
Scene 34: The daughter hurries down the stairs, takes her jacket and leaves the house. I think the staircase here is much better than earlier, but still a bit wonky in a few places. The movement feels a bit more like stop motion. This is fine because this is meant to be an animatic, though I think I should have added in another frame at the end…
Scene 35: Cut to a few months/ a year later where the son is still working on his video game project on his laptop. There was meant to be more movement from the fingers here, however, something went wrong halfway and so I had to fallback on the copy and paste method. This feels lazy and a cheap way to do the scene, but then again, I’m not doing a full blown animation. If I was, I’d fussing over this for a whole day, or a few hours.
Scene 36: Cut to the son and wife on the sofa as the son works. The laptop suddenly glitches, erasing some of what the son had just saved. He hits the keyboard, causing the wife to wake up. Then, they hear a voice coming from behind them. The lines under the son’s eyes are meant to show how long he’s worked on this project, like spending days and nights working on it (I did this as a way to show how long it took to do this project, but in a funny way) The wife is asleep to portray around the age she and the husband are at the time. Showing wrinkles, beginning to have greyish hair, resting more than they used to.
Scene 37: The daughter enters the room from the hallway. This is a still image as I didn’t think much was needed to be shown here. Plus, what movement can be done here?
Scene 38: Close up shot as the wife gets up while the son sinks down looking away. What’s happening here is that the parents head to the hall as the daughter wanted a word with the son. The son sinks down to show he’s still a little guilty for his fallout with her a while back. The shadow going across is the husband. With that, I decided to reuse a silhouette scene I had done earlier in the animation.
Scene 39: The daughter sits beside her brother as she tries to stir up a conversation. The son is too ashamed to face her, so the daughter shuffles in her pocket and pulls out a CD, explaining she had done recordings of her music samples for the video game project, showing the son that she managed to squeeze it in as part of her studies. The son smiles from this, then they hear a creak and look to the door where the parents were peeking.
I think I did well with emotion here, and showing between close up and further out in terms of figures. Though I think I may need to look at the door again, because it seems to move forward then back again.
Scene 40: Still images of the son and daughter, showing what they went on to do. The son graduating college and the daughter taking part in music departments in companies as a freelance musician.
Scene 41: A freeze frame shot of the husband and wife, showing more age, walking about. Originally, I had plans of showing a park in the background, however, I struggled to figure out exactly what the park would look like, so just left it blank. I know, lazy way out, but if I was to do the park, I’d have to keep drawing and rubbing out. That would take hours, and I could just simply move the husband and wife from one end without moving the park background with it. (trust me, I tried to in an earlier scene, it didn’t work)
Scene 42: A still image of the husband and wife at the fountain, just to show the viewer these are the same couple who got married at the fountain and who we saw early on in the animation.
Scene 43: At last, we return to the present where the elder is still looking through the scrapbook as we truck out from the photo. Then, the son, now fully grown up, forces the scrapbook down as he appears to the viewer.
I did have plans to fill in the other images, however, since I hadn’t done so earlier aside from when we zoomed into one of the images, I found it best not to in order to save time. Plus, the photo was copied and pasted in.
Scene 44: A still image of the elder to show he’s still where we left him, and having a smile on his face. I wanted to include this to remind the audience that we started with him, and watch as he went through time, then comeback to the present and remind them who’s the one looking through the scrapbook.
Scene 45: The two men stare then embrace each other. With this scene, I think I wanted to express a bit of emotion and the moral that you should spend as much time as you can with your family. I thought I’d express this through a hug to indicate it’s been a few years since the father and son had last seen each other, the elder’s time is near, and the son wanted to see him before he leaves. This would have made for a sad ending, which is why I thought it best not to show that or give indication for it, so thought carefully about the last scene.
Scene 46: For this last scene, I decided to have a wedding ring box and have the word ‘FIN’ at the end as a bit of a happy and smart ending. This can also be seen as another moral to the story of that one story ends and another begins.
Continuation of this article: https://euansblog.home.blog/2020/05/18/fmp-animatic-act-1/
Scene 17: A still image of the husband presenting a cat to the wife as a present. After Act 1, I found it best to make some of the animatic just still image as in the actual animation, they’d actually move from one end of the frame to the other, like quick flashbacks you’d see in an anime.
Scene 18: A down shot of the husband and wife at the hospital with a newborn. The wife holds the baby in her arms while the husband takes a photo from excitement. At the time, I thought this scene was a funny joke or a juxtaposition mainly because most parents would act a bit calmer when they give birth. I thought this a funny idea as the husband loves to take selfies and so had him take a picture of him with his wife and newborn child.
Scene 19: A straight on picture of the family with a newborn baby. This time, I went for a more calmer approach as the husband is holding the daughter on the shoulder, likely to avoid making her jump up with joy and scare the baby. Again, I originally had in mind to make the scene go from one end of the frame to the other. I think I’ll go back and make that happen before bringing each scene together so they don’t look like I just added in a few extra frames for time.
Originally, after this scene, I had intentions on adding a scene with the grandparents in a forest and tent. My reason to why I had cut it out was because it seemed a bit too long and I wasn’t sure I’d have been able to finish it out without taking out other scenes which have more relevance to the animation. Maybe when I go back and do this again, I’ll add it in.
Scene 20: A few years later, the husband is in a room writing something. He stops for a break then hears a giggle from nearby. With this scene, I decided to experiment with hand and arm movement along with the pattern. I’ve seen this executed in a few animations and thought it would be effective. However, trying to do so wasn’t easy as I constantly had to focus on where the line would be then show a continuation of it. Not an easy feet. I’ll be honest though, I feel like the table might be too angled, or the figure is too 2Dimensional. I can’t be sure.
Scene 21: The husband looks out of the window and sees what’s going outside. I’m aware the window looks a little wonky. This is mainly because I was using the edit tool and had issues making a straight window. In future, I’ll be trying to perfect this.
Scene 22: We truck out from a close the football and then to the son running across the field. I did try making it look like the boy was running, but forgot to make him bounce up and down as he did so. Still trying to work out every little detail. However, I didn’t think it mattered much as I had to bear in mind, this is meant to be an animatic, not a finished animation.
Scene 23: The son’s friends watch on as he hurries to the goal. Here, it’s just two frames repeating each other. This was an easy animation and thought it fit with the animatic. Plus, it saved time to work more on more tricky parts.
Scene 24: The son kicks the ball. Now here, I did try to make as much of an animatic as possible, but felt that I had to add in a few more animation pieces here in order to make it clear the ball is flying in the air and distancing itself from the boy, like a POV (point of view) shot. Originally, it was going to be a horizontal pan with action frame. However, I felt that would have been more time consuming. If I had more time, I think I’d have been able to do this.
Scene 25: A quick animatic of the goalie trying to catch the ball but fails as it goes through the ball. Again, this was meant to be a horizontal pan of action. I thought I’d have the goalie hit the grass with a slight thud for some sort of humour. I decided not to add in the net structure here. I did try to, but the angle was difficult and I would have been working on this for longer.
Scene 26: A view through OL scene as the husband watches his son jump up from his goal with his friends hurrying to him. This was literally two frames to save time, and again, animatic. Though maybe I should add in another frame or two here, just to show movement.
Scene 27: The husband looks surprised then smiles. I had accidentally forgot to add in the arm line placement and the pattern of the shirt here. I’ll go back and redo this.
Again, here, I attempted to do another one end of frame to the other scenes between these scenes, but due to time restraints and given that they weren’t that important, I decided to leave them out. Might add them in if I find the time.
Scene 28: Close up of the daughter tuning up her acoustic guitar. This is basically a still image with only the arm moving, but I think I need to work more on the arm and hand as they look a little off.
Scene 29: We truck out to see the daughter looking at the guitar then out to audience. Another still image with little movement. Not much to say here, but if this was the actual animation, I’d definitely add in a few more frames.
Scene 30: On the other side of the room are the husband and wife. The husband watches while the wife gives a thumbs up as she sets up the camera. I think there should be a bit more movement here as the husband just looks like a dummy here or a statue.
Scene 31: The daughter starts playing her guitar. Here, there’s a bit more movement here, but maybe I should have done the movement with both arms. Furthermore, the fingers a little off still. I really need to work on my movement skills…
This act took a bit longer than expected and as I had to cut out a few scenes and with just one more practical week, I think I might have to rush Act 3 a bit.
For my Primary Research, I was practical and decided to interview a few close friends and teachers of some of their funniest or best memory they could think of. These memories are listed below.
Wrong car
Lamp post accident
Crisp burst
Trouser and skirt issues
Winning a Sprint Race
Drawing a dining table
Slipping on ice
Mum pouring salsa all over her jeans when we were on a camping holiday
Dad pouring out too much brandy into Mum’s cup and her getting very tipsy
Dad putting his jumper on backwards and then getting stuck when he tried to take it off
Your face every time you ate something you didn’t like
Meetings with friends during lunch
We were talking about dieting and veganism. Of course a certain someone starts talking about how he eats a lot of fruit and is very healthy. So I said the only fruit he eats in a chocolate orange.
Williston
Ballakermeen High School
UCM
Castle Rushen High School
Ballasalla Primary School
Home
France
Delamere Forest
35-30 years ago
4-5 years ago
12 years ago
5 years ago
Throughout childhood
2 years ago
Over 50
19
Office wear (business suits)
High School Uniform
Primary School Uniform
Didn’t get arrested
Ran out of breath afterwards
Trainee teacher got mad and main teacher sorted it out
Happened numerous times
First trip in motorhome
When we still had the tent
Not funny at the time, but now at an age when looking back, it is
The whole 6th form went up in tears of laughter
After spending two weeks on three edits, I’ve managed to complete Act 1 of my animatic. This was a little easy as the three edits were part of Act 1. The other two acts might take some time. In addition, I’ve cut out a few frames and scenes to make it quicker. More on that later.
Scene 1: We see a simple house. Originally, we were to zoom in on the house, and in a way, this is literally just one frame added in three more frames for extra run time. However, this is meant to be an animatic, hence why it’s so still.
Scene 2: We cut to an elder looking through a scrapbook. Here, I tried to do a 3D view going from an ‘over the shoulder’ of the sofa to being at the other end of the table, facing the Elder.
Scene 3: The Elder flips a page and we zoom into one of them. As I was working on my animatic, I thought I’d go back to one of the first three edits and add in the photo we’d be zooming into because it goes straight into animation in the next scene. I figured it would be a bit sensible to show a still image of said animation before we got to the next scene.
Scene 4: The memory plays out of two children in a field playing then bumping into someone. Originally, this was going to be a little longer, however, that could be extended upon in the final product (if I ever get round to the final product that is) and I had issues trying to get the legs right, which is why they seem to kneel down a little too far when the girl hits them.
Scene 5: The children get up then notice the adult looking down at them. They look a little worried as they hide away the water pistol, blush and do the cute look trick. The reason why the boy’s head looks a little faded out as he shakes is because he’s meant to be shaking his head at a fast pace, like how a wheel looks blurred when spinning. Though I’m not sure it works that well here. Might retry it if I must. Originally, there was to be a shadow of the adult, but I forgot to add it in. I’ll be going back and try to edit this scene.
Scene 6: Jump to a few years later, the children have grown to teens. As you can see, this is the first edit, however like scene 3, I went back and edited it, adding a few more frames. I think it works well for an animatic, not sure if I should have kept the bushes still in the later frames though.
Scene 7: The two head to the fountain. I was going to add some movement with the fountain, like a few drops of water in every frame, but thought it best to leave it out as it could take a while and also bearing in mind that an animatic doesn’t have to be perfect. But I’ll be honest, I’m don’t like how I’ve drawn the hands here, they keep feeling either too small or two wide.
Scene 8: The two sit by the fountain and laugh. The head movement is meant to be portrayed like that of earlier cartoons that would often have the head move and not the body. Whether this works or not here, I can’t be sure. But aside from that, I think one or two more frames could have been added to the girl landing on the fountain.
Scene 9: Taking a photo by the fountain on their wedding day. I was going to add in the fountain, but looking at both the frames and the storyboard, I found it a little difficult to how I could fit it in between the pair. Maybe if I go back and redo the scene, I might be able to figure something out. If I was to say anything about the animation here, I’d have to say that it feels much better than the previous attempts.
Scene 10: We zoom out to a bird’s eye view of the the wedding. It looks impressive and well done. Plus, it doesn’t require much movement aside from tilting the camera to a 90 degree angle.
Scene 11: We truck out from a photo to a draw and cupboard as a shadow hurries past. Here, I had drawn the draw and cupboard with the photos then duplicated each frame before trucking into the photo to make it easier and avoid drawing so much. I added in the shadow to avoid rubbing out in each frame.
Scene 12: The wife comes into the lounge where the husband is reading the newspaper. The original was to be two frames, like still image, but I thought adding in the extra frame made it more like an actual animation than stop motion.
Scene 13: The wife has a surprised look on her face and breathing heavily. For this scene, I was basically attempting a deep breath or heavy breathing for a character, and I think it works well here. You could say this is another of my three edits.
Scene 14: The husband is shocked then smiles. For this one, it was basically a two frame scene again for a stop motion approach. However, the second frame is in between and feels necessary for going from a shocked expression to a smile.
Scene 15: The wife smiles from his acceptance. This was literally a two framer because this time, I decided to go for the stop motion attempt. I think it works a little, but maybe a second frame in between the two might make it a bit better as the move down feels a little too fast paced.
Scene 16: The wife sits down next to the husband as they think of the future. I attempted more movement for this scene, however, I really struggled with the sitting down part because I had to get the height right and try not to make the sofa too far out of place. This was probably the most difficult next to the fourth scene.
The last six scenes are actually the start of Act 2, however, I added them in here because I had completed these scenes to date, and am slowly attempting to carry on with Act 2. Animation in itself is difficult as you have to perfect everything you’ve taken from a storyboard or an animatic and add in more or fewer scenes and colour, whether random, black & white or sepia. But an animatic is probably more difficult because it’s like trying to mix stop motion and actual animation together which can be a little difficult when you’re more used to stop motion.
For the past two weeks, I worked on three edits for my animation. A short and fast paced version, a dramatic version and a version that I think communicates the message.
Edit 1, short & fast paced. I thought this would be best represented of a short and fast paced version as it’s quick and simple of a girl twirling then stopping. It’s quite quick through movement and the bushes keep changing at a quick speed. After looking through this scene, I went back and edited a few then extended it.
Edit 2, dramatic version. For this version, I took the approach of a 2D animation with the camera following two children as they run through a field. It’s not that dramatic, but it does show a slight bit of camera usage and movement. Something to work on honestly.
Edit 3, the version I think communicates the message. My main message for this project is memories, why we have them and why they’re essential. This scene basically shows a scrapbook of memories then we zoom into one of the photos to where the first scene plays out. Now, I’m aware there’s nothing on the photos, but that is intended as this is meant to be an animatic so I don’t have to worry too much about details. I think this scene communicates the message because it’s meant to show these memories and we see how much they mean to the elder as we go along the video.
Now, these were three edits and the first animatics I had done. So, when you see the real thing, you’ll notice a few alterations to these three when you watch the animation. Again, these aren’t in colour because it’s an animatic.
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