Feed back

My feed back for my last presentation befor My Final and most impotent one was... alright I gess.

I Fallowed all the Advice given from the last pitch and planed what I would say made sure to memorise the names of animators and important names as memory is somthing I am week on. and completly changed my story idea.

However! I was extramly nervuse, shaky and offten found my self not saying anything when I had so much to say. My nerves got the better of me and I dont think this has happend befor...

none the less, the lecheres didnt seem to menten it in my feed back but I knew I was jumpy so I may need to practice keeping calm.

The feedback that was given how ever was; they liked the new direction and story and could see a clearer path for my thinking and ideas. However I should be carefull not to make my animation to symbolic so no one knows whats going on in the hole animation.

I also shouldn't mention things I have done previous to this, not because it isnt impotent but because in my final presentation this distracts from the main point I need to bring across in my final presentation.

They did like my new story and its powerful message. however they where unsure about the ending and was thinking that it should be something else like death... I was not fond of this as the last secen was ment to be a resolution and not a tragedy.

The link

The reason for my upload of Paper man is because I have found a Link in my research something that has always been there and concepts my research at the very beginning to just now.

Originally I wanted to focused my research on 2d-3d animation and how hybrid animation can be used effectively to enhance the animation.  How ever this was a Fresh field of research for me and information to find on this was hard. But my main concept was to try and make 3D animation look as close to original 2D concepts as possible.

Paperman successively achieved what I was thinking of and hoping for. and in the videos it is also menchend keeping an image free and close to the original style of concept art and Medium.


and with my research on limited animation for television I was also arguing why children shows and movies aren't more influenced by there original concept art. The artwork of Cinderella was something that amazed me but there final animation looked nothing like the art they had made and this was very frustration that they would toss such nice besides and concepts. but it was understandable as it is hard to keep this kind of art style in proportion and with strong continuity with so many people working on it it had to be set to strict rules.

But ageing I was talking about the relativity of concept art to animation and why it doesn't exist. but the truth is it dose exist but in animation shorts. of all my previous research is still relevant but less focused on now what is my topic. being how dose medium and line effect the feel and movement of the animation. 

I have been looking more in to short animation that use inserting styles and medium. here are a few i have found.: 

 (I have notes on this back home I must add later)

Paper man

Bringing the gap I have been talking about with concept art and animations :

Presentation feed back

 Due to Resent events, I will admit my presentation was not as preperd or professorial as i would have liked. My Dyslexia and stress of proforming made me forget a lot of names and information i know and make me look a lot less knowledgeable on my topic than I really am.
However this may sound like a sad point I will not let it bring me down and Learn for the Future, A list of important names and terms I may use wright down on Paper to help me on my way.

Along with that I did Received a lot of good information.

It was commented that my Animations and research looked more focused on the Aesthetic of the animation rather than limited animation for television. It seems my lecheres are worried that if I focused to much on budgeting and the limitations that are bright along with TV animation, that It will hold me back fir what i can realy do, as this is not chalinging.

It was advised that I maby concentrate more on aesthetic in animation than the limitations so I am more free to explore my topic. and even tho my research point has changed everything I have already Research is still valid and useful for me to continue.

I was hoping more to concentrate on the marketing and production as this it what i hope for as a future corer, it is true that this hold me back and i would be better with a much more inexpressive portfolio than numbers and figures.

 So I am changing for a more artistic direction for I am an artiest and a animator, not a businessman or mathmatishion.

Much like the animated movie, book of Kell^ the art of the animation is based on the original book of kell. Showing how a visual style can help the apple and push the story.

It was also stayed that my story (with the milk) seemed a little cleshay, like he had already seen it befor. My story is not the most original, but I liked it Generic quality. However as i am now changing my Main Objective this story is not appropite for it any way.

They said they enjoyed the story with my Chess board characters more...However...I realy dont like the chess idea. The chracters yes but the story feels dry and ..bllah...

So I may agein need to find a New story... hmm.

Straight after my presentation I went to book stors to look at children illistraters whos styles inspired me, (I will add the list latter)
But whill looking I relised It is not a Childs storry I want to animate so logicly this kind of ilistration is the wrong thing to look at, but it was still good Reserch in to there style. why cant we have more stylised animations like childrens books but theamd for adults.

Pitch feedback

Animistic: Last milk

This is the First go at my animistic. From showing it to my Supervise and other animators. It was noted that there are to many mid/close shots, making it hard to understand where everyone was going in the store and which detection they are running. Even tho this helps the limited side of the animation is take away from the story and audiences understanding.

To help with this I have been watching the Chase scene in ratatouille

(sorry for the odd Audio this was the best i could find on youtube to show you watch i was watching on my DVD)

From watching this I notist that the shots are normally further away to help the watcher know where the character is. and the Camera kept focusing on the Window exit to keep reminding you what his goal was and where he wanted to go, as well as showing you how much progress he had made running and how long he had till freedom. 

Hopefully this will help greatly in my Re-draft of my storyboards, i am also hoping to do a floor plan at a latter date to help with the lay out and directions my character will be running in the store. 

Still struggling with a story,

I have got to a hard stage where finding a story fitting to what I want. I wanted something funny and simple. The characters also had to be dynamic and reusable to fit in with animation for television.
Much like the series of an animation on TV such as loony tunes with Bugs bunny and daffy duck. The character can be placed in to any environment and scenario and preform there story with out the Audience asking how or why they got in to this situation.

For help coming up with story I used the word salad to brainstorm an idea. here are them main pages I likes the look of most:

I decided on the Final Drawing Idea or two people fighting over the last bottle of milk in a super market.
I also had the Idea of it being two superheros fighting over the milk in there very day life's when they are not being super hero's. How ever the Re-usability of the characters made me wonder if this was the best of ideas.

I had the Idea of it being one Very fat and short character and the other tall and slender to make a good contrast in characters. I also wanted them both to be very angular and jagged  One based with squares and the other triangles.