tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85209400347947337452024-03-14T09:02:45.779-07:00@lice animation@lice nightingalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11398770969419424922noreply@blogger.comBlogger137125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8520940034794733745.post-2634524354464677722013-02-28T09:55:00.001-08:002013-02-28T09:55:33.598-08:00Love Hate (Teaser Video)<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" mozallowfullscreen="" src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/53499780" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="500"></iframe> <a href="http://vimeo.com/53499780">Love Hate (Teaser)</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user7084191">Alice Nightingale</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.<br />
@lice nightingalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11398770969419424922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8520940034794733745.post-32296022965949913472013-02-28T09:45:00.001-08:002013-02-28T09:53:01.592-08:00A much needed update.<div style="text-align: center;">
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Life after graduation has been depressingly unrelated to animation thus far. </div>
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After a summer spent using the last of my house deposit to enter Love Hate into as many festivals as possible, it seemed inevitable I had to get a job. So I'm back at faithful Waitrose once more. </div>
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There was however, a little light at the end of the tunnel as myself and fellow coursemate <b><a href="http://www.nigelkitts.com/">Nigel</a></b> (one of Love Hate's animators), were accepted to work as volunteers to the 12th Cornish Film Festival which took place in November. (I've got amazingly slow with these updates). </div>
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Excitingly, Love Hate was also accepted into the festival, screening in both the "Made in Kernow" category and the Eye-Toons Animation shorts category. </div>
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However, the festival became even more exciting as Love Hate went on to <b>WIN</b> the award for the "Made in Kernow" category. </div>
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A complete surprise to me as I hadn't even known it was shortlisted! (Poor Nigel however had been told earlier in the day and had to struggle to keep it a secret!)</div>
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This win gave us a nice shiny trophy and £400 in prize money, which was split between the team and kept to bankroll the film into future animation festivals (at £10-30 a pop to enter - as well as postage, DVDs and printer ink - it's not cheap!).<br />
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Sadly things after Chritsmas haven't been quite so rosy, and I had to postpone working as a volunteer for Animated Exeter in order to attend Jury Duty (thankfully far better, and a little shorter, than I anticipated!).<br />
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However, things are beginning to look up again with the news that Love Hate has been selected to screen at the <a href="http://www.haff.nl/en/programme/selections-2013/competition-european-student-films/">Holland Animation Film Festival</a>! And after working pretty much non-stop since the start of November, I'll be using my next week off to enter LH into as many more festivals as possible!
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@lice nightingalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11398770969419424922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8520940034794733745.post-53919103775090830562012-06-01T11:47:00.001-07:002012-06-01T11:47:45.858-07:00Not dead!I realise it's been a long time since I posted, and a lot has happened in that time!
Thanks to my fabulous team:
<a href="http://www.animatedhughey.com/">HUGH</a>
<a href="http://elliotcrutchleysanimationblog.blogspot.co.uk/">ELLIOT</a>
<a href="http://lydiapaige.tumblr.com/">LYDIA</a>
<a href="http://www.doodledemmy.co.uk/">DAN</a>
<a href="http://www.nigelkitts.com/">NIGEL</a>
...Love Hate was finihed with two days to spare! They really are a top bunch of animators and left me (relatively) stress free once I knew it was in their hands and I'm super proud of what we've managed to create.
And despite having a mad rush in the final week to write up 5000+ words worth of reports, I have now handed in every single bit of University work. Which has left me with mixed feelings about the whole thing, as stressful as this year has been I would gladly do it all over again (although, perhaps not the dissertation... you can keep that). The hardest thing has been adjusting to no deadlines and nothing to do now that my crazy 10am till 2am working days are over. Perhaps this summer I'll actually get a tan... Maybe. And now I've actually found I feel bad if I don't do anything, I redid my showreel today because I felt so guilty when I tried to play the Sims. I just hope this work ethic continues!
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Now that the film and everything else is done, we're hoping Love Hate will be able to make a run of the festival circuit! It's been entered into Bristol's Animated Encounters, so time will tell! (Sadly this means you won't be able to see it online, but there are snippets packed into both mine and Hugh's showreels).
Now I must go and pack, for Hugh, Dan and I are off to Annecy! An exciting, but also scary prospect, so if there are any other animators out there who are reading this and are going, hopefully we'll meet!@lice nightingalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11398770969419424922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8520940034794733745.post-36808494350012954242012-05-12T09:17:00.001-07:002012-05-13T12:07:45.847-07:00Business cards......are here!
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Expect this blog to get an overhaul in the future so I can be all matching. I'm also working on matching business cards as part of our Professional Practice module.<br />
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Professional practice is designed to get us in contact with people in the "business" before we become part of the "business" ourselves. This constant thinking of business reminded me of <a href="http://youtu.be/7aEmDgfvLbg?t=49s">THIS</a> (Lets pretend Andy Wyatt is Sam the Eagle and I'm Scrooge, and instead of saying the "American way", he would say "the Animated way").
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(Blogger's new editing system is disgusting).@lice nightingalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11398770969419424922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8520940034794733745.post-80554589525292709442012-04-10T15:35:00.006-07:002012-04-10T15:47:39.515-07:00DinosaursThe past few days I've been playing with Dinosaurs.<br /><br />Original photograph: <br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGDdbXp9C6rfPWQbE4FzM0WbyTNk79n7FsbAKy0domshDf3apzN1RGHfb1dRHoPOBBKhlqH9DjCnXLiQ8VR_EnNI-LUciK7hd303TA0fbyDISUSw3_M9t1kTYP8SUBzb6BEDUsDcLGpq4/s1600/DINOSAUR.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGDdbXp9C6rfPWQbE4FzM0WbyTNk79n7FsbAKy0domshDf3apzN1RGHfb1dRHoPOBBKhlqH9DjCnXLiQ8VR_EnNI-LUciK7hd303TA0fbyDISUSw3_M9t1kTYP8SUBzb6BEDUsDcLGpq4/s400/DINOSAUR.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5729904680097379906" /></a><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm8TgiE-A8Y133E-SglnwlM-7b4lrWVTjwsA53d7S4TsoIi9nNDG5Gm2vfe0ghtKLQjTVmrG_BHJdJZg15qiRbeoIzdR__eOY496jjLKjzkW9x5dMLnurAogXtrhaYFMI4RDl8DawO7XQ/s1600/DINOSAURv2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm8TgiE-A8Y133E-SglnwlM-7b4lrWVTjwsA53d7S4TsoIi9nNDG5Gm2vfe0ghtKLQjTVmrG_BHJdJZg15qiRbeoIzdR__eOY496jjLKjzkW9x5dMLnurAogXtrhaYFMI4RDl8DawO7XQ/s400/DINOSAURv2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5729905202424466434" /></a><br />Separate parts for puppeting in ToonBoom Animate (the final one has more - the leg is in 3 spearate bits):<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5nydWg_MT8RNarukyWqIQpJ9jRCsNiSwrbkqd07JAdJC4TenypU7XkJEcy0kj-LmZ-L4JEJnOKtGIHGmdbARW6rMK5WCZ9NM77cadcPOg1X1kRPfQYRUcCie2jmR-8G_QsaI_xU7WIDw/s1600/DINOSAUR_puppet.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 376px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5nydWg_MT8RNarukyWqIQpJ9jRCsNiSwrbkqd07JAdJC4TenypU7XkJEcy0kj-LmZ-L4JEJnOKtGIHGmdbARW6rMK5WCZ9NM77cadcPOg1X1kRPfQYRUcCie2jmR-8G_QsaI_xU7WIDw/s400/DINOSAUR_puppet.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5729905612417880578" /></a><br /><br />One of the first videos (the dinosaur was then edited to look more like the original drawing, larger head, larger belly, for a bit more characterisation):<br /><br /><iframe width="400" height="233" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/lHcVjizF9gc?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><br /><br />It's actually a lot of fun doing puppet animation. It takes quite a while to set up, but after working on Barista and only figuring out how to do puppets 3/4 of the way through last year, the amount of time it saves animating is worth the amount of time it takes to set up. The final animation will probably have an outline around the dinosaur - I'm thinking graphite stick or biro, but considering the edit here is only done with the original photograph, I'm really pleased with how it's turned out. I've also been playing around with the credits, but dinosaurs are much cooler.<br /><br /><iframe width="400" height="233" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/-n04ic9_MZ0?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>@lice nightingalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11398770969419424922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8520940034794733745.post-58428461380492517002012-03-29T07:21:00.007-07:002012-03-29T08:50:25.831-07:00Easter UpdateSo the blog has been poorly neglected these past couple of months, which I tried to not let happen, but the juggle of dissertation, team management and animating in time for a professional guest sweatbox meant that the blog was last on a list of higher priorities. Now dissertation is done and dusted which means there's A. time and B. less pressure now I just have to concentrate completely on Love Hate.<br /><br />There's a more up-to-date version of our work in progress, but this is the version we showed at the Sweatbox (and the latest online version):<br /><iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/38172964?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen></iframe><br />(In an attempt to be a bit more professional, I'm gradually migrating to Vimeo, got to love those YouTube names created by your 15-year-old self).<br /><br />Love Hate was well recieved by the guy from Industry (whose name escapes me at the moment, this is what happens if I don't write everything down), with only a few suggestions for change, some me and Hugh had already discussed before the sweatbox screening. The main concern is getting rid of the swearword in the beginning (I have promised the school I recorded at to send them a copy, however as it's a primary school the edit really needs to be clean). Since this is the only slip up language wise, we're going to hide it with the sound effect of steam (the coffee cup is going to morph to a teapot - or kettle - that spouts steam, thus to a 'sh---' noise. Cheeky.<br /><br />This section of animation is being done by <a href="http://lydiapaige.tumblr.com/">Lydia</a>, my second year who has stepped aboard. She has been super speedy to recitify any changes I've suggested and she's not afraid of After Effects which is a big help. She's done some cool tests for the coffee already, using pastels (which fits great with the whole hand-drawn/graphicy style I want the film to reflect). <br /><br /><iframe width="400" height="233" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/JjfpA3LmTOw?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><br />Lydia is also working on the fish falling onto the girl (another shot with suggested changes, the shot is no longer cut between the shot of the bird dropping the fish, but now a single shot):<br /><iframe width="400" height="233" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/s3k2C83A6As?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><br />Other team members who've been given things to work on over Easter are Dan and Paddy, Dan is set to work on the Slot Machine/Purple boy sequence and <br />Paddy is working on the bird catching the fish.<br /><br /><br />The goal over Easter is to get all the rough animation done, and then proceed to get as much of the neat animation done as possible for the rough cut deadline on the 27th of April. I leave you with some shots that I've been working on the past two weeks, so you can see how far it's come along since the Sweatbox.<br /><br /><br />Bus design:<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixx7GRplzB1unbe4LJRG0y4lZah7VRh3jRrFQhEh1Gq7lIlUcdnx8fNfvZvyhjwrS4_nphHGDRx7NoqOdxwZKNu5JtthqyL6z9dp7CGsQwdvWYaEeAQMq1Cje0TfiS-kHKd3P2-59PxsM/s1600/Bus.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 198px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixx7GRplzB1unbe4LJRG0y4lZah7VRh3jRrFQhEh1Gq7lIlUcdnx8fNfvZvyhjwrS4_nphHGDRx7NoqOdxwZKNu5JtthqyL6z9dp7CGsQwdvWYaEeAQMq1Cje0TfiS-kHKd3P2-59PxsM/s400/Bus.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5725332029730616178" /></a><br /><br />For the credits I'm contemplating using the speech bubbles I designed as concept art for the pitch:<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqqHPEaoPqZr2jRjp0MfqJjlw47ZPPwYhA90_U77uf5IV7FAueRZN7T0x0bprbf5LMKZ9DThGjahAsrJA_Vcal0z7nLwUD9SK0DdqTfVO8enMaUEzC1ZY2KmyfA91IOlh_8UAKqKQ9pzI/s1600/directed.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 306px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqqHPEaoPqZr2jRjp0MfqJjlw47ZPPwYhA90_U77uf5IV7FAueRZN7T0x0bprbf5LMKZ9DThGjahAsrJA_Vcal0z7nLwUD9SK0DdqTfVO8enMaUEzC1ZY2KmyfA91IOlh_8UAKqKQ9pzI/s400/directed.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5725333684511330802" /></a><br /><br /><iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/39414869?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen></iframe><br /><br /><iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/39415469?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen></iframe><br /><br />Puddle Girl is now completely (fingers crossed) finished:<br /><iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/39369706?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen></iframe>@lice nightingalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11398770969419424922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8520940034794733745.post-1682896547663280082012-02-15T09:50:00.000-08:002012-02-15T11:42:25.698-08:00Animation Tests and OrganisationSo this week I've been cracking on with animation tests, but I've also got back into producing and organising everything for when we start animating (next week - fingers crossed).<br /><br />After our meeting with Andy a week ago, we set out a production pipeline...<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1s9qj8xqKyH7vmmrSxGPAEtj7D0XMGMt9isnCtWakc_q04vJCWD-E2A-s7MLk44OUXo6SSHdW79nWDP-jxTfks4aQCf22kQoDNuZfmWrFmNYSzTr4W_C6ZBMOaQN3tJjoZoetccZnhUQ/s1600/production+pipeline.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 275px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1s9qj8xqKyH7vmmrSxGPAEtj7D0XMGMt9isnCtWakc_q04vJCWD-E2A-s7MLk44OUXo6SSHdW79nWDP-jxTfks4aQCf22kQoDNuZfmWrFmNYSzTr4W_C6ZBMOaQN3tJjoZoetccZnhUQ/s400/production+pipeline.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5709423268207043938" /></a><br /><br />... which has been a blessing for creating the final schedule.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3fzWQ0SewOVuLyGeyRM0XF0E4w6NBr5vCvUA9sQ1ckIIIBQ86PZo4r2NJgAWLq__3x656whjcTUgb5if6akUp9IJC-dMeLxHc16644hdT2wj1nSWvfKI_CzYr67a_XeWJqe5Ryn10geA/s1600/schedule+-+production.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 188px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3fzWQ0SewOVuLyGeyRM0XF0E4w6NBr5vCvUA9sQ1ckIIIBQ86PZo4r2NJgAWLq__3x656whjcTUgb5if6akUp9IJC-dMeLxHc16644hdT2wj1nSWvfKI_CzYr67a_XeWJqe5Ryn10geA/s400/schedule+-+production.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5709423262277028514" /></a><br /><br />I've also done a breakdown of every shot in the production, and have a nicely organised folder with the voiceclip quote and the corressponding storyboard for it:<br /><br /><a title="View LH_PRODUCTION - Shot List, Description, Designation on Scribd" href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/81724603/LH-PRODUCTION-Shot-List-Description-Designation" style="margin: 12px auto 6px auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none; display: block; text-decoration: underline;">LH_PRODUCTION - Shot List, Description, Designation</a><iframe class="scribd_iframe_embed" src="http://www.scribd.com/embeds/81724603/content?start_page=1&view_mode=list&access_key=key-1zjlmpr0bebypii80yxm" data-auto-height="false" data-aspect-ratio="1.41108545034642" scrolling="no" id="doc_70164" width="400" height="343" frameborder="0"></iframe><br /><br />I've also created a form that can be used to document the individual shot's progress.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2S7A0qpZwsJy0293g9tCz5VhZW0WYynqZTid0-JeLPegkZq3n0Chwf8v8A0V3PGWHeer6f_0Pc7qUIuZ7ZD4ERIj7b7ESxABzkkZJI0gb9ha6X7b761CCeJkp-Bbn18VYEri7hanThFs/s1600/shot+breakdown+-+individual.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 283px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2S7A0qpZwsJy0293g9tCz5VhZW0WYynqZTid0-JeLPegkZq3n0Chwf8v8A0V3PGWHeer6f_0Pc7qUIuZ7ZD4ERIj7b7ESxABzkkZJI0gb9ha6X7b761CCeJkp-Bbn18VYEri7hanThFs/s400/shot+breakdown+-+individual.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5709424548630798530" /></a><br /><br />Which will probably end up looking a little something like this:<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVC0nIwcYv4ofl8KNXz6zo7lEwgHTV7smIuwdSS4O8r36YYJcB7A-_mm8ovOK3Czeu7uOJVKtFhPGXvI4pVgtMqXKv6WoVTP3TqN0u6Yal4p4AdhVg0oaO41bCk7WR0uH9aBaYGiBosI4/s1600/img047.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 256px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVC0nIwcYv4ofl8KNXz6zo7lEwgHTV7smIuwdSS4O8r36YYJcB7A-_mm8ovOK3Czeu7uOJVKtFhPGXvI4pVgtMqXKv6WoVTP3TqN0u6Yal4p4AdhVg0oaO41bCk7WR0uH9aBaYGiBosI4/s400/img047.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5709424927156605250" /></a><br /><br />After posting so many schedules I'm feeling rather OCD, but this one is a weekly plan that I can give to crew members to outline the project's overall goal for that week, and they can use to fill in what they do each day... which is going to be a big help when it comes to writing the horribly long production report at the end of term and no-one can remember when they did anything (been there - don't want to repeat).<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfcJn0pkdoSLPI3pI9htFNiWOKdJrM55zMSomirF29zlL4bMGHbnAqT5mhzzZP7wsiS70YxqxgYGmz_sp5a_w11KiW0Wz677T9PMyuHQAkp1CvexpGu6ItF4KmUmDbGbIYEBHgIs7Oz1c/s1600/schedule+-+weekly+-+example.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 270px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfcJn0pkdoSLPI3pI9htFNiWOKdJrM55zMSomirF29zlL4bMGHbnAqT5mhzzZP7wsiS70YxqxgYGmz_sp5a_w11KiW0Wz677T9PMyuHQAkp1CvexpGu6ItF4KmUmDbGbIYEBHgIs7Oz1c/s400/schedule+-+weekly+-+example.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5709425217545635026" /></a><br />Aaaand, finally, a nice table to chart the overall progress of the project:<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK6uetXZBu8WsLDEYz9X2_7mP-EwvjUHe2iY-BkQmW3PVCDOor_hVovnWIjc0F4hkG42ElNdTS33nArSurQl5WFkvt4nc8nYk0nllRu_GrkzJSWFwuAPl0FIZYo_g-drgGEVuCRI_MLFA/s1600/img048.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 282px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK6uetXZBu8WsLDEYz9X2_7mP-EwvjUHe2iY-BkQmW3PVCDOor_hVovnWIjc0F4hkG42ElNdTS33nArSurQl5WFkvt4nc8nYk0nllRu_GrkzJSWFwuAPl0FIZYo_g-drgGEVuCRI_MLFA/s400/img048.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5709426684736075858" /></a><br /><br /><br />Right, now for the fun stuff, the moving pictures! <insert cheer here><br /><br />A video documenting the animation test progress of the Cannibal Pig... She loves bacon:<br /><br /><iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/36607123?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen></iframe><br /><br />And, using the Cannibal Pig, a background texture test:<br /><br /><iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/36843710?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen></iframe><br /><br /><br />As per Rosa's suggestion, every week or so, I'm going to make an edit of everything we have so far, this is yesterday's one (and it's already had some more storyboarding done since then).<br /><br /><iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/36848701?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen></iframe>@lice nightingalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11398770969419424922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8520940034794733745.post-88977922270138387392012-02-07T14:08:00.001-08:002012-02-07T14:09:36.022-08:00Production TranscriptSo, here's what Love Hate consists of at the minute, if anyone has any ideas for storyboarding sections, getting in contact with me and/or Hugh would be great.<br /><br /><a title="View Production Transcript on Scribd" href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/80841176/Production-Transcript" style="margin: 12px auto 6px auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none; display: block; text-decoration: underline;">Production Transcript</a><iframe class="scribd_iframe_embed" src="http://www.scribd.com/embeds/80841176/content?start_page=1&view_mode=list&access_key=key-1qkj7adrcvx6fk8jb27s" data-auto-height="false" data-aspect-ratio="0.708333333333333" scrolling="no" id="doc_14123" width="400" height="625" frameborder="0"></iframe>@lice nightingalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11398770969419424922noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8520940034794733745.post-22054567998811106172012-02-04T05:05:00.000-08:002012-02-07T14:04:12.980-08:00Cracking OnTo save my sanity, Hugh has been an absolute hero this past week while I pieced together my draft dissertation for Monday. The final voicetrack (for the forseeable future) is now in place and we're going to be working to it (perhaps with a few twaeaks here and there for timing).<br /><br />When we showed them on Friday, Rosa and Derek seemed pleased with what we've accomplished so far, and the track got a few laughs even without the visuals to accompany it...<br /><br />(The video is rather boring, but has some storyboard of what we've got planned thus far).<br /> <iframe width="400" height="233" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/AU2swxWB3BI?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><br />We're still looking for ideas for some sections of audio, but this next week is going to be about animation tests, ready for when we get our second years sometime next week.<br /><br />Here's two Hugh made last week:<br /><iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/36109040?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen></iframe><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/36109040">Donut Run Test.</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user3433497">Hugh Herbert</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p><br /><br /><iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/36196653?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen></iframe><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/36196653">Old Lady transformation test</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user3433497">Hugh Herbert</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p><br /><br /><br />And two I made today:<br /><iframe width="400" height="233" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/H1rjy879gkA?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />(It glitches slightly as I hadn't realised there was an additional frame when I switched from 25 to 12fps).<br /><br />The pleasing thing is that these ones didn't take very long at all... I find it much easier to make my animation neater on paper than I do on computer, there's just something about having it there physically on the paper that makes it easier than a graphics tablet for me.@lice nightingalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11398770969419424922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8520940034794733745.post-30005611815695682402012-01-29T04:12:00.000-08:002012-01-29T04:13:02.713-08:00DissertationMy Draft is in a week tomorrow.<br /><br /><iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/7g9WjcGdxuM?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>@lice nightingalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11398770969419424922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8520940034794733745.post-27795203350807044522012-01-15T09:57:00.000-08:002012-01-15T09:58:49.524-08:00Into ProductionSo, it's already one week into term and I'm falling behind with the blog updates, somewhat hindered by my later than expected return to Falmouth due to a chest infection. That was fun.<br /><br />Love Hate has been one of the final ten projects to go into production, (something that is both pleasing and extremely stressful when I stop long enough to think about it). Although it's unfortunate that a lot of my favourite projects didn't go through, this has only spurred me on to make sure this film gets completed to the highest possible standard, and some of those whose projects didn't get picked will help me on the way to achieving this. <br /><br /><a href="http://animatedhughey.blogspot.com/">Hugh</a> is staying on as my Co-director and this week our job is to sort out the soundtrack and get it as finalised as possible. This will mean that we can really get to grips with pacing and storyboarding the entire film ready to start dishing out the animation asap, and give it to <a href="http://roballenmusic.webs.com/">Rob</a> to start playing around with some music for it. It also means organising and editing all the voice clips I collected over Christmas from my Mum's lovely workmates at <a href="http://www.carersgloucestershire.org.uk/">Carers Gloucestershire</a>, who allowed me to interview them all!<br /><br /><a href="http://emilystoneanimations.blogspot.com/">Emily</a> has kindly offered her services to me and will be handling some of the design elements, this primarily consists of Character Designs, and she'll be giving my brief little stick figures an injection of much needed personality.<br /><br />Currently I have no full time animators on my project, but <a href="http://demmy-danimation.blogspot.com/">Dan Emmerson</a> & <a href="http://tomgameson.blogspot.com/">Tom Gameson</a> have said they will lend themselves to a few scenes. Since the scenes are going to be short in length, I've pitched it to the other third years that while they work on longer, more animation heavy and time consuming projects, if they wanted to have a bit of a break and doing something a bit more free and fluid, they can work on a scene of mine , not only will this give them a much needed break, (this comes from personal experience of working on Barista last year - working in one rigid style of animation that you aren't necessarily comfortable with can get you into a bit of a creative rut, so it's nice to just have fun and do something different for a couple of days to get you back into the swing of things)but it will also greatly help to move my project along nicely. Although this is going to mean that the style of drawings varies from person to person, I think it will lend itself to the piece since all of the voiceclips belong to different individuals and no-one really sounds the same.<br /><br />So, watch this space.@lice nightingalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11398770969419424922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8520940034794733745.post-36723088295392768422011-12-07T10:45:00.000-08:002011-12-07T12:15:06.799-08:00Love Hate - AnimaticSo, apologies for the lack of blog updates, but the past week has been dedicated to finishing (and starting) the animatic for Love Hate.<br /><br />Today we had to present our animatics in front of our year, tutors and an industry professional (Morgan Francis - not Freeman as I accidently typed before - Co-Director at Spider Eye). After this the number of final projects going forth to production will be cut down to around 10 from the 16 that got through the pitching stage.<br /><br /><iframe width="400" height="233" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/u8fw1Mww-lQ?hd=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><br />The animatic was made alone by yours truly and I'm pretty pleased with how it's turned out. I wasn't particularly keen on the first 'doorknob' section, but after a few people have each said this was their favourite bit, I've had my faith reassured in it. Not bad for six days of solid work. Even if it meant I didn't leave the house for a couple of days in a row. I swear when/if I get a job in inudstry I may forget what sunlight looks like!<br /><br />Quite alot of people used Storyboard Pro to create their animatics, but since I have never used it and get easily distracted when I attempt to work in the studio... (it appears <a href="http://s3.amazonaws.com/kym-assets/entries/icons/original/000/003/619/Untitled-1.jpg?1288903617">solitary confinement</a> is the best way for me to get stuff done), I created it using a mash of all my program knowledge: Flash, Animate, After Effects and Premiere. A wise choice since these will be the programs I use to make the actual thing (if it gets picked...).<br /><br /><br />So, we shall find out by the end of the week which films are going through. If mine isn't picked I have my eye on a couple of other projects I'd love to help out on. But we shall see.<br /><br />Alas, this doesn't mean the workload is over. Far from it. We have a deadline on friday for the pre-production deadline where we have to produce a bible of nearly all the pre-production work we have so far. Currently mine is about 55 pages (mainly because I've had to include the 30 pages of storyboards! To be honest I think I'll have to separate it into lots of separate parts to get the file size to fit the upload limit!). <br /><br /><br />Aaand, to finish up, here's a new and improved taster of the music, since I changed the soundtrack the visuals play to, I couldn't use this version since it wouldn't match up! Pretty pleased with how it's gone though: <iframe width="400" height="233" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Kftx5i9d_M0?hd=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>@lice nightingalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11398770969419424922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8520940034794733745.post-85868262864414152852011-11-28T14:06:00.000-08:002011-11-28T14:09:49.465-08:00Love Hate - Animatic StoryboardBlam! You might want to full-screen it...<br /><br /><a title="View LOVEHATE Animatic Storyboard on Scribd" href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/74075675/LOVEHATE-Animatic-Storyboard" style="margin: 12px auto 6px auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none; display: block; text-decoration: underline;">LOVEHATE Animatic Storyboard</a><iframe class="scribd_iframe_embed" src="http://www.scribd.com/embeds/74075675/content?start_page=1&view_mode=list&access_key=key-dqh54xkaw1n4ptsprwp" data-auto-height="false" data-aspect-ratio="1.40689655172414" scrolling="no" id="doc_79822" width="400" height="344" frameborder="0"></iframe>@lice nightingalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11398770969419424922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8520940034794733745.post-15485953027175199602011-11-27T05:32:00.000-08:002011-11-27T06:47:12.576-08:00[Insert witty Pre-Production joke/pun here]So, there's been quite alot of changes since I last updated, and it feels like time is fast slipping away, as it always does when a deadline is rapidly approaching and my timetables are looking more and more scarier...<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghiwmB9nT3bbegzpDcQXAnyGr_TlMK2b4IATLbKLIVTLErx79cVn2h9ITkb8UZoujW4rYEqI8IIM4R9LuNKFbGuqnJbREdJVKBc5nzVQwOlmDiIK7rec1NgdCW-8hQvRgXv4zM__5AbG4/s1600/img123.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 264px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghiwmB9nT3bbegzpDcQXAnyGr_TlMK2b4IATLbKLIVTLErx79cVn2h9ITkb8UZoujW4rYEqI8IIM4R9LuNKFbGuqnJbREdJVKBc5nzVQwOlmDiIK7rec1NgdCW-8hQvRgXv4zM__5AbG4/s400/img123.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5679671551951360258" border="0" /></a><br />After realising quite early on I wouldn't be able to accomplish everything I want to do for the piece on time, I asked <a href="http://animatedhughey.blogspot.com/">Hugh Herbert</a> to be my co-director. Hugh has helped to give the project a bit more of a boost to the (and I use the term loosely here...) 'narrative' of the piece, helping to come up with new sequences, something I was struggling with when sat on my own with the original ten page transcript of quotes.<br /><br />After constructive feedback from my tutors, the structure of the project has also changed somewhat, instead of having the whole piece just continaully morph from one thing to the next, it's going to be more segmented - kind of like a little sketch show - with different scenarios in each bit. This should make for much more interesting viewing, giving me the oppurtunity play around with the pacing and timing as well. Hugh has also suggested tweaking the style slighty for each segment, so that the piece has the same kind of style throughout, but different variations and themes for individual love/hates, hopefully this too will make the piece more interesting than just "I love A, I hate B, etc...".<br /><br />The frustrating thing about working with a soundlead piece is that it feels like I'm working backwards, normally you have the narrative idea, then storyboard/animatic from that and worry about the sound last. However, I'm having to figure out the order the soundclips are going in, which clip flows into which, can I use both the love/hate they say in the clip or just the one, how will it morph to the next one - if it does at all, and so on and so forth. Only once that's all sorted can storyboarding any visuals begin. This is why Hugh has been so helpful, just having someone to bounce ideas with makes the whole process much quicker and the visuals come along more naturally.<br /><br />Trying to put voiceclips into a logical order:<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYbCn1Y1pTyapNX5qXedhZRB5j0X_y7nyDcaD_Iv6QISOAfSr0SgjE5nx-pbusS7ca2FkN-VC6GGm_shyphenhyphenmQqV2aruNkpeADvVinFefhXOwhXeIls4T0SpIWJOPdc9iVUc49ckvgEiInAo/s1600/PB220002.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYbCn1Y1pTyapNX5qXedhZRB5j0X_y7nyDcaD_Iv6QISOAfSr0SgjE5nx-pbusS7ca2FkN-VC6GGm_shyphenhyphenmQqV2aruNkpeADvVinFefhXOwhXeIls4T0SpIWJOPdc9iVUc49ckvgEiInAo/s400/PB220002.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5679676009780954466" border="0" /></a><br />Another problem that has arisen by working on a soundbased project is what to actually put into the animatic. I still want to go out and record more people so I can get the largest possible source of material to work with for the final film, which means there's no final narrative or soundtrack to work to yet. This poses a problem for my friend Rob, the music man, as I can't give him anything definitvie to work with. However, since we need to hand in a scratchtrack with our Animatics, to give a sense of what the final thing will be like, I put together a 3 & a half minute set of clips for him to work with, which is working well so far:<br /><br /><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/TPCV0d9BTUM" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="233" width="400"></iframe><br /><br />This again has affected what I am able to do for the animatic: after speaking to Derek and showing him the animatic script; he asked if it was going to be the same for the final film; after I said no, he suggested just making an animatic just for the clips I would like to use in the final film. This has made it much easier to figure out which clips I need to properly storyboard and work on (more schedules!.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBfS1Q5oZkWmhjtS2soj0V1IKQ81jnV3uhldRruPYhod4rNe7zweuCXmE2IpW82fQf7wJHBYbhAC2esHEJ8PI0l5lKn8btmt2LcOnGCyw0lB1fKt2XPaqq0HKCRAMKENpbl1v2CpzMvnc/s1600/img124.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 291px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBfS1Q5oZkWmhjtS2soj0V1IKQ81jnV3uhldRruPYhod4rNe7zweuCXmE2IpW82fQf7wJHBYbhAC2esHEJ8PI0l5lKn8btmt2LcOnGCyw0lB1fKt2XPaqq0HKCRAMKENpbl1v2CpzMvnc/s400/img124.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5679686216405971106" /></a><br />I've started mocking up some parts of the animatic with my storyboards...<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIhg_-OfQaWOU6sJcODVtbZyFJVu8drquaDGmwvVY2w_l85gEYG6g0BCjwIaW4Vdf7wzN5LhGvAvKER4-MaPTlq0fLer7qy-EncPff5HZZrG-yghvYYjtvTfLJZEK1GYyLkH-YJToNFFE/s1600/LOVEHATE_ANIMATIC_1_10.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 284px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIhg_-OfQaWOU6sJcODVtbZyFJVu8drquaDGmwvVY2w_l85gEYG6g0BCjwIaW4Vdf7wzN5LhGvAvKER4-MaPTlq0fLer7qy-EncPff5HZZrG-yghvYYjtvTfLJZEK1GYyLkH-YJToNFFE/s400/LOVEHATE_ANIMATIC_1_10.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5679684110851156658" border="0" /></a><br /><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/qjSQx1fkE-0" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="233" width="400"></iframe><br /><br />And have have also done one bit of the real animatic so far:<br /><br /><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/1aN89Bt2sks" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="233" width="400"></iframe><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">(Virtual cookies for you if you can tell which famous horror film that shot pays homage to...)</span><br /><br />I'll post another update sometime later on this week focused more on the design-y side of things.@lice nightingalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11398770969419424922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8520940034794733745.post-88341532957421933312011-11-10T05:11:00.000-08:002011-11-10T05:59:19.763-08:00Once more unto the breach...So, Love Hate (I'm still not sure whether to refer to it as lovehate or LoveHate or Love Hate...), has been picked to go into the prelimary stages of production!<br /><br />There were so many that the tutors wanted to put through, that sixteen projects have been asked to work up until the animatic stage. Where the projects will be reviewed on the strength of their stories and animatics which will be used to review and cut down the number of projects down to ten. I think this is a pretty good idea since some of the projects last year had already began to slip their original scheduling about this time.<br /><br />So, speaking of scheduling, now that my fate has been determined, this week is all about organising. Something that, as sad as it is, I rather enjoy doing as it feels like you're actually getting somewhere, even if you have a bomb of stuff still to do, (something working on Barista taught me pretty early on). And after discovering today that there's just 28 weeks until the final projects are handed in, which, in theory, seems like a very long time, it's probably a good thing I get organised asap.<br /><br />The animatic deadline is on December the 5th, just over three weeks away and requires are rough sound scratchtrack to accompany it, (some people, like <a href="http://demmy-danimation.blogspot.com/">Dan, whose project Fentil: Another Life</a> has also been picked for production, are ahead of the game there as he prepped his animatic in time for the pitch). As mine is all about the sound I'm currently editing through all of my voiceclips: trying to link ones together where I can visualise the imagery of one flowing into the other; some are naturally linking together rather well, others - not so much. And meanwhile my friend Rob is busy making music, so I need to give him the final order asap. So far, so stressed.<br /><br />To help me try and get organised, I've typed up transcripts of all the voice recordings I've done so far...<br /><br /><a title="View Transcript - All on Scribd" href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/72248744/Transcript-All" style="margin: 12px auto 6px auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none; display: block; text-decoration: underline;">Transcript - All</a> <object id="doc_43560" name="doc_43560" height="600" width="400" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://d1.scribdassets.com/ScribdViewer.swf" style="outline:none;" > <param name="movie" value="http://d1.scribdassets.com/ScribdViewer.swf"> <param name="wmode" value="opaque"> <param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff"> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"> <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"> <param name="FlashVars" value="document_id=72248744&access_key=key-1fi1bn10rmcvluv3y6q6&page=1&viewMode=list"> <embed id="doc_43560" name="doc_43560" src="http://d1.scribdassets.com/ScribdViewer.swf?document_id=72248744&access_key=key-1fi1bn10rmcvluv3y6q6&page=1&viewMode=list" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="600" width="400" wmode="opaque" bgcolor="#ffffff"></embed> </object><br /><br />This morning I created a proper schedule! (Scary). It'll probably be revised countless times, but it will serve for now. How much I'll stick to it though is another matter (I haven't been great at sticking to my plan of doing bi-weekly blog updates, but my blogging has always been sporadic, and it means I've posted more than I would've done, so it's not a negative in my book).<br /><br />Here's my plan for my plan:<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxES3M9Kah5ifUsxO1LDFulhYXbVkysEBSBQnYYhhZcmmZPwCNlAQBSMi5Pv0p30UmV6cWbTdOk4XuxtSRMRU38vSNksjqwS9HmJNh6ipYrpLlmtEtk7rHi9bECJZ_fZklQvNrf8GqA78/s1600/img103.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 282px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxES3M9Kah5ifUsxO1LDFulhYXbVkysEBSBQnYYhhZcmmZPwCNlAQBSMi5Pv0p30UmV6cWbTdOk4XuxtSRMRU38vSNksjqwS9HmJNh6ipYrpLlmtEtk7rHi9bECJZ_fZklQvNrf8GqA78/s400/img103.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5673364880613306610" /></a><br /><br />And the actual thing itself:<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0fTNIYL3_Ykt6dBh482ZydelxjPrGedpheF5XLZiys6nSPI-ZcSot1vWovZRJQdcxIqyRe10UC4-MLSx50SmoDOR2halD8kkgTqoQopRNiYjAGP7TS4ewYyx6fVv19EqOkgbMUvRoryU/s1600/lovehate_schedule.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 348px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0fTNIYL3_Ykt6dBh482ZydelxjPrGedpheF5XLZiys6nSPI-ZcSot1vWovZRJQdcxIqyRe10UC4-MLSx50SmoDOR2halD8kkgTqoQopRNiYjAGP7TS4ewYyx6fVv19EqOkgbMUvRoryU/s400/lovehate_schedule.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5673365029697626146" /></a><br />(I like making things colour co-ordinated, can you tell? The darker a colour is, the more important the task is, except green - that's in Rob's hands not mine - and orange is holidays!)@lice nightingalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11398770969419424922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8520940034794733745.post-36107026267192350222011-11-06T06:48:00.000-08:002011-11-10T06:02:06.377-08:00Tomorrow is Judgement Day...<div style="text-align: justify;">Well, the last week has been a pretty eventful one and been super busy all in the run up to the pitch on friday.<br /><br />Since my last blog post I've created a whole load more of concept art and some test animations...<br /><br />Kathy suggested I put together a visual research file of the things that had inspired me to create the concept art, some are more relevant now than others, but in the process of trying to get the look for my project, they all inspired me in some way.<br /><a title="View Style Inspiration Bible on Scribd" href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/71805569/Style-Inspiration-Bible" style="margin: 12px auto 6px auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none; display: block; text-decoration: underline;">Style Inspiration Bible</a><iframe class="scribd_iframe_embed" src="http://www.scribd.com/embeds/71805569/content?start_page=1&view_mode=list&access_key=key-25piijmnr4uf2lq2clx5" data-auto-height="false" data-aspect-ratio="1.41108545034642" scrolling="no" id="doc_53642" width="400" height="343" frameborder="0"></iframe><br /><br /><br />One of my own loves (which I'm told by my housemates is very weird...):<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0oOr11xPwoOeY6M47J8g9brNxH0dU0Ng9cy9KXnuGaBZevFUojLsJqRFfKJ-gYWOQmOg3pLnO2grrYaAmkNWVir8VQ6eUEuSABvlkAIFVCUz8XG5akZsz6MvWa-kGHl1tw5nmq6sWdBM/s1600/shower_2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 225px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0oOr11xPwoOeY6M47J8g9brNxH0dU0Ng9cy9KXnuGaBZevFUojLsJqRFfKJ-gYWOQmOg3pLnO2grrYaAmkNWVir8VQ6eUEuSABvlkAIFVCUz8XG5akZsz6MvWa-kGHl1tw5nmq6sWdBM/s400/shower_2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5671897029789719794" border="0" /></a><br /><br />"I love watching the sun rise" Sequence:<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0qZqVfI8q1bkKm-IgX-orUggYnOHQD_NM2MJfdg4kcMU3eGIuLmvUv-nsynFkXKoAPm_v4MpEoZqfFugIQtGdUXPnJH8YOYZGg5ItPWyfz6PD7VsUl5bwE1Krj1uAKmGN63Q-AnfYg4c/s1600/sunrises_montage_blog.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 362px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0qZqVfI8q1bkKm-IgX-orUggYnOHQD_NM2MJfdg4kcMU3eGIuLmvUv-nsynFkXKoAPm_v4MpEoZqfFugIQtGdUXPnJH8YOYZGg5ItPWyfz6PD7VsUl5bwE1Krj1uAKmGN63Q-AnfYg4c/s400/sunrises_montage_blog.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5671897270889479954" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtyi3UWACGkviwfhDZ5m_ZcuhcdEwyJ8vQQeLHrWVv5Ed4DyTX2ck5D0BGk5_HKpl6grwGANt4kuEjWChOWA7t4W9Rm32yL3j0ZPV4skcI8Xq0O2MgxB3ZiCI5sQ9ksZ55AzwNbJ8dQsQ/s1600/sunrise_alt_4_b.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 225px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtyi3UWACGkviwfhDZ5m_ZcuhcdEwyJ8vQQeLHrWVv5Ed4DyTX2ck5D0BGk5_HKpl6grwGANt4kuEjWChOWA7t4W9Rm32yL3j0ZPV4skcI8Xq0O2MgxB3ZiCI5sQ9ksZ55AzwNbJ8dQsQ/s400/sunrise_alt_4_b.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5671914019333034786" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Newer version of Birds (as it would be animated):<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4TmdIjf1BBXs-cXahp3WQPY2zARemX44VNk1mSd_Om9eZ1j50JJIV05QaVV4my7gjcxVtYpC7r6mapMmc1GZJN4LwAL4WoZgSexDd9QW6rOVq3CEP1OIKoNMR-iia9BVoEX7-0xPF7Gg/s1600/concept_birds_3.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 283px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4TmdIjf1BBXs-cXahp3WQPY2zARemX44VNk1mSd_Om9eZ1j50JJIV05QaVV4my7gjcxVtYpC7r6mapMmc1GZJN4LwAL4WoZgSexDd9QW6rOVq3CEP1OIKoNMR-iia9BVoEX7-0xPF7Gg/s400/concept_birds_3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5671898091831011250" border="0" /></a><br /><br />"I hate fish":<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgUQVTW_qQvzq8h-ddHDMw0YptcXlXfTqnTmjy2_PGv7Sz1UNxDepmw4Ttx0FTkI5jpEcFjdjYcn3Jvh1mRRuh5W88N-oyAiDPczBUacOVYr_hqHqswBPSEJipS8Hkrnovjjfu38VrbSU/s1600/sea_3a.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 225px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgUQVTW_qQvzq8h-ddHDMw0YptcXlXfTqnTmjy2_PGv7Sz1UNxDepmw4Ttx0FTkI5jpEcFjdjYcn3Jvh1mRRuh5W88N-oyAiDPczBUacOVYr_hqHqswBPSEJipS8Hkrnovjjfu38VrbSU/s400/sea_3a.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5671899557772200722" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Sea animation test done in After Effects:<br /><br /><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/OGvqyltcj10" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="233" width="400"></iframe><br /><br />The fish I hand animated... It was super frustrating, because it took me two hours to scan in, only to discover that it didn't work... <grumble> it's not great: the tail flops around all over the place, but I feel my timing has vastly improved since last year. </grumble><br /><grumble></grumble><br /><grumble><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/iFGAJv1xKAc" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="233" width="400"></iframe></grumble><br /><grumble></grumble><br /><grumble>I think now, (well, all depending if my project is picked...) that any rough animation I do will be done in Flash or ToonBoom Animate and then, when I know the timing is correct, I'll draw the animation in graphite or whatever other medium I'm using for that section.</grumble><br /><grumble></grumble><br /><br /><grumble>The fish and sea combined look a little something like this:</grumble><br /><grumble></grumble><br /><grumble><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/s4AC_jmFt_s" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="233" width="400"></iframe></grumble><br /><grumble></grumble><br /><br /><grumble></grumble><grumble>Ah, I'd almost forgotten to add this, a video of the rough soundtrack that my good friend <a href="http://roballenmusic.webs.com/">Rob Allen</a> has been working on for me, which I was contemplating playing it at the pitch, but I have collected many more voiceclips since sending him the (very) rough edit I put together for him to play around with. This is only a rough version done in Midi, put gives an inkling as to what the final thing could sound like, however I think I need to spread the soundclips out a bit more, it's really rather quick at the moment.</grumble><br /><grumble></grumble><br /><grumble><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/BILYrTFSJsw" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="233" width="400"></iframe></grumble><br /><grumble></grumble><br /><grumble>_____________________________________________</grumble><br /><grumble></grumble><br /><grumble>So, this is something I forgot to write on here earlier, but a couple of weeks ago I emailed six local primary schools asking if I would be allowed to come to the school and ask the children (and staff) the love/hate questions. I had two responses, one yes and one no.</grumble><br /><grumble></grumble><br /><grumble>Paula Ross, the deputy Head Marlborough School, was kind enough to invite me to the school on Thursday to record the students. The students were forewarned of my arrival in asssembly and many had already thought of things to say when I turned up at lunchtime. Paula's class separated into two groups and sat in a circle as I recorded them one by one, which worked really well, although the children who couldn't think of anything quite often said similar things (it turns out, alot of boys hate the colour purple...), Paula then led me around the rest of the school to interview smaller groups of children which provided a much larger range of responses and some absolute gems which I'm certain will go into the final film (if it gets picked). After interviewing the children, who ranged from 4-11, I asked the staff the same questions. The school was so helpful and accomdating, the whole thing was much easier to pull off than I expected thanks to Paula's organising. If the film gets put into Production, I'm going to keep in contact with the school and send them updates as progess (hopefully) continues, however it may not go anywhere, it's beyond my control now! </grumble><br /><grumble></grumble><br /><grumble>Which leads onto the deciding power...</grumble><br /><grumble></grumble><br /><grumble>____________________________________________</grumble><br /><grumble></grumble><br /><grumble>The PITCH. Both Kathy and Derek said that I should create some more concept art to show at the pitch, which made me think, why can't I explain my idea through concept art? So, to explain the process behind lovehate, I decided to do just that, have a corresponding picture to what I was saying. </grumble><br /><grumble>My actual pitch was really quite short, my idea was very simple to explain, so it really didn't need long. I thought I'd try and keep it short and punchy, and the corrseponding pictures helped to do just that and even got a few laughs which was great (and intended I might add).</grumble><br /><grumble>I was second to last in the pitching order, which made me mildly annoyed (I really wanted to just get the thing over with - I tend to get more nervous the longer that I have to wait to do something), it was probably better, as the rest of the third years relaxed around me, I felt alot calmer when it finally was my turn...<br /><a title="View Lovehate Pitch on Scribd" href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/71806864/Lovehate-Pitch" style="margin: 12px auto 6px auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none; display: block; text-decoration: underline;">Lovehate Pitch</a><iframe class="scribd_iframe_embed" src="http://www.scribd.com/embeds/71806864/content?start_page=1&view_mode=list&access_key=key-2lwtn4gf79ev80dpsywc" data-auto-height="false" data-aspect-ratio="1.77906976744186" scrolling="no" id="doc_41419" width="400" height="285" frameborder="0"></iframe><br /><br />The presentation probably needs some explanation, so here's a small summary essentially of what I said:<br /><grumble>- Everyone in this room has at least one thing they really love and one thing they really hate: it might be something completely unique to you, or something that you share with others. My current hate is standing in front of a room full of people and trying to explain my idea, something the other third years will share with me. I want to make these individual love and hates come to life on the screen. So the idea behind lovehate is quite simple:</grumble><br /><grumble>- I will take a number of peolpe of different ages,</grumble><br /><grumble>- Stick a microphone in front of their face,</grumble><br /><grumble>- Ask them to tell me one thing they love,</grumble><br /><grumble>- Ask them to tell me one thing they hate,</grumble><br /><grumble>- Record their reply.</grumble><br /><grumble>- Think about their reply.</grumble><br /><grumble>- Visualise their idea.</grumble><br /><grumble>- Storyboard the idea.</grumble><br /><grumble>- Animate the idea, taking the last frame and morphing it...</grumble><br /><grumble>- ...So that it becomes the first frame of the next sequence.</grumble><br /><grumble>And then I showed the concept art of previous answers.</grumble><br /><grumble></grumble><br /><grumble>The panel (made up of 4 industry professionals), complimented me on my pitch and (I think) overall were fairly positive and quite liked the idea. I feel I got away quite lightly, quite a few people got some grilling from them and struggled to answer some of the trickier questions. I feel I did quite well, but I guess we shall see tomorrow when we discover which projects are going through to production. If my project hasn't been chosen, there's a multitude of other ideas I would love to be able to help out on. But then, if mine is chosen, that's a whole new fear altogether!</grumble></div>@lice nightingalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11398770969419424922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8520940034794733745.post-7531307711646875032011-10-21T04:06:00.000-07:002011-10-21T06:12:17.924-07:00Concept Art [1]So this week has mainly consisted of trying to transform my scribbly doodles into [hopefully] nice pieces of concept work.<br /><br />First up, is the bacon:<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQy3FADmg3bARVJbAxNi0Jrx-ZeLkGrOTD1QrItfxbTcbNANMRn3WlEglFQxj83kMxwEdtPprqIUgSkPWBytfoOhJ7gmddmkgtY4UmLPYtfdtwCIY1Y8unnZ4kSAK6MaRo2ZJMOkLqN78/s1600/bacon.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 154px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQy3FADmg3bARVJbAxNi0Jrx-ZeLkGrOTD1QrItfxbTcbNANMRn3WlEglFQxj83kMxwEdtPprqIUgSkPWBytfoOhJ7gmddmkgtY4UmLPYtfdtwCIY1Y8unnZ4kSAK6MaRo2ZJMOkLqN78/s400/bacon.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5665926856586394642" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3ou0K6w_pEi_r99jQOu-38KeM-ENazyzuVEH0gxp2NUcxuC0ihSTSklHqT8gITF7-YD5kdsnboLA3bGePDq42Rzs88a4zHxedNHDvwHkr3E0ybdbj2Hw0z4R7xESDyrDtDLwRp-pcYoc/s1600/bacon_concept_type_alt.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 362px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3ou0K6w_pEi_r99jQOu-38KeM-ENazyzuVEH0gxp2NUcxuC0ihSTSklHqT8gITF7-YD5kdsnboLA3bGePDq42Rzs88a4zHxedNHDvwHkr3E0ybdbj2Hw0z4R7xESDyrDtDLwRp-pcYoc/s400/bacon_concept_type_alt.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5665929598816621426" /></a><br /><br />Birds:<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9o2YkCXyopkw3n5Suguc45VKtf0ao35hilGi8nIWqkmqYyKZGGitRVvv-rz65-Zo7PUxHdPf3GXahZeVhUO5Kl4xNM8BJzEKeHh6HhkQad8aGtF_pzbaBpDGpGsVr1JlzU6hV3Fwi0KI/s1600/birds.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 203px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9o2YkCXyopkw3n5Suguc45VKtf0ao35hilGi8nIWqkmqYyKZGGitRVvv-rz65-Zo7PUxHdPf3GXahZeVhUO5Kl4xNM8BJzEKeHh6HhkQad8aGtF_pzbaBpDGpGsVr1JlzU6hV3Fwi0KI/s400/birds.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5665929000764992626" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI8YMpbPXivo9dDTxC-BQ4w1ZqmSx5YtUyj1X_-zKU-7yYIhyphenhyphenE2af7YxbiM_aY-F-YZZd4m7Z1arOx5JTMSMPY7AEUG3RtQoZMsIFfQc11WO8Fo8gHKvIVv4aU42H2po4BxyZPLHI9jtk/s1600/concept_birds_blogsize.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 283px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI8YMpbPXivo9dDTxC-BQ4w1ZqmSx5YtUyj1X_-zKU-7yYIhyphenhyphenE2af7YxbiM_aY-F-YZZd4m7Z1arOx5JTMSMPY7AEUG3RtQoZMsIFfQc11WO8Fo8gHKvIVv4aU42H2po4BxyZPLHI9jtk/s400/concept_birds_blogsize.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5665929764425156434" /></a><br /><br />Toilets:<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9Jpylm_l5dZSLuN8mhmuqqx_lQPxcB7JoaM-37c6GQQZXIhF29zyr-sC_6JJ-fUOfio_waRak6Kfp5ZifeQuYZT-Ny-H6rMUMgDltofNq3VLcXyOXEtm2Fj8cQ0iv2-XG18VFz4OwNas/s1600/toilets.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 188px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9Jpylm_l5dZSLuN8mhmuqqx_lQPxcB7JoaM-37c6GQQZXIhF29zyr-sC_6JJ-fUOfio_waRak6Kfp5ZifeQuYZT-Ny-H6rMUMgDltofNq3VLcXyOXEtm2Fj8cQ0iv2-XG18VFz4OwNas/s400/toilets.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5665929956154293154" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQqPO1oHG-Xy0PiVJMMRuSUu1HnWdnrdK68Bywok9_BnmjzoOZQvPGLsOUmXvoG8X5h4yp2I5PfDaO9HrSEIneXOcveyfflabzrrjg2FROPSjIoFwemFawPx8TbhFXHayLjL0bpTOkgX4/s1600/toilet_3_blog.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 283px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQqPO1oHG-Xy0PiVJMMRuSUu1HnWdnrdK68Bywok9_BnmjzoOZQvPGLsOUmXvoG8X5h4yp2I5PfDaO9HrSEIneXOcveyfflabzrrjg2FROPSjIoFwemFawPx8TbhFXHayLjL0bpTOkgX4/s400/toilet_3_blog.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5665930795578859842" /></a><br /><br />I've also been spending a lot of time trying to come up with a logo and playing around with different typefaces, I know some people think it's silly to spend hours agonising over a typeface, but I feel that having the wrong font can break a project, or misrepresent it entirely.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguAzdLt548um8i9MAlA5iLHo-hsuU_bxc2jPmYtDJxItMjyNjIBrvnb22_KnJw9BhlhnYIDbN1bEuTdVCxrZ6Z7NidyON7-_xe-runlDyL7tBLRKs0ByZRkhCYBfoCbVPv-35NsJI_H80/s1600/texts.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 234px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguAzdLt548um8i9MAlA5iLHo-hsuU_bxc2jPmYtDJxItMjyNjIBrvnb22_KnJw9BhlhnYIDbN1bEuTdVCxrZ6Z7NidyON7-_xe-runlDyL7tBLRKs0ByZRkhCYBfoCbVPv-35NsJI_H80/s400/texts.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5665931363555393986" /></a><br /><br />I asked the good people of facebook to pick their favourites, and now it's just down to these two, (currently B is in the lead, but [ironically] I'm in love with the 'love' font in A). So, you could help by voting for your favourite in the comments...<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJXK2R6sFCQHY6lJFfxcvXg3AxSIW47jBrP7U8A__xU0FX4Y2R_hbEdlvtOpHydDnP3Yyt7w4mvQtzcjoYcvpDTPvEH4xCBOk63k8jOyx3xj9vSdDrL3Rjq48s4bSb2olhFg1G_2WvXNo/s1600/logo_choice.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 319px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJXK2R6sFCQHY6lJFfxcvXg3AxSIW47jBrP7U8A__xU0FX4Y2R_hbEdlvtOpHydDnP3Yyt7w4mvQtzcjoYcvpDTPvEH4xCBOk63k8jOyx3xj9vSdDrL3Rjq48s4bSb2olhFg1G_2WvXNo/s400/logo_choice.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5665931964823144386" /></a>@lice nightingalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11398770969419424922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8520940034794733745.post-10198755710754197992011-10-18T09:28:00.000-07:002011-10-18T09:32:39.411-07:00Animation Test [1]Probably the first of many...<br /><br />Inspired by this drawing:<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjm4rqv8yhSi0sCBhR6sODkkK7JAyuVm6jNNdNMX5vKxLIJilPBMpX6mwRH0npSVUOtP5RCIruSXgXpQvzD-Ww98fweQzOzqXMjmgQHV3By2SNWV_PPB01lb_grAXbCm8asQcRUl2MMOo/s1600/img010.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 291px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjm4rqv8yhSi0sCBhR6sODkkK7JAyuVm6jNNdNMX5vKxLIJilPBMpX6mwRH0npSVUOtP5RCIruSXgXpQvzD-Ww98fweQzOzqXMjmgQHV3By2SNWV_PPB01lb_grAXbCm8asQcRUl2MMOo/s400/img010.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5664870194650072194" /></a><br /><br />Combined the drawing with a bird cycle I animated roughly for practice last year.<br /><br /><iframe width="400" height="233" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/A6RUBwRHudo" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>@lice nightingalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11398770969419424922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8520940034794733745.post-25815991546873380972011-10-18T09:17:00.000-07:002011-10-18T09:26:51.961-07:00Research/Concept Art<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdQxO4WyPRA4MpOr1ZHTSs_Z_3RHhWQCxZdzjeUteRuiIJIzutW8XTEvDbTcp99fCO-9t3-2qK7MgmO0U56o1CiaZGk3Xe3RjHMqX9gAa_6cjEvO05pXHWFFxJq4wWBa41Hkv8isKPFvA/s1600/img012.jpg"><img style="display:block; 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2eHS9wAOb5GeYfC0x7y4_YIK17kMW3rHFLbn9daQhEU6LPVE6BXBNHjCOQzBtb2T3Dxm9ZcCJsbmol_GkPskDof3sjkcPwTWhFHzOeD4nuwqZDoiGR_4cZXvGaroZT7muRfmWhr-IxZk/s400/img021.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5664867748834445794" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0bpszfUCuoFvTlgfO-e0dhArZvyB8vvKx0zFjwgiOQ0qgwQXW5Li2Y4iox_cDsvKZkE08NiufAQPacq4XL71PmPc9biAUtFLGREsZuxWQTyDjG05FMYKhLP9v5y1xDx8dVkuepgQI4FA/s1600/img022.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 248px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0bpszfUCuoFvTlgfO-e0dhArZvyB8vvKx0zFjwgiOQ0qgwQXW5Li2Y4iox_cDsvKZkE08NiufAQPacq4XL71PmPc9biAUtFLGREsZuxWQTyDjG05FMYKhLP9v5y1xDx8dVkuepgQI4FA/s400/img022.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5664867317671217794" /></a>@lice nightingalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11398770969419424922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8520940034794733745.post-19387103627788878772011-10-13T07:57:00.000-07:002011-10-13T08:13:06.240-07:00TestingSo the past couple of days I've attempted to do a bit of animation based on the statements people emailed me/got through facebook. <br /><br />One was 'I hate pennies', which I msyelf can identify with, I keep all my coppers in a little teapot in my room, so I decided to a bit of pixilation with them. Sadly I only had enough to make "I hate" and "pennies" separately, but for a little test, I thought it wasn't too bad.<br /><br /><iframe width="400" height="301" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ElKL27S4T2w" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><br />Someone else said that they hated the Mac wheel of doom (aka, beachball of death/wheel of death/rainbow of doom...), so I thought the penny could turn into one. Done in Flash.<br /><br /><iframe width="400" height="233" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/h_wxUZ9RQhg" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><br />Aaaand today, I rented out a voice recorder from the Media Center, and with Dan as my back-up, went and accosted random people about campus who didn't look busy. I got quite a fe voiceclips, but I realise I will have to ask lots more people. Kathy is my mentor up until the pitch, and she suggested recording younger children, which will be a good idea since I got a lot of "I hate early mornings/lectures" and "I love drinking/getting drunk/beer". Oh you students.<br /><br />So, here's a little mock-up of the kind of introduction I'd like to have... I'm thinking of calling "Love/Hate" (because I'm god awful with names), since it's quite a simple themed project...<br /><br /><iframe width="400" height="233" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/wdL92TgP-xM" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>@lice nightingalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11398770969419424922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8520940034794733745.post-40056825783772290552011-10-11T07:12:00.000-07:002011-10-11T07:15:48.962-07:00Project HelpIt would be really helpful if you could take less than five minutes to<br /> help me with my project,<br /><br />Could you please tell me,<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"><br />A. One thing that you hate or really annoys you...</span><br /><br />and<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">B. One thing you really enjoy or love.<br /></span><br />You can email your answer to: an122335@falmouth.ac.uk<br /><br />or you could always leave an anonymous comment here on blogger.<br /><br />It would be much appreciated :)@lice nightingalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11398770969419424922noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8520940034794733745.post-85742416221492648302011-10-11T05:26:00.000-07:002011-10-11T07:33:40.245-07:00Third Year Beginnings.<div style="text-align: justify;">I was tempted to name this post "The Final Countdown" or something equally as corny, but nobody wants to start the year off with a terrible pun, (unless you're my Dad, then it's standard practice).<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">So, yes, third year, the beginning of the end and yet it feels like my University experience has just started... (Obviously this post already appears to be filled with clichés and all that jazz). After a lovely (albeit very geeky, but not very productive) summer, I'm back and ready to work my ass off. Currently this has involved acquiring a large wall chart and marking all the important (and scary) hand-in dates for <span style="font-weight:bold;">Final Major Projects</span> & <span style="font-weight:bold;">Dissertations</span>, it also has days marked off for when I need to update my blog... The plan is to update it at least every other Tuesday, so we'll see how successful that is. Days are also marked off for when I need to attempt to do academic reading for said dissertation. For those of you who wonder exactly what a pile of dissertation research is looks like, it's currently a little something like this:<br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPB5PxxCrfmQlNNs4m0_2NeEDjzh6K8mSAQz2tCn5z_r24E43aup4ISpCLuPBfYh9xeRde2CS1Y4xRPxwhywRIr4hIj8ZsMeqiSNBPz8YZTlAvlNGQusk249fFIHm9SCouAn_QRqcUrhA/s1600/PA110159.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPB5PxxCrfmQlNNs4m0_2NeEDjzh6K8mSAQz2tCn5z_r24E43aup4ISpCLuPBfYh9xeRde2CS1Y4xRPxwhywRIr4hIj8ZsMeqiSNBPz8YZTlAvlNGQusk249fFIHm9SCouAn_QRqcUrhA/s400/PA110159.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5662214242081334434" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Rather intimidating, yes? Especially when I tell you that the yellow folder is filled with photocopies and printouts of essays and book chapters as well. Eep.<br /><br />However, on a slightly better note, this term will be spent developing our ideas for final films ready to pitch (in front of all three years of Animation, the tutors and a panel of industry professionals... although perhaps this is just as intimidating as the dissertation) and, hopefully, get selected to be put into production.<br /><br />After spending the first half of the summer fretting because I had a complete lack of any creative ideas, I had inspiration hit me while I was on a train (somehow trains appear to be good for my creativity, in the past I've had a couple of ideas for other projects suddenly come to me while train travelling). Being paranoid about the possibility of potentially having to stand on a six hour train journey (Falmouth really isn't the most easily accessible place), I always book a seat reservation. And someone, it doesn't matter how empty the carriage is, will always pick to sit in my seat. Always. It annoys me so much. And then I thought, well, why couldn't I make this into an animated film? Obviously not just about a train seat, but why not ask people about all the random little things that specifically annoy them or they really hate? I could run around with a sound recorder and ask people the same question (a la Creature Comforts), then take their responses and turn them into an animated sequence.<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/QZ-sBf7laMM" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="301" width="400"></iframe><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Everyone I ask will have different opinions, so I want to replicate that with a range of different animation styles. In my Foundation year for our first 'Time and Image' workshop we had to create two images of ourselves and animate from one to the other, then we had to take our last image and animate it to the next person's first, it was really effective and despite everyone having created very different images, the piece worked as a whole. Sadly, I do not have the original video of everyone's work, but I have the section that I created, which you can watch below. I want to do the same for this project, animate all the 'phrases' separately, then take the last frame from one and animate it to the first of the next. I also want the film to have a kind of spontaneous feel, like the 'Lightbulb Boy' animation I did at the end of last year, each bit was really different, but it all flowed together.<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/1HFkuC2kTJs" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="301" width="400"></iframe><br /><br /><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/4sgNdkVpqbk" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="301" width="400"></iframe><br /><br />After telling Andy and Derek and a few of my classmates my idea, it was suggested that instead of doing just things people disliked, that I include their likes/loves. So, currently I am in the process of juggling between the ideas of creating two separate films, a "Love" film and a "Hate" film, or making a completely combined one.<br /><br />My idea is a relatively simple one, but I feel that if it is picked, it will have a much higher chance of getting completed than an a 5 minute long scripted idea. Working so closely (well, practically as a third year myself - I even got a 'medal' for "Wannabe 3rd Year" in our 'award' ceremony at the end of term last year) on Barista, I know that even with the best intentions and time management, it is not always possible to get everything done in time. Hopefully, by having an idea that works in segments, even if a section is not working, it can be scrapped and work without it. Even if I only worked with two other people on the entire thing, if we created five 10 second segements each, that would equate to a two and a half minute film to hand in.<br /></div><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Some inspiration:</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.postsecret.com/">http://www.postsecret.com/</a><br /><br /><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/hDVahGvJ3EA" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="301" width="400"></iframe><br /><br /><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/kY9DYRSxfmk" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="301" width="400"></iframe><br /><br /><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Q_CZ3dqyhQw" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="233" width="400"></iframe><br /><br /><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/QAlO9qfAgc0" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="233" width="400"></iframe><br /><br /><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/4JyG5rJM6VA" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="233" width="400"></iframe><br /><br /><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/5oKH8iiGVzQ" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="233" width="400"></iframe><br /><br /><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/PW4Nz4nCN5k" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="301" width="400"></iframe><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">And I leave you with a screenshot of the fruits of about an hour's work on Maya achieved (I've attempted to make something in order for a little test sequence I'm planning...):<br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRN4xq7Smm4aN-TgpBz-QbOv0k8DApiboJo3qWPok8a5vCalyWIrfnyNBAa7Ehpo0ky0snq4WjvvWN4IKvDXjCfbGUh50C5MzzMucIV5XqLUrcVlXHopzA7Qwb9pZXue1d2erMuueauOg/s1600/ScreenShot001.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 225px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRN4xq7Smm4aN-TgpBz-QbOv0k8DApiboJo3qWPok8a5vCalyWIrfnyNBAa7Ehpo0ky0snq4WjvvWN4IKvDXjCfbGUh50C5MzzMucIV5XqLUrcVlXHopzA7Qwb9pZXue1d2erMuueauOg/s400/ScreenShot001.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5662233753228664194" border="0" /></a>@lice nightingalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11398770969419424922noreply@blogger.com0