FINAL ANIMATION

Again unfortunatly I'm having trouble uploading the video.

Really enjoyed making this piece, quite frustrating at times.

To make this movie I initially used flash, and converted to after effects, finally used final cut to make the last amendmants and edit the music. 

I'm quite happy with the final outcome, but perhaps I would have liked to used stop-motion, as in the play doh experiments, I felt those worked really well.

However I have developed new skills in useful softwares, that I have already used to develop a flash website.

Hope you enjoy.

Week One; Stop-motion Test Piece

On Second Disk of hand in, unable to upload 

ANAMIATIC + refined story board

Week One; Animation Experiments

First go at using flash;

difficulties with getting the sound to export, discovered it was a simple task !

Very time consuming but reasonably easy. 

Week Four; Simon's cat animations

Simon's Cat

/http://www.simonscat.com/

Very good, simple illustration technique. I think my illustrations are simple enough to animate, however I may need to make further adjustments when it becomes technical. 

Week Four; Animatics and Final Cut

This week we looked at Animatics and Final Cut.
To begin we looked at the Gorillaz music video;


http://www.youtube.com/


We then looked at the animatic of the video

'The idea of an animatic was introduced as a useful tool for developing and planning our movie. 

An animatic is a simplified on-screen version of your movie idea which often takes the form of frames from a storyboard which have been pieced together and synchronised to a rough sound track'.

http://www.youtube.com/animatic



Having looked at a good animatic example, we were then asked to create a simple animatic for one scene of another movie - 'Ident' by Aardman Animations.


http://www.youtube.com/identmovie



After scene selection, key frames of the animation were drawn, photographed and taken into Final Cut. The images were then synchronised to the original movie soundtrack in an attempt to carry the narrative. 
I feel I matched the sound to the narrative quite well, and I'm pleased with the outcome, however the story board illustrations were slightly unclear as I used a marker-pen, and the paper I used were quite weak. 
Animatic's would normally be done before the final movie, but we did this as an example of how animatics are produced, and it was a good introduction to Final Cut.

Week Three; Story Board refined story board later to be added- not v clear

Percy the pompous cat, walking down the high street when he see's, extra sexy, mysterious kitty.
Fluttering her eyes behind her big fluffy tail, teasing percy to near death. lol.
Chasing her around n rolling around trying to impress her.
Finally he get her, but he is soooo owned ! x