Final Reflection

After working on this project i found it difficult at times because i did not know how to use Toon Boom. But i remained positive and gave it a go. At times i wasn't happy with some of my animation so i referred to the Richard Williams book which broke everything down. Apart from that i enjoyed this project, i got good feedback from Oli. He was very impressed with the work that i produced. He just told me to extend the ending and having the 2 character in the ring at the same time. The reason he told us to do this is because the viewers may get confused. It was also good working with Iredia because we encouraged each other, even though at times we were going through difficulties. We were in everyday morning to late evening because we were so into the project. When doing this project i wanted to do everything as if i was in the industry.I wanted to do everything to time scale, look at things from the audiences perspective. I even got feedback from some people in the class in ways i could improve my work. For legal reasons i can not put certain bits online, because oflegal reasons.

All my animation has been done and i am now waiting for the sound person to give me my sound in order to complete it. So i am just waiting to see what he has come up with.

I have gone to see Oli to get some feedback on my work. I showed him all the animation i have done so far, and he seemed impressed with what i have done so far. He gave me some useful tips i can do to improve my work. There is a section near the ending where the 2 characters run into each other. Oli said it is a bit confusing having that happen straight away. So he wants me to have a shot with the 2 characters in the boxing ring at the same time.

Showreel

For my show reel i have started to think about what i want to put on my show reel. I want to put some of my previous work from first year such as my character animation and walk cycle. I even want to put some of my sketches that i do in my spare time. I want to also put work that i have done this year such as my environments project, and my short animation ident.I am also going to think care fully about how i composite everything.

I have taken into consideration all of the mistakes that i have made in my previous run cycle. The run is more quick and less slow, compared to my other run which was too slow, and needed more speed.

This is my first run cycle that i did. After speaking to my work partner iredia, i found some mistakes in it. The run looks more like a skip than an actual run. I think it is because i put to many in betweens. The characters feet stay in the air for too long so i am going to rectify that.

Run cycle

Because i am going to have to do a run cycle i am going to look at the Richard Williams book and find out what it takes to do an actual run cycle. I am going to look at timeing this is going to be crucial for my piece of animation, and it is going to be very quick because it is part of the ending.

Reflection

When animating this scene i thought hard and carefully about it. because this scene is similar to a western, i wanted the timeing to be to be okay. When i first started animating the eyes closing and the eyebrows frowning it was all to quick. So i played with the timing a bit more and i got it looking how i wanted it to look. The reason why i don't want it too be too quick is because Oli told us not too reveal the characters too early, but too prolong it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcjUpL7ThAU&feature=related
I like the way these two characters glance at each other one of the characters looks very serious and one of them looks not as serious. He looks like he is having fun, but they are actually about to engage in a shoot out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyeVEuZHn24

wesern3http---www.youtube.com-watch?v=T5VXWr2Lwkc&feature=related

Western

For one of my scenes there is going to be a scene where there is going to be a close up of 2 characters staring at each other. Our client Oli told us to look at westerns where there is build up, he also didn't want us to reveal the character to early.So what i intend to do is look at westerns movies such as this one and look at how each characters look at each other, and how the other character reacts. This is Clint Eastwood who is very popular for doing westerns very well, especially building up tension. www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5VXWr2Lwkc&feature=related

Key Poses

Before i started animating i mapped out my key poses. I remembered this advise in first year. I did a quick block out on paper of my key poses.I thought it would also make things much easier when animating, because i would have the shapes in front of me already. Now that i have my key poses i have started to animate my character jumping on the spot ready to box. The animation is looking okay to me, i have asked for feedback from Iredia and he thinks it is good. He gave me some feedback which was that it was the wrong type of jump. So i decided not to look at the Richard Williams book, and look at someone jumping on the spot. So i got my younger brother to jump on the spot, and i then referenced from that.

This is the other character that the Blue Balloon will be fighting. I didn't want the other character to look too aggressive compared to the blue balloon, i wanted this character to be the opposite. I wanted this character to look dopy, dumb, etc. So i looked at different characters such as Goofy. I think this has more of an impact on the animation, seeing a character who is very searious, and one who looks like he is having fun.

Reflection

So far using Toon Boom at first was a bit difficult, especially when i specialize in 3D. At first i thought it would be a nightmare. But i wanted to be positive in my approach to using it. So i went back to the Richard Wiliams book and looked at the 12 principles of animation. In paticular i looked at key poses and anticipation. Good animations have strong key poses. This is very crucial for the part i have to animate with the character jumping on the spot. Another principle i looked at was timing, i don't want the bit i am animating to be to quick or too slow i want the timeing to be on point, so i am looking into timing. I also want to animate the top of the balloons head, which will involve follow through animation. This would have more of an effect on the animation.

Reflextion

So far i have been working on a scene where the 2 characters are about to start boxing. I have been looking at body language in boxing matches. I have been especially looking at warm ups and how they start. I have also looked at the richard wiliams book as guideness. The book has been reccomended to me by Iredia so i have spent time looking in depth at it. I have also looked at one of my favourite games called Fight Night. I have looked at the body language of the boxers before they start boxing. I have looked at boxers such as Mohammed Ali and Mike Tyson. The paticular character i referenced from was Mohammed Ali, i looked at how he jumped on the spot, ready to fight.

Reflection

So far working in a group with Iredia has turned out well. We have kept in contact with each other on a daily basis, so that we know where are. Using Toon Boom has been a totally new experience to me. Especially when i specialism is within 3D. I have started to do a run cycle within Toom Boom. I have spent time looking at the Richard Williams book, which has been recommended by our client. I have also looked at various run cycles on Youtube for reference. As you can see i did a quick sketch of what my key poses will look like. The first image shows my character jumping up and down, and the second image shows the character blinking slowly, and the last 2 show the other balloon coming towards the screen then splat with the blue zoo logo.

I have added colour to all my designs to see what they look like. And also so that Oilly can decide which character he like the most out of the lot of them. Because we are doing the brief for Blue Zoo. I have looked at a range of different styles. I did not just want to look at a ballon.

I have added some colour to this character to see what it will look like. It not looking bad so far. The reason why i am using blue is because the logo is blue and when the characters run into each other they form the logo. The other character is going to be white.

This is one of my favourite characters that i have done so far. The feed back that i have got from iredia has been good. So i guess i will be sticking with this character.

character Designs

This is my first character that i have done with is based on my research. I have put a helmet on the character to show that it is an amateur.

This is a very useful image for my blog. Not only is it a balloon but the eyes are very powerful. The eyes are very doppy and give the balloon some character. I might make the personality of my character very doppy. Instead of haveing a fierce character.

I like the character on the left hand side because of the way the eyes have been exaggerated. This is something i have to remember that i can exaggerate anything that i want, it does't have to be real.

I like the designs of the m and m characters. I also like the shading as well it adds a lot of depth to it. This is something im going to take into consideration when doing my own designs.

I do not know what it is but this character stood out to me the most. I think it is partly because most boxers are aggresive. And also because of the pose.

This was one of the designs that caught my eye. The main reason why this picture caught my eye was because of the bright colours. I also like the different shapes used within the characters.

This is a very nice 2d character design. The thing that stands out the most with this character is the strong black out line, it feels very 2d.

Looking at these designs reminded me of blue zoo. The designs are very illustrative and i can see myself using this as reference. They are even shaped similar to a ballon.

I like the style of this character very much, it isn't too complicated but it is still very effective.

This is a paticular style that i like, and i might consider using something like this for one of my designs for my character. The designs are not too complicated, but very sylelized.

We have now established that we will be doing this short ident in 2D. so i will be looking more into the Richar Williams book. I am going to be working on the boxing ident which should be very interesting. I intend to take on board all the information that has been given to me by olley. The most crucial part is goin to be the run cycle, so i will be doing alot of observations.

Reflection

After looking at all the ideas that we had we had we decided to meet up with Oli. When we meet up with Oli he looked at the ideas that we we had and gave us some good feedback. He liked the idea with the Balloons. The balloons are actual boxing characters. They are getting ready to fight, they run into each other and splat and out of it forms the logo Blue Zoo. He also liked the other idea of a boy with a nest in his head. And in his nest that is on his head are some eggs. The eggs start to shake from side to side till eventually one cracks. And out of it comes out blue zoo with wings. The feed back that we got is to use more anticipation for the boxing scene. And to look at more westerns. Because of the tension between both sides.He also told me to look at the yellow submarine video, and graffiti styles.

For this anamatic that i done there is an helicopter coming down. and gradually ropes come down with the words blue zoo.

This is a scene of one of the anamatics that i had done. Basically there is a helicopter and the words blue zoo that descend from the sky on a parachute. They then collide into each other and form the blue zoo logo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASVmRfJdqw0&feature=related

I have also looked at idents done by cbeebies. I think they do good idents that appeal to the very young. I like the ident because of the good use of perspective, and dynamics.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fCcfyELvF4&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJMy6YDccw4&feature=related

This is a simple ident just using type faces. The thing that makes this ident effective is the simple showroom type background that is all white. Not only is that effective but the different camera angles makes it look good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8g6488KKQQ&feature=related

This ident is very similar to the previous post, in a sense that they have a similar layout. In this ident a character is about to detonate the dynamites that are in front of him. After he pushed down the explosion that he anticipated did not occur. But behind him Nickelodeon forms, in a gas.