a little slow at the beginning, movements will pick up.
this is the simplest part of the whole piece, and i think it helped me a great deal to get in tune with after effects…
Final Project : Old Man of Marshmallow Drive – Saiq’a Chowdhury
“There was an old man of Marshmellow drive
In his hundred and forty-threes
He had a long beard that tripped him often
As it reached way below his knees.
In his hundred and forty-threes
He had a long beard that tripped him often
As it reached way below his knees.
He would sing and dance
Perhaps break into a prance
Every time he was happy or its ‘un’ –
And whenever he did a ring-a-ding-ding
Everyone would go into a trance.
Perhaps break into a prance
Every time he was happy or its ‘un’ –
And whenever he did a ring-a-ding-ding
Everyone would go into a trance.
But one day, as he songed and danced
And was not looking quite his way
His beard reached below, went under his feet
And tickled him away –
He laughed and he tripped
Cart-wheeled and flipped
And fell into a hole down the bay…
Everyone came and tried and tried
But no one could get him out
The poor old man with the long life span
Didn’t realize what the racket was about
He laughed away and sanged all day
For the long-lasting years of his life
And even today
You can hear him sing
From the hole of Marshmellow Drive.”
For the long-lasting years of his life
And even today
You can hear him sing
From the hole of Marshmellow Drive.”
Character details:
I appologize about the screen size and sound quality, especially the sound because I was trying to be experimental – not sure if it’s really working/clear. haha
Week #11 Final project “Hear Me Out”- Character Sheet by Musen
INTRO:
J’ai tenu à réaliser un petit montage à partir de l’inoubliable et bouleversant Love story qui ne manque jamais de me faire déborder le coeur… juste sublime. L’amour, c’est n’avoir jamais à dire qu’on est désolé.
I wanted to do a little animation about a unforgettable and deeply love story that never fails to make me broke the heart …just sublime. Love means never having to say you’re sorry.
STORYBOARD:
Recently, I just suffered by love hurts. This animation is about my story. From my opinion, love is sweet, but sometime, you should suffer hurts and other things that you never expected. Hence, in the beginning the animation is treacly and sweet. With the seasons are changing(autumn to winter), the emotion becomes more sadness and sorrowful. After winter, the story back to sweet in next spring(I do hope so…). Sometimes in my tears I drown, but I never let it get me down. so when negativity surrounds. I know some day it’ll all turn around.
What’s more, I want to compose a new song as my animation background music. Hence, I ask my friend to compose a song for me. We discussed the song last weekend. This is the sample of the song. I love this song! Happy and sort of sad.
I analyse this song quickly…
electronic organ – high hat – drum beat – piano – the change of the key on the piano – stringed instrument music – piano solo – end
Storyboard-
METAPHOR IN ANIMATION:
The girl eats the butterfly means “butterfly in my stomach”
The three paths means the three different results of our relationship.
TYPE OF ANIMATION:
2D hand drawing
some sketches about my animation
I drew this illustration few months ago. I want to finish my animation like this type.^^
Week #10- Talking Animation
TIME: 2 hrs
PROBLEMS: In my attempts to think-outside-the-box, I decided to be clever and get a sound bite from Paula Dean. I her southern drawl I thought would be cool to animate. It was actually annoying to maneuver than I previously thought. I had to keep rearranging the frames just so they’d match with the sound.
AH HA: Wanted to add some variety so I made three characters with different voices.
IF ANIMATED AGAIN: Take more time and also animate some facial expressions (i.e. eyes, maybe add some eyebrows)…
Japanese Suprise – Alfred HW 9
Time to animate: 9 hours
Adjective pair: Fearful and Fearless.
Backstory: Gomp and Momp encounter an unidentified object of foreign nature.
Difficulties: Not much, really. Everything went pretty smoothly.
Ah-ha moment: The moment I finished that damn transformation.
Week 9 -Two objects and interaction – Saiq’a Chowdhury
Adjective pair: adventurous and timid
This is the story of the sad demise of the Blob Left and Blob Right.
Blob Left is spontaneous, Blob Right is shy.
Blob Left wants to have fun with Ball, but Blob Right doesn’t seem to think it’s a very good idea.
Ball gets agitated and something terrible happens…
How long it took: 7 hours
AHHA moment: The ending. Initially I had both blobs running away from the ball but then I thought death would make it more cute.
If I animated again: Definitely add some sound effects or music to elaborate on the characters. Slow down the movements a little bit at the beginning in order to make clearer personality establishments, e.g. have Blob Left’s movements slightly slower at the beginning, more observant and then transforming to excitement.
Overall, I really enjoyed making this. I’m quite happy with the time and spacing, weight and bounces – I paid a lot of close attention to these things.
Alfred Walk Cycle
1. Walk Cycle
2. Animation time – 5 hours
3. Pretty straightforward, aside from the few awkward frames I didn’t really have any trouble. The run cycle took much longer than I previously imagined.
4. I would have just started earlier. I wanted to bring out a concept from this but it would have taken considerably longer.
walk cycle-Saiq’a
I started investigating glass and paint techniques but had to drop the plan entirely because I am suddenly having to move out of my apartment and I’m in a mess!So I thought the best way to get around to this assignment is to try my best to do a good job on the walk cycle. I am pleased with this piece, although I know it can be a lot better. The thing that bothers me about this walk is that the spaces between steps seem too large in relation to the steps. Although I tried correcting this by putting in more frames, but watching it now makes me think that it needs more frames in between. I’m thinking next time I’m going to try with vector and see how that comes out.
I tried to create a character and give it personality through its walk. I like the wobbly effect that it has. This time I didn’t draw directly on flash – I’m glad I didn’t because I think the line-weight is a lot more consistent now.
animating to music – Saiq’a
my file won’t upload on youtube/vimeo/dailymotion!!!!!!
says some sort of encoding issue, don’t know how to get around that!!!
Animation Concepts 