Friday 22 March 2013

nickelodeon competition

I am doing the nickelodeon competition where I have to create a comedic, character driven, and kid appeal character. This will  feature an original, funny lead character with about 2 side characters. This will be for a animated short with the length of 2 min. I have chosen a character i have originally made with 2 side characters. as long with character design there has to be a concept treatment, character description and a story board. 


Main character




2 Side Characters







Saturday 16 March 2013

Polystyrene Gates animation test

i rigged up the polystyrene gates to see if it by creating an animation of it opening. I found that the rigs all didn't work and what work best was only using the first rig of it opening and just flattening it to create the illusion of opening. My team mates had i look and suggested a texture on the door to make it look less flat. I did two test with different  texture to see what one worked best.



This texture one was chosen as the favorite.


Sunday 3 March 2013

Unicorn test

I did a small test to make sure all the parts of the unicorn rig was working alright. I also did a test of the unicorn standing to make sure the rig work alright with it legs becoming arms. It's worked well and it legs bent right when turn to arms.




Unicorn rig

with the rig i created in Photoshop i put in to Toomboom to be ready for animating. 




Polystyrene Gates

I created polystyrene gates by using a polystyrene texture and creating rigs to make it look like its opening. I kept the design simple because it can be added with vines and flowers after by using everyone's flower design.


Sunday 24 February 2013

Unicorn Character design

I created the unicorn character out of the scanned in materials and cut it up creating a rig ready for animating. i also did a test to make sure it looked right when it stood up on two legs, which it would do in some scenes.  



Saturday 23 February 2013

Character Designs

I made a fish, tree and flowers out of the material we all collected and scan in.



Materials

We went and collect a bundle of materials and scan them in to create our characters and environment.




Wednesday 6 February 2013

Animatic

with the the storyboard images we all got together and put it through storyboard pro to created a rough  animatic.


Story Board

After we all watch a series of animated music videos we got new ideas for our own and created a new stroy-board. In watching the music video we found out the animated story didn't follow the lyrics word to word and in many cases the story didn't flow and contained random creatures and objects appearing. With this in mind we simplified the story by having the camera panning through the forest instead of following a main character. We would still keep the characters and backgrounds being in materials, but also to add a abstracted fell to the animation ours hands will come in to put the scene together.


Monday 28 January 2013

Story Board idea (music video)



This was a collaboration of us coming up with ideas for the music video by listening to the lyrics and using characters used in the song. The story is also being based around the words in the song which is a fantasy environment and this will influence our look of our backgrounds and characters. Therefore characters used are like the unicorn and the singer which is the one talking about his journey throughout the song.  Although we are not sure how this main character should look yet. The story is also about a flower temple so many flowers will be created and adding anthropomorphism to them will create a more of a fantasy look. 






















A story board was created together for a drift idea of how the words and animation would go together. 





Music Video competition

The Music video by Aaron Gwynaire  in which we are an animation for, we are also entering it into beat100.

In this site where you can enter in a music video from all over the world and is voted by the public with a $400 prize to the winner.  this is also the biggest social music video network on the internet, so i great way to get our work viewed.


http://www.beat100.com/

External Brief (music video)

For my External Brief i will be working on a music video with three other people.

faye Wombwell


Adam pool


Chloe Brown



here are the lyric to the music video we will be animating over using Toonboom. its a fantasy scene and there ideas of scanning in materials for object and characters.  




The Flower Temple#
(c) 2012 Aaron Gwynaire

My unicorn horn, touched by lavender
floats on the back of familiarity's boat.
rides on electric waves
into the unknown
to the polysterein gates of the unknown.

ill find you at the shores
of the heartbeat town
we'll spend the night, we'll spend the night

at the flower temple
under the inky black bed sheets
of a sleeping moon
x2

Here at the flower temple x3