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Character Drawings

Write-Up

Talk about Character design in film and Animation.

Analyse both Realistic and Non-Realistic forms of Design

Film

-The Jungle Book: Both the Hand drawn and  Live Action/CGI versions by Disney.
  *Compare!

Discuss where I stand in relation to both with the design in my film.

Research

Paul Wells, Understanding Animation
-Realism in Animation

Drawings

Animatic V_001

Storyboards

Once I did a Basic Story Board to get a rough idea of the story DG and I began to cut and add some shots that we thought would make the story better...

Video Research

One

the into to this video where the creature are under water was an interesting shot and i want to try and incorporate it at the start of the animation, i also noticed that it stands out to the rest of the video so it made me think of doing this section of my animation differently to the rest of it.

Two

The reason I chose this video was because it is a compilation of many different videos taken by people in various parts of Russia where a meteor big enough to be very noticeable struck the Earth. From it I was able to get a clear idea of what an actual meteor strike looks and sounds like and this was great help when boarding out the meteor scene in the animation.

Three

In all Gozilla and most dinosaur movies there is an iconic shot where we first see the feet of the creature and the rest of it is revealed in a slow pan up its body zoomed in on its face and usually ends with a roar. I wanted to include this in the animation for the reveal of the Dinosaur and then again later by mimicking the same shot for the reveal for what the dinosaur has turned into as another way to reinforce that it is the same character.

Four

This video is a chase scene shot in first person so i was able to use some of the shots as reference.

Getting Started.

Introduction

For this project I wanted to showcase my Character Animation skills and after talking with Dean Gordon (DG) who wanted to showcase his background skills, we decided to partner up.

We both knew we wanted to have a variation of characters and backgrounds so DG had the idea of a story that would start at the dawn of time and end in present day with the character travelling through all the different era's in time. I then decided that the Character would start out as an Amoeba and would evolve as they visited all the time periods and it became a story about evolution, the evolution of earth and the evolution of life.

Once we had the general idea of what we wanted to do, we both did Separate word-weds to try flesh out the story some more and have a broader vision.  

We then went off and wrote 3 outlines each without discussing them until we where done. Once we had read each others outlines, we come up with an outline that myself and DG where happy with. 

Outline

>Opens to a meteor crashing through the sky and splashing into a body of water.

>As the meteor is sinking down into the water, lots of little amoeba like creature light up and begin to detach from   it.

>Camera zooms in on one of the creature's as it cycles through some evolutionary stages.

>It then pops out of the water in a lizard like form.

>It begins to walk on an adventure through time as it and the landscape is evolving through many different era's.

>It comes across an egg and destroys it but then the mother, a dinosaur, sets chase on the creature.

>This causes the creature to evolve into a bipedal form as it needs to run away.

>The chase comes to a stop as time hits present day and the character in its human form hits a Dead end.

>Main character turns in anticipation only to see that the dinosaurs has devolved into a chicken. End.