FINAL ANIMATION

So everything's come together.

There was quite a few trial and errors involved in the different effects but eventually pulled them all together.

After Effects Advanced!

Moving onto more in depth workshops where we were playing about with more advanced effects such as zoom, opacity etc etc. (oh and including 3D cameras)

first of all we separated the two layers so they were editable in AE.

After having a play about my outcome was as follows..

After the After Effects

So the first workshop we had we just learned basics. Cutting out a bird and importing it into After Effects with 2 layers and moving it.

so here was the process..

paper experiment

i thought one way of showing the pop ups of the landmarks was to use stop motion and unfold them. I experimented with an a4 sheet of paper to see how it would come out.

this was made just using an ipad app but it gives the idea of what it would look like.

Extra Inspiration

right at the end there is a small animation of him travelling across america, thats kind of the idea i want to put across in my animation.

STORYBOARD IS BORN

So this is the background I am going to use for the entire animation so creating the background has been pretty simple.

 

The next obvious step in developing the storyboard is to insert each pop up and the tour bus to each frame to show the direction and route of the tour itself.

 

FINAL STORYBOARD

 

 

So here is the tour bus with each frame showing the movement of it with the pop ups indicating where the bus passes through. Unfortunately I couldnt use all states as the screen would be too rammed and would reduce the impact of the idea.





POP-UPS



These are the final landmark pop ups I have decided on for the animation that i created using photoshop.

ROUTE

so from what I can gather from the tour map, the route they took is as follows..

Washington
Oregon
California
Arizona
Colorado
Indiana
Kentucky
Tennesse
Alabama
Georgia
North Carolina
Virginia
Vermont
Pennsylvania
New York
Ohio
Michigan
Wisconsin
Minnesota

(excluding the Canadian regions)

Following this I plan to develop ideas related to each State. Eg new york would have an Empire State Building pop up..

With the animation only being 30 seconds I'm going to find it hard to create a pop up for each. So I plan on developing ideas for all then selecting the most iconic ones for the actual animation.

A little inspiration!

So whilst having a browse on the holy f**k official website, I came across this page..

They have an image inserted of a map of the USA with a hand drawn route of their tour.

(bigger image)

My initial idea when seeing this, was to create this route as an animation!

so maybe use an animated tour bus that moves around the map following the route given.

maybe at each major stop have a pop up of something significant from each place?

MY TURN 3

JUST ONE MORE GO ...

This time again i wanted to give the illustration only animation.
The storyboard goes that the snail slithers up to his 'girlfriend' snail and the end up holding hands. simple but cute!

MY TURN 2

I enjoyed doing the cut out movement of the snail and incorporating it with real life,so i wanted to try one that was just illustrated.

I chose to create a stick woman tripping over a stone.

Here's what a came up with pre-after effects...

I think I got the feeting wrong but it's just development right!

MY TURN

I wanted to have a go at some stop motion experiments. First of all i made a cut out illustration of a snail. My idea was to create a small animation of the snail crawling across the keyboard. Here's the original images..

Hopefully when I insert them into after effects it will come out right!

MORPH

I was having a flick through different ways of presenting animation and the idea of morph sprung to mind. So I had a brief look through youtube at different morph animations/artists on there.

This traditional animation was done using blue pencil on a light box - about two days of nonstop work drawing frame after frame. Total frame count was around 200.

The animation is intended to represent Singapore and make the different aspects morph into each other.

This clip really amazes me. The patience that must have gone into each frame is astonishing. It took me a while to work out how it was created and I'm still a little unsure but I think I have the general idea.

This one has used very simple drawings yet when connected to gether to created the morph it becomes really complex and quite impressive.

HOLY F**K

I thought it would be beneficial to research into the background of the artist who created the track.

I struggled to find it on the internet with just the track name so I used an app on my phone to find it.. 

From this I got the artist so was much easier to research into the band/song more.

Holy Fuck are a Canadian electronica band from Toronto. They were a part of Dependent Music, a music label and artist collective that began in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia in 2004 until its closing. They are now a part of the Young Turks label.

The band uses live instrumentation and miscellaneous instruments and non-instruments (including a 35 mm film synchronizer, toy keyboards and toy phaser guns) to achieve electronic-sounding effects without the use of laptops or programmed backing tracks. According to Pitchfork Media, "The band was formed with the intent of creating the equivalent of modern electronic music without actually using the techniques—looping, splicing, programming and the like—of that music."

I found the track on youtube which had a link to their website..

http://holyfuckmusic.com/

On here there's quite a lot of art, on the website itself and some quite iconic images on their merchandise. I think it would be beneficial to develop ideas based on these to find inspiration.

This is one of the most iconic images they tend to have on most merchandise..

Taaaaake Ooooooon Meeeeeeee

ONE OF MY FAVOURITE SONGS OF ALL TIMES
with a very iconic music video.

With budget of 100,000 British pounds, the video had a two-day shoot and required extensive post-production for its animation. The cartooning process used in the video is called rotoscoping, a method originated by animation pioneer Max Fleischer in 1915. The technique involves using a rotoscope machine that allows an animator to draw over live action film, resulting in the movement in the cartooning being more fluid and lifelike - today the technique is easily done on a computer by animators. In the "Take on Me" video, the process is seamless as the two leads interact, in and out of animation.

I like the way the animation aspect is just basic pencil in black and white and the cartoons themselves are quite minimal yet they depict the two characters in detail.

Who framed Roger Rabbit?

Who Framed Roger Rabbit is a 1988 American fantasy comedy film directed by Robert Zemeckis and written by Jeffrey Price and Peter S. Seaman. The film combines live action and animation, and is based on Gary K. Wolf's novel Who Censored Roger Rabbit? which depicts a world in which cartoon characters interact directly with human beings.

Zemeckis was hired to direct the live-action scenes with Canadian animator Richard Williams supervising the animation sequences. Production was moved from Los Angeles to elstree Studios in England to accommodate Williams and his group of animators.

I really like the idea of combining live action with animation, it does seem like a complex process and will have to undergo a lot more research if I wanted to pursue this route.