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.

Motion Lecture

Todays lecture gave me a better insight to the different aspects of animation and ways of creating movement. Things to take into consideration are colour change, depth, timing, rotation, scale, shape, transparency and I'm sure several more multiples of change!

I'm still unsure of any initial ideas regarding an actual narrative but I think my next step is to research current/past animators to give an idea of what kind of animation I'd b interested in developing.

Workshop - Cell Animation

Todays workshop was really tricky.

I understood the whole concept of cell animation but when put into groups it got complex.
To rely on someone elses previous tween before starting mine was quite tricky.
I did how ever enjoy working out the spacing between movements in each frame.

These were just some original sketches of development for how the motif could be moved and created into its own character. The top left drawing is the original logo, you can see how my idea develops where the ball splits into two then take it in turns to bounce up and down before joining back to one ball.

 



These sketches are from the culmination of ideas within my group. We chose to incorporate a 2nd logo that resembled the 'snake' game from Nokia phones. The idea is that the 2nd logo unravels into a snake look-a-like and moves towards the bouncing ball and consumes it.

The final storyboard we created of the animation is above. We divided the 12 fames up so each group member had 2 frames to complte each with 24 slides.

“Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.” - Walt Disney Company

PRINT TO PIXEL

new project.. not 100% sure what to make of it yet, I've never had the chance in previous years to use this medium.

After listening to my music "the pulse", I'm going to have a brainstorm of ideas of feelings/emotions/things that come to mind when listening to it, hopefully to give me some inspiration for where to start.

ps here's the track..

It sounds out of control and a bit sci-fi esque. It doesn't particularly remind me of a literal pulse, it's too rocky and roll for that.

(brainstorm)

FINITO!!

So everything was set to go!

I did a couple of miniature run throughs to make sure it worked.. and it did!

UNTIL

I did the scale sized one and found the holder was too big for the lid...
So had to start fresh.. at least I got plenty of practice.. to my excitement.

SO HERE'S THE FINAL THING!

WINNING.

 

(INSERT AMAZING DESIGN)

After my net was plotted, I added my logo design onto the lid and duplicated it so there was LOADS of EW's on it!!

I also did the same with the holder and added my innovative cartoons!

Now it's starting to look like something!!....