Today I will be concentrating on my new storyboard. This is my new storyboard for my animation, l will not be changing my animation anymore. I hope to be sticking to this storyboard, I prefer this storyboard because it feels more like there is a storyline to this storyboard than the other storyboard I did.
Below you will see my new animation storyboard:
As you can see the last image has gaps missing in the storyboard, the reason for this is because I wanted to leave space for any other ideas I thought of during creating the first part of y animation, if I couldn't find anything else to add to it I will just continue with my storyboard where the thought bubble zooms back out where the girl is curled up and then smiles.
Ive changed my idea from my character walking with the background and weather changing to my character remembering her year in a thought bubble. i changed it because i felt there was no flow in the animation although i was only creating the background props. But luckily I have not been animating any animation yet i have just been getting the backgrounds ready which i will be keeping. My new idea is that it starts off with my character curled up and then a thought bubble appears with a christmas living room with the character jumping up and down excitedly and the parents walking in. Then the character is walking across a winter scene street moving on to autumn it then zooms in focusing on a tree then the tree forms leaves with flowers that grow on the grown then summer appears it zooms out and summer park and the girl finds a boy the thought bubble zoom's out back to the character thats curled up and she face lightens up.
This image is to show my written work, and how I have planned it out on paper before making my storyboard.
To prepare my animation I will be creating my backgrounds on Adobe Photoshop CS6. The scene's I will be creating are: - Winter street - Sunshine park - Christmas living room - Autumn park Equipment I will use in the animation: - Rain - Characters - Snow - Single leaves - Autumn tree's - Winter tree's - Flowers - Umbrella - Plate of cookies
I have drawn up character model sheets and the rough sketches of the backgrounds to show what I am looking at making on the computer. This will help me design it on Adobe Photoshop CS5.1 and show what I have developed going through this process. I will be importing them into Adobe Flash CS6 and creating my characters in Flash too then to animate the animation together. I will also be using a mix of Frame By Frame technique and using Classic Tweens for things in my animation to move.
Below will show you my progress in creating my preparation:
Preparing the main character:
I have created my main character which is a girl on Adobe Photoshop CS5.1, I drew her first and I have also drawn a curled up position using my character because I want her to be curled up sitting there at the start. Below you will see how i have created my character on Photoshop CS5.1:
Once the drawing is in Photoshop; I then draw over it with the 'brush tool' using a black colour for the outline of my character, after I have my outline of the character I can then delete the drawing and begin using layers for different parts of the body and colouring them in.
Eventually they become a full character and are finished. Below shows you the back and front of the main character and below that is to show what she would look like curled up.
Today I will be focusing on the storyboard
for my animation. Its only rough sketching but its very easy to understand so
hopefully be okay to follow when coming to a animate the animation.
My first research is a animation by 'Badmephisto' he is a youtuber that created a '4 seasons animation' it is a tree going through the four seasons. It got 122,788 views on YouTube. I really like this animation, I find it is very calm and a chilled animation. The animation is very simple but it works really well, you can see the seasons changing. I love when the tree looses the leaves and the leaves fall in the same direction I thought that was cleverly done. I also liked the changing colour of the background, its like it represents the mood of the weather. I really like the snow in the winter scene, the snow flakes are very detailed and well animated. When the snow falls on the tree I find that its very effective towards the animation.
When the weather changes at this scene I really like how the rain falls with the sound of thunder it creates realism to the animation, I like how the leaves fall off the tree because it is very realistic that is actually how leaves fall of a tree.
Shown above is a example of falling leaves.
Then summer comes along and the way the flowers grow back on the tree is very effective. very well animated. I like how the mood of the background changes to a green, it flows very well with the theme of the scene being summer.
My second research is this unique piece of art. It was created by Marco Olson with 345 views on YouTube. The animation is brilliant and very well made. When watching this you can see a story to it and its very effective.
However I don't think this is a 2D animation I think this is more video editing.
My third research is a animation done by 'shamanqueen92' This animation is my favourite its something I wanted to do for my animation. The way the story is with the animation it is very cleverly done. Sadly it only has 644 views I honestly think they deserve way more views than what they have because it is a amazing animation and a very clever storyline. I really like the style of this animation its very painted and Frame by Frame.
My idea is to have a female character wondering the streets in the winter viewing a couple sitting on a bench to then wondering around in the autumn and spring in the park and then relaxing at the park with her friends.The backgrounds will be moving as she is walking.
Ideas:
2D animation:
- Character sitting in the corner of a room, the winder shows the seasons changing.
- A girl thinks about what a year she has had.
- A character walks along and the background changes.
- Focus on a group of tree's with the weather changing.
Here is image of the music I was thinking of using, I wrote down the lyrics and separated the seasons so I could fit the music with the animation.
Today I will be creating my Production Schedule so I can keep organised during the weeks and not fall behind, I am aiming at sticking to this guide because the assignment is a very short period of time with a lot of work to be done; so hopefully I will be able to achieve this.
