Goha Storyboard

Goha Model Sheet

Walk Side Drip, Splat, Boing Again

Another try:

Reference for creating Goha

This is a person I had photographed a while back. This is how I image Goha to look like. I will use the photo as reference. 

This one is an attempt to make a character its far from finished but it is a working progress.

another try its a worrying progress 

More script writing

Since my story has a hazel nut tree I researched on how one looks like. Unfortunately i don't know how to reach one to actually see it so I researched online and here is what it looks like. 

After looking at the images of the tree I realized that even though I can't access an actual hazel nut tree at least I can reach a tree that looks similar so I can better draw it from all different angles. 

Script Writing - Bible

Okay I decided to do the bible on the folk story. I realized that going back home will give me a big push when I start making my bible. I can go to different places and use them as visual reference and start drawing them in order to actually create a character and the rest of the production bible.

The folk story I am doing is Goha (which I posted earlier). He has men stories but I pick one story to make my animatic on. This will be like a pilot for this character's series. The episode will be for kids and it will be a sort episode between 2-3 minutes max. Its intended to be quick to be viewed multiple times in between their shows without actually being to long boring them to much with life's lessons. Kids get board quickly when they realize things are to educational.
Here is what I have so far.

Premises: What better way for kids to learn life lessons than from the town goof ball.

Synopsis: With the new changes that are taking place in the world, new ways to teach kids must constantly be created. What better way to encourage kids to learn by engaging them with a character that they can find entertaining and educational. 

Another try side way walk

I am trying to do the sideways walk again

I am doing the arms first on a old drawing of the character and then I will draw the character again to smoothen the arm walk and so on.

I am also seeing how old women walk and how others have done it. Unfortunately I can't film an old lady walking because they get upset but here is what I found online.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMLPwNW7Q70

Something I realized from observation was that an old lady walks with some sort of hunch in her back and slowly. So I will slow down the movement of the walk much more.

Here is my try it reads better but still need fixing a lot

Here is an even better try but still not right

And again

Script Writing

Developing my idea is not as easy as I thought it would be at all. I decided to do a documentary about Alzheimer's deceases. I watched a lot of videos from other patients and their support group and I saw what happens to them during this illness and all.

So my first idea was to do a story of a couple when they were younger and the same story when they grow up.
At first I was thinking of doing it in simple lines and all. Then I experimented with doing the characters in silhouette. Here is an example I did.

And from here came the idea of play with colors through out the documentary. At the start there is cheerful colors and as the illness gets worse the colors get fader.
Another idea that came to mind was to do it in 3D. The problem with that idea in my head was that it was starting to look like the part from the movie up. The problem with that is that it won't look unique and people will no longer see it as a documentary.

So I thought of another idea which is the one hopefully I will go with. I have parts of a storyboard I am working on it but I don't know how much it would work. I would still play with the idea of color and how it changes. Below is the storyboard I started.

So basically the entire shot will take place with the same camera angle and this time in this idea there will be a voice over. I decided to make it a flat one shot because the image will constantly be changing and transforming. For that reason i believe it would be acceptable to actually keep it in place. So to get my shot to shot though process going I draw and write at the same time. The style that I am using is not the final still I am still testing with that. 

I also began looking at how other people did transformation to get the idea of how many frames and how its done basically.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=swXqOaVgolM

I am also trying to make a small transformation test to see how it would work but so far I just tested the legs moving will do more.

Another taxonomy update

Taxonomy update

Here it is so far

When I was animating the heart falling in the end I looking at a paper falling. I didn't make it as flow as a paper because its a little heaver than a paper but I still gave it a sort of light feel.

I work some more and I did a walk cycle for one of the characters. Its not a perfect walk cycle on purpose cause it matches the mood of the characters and the animation.

Turning the head

Its all wrong and I am going to remove it and make it run smother but here is me trying to make her head move from one side to the next.

Smoke for drip, slap, boing

I have been having problems with animating the smoke part. Here are some stuff I have been referencing.

fantasia
cinderella
aladdin

I have tried to animate it looking like a cloud growing or and explosion and that did not work at all I have to say. I didn't keep the tries that I have made because I keep removing them while I am working to try and improve them.

After sitting with Mathew, he advised I go look at actual smoke somewhere and see how that moves. Also looking at how other animator have done it in the past.

Hopefully it will work.

okay so I sat down with Mahmoud and he actually showed me how to animate a cartoony smoke and I tried it and it works or at least I believe so. I can't upload what he showed me but at the bottom I have uploaded my drip, slap, boing so far with the smoke.

Latest drip, splap, boing

This is the part in the middle where part of it is with the music. I still didn't add the music but here it is so far. I will still add the smoke for the surprise out of the box and in-between frames when she turns her head around. Also in the part of the notes there will be a growing plant and before that the flower will eventually grow.

The notes I used the actual notes for the song and traced over the image. Some of my simple sketch storyboard changed as I am animating. I made some parts more interesting.