Group project

As a group we have decided to do the HUMAN MOVEMENT EXERCISES:

1. Animate a human character walking conveying a particular emotion that reflects his/her personality;

2. Animate a human character restraining a four-legged animal on a lead when it unexpectedly pulls him/her during a walk;

3. Animate a human character tripping over an object falling flat to the ground;

4. Animate a human character pulling on a rope which unexpectedly snaps;

5. Animate a human character throwing a ball in the air which unexpectedly returns heavy.

We have also decided that we will be doing them in 3D because as individuals that is what we want to learn and end up doing.

We have some story line around the exercises but we are still not sure how it will go exactly. The idea is that our main human character will be based on Lyn's personality and so on. The other character will be a dragon. In the story we will use the exercises as guides for the story but we will not follow them one hundred percent because we want also to great a story that works not just do the exercises. 

New Semester

I was just making a list of things that I have to do for my final film proposal here they are below:

1. synopsis 
2. treatment
3. inspiration 
4. aspiration 
5. production schedule 
6. budget 
7. research / references 
8. concept art work 
9. storyboards 
10. character designs 
11. scripts 
12. background 
13. animatic 
14. 30 second animation test 

I also began thinking of what my final film can actually be about. It will be very personal and will be about finding out one is meant to be in the world and the society that they are in and that in the end not everyone fits in all the time thats what makes the world so great.

It will be about a lost sole and how it is finding the place it is meant to be in. It is still a very broad idea in mind and will need more developing as the semester goes on. 

So far inspirations have come from the Disney Pixar film Ratatoi because it has sort of the same story line. It also has some Ugly Duckling inspiration. 

Also I have decided to do the entire film in 3D because that is what I want to do after graduation and this film will hopefully give me both the time to learn more and show my skill in that area. 

Taxonomy reference

To animate the bird I looked at both live video and animated videos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLRfhFLxzLs&feature=related

And I did the same for the part of the frog jumping
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RqSmR57wuA&feature=related

I also looked at different images when it came to drawing. It was hard to access the real thing but the images and the video did help me a lot.

Below is my animation so far with the bird flying and the frog.
They still need fixing. the second one is an other try

Taxonomy Update again

I've changed my idea once again but kept the concept the same.
Here was my original idea.

I felt it was the same method as I did Drip, Splat, Boing and I wanted to learn something much different.

Drip last update

After talking to Mattew I realized there are a lot of parts that need fixing but that needs time. Fixed some parts or at least tried. First are the walk cycles I tried doing again and not successful still. An the last video is the full animation. The rest of the changes are in the final video.

Drip last part

This is the outline for the last part I should animate its a small dance and her falling.

This is my full movie now.

drip, the notes

To do the parts of the notes I used the actual notes of the song in order not to just do some random notes on the screen.
Here is the sheet I used