Thursday 29 January 2009

Improving the animation

In todays lesson we were just sorting out the last few things on our animation but then we were told that the font that we used in our animation, didnt realy work with the kind of animation we were doing. The animation is very girly and pink and the font that we used for the names was 'arial bold, black'. This meant that we had to go bak to all the images that had letters on them form the animation and change it to a slightly different font. We ened up changing it to 'curlz MT'. We also used different colour font such as bright blues, yelows and purples. Just by changing this the sequence started looking alot better. I just have one more scene to do which i couldnt get done today. This was the scene in Layla's room, infront of window and the radiator. I decided to change it slighty to a plain orange background. On this I pasted the star which was made bigger. With the star I am going to make it move across thh page and swirl around and let the names slowly apear on it. After this all we have to work on is the music.

Monday 26 January 2009

...music

For the music in our animation title sequence we have found someone who wil make some music for us. Her name is Kirtsy Mansfield and she composes her own music. She said she will help us with the music for our animation by playing the piano. So now for the animation we we have some soft music played by Kirsty Mansfield and her piano.
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Friday 23 January 2009

Music for the animation =)

Hopefuly the rest of the things to add will not take that long. Once the editing gets done we will have to concentrate on the music which we are going to use. We have been thinking of using quite soft gentle music with instruments which sound liek a harp, zilaphone, the triangle, and maybe a subtle sound of a tamberine. It sounds like a weird combination but we've beenthinking fo things that would go with an image of a star and a little girl. We thought of the song 'twinkle twinkle little star' and thought something like that would be good. These are some of the things that we have been thinking about. But we have to book a music room on Monday so we can start composing our own music, as we wil get better marks for it.

More animation...

In Mondays lesson we carried on working on our animation. We finished of the last few scenes which we had left to do. We now only have to get the filming of the real bedroom done, which Becky is going to do in her room. Once this is done, we can add it to the begining of the title sequence where its all changes to animation. We will hopefuly have it all done by this coming Thursday. There isnt much editing to do apart from arranging all the images and getting the scenes in the right order.

Thursday 15 January 2009

Working on the animation

Today we spent the whole day working on our animation. we done the first scene which is of Layla when she goes outside and picks up the star. This scene worked very well. We started on the next scene which is when Layla takes that star inside and she starts crying because the star starts to dissapear. On one of these shots, we done a close up shot of Layla when shes crying. I liked this bit alot and it took me quite long to do. I started off by making a plain close up shot and then done another few shots where her eyes got smaller and tears started to appear. Eventualy her eyes close and the tear roles down her face which is then followed by a puddle of water. I will try doing some more over the weekend and get another scene done.





























Sunday 11 January 2009

Drawing the pictures =)

Over the weekend I started to draw out some thumbnails of the animation. I started off with the first scene which was when the star falls out on to the road. The scene starts off when the star slowly flows down on to the ground. The image is of the outside of the house. I thought it would be alot easier if I drew out small thumbnails for each scene to see how I will have to draw out each picture. Another reason for this was so that we can see the movement properly and see what the drawings will look like. Thats all I have done at the moment, and I will work on the proper drawings tomorrow during the lesson. I have also been looking at different cartoon characters to give me some ideas about my own little character. These are some of them.
















Thursday 8 January 2009

Getting ready for the animation

Next week we have got a whole day to start working with our images and developing them on photoshop to create our animetion. Out of our group I will be doing the drawings but also with help from Hannah and Becky. Before next week we will also have to make our model room which we are going to be using as part of the animation as the opening. We will make this room out of a small box (most probably a shoe box) and we will make it look like Becky's bedroom window as she is going to be taking the picture in her bedroom. Once this model is made we can start filming it so we can add it to the beginging of the title sequence. We are also going to have to start our drawing pretty quick so they are ready for us to use on Thursday. We need to have atleast the main character and the firts scene drawn out so we can work on that.

Scene 1- Layla's star

This is our first scene for our animation film. In this part it shows the title. It starts off on the night sky with all the stars out. It carries on going up and starts to zoom in to the sky. As it goes up the main big star starts to show slowly. Eventualy the title starts to fade in slong the side.

We still have to do the very begining yet as we need to make a small model of a room. From that small room we are going to zoom in and show the window, out in to the sky and from there it will show this scene where it will change to animation.

Unfortunatley we are not going to use a real girl at the begining as it is going to be to much. It will also be alot safer to stick with animation because if we use a little child, it might make it look abit un-natural. Like this we can use any room and setting because we don have to worry about making the model room and the animation look identical to the real room we use.

Monday 5 January 2009

Title sequence

For our title sequence, as we are working with animation we have chosen to work from a childrens book called 'Laura's star'. We have made our storyboards and have also made an animatic for it in which we have also included some sound effects. This is our anamatic.