This week I focused on the end of my film, I knew I wanted it to end with a cliff hanger of whether or not the depression was going to get her again. So I tried to create that but also adding another scene with the tentacle in it (pushing her down). I also added her sticking to the floor when she runs away, because throughout the film I want to add it so the depression is something that sticks to things and consumes them and inky so gets everywhere and once i add it to the rest of the animation too the sudden sticking to the floor would make sense.
I feel my animation is coming along but a lot slower than i expected as I am struggling to get the details into my animation and the right flow.
Week 9 - Final Film from Summer Davies-Newton on Vimeo.
Feedback
This week the feedback was to look at the film 'Get out' specially the hypnosis film as it might help with the feel I want to get across in my animation.
I also handed in my evaluation draft, I didn't finish it all but handed what I had in to see if I was going in the right direction.
Monday 27 March 2017
Monday 20 March 2017
Animation Production - Week 9 - Final Film
This week I continued to work on the final, but it was a slow week as I concentrated more time on my project for a client and so I could not get as much as I wanted done for this week.
5-week 8 Final Film from Summer Davies-Newton on Vimeo.
Feedback -
To keep going and making the changes from the feedback of previous weeks.
I also continued to work on my evaluation ready for the draft next week.
5-week 8 Final Film from Summer Davies-Newton on Vimeo.
Feedback -
To keep going and making the changes from the feedback of previous weeks.
I also continued to work on my evaluation ready for the draft next week.
Monday 13 March 2017
Animation Production - Week 8 - Final Film Progress
This week I have been focusing on the memories section, taking on the feedback from last week, I also added the title sequence.
Below is the what I have so far for the blocking of the animation. I added a title sequence with the title of the film. Finally deciding on a title is great I can see the film coming more and more together each week, even if I am still making a lot of changes and struggling on certain sections.
I also changed the memory section from the feedback from last week, but I still have a lot more to go with making that scene better.
4 - week 7 final film from Summer Davies-Newton on Vimeo.
Feedback
Make better transitions between the memories, maybe adding in bubbles, going around her.
Tentacle - make it into a motif so add another scene to make it look more obvious to the audience that the tentacle is the bad guy and the depression that is trying to take her. This is something I have wanted from the beginning and I think it's a good idea to add another scene of it.
I need to look at Ryan Woodward again as inspiration and his work is really flowly and smooth and is what I want my animation to be like.
I feel I am struggling quite a bit on the memory section, but I hope working at it each week with the rest of the animation, it will hopefully click and look right.
Class - Press Kits and Evaluation.
This week we looked at press kits and having all the different parts of the kit together to make sending out to festivals easier. I found this extremely useful, although I don't think I will be looking into it until after the deadline, when I have more time and everything is finished.
We also discussed the evaluation we have to write and to be careful not to describe what we did throughout the project but to actually say: how we felt, what we have learnt and what we would do differently.
The deadline for first draft is in the next couple of weeks so I will be starting to work on this.
Below is the what I have so far for the blocking of the animation. I added a title sequence with the title of the film. Finally deciding on a title is great I can see the film coming more and more together each week, even if I am still making a lot of changes and struggling on certain sections.
I also changed the memory section from the feedback from last week, but I still have a lot more to go with making that scene better.
4 - week 7 final film from Summer Davies-Newton on Vimeo.
Feedback
Make better transitions between the memories, maybe adding in bubbles, going around her.
Tentacle - make it into a motif so add another scene to make it look more obvious to the audience that the tentacle is the bad guy and the depression that is trying to take her. This is something I have wanted from the beginning and I think it's a good idea to add another scene of it.
I need to look at Ryan Woodward again as inspiration and his work is really flowly and smooth and is what I want my animation to be like.
I feel I am struggling quite a bit on the memory section, but I hope working at it each week with the rest of the animation, it will hopefully click and look right.
Class - Press Kits and Evaluation.
This week we looked at press kits and having all the different parts of the kit together to make sending out to festivals easier. I found this extremely useful, although I don't think I will be looking into it until after the deadline, when I have more time and everything is finished.
We also discussed the evaluation we have to write and to be careful not to describe what we did throughout the project but to actually say: how we felt, what we have learnt and what we would do differently.
The deadline for first draft is in the next couple of weeks so I will be starting to work on this.
Friday 3 March 2017
Animation Production - Week 7 - Final Film Progress
Style
From the feedback last time they wanted me to push my style and make it more like the inspiration pictures I had.
I wanted to mess around with different ways of doing it and below is what I cam up with, I don't like the more blocky coloured ones as I feel they make her too solid and I want her to be portrayed as someone who is translucent and sketchy almost not there because of her depression and I feel the last one that is more sketchy is what I am more going for.
Taking the last style I like I went on to play around with the colour and lines. When I am animating I want the lines to be constantly moving.
Style with the black more dominant -
Style with the white more dominant -
Final Style
Below is the a combination of the the white and black and I have asked a few people they also prefer this one. I like that she has an outline but is sketchy and transparent and so doesn't have a full form. Which is because of her depression.
Blinking/ Memories section
This week I have been trying to keyframe the rest of the film and so looked at videos of how the film industry did blinks and the different ways to do it.
The first video is an okay way to do it but i feel the eye doesn't open enough and the last video is better as it has the haziness of opening your eyes and not really being able to see in detail what is there. Which is more to what I want in my film. Ignoring what the last video is about.
I have been struggling with this section a lot as I have had different feedback on it and I don't feel it flows as well as the beginning of the film.
After speaking with Emily she suggested just getting on and starting to animate. I have been having troubles with the ending of my film and not liking it and feel if I can get the beginning sorted, the ending will come and I will be able to change it.
Feet Section -
I started with the feet section as I knew I could get this done this week and I could go from there. I have outlined it black as it was quite messy with the sketchy version and was hard to see. I really like the feet tilts that were suggestion from last times feedback and think they make her more human.
Emily suggested adding a shadow to the feet as the angle is slightly awkward at times. I haven't managed to do this, this week but I will for next week.
scene 1 - 5 - black outline from Summer Davies-Newton on Vimeo.
Title -
I have also started to think about the title of my film and have a few suggestions which I will bring to the class on Monday and see what people think about them as well as talking to my mum about it.
The Suggestions are:
At the moment my favourite is 'Sinking' but I will get opinions first and definitely speak to my mum about it.
After talking with my mum we have both decided on the title 'Sinking'. My mum felt that it best summed up how she feels and it stood out for me from the very beginning. I am happy I finally have a name.
Swapping Films -
By the end of the week both Bethany and I were getting stuck with our films and were struggling to see past what we had already done. So we decided to swap films.
I helped time and fix up drawing of her film and she helped with an ending and different shots on my film. This really helped to see our films differently as we needed fresh eyes and it really worked to re-motivate ourselves.
optional ending from Summer Davies-Newton on Vimeo.
Above is an ending that Bethany thought of and fits with some of the ideas I was having about the ending during the week. It feels better than the volcano scene I had originally done for this section and I feel happier already that it flows better.
Film So Far -
After Bethany's help I started to put it all together to see how it looked and added the music and voice over.
It is a bit longer than the original animatic but because I have silent parts in the voice over it is okay as I can still adjust them and have the speaking in the right places.
I am a lot happier with the dirstion it is going in now as a felt the volcano scene in the animatic seemed random, out of place and some what childish, which is not how I wanted my film to look like.
Although Emily says about animating parts and then fitting them together and not to worry about the structure of it too much, I realise I personally don't really work like that. In some cases it is okay but I felt more panicked by not knowing what I wanted as the ending and I'm glad I have one now.
Key framing - all - with music from Summer Davies-Newton on Vimeo.
I still have a lot more to do, but I hope to just keep carrying on and next week I hope to have quite a bit of animating done.
Feedback -
'Sinking' as the title is liked by class and Emily and Sam.
Sam suggested watching a Sarah Cox '3 ways to go' to look at how she does a person in water as I need to look at gravity underwater and how weight and being floaty is underwater.
Maybe instead of her hitting the floor to have her be in a state in between floating. Or when she hits the floor to have sand and dust come up and that will help with the transition to the next shot. I was going to add the sand and dust effects closer to the end so I will keep this in mind.
With the memories section I have still to work on that and make it how I want it to be. I want it more a s tripy state of confusion and some what horror as she is reliving her past trauma. With the army boots Emily suggested putting blocks on the feet with laces to look like it is waying her down and maybe have her dragging her feet.
I am a lot happier as to how the film is progressing and can see it coming along now. I will continue to work on the memories section and then hopefully have more animated for next week.
From the feedback last time they wanted me to push my style and make it more like the inspiration pictures I had.
I wanted to mess around with different ways of doing it and below is what I cam up with, I don't like the more blocky coloured ones as I feel they make her too solid and I want her to be portrayed as someone who is translucent and sketchy almost not there because of her depression and I feel the last one that is more sketchy is what I am more going for.
Taking the last style I like I went on to play around with the colour and lines. When I am animating I want the lines to be constantly moving.
Style with the black more dominant -
Style with the white more dominant -
Final Style
Below is the a combination of the the white and black and I have asked a few people they also prefer this one. I like that she has an outline but is sketchy and transparent and so doesn't have a full form. Which is because of her depression.
Blinking/ Memories section
This week I have been trying to keyframe the rest of the film and so looked at videos of how the film industry did blinks and the different ways to do it.
The first video is an okay way to do it but i feel the eye doesn't open enough and the last video is better as it has the haziness of opening your eyes and not really being able to see in detail what is there. Which is more to what I want in my film. Ignoring what the last video is about.
I have been struggling with this section a lot as I have had different feedback on it and I don't feel it flows as well as the beginning of the film.
After speaking with Emily she suggested just getting on and starting to animate. I have been having troubles with the ending of my film and not liking it and feel if I can get the beginning sorted, the ending will come and I will be able to change it.
Feet Section -
I started with the feet section as I knew I could get this done this week and I could go from there. I have outlined it black as it was quite messy with the sketchy version and was hard to see. I really like the feet tilts that were suggestion from last times feedback and think they make her more human.
Emily suggested adding a shadow to the feet as the angle is slightly awkward at times. I haven't managed to do this, this week but I will for next week.
scene 1 - 5 - black outline from Summer Davies-Newton on Vimeo.
Title -
I have also started to think about the title of my film and have a few suggestions which I will bring to the class on Monday and see what people think about them as well as talking to my mum about it.
The Suggestions are:
- Woman
- Water
- Creature
- Falling
- Floating
- Memories
- Bubbles
- Drowning
- Submerged
- Engulfed
- Immersed
- Descent
- Fading
- Isolated
- Sinking
At the moment my favourite is 'Sinking' but I will get opinions first and definitely speak to my mum about it.
After talking with my mum we have both decided on the title 'Sinking'. My mum felt that it best summed up how she feels and it stood out for me from the very beginning. I am happy I finally have a name.
Swapping Films -
By the end of the week both Bethany and I were getting stuck with our films and were struggling to see past what we had already done. So we decided to swap films.
I helped time and fix up drawing of her film and she helped with an ending and different shots on my film. This really helped to see our films differently as we needed fresh eyes and it really worked to re-motivate ourselves.
optional ending from Summer Davies-Newton on Vimeo.
Above is an ending that Bethany thought of and fits with some of the ideas I was having about the ending during the week. It feels better than the volcano scene I had originally done for this section and I feel happier already that it flows better.
Film So Far -
After Bethany's help I started to put it all together to see how it looked and added the music and voice over.
It is a bit longer than the original animatic but because I have silent parts in the voice over it is okay as I can still adjust them and have the speaking in the right places.
I am a lot happier with the dirstion it is going in now as a felt the volcano scene in the animatic seemed random, out of place and some what childish, which is not how I wanted my film to look like.
Although Emily says about animating parts and then fitting them together and not to worry about the structure of it too much, I realise I personally don't really work like that. In some cases it is okay but I felt more panicked by not knowing what I wanted as the ending and I'm glad I have one now.
Key framing - all - with music from Summer Davies-Newton on Vimeo.
I still have a lot more to do, but I hope to just keep carrying on and next week I hope to have quite a bit of animating done.
Feedback -
'Sinking' as the title is liked by class and Emily and Sam.
Sam suggested watching a Sarah Cox '3 ways to go' to look at how she does a person in water as I need to look at gravity underwater and how weight and being floaty is underwater.
Maybe instead of her hitting the floor to have her be in a state in between floating. Or when she hits the floor to have sand and dust come up and that will help with the transition to the next shot. I was going to add the sand and dust effects closer to the end so I will keep this in mind.
With the memories section I have still to work on that and make it how I want it to be. I want it more a s tripy state of confusion and some what horror as she is reliving her past trauma. With the army boots Emily suggested putting blocks on the feet with laces to look like it is waying her down and maybe have her dragging her feet.
I am a lot happier as to how the film is progressing and can see it coming along now. I will continue to work on the memories section and then hopefully have more animated for next week.
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