Animation Student: May 2012

We come up with an idea of having a wow image at the end of the film of the actress on the bike. I decided that i thought come up with the image and draw her out.

I thought i would take a snapshot of her riding the bike for reference.

I decided to first create a digital painting of her but realised it doesn't fit with the mix media patterns we designed.

I drew her out again by pencil and added some water colours and found this most deffiantly works better with the patterns.

Red or Dead animation tests

with the patterns all cut up and ready to be animated, we then scan them in and then put them into cell animation and start playing around with them.

colouring (3rd year)

The team Dark descent asked me to help them again with now colouring a few different shots.

We realised when we was coming up with the story that our idea had to much live action and not enough actuall aniamtion. so we decided to create animations out of mix media's such as water colours and cutout images.

cinematography filming shots

Red or dead

We decided to film our set at the fish factory which luckly we discovered a big empty room that was perfect. here are a few shots below of the filming we did.

helping Life's a stream (3rd year)

I decided to help on another project alongside Darrien and Alberto on life's a stream.

few more animation test (yes no)

cinematography storyline

the main point to the story is Maria who is in a relationship with the bad guy. she is miss treated by him and is afraid of leaving the bad guy because she will get beaten up by him.

Short film 1:

Start with a poem about love, justice or revenge?
Now - Pistol gets picked up by unknown person (Maria) (dark shadow picking up gun)
Future - “Bad guy” shots a glass with whisky and smoking hearing sirens in the background, pistol in shot of camera.

Now - Panning shot of pictures of “Bad guy” and Maria being together and second picture is with “Good guy” and “Bad guy” being friends -> Pan to phone gets picked up.

Now - Close up: Maria crying into the phone.

Now - “Good guy” picks up phone.

Now - “Bad guy” picks up phone.

Past - “Bad guy” walks in seeing “Good guy” and Maria cheating on him.

Future -”Bad guy” drinks another shot of whiskey.

Now – Outside of old building, and see that Maria and the “Good guy” enter the building from two different entrances.

Past - As “Good guy” walks out of the room we hear shouting and breaking of glass behind him, Maria tries to reach to “Good guy”, gets punched by “Bad guy”.

· Now - Shots of a Silhouette sneaking through shadows in old urban surrounding.

Now - Maria and “Good guy” staring at each other inside the old building

Now - Maria pulls up the gun!

Now - She turns rapidly and kills “Bad guy”.

Future – “Bad guy” walks from the room where he has been drinking.

red or dead filming footage

Filming (Red or Dead)

Its was then time to start filming some shots after we had created the stroyboards.

Animating a fish rod (3rd years)

After helping dark descent with the animaiton of the skull breaking they then ask me to animate another shot of a fishing rod getting pulled. i struggled at the start trying to creating the fishing rod with a smooth bendy pull. I eventually was able to pull it off.and i was quite proud of what i created.