Finn
April
Wednesday, 9 May 2018
Working with Nicolas Haquin - Music Student
Throughout this project, I have luckily been able to work very closely with a Leeds College of Music student, who I met at the mixer session at University. We have met up in person and been communicating through Facebook ever since and together we have worked really well and been able to get a great result.
Here was the original compositional ideas that Nicolas had. I really loved his ideas and told him to definitely carry on in that direction! I really liked the idea of having individual music pieces depending on the mood of the scene.
He then kept me really in the loop each time he made progress. Here's another video he sent of the piano he used for the final recording.
I also got Nicolas to do the sound design for my animation, so each time I made progress on the animation I would render it out and share it with him using Google Drive, that way he could work on each scene as I was animating the next one, which worked really well.
Overall, it has been a really great experience working with Nic and I was lucky enough to get someone who was really into the project!
Here was the original compositional ideas that Nicolas had. I really loved his ideas and told him to definitely carry on in that direction! I really liked the idea of having individual music pieces depending on the mood of the scene.
He then kept me really in the loop each time he made progress. Here's another video he sent of the piano he used for the final recording.
I also got Nicolas to do the sound design for my animation, so each time I made progress on the animation I would render it out and share it with him using Google Drive, that way he could work on each scene as I was animating the next one, which worked really well.
Overall, it has been a really great experience working with Nic and I was lucky enough to get someone who was really into the project!
Art Book & Reflection
I didn't manage to print my art book properly for submission, however in the next couple of weeks I will be sending off for a copy of it! I want to edit the white frames around the images of production, so that it is full pages, so my next steps are to look into the indesign file and sort that out before printing the full book. It was a learning experience to create this art book and was fun to see all of my work come together!
Production Time-Lapse - ANIMATING
This is a time lapse I created, just for fun really! I loved seeing the other time lapse of everything coming together that I wanted to do another one. So, this one is just me animating a few scenes, it was really cool to see how the wire moved in time lapse.
Loopdeloop - Final Result
Lucky Clover from Stacy Straub on Vimeo.
Here is the finished loopdeloop! I got Harry (music student) to create the sounds and flute tune in the background and then using my voice acting, we put together a cute and simple soundtrack. I find that it fits really well with the animation and adds an extra layer to it. I also had to edit out the wire that I used to make the clover fly using Photoshop and cloned it out in each frame, which was really easy to do as it was a plain background. This was a really smooth collaboration and I found it refreshing to work with someone else's puppet instead of my own. I will definitely be looking to collaborate with Jay again as her puppets are so lovely!
Here is the finished loopdeloop! I got Harry (music student) to create the sounds and flute tune in the background and then using my voice acting, we put together a cute and simple soundtrack. I find that it fits really well with the animation and adds an extra layer to it. I also had to edit out the wire that I used to make the clover fly using Photoshop and cloned it out in each frame, which was really easy to do as it was a plain background. This was a really smooth collaboration and I found it refreshing to work with someone else's puppet instead of my own. I will definitely be looking to collaborate with Jay again as her puppets are so lovely!
Loopdeloop - Lucky Collab & Production
For this final mini brief, I really wanted to collaborate once again with others so that I can get most out of being surrounded by other creatives. I collaborated with an illustration student (puppet maker) and a music student, and my role was the animating and editing. We wanted to keep this idea extremely simple so that it wouldn't take up too much time but would still be a nice side brief and look good in each other portfolios of work! So, I got together with Jay Stelling (the illustration student) and we brainstormed some ideas. We decided together that we liked the idea of a hippie-like girl finding a four leaved clover and then it is blown away in the wind.
So, Jay set out and started building the puppet and I decided that as it was such a simple loop all it needed were a few sketches and didn't need an actual storyboard. I was going to use a plain coloured card for the background, depending on what colours Jay decides to use for the puppet's hair and clothing.
Below are the simple sketches I did.
Below are images of Jay making the puppet.
And here's the finished puppet ready to animate! I am going to use green plasticine for the clover, so that I can easily manipulate it and shape it however I want.
So, Jay set out and started building the puppet and I decided that as it was such a simple loop all it needed were a few sketches and didn't need an actual storyboard. I was going to use a plain coloured card for the background, depending on what colours Jay decides to use for the puppet's hair and clothing.
Below are the simple sketches I did.
Below are images of Jay making the puppet.
And here's the finished puppet ready to animate! I am going to use green plasticine for the clover, so that I can easily manipulate it and shape it however I want.
Monday, 7 May 2018
Final Crit - Feedback for End of Year Show!
Positives
- "Cute" characters
- Understood the narrative
- Really think carefully about the title sequence - will it set the scene?
- Rig can be seen, consider clean up
- Colour Correct
- Slow down the tears on a certain scene
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