Beginning of the End Animation

For this project, I had to create an animated music video focused on a new class project entitled "The Beginning of the End".

For research, I looked for inspirations on the College's YouTube channel in it's BAF '09 section.

Among these videos are my favourites "The Cat Piano" and the music video "Hey" by "Eatliz".

Pictures from dark comic book films

Another scan for a character development related to my vulture work. This is when I decided to use leather for my vulture.

Concept designs for vulture characters

Here are scans for design ideas for my stereotypically evil vulture.

There is a big difference to how they went from early design to a striking final look.

I looked at pictures, did a lot of research, got some ideas and that's when it turned into something unusual.

Giraffe Animation

These are scans of my designs for my Giraffe Animation.

Website concept (continued)

Website concept

These are scans of the Iron Man website I have been developing.

When I started design the concept, it evolved throughout the time because I didn't know how to get music onto website as planned and I eventually used a different picture for each background.

Website Developing

For five weeks now, I've been developing a website for film advertising.

The film I chose was Iron Man.

I have token pictures of different pieces of metals and have got pictures from the Internet.

I am might have a soundtrack player on it, playing the film's score.

The screen grabs that are on this blog went through quite interesting editing e.g. colour balance, brightness and contrast, texting, boarding, etc.

While I was playing around with the editing, I changed the look to make it more attractive.

Festival Boreal

This screen grab is for "Festival Boreal"

I am unaware of the Target Audience because it is in French.

The one weakness I'll mention is the text not being understandable.

Chattanooga Zoo

This screen grab is for Chattanooga Zoo.

The target audience is for those who like to go to the zoo. Obviously!

The strengths of this website are:

• The nice appearance.
• The picture in the template changes.
• The clear font.
• And the creative logo.

GoSiteWave

This screen grab is for the website "GoSiteWave".

The target audience is for those involved with online businesses.

The strengths are:

• The template stays the same.
• The creative logo.
• And the good layout.

Need Supply Co.

This is another screen grab of a website. This one is called "Need Supply Co.".

The target audience is those who like shopping.

The strengths of this website are:

• The good layout.
• The clear font.
• The good navigation
• And the strong theme.

Hello

This is a screen grab of the website "Hello".

The target audience is those who want to "meet interesting people at FOWA London".

The strengths of this website are:

• The creative and colourful logo.
• And the clear font.

The weakness is the fact it doesn't keep interest to me.

Toy

This is a screengrab of the Website "Toy"

You have trouble telling what the target audience is.

The weaknesses of this website are the facts that it doesn't appeal a lot and it doesn't give a lot of information.

It doesn't have any pictures.

I am completely unaware of what this website is about.

A History of Animation - part three

Rotoscope (1915)

• Rotoscoping is a technique which is tracing live-action movement to use in animated films.
• It was used in famous flicks such as:

1. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
2. The Yellow Submarine
3. The Lightsaber effects in the original Star Wars Trilogy
4. The Lord of the Rings (1978)
5. Tron
6. Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
7. Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix

• It was invented by Max Fleischer, who created Betty Boop, Koko the Clown and the Popeye and 40's Superman cartoons.

Felix the Cat (1920)

• He was a silent film character.
• Before Mickey Mouse overthrew him, he was the most famous animated character in the world.
• He was created by Pat Sullivan and Otto Messmer.

A History of Animation - part two

En Route (1910)

• It is the first paper cutout animation.
• It was created by French Caricaturist Emile Cohl.

"Little Nemo" (1911)

• It was an animated sequence based on the character of the same name.
• It was produced by Little Nemo's creator Winsor McCay.

"Gertie, the Trained Dinosaur" (1914)

• It was the first cartoon to have a character to have an appealing personality.
• It was also the first film to be done by keyframe animation.
• It was directed by creator Winsor McCay.

A history of Animation - part one

Phenakistoscope (1872)

• The Phenakistoscope was possibly the first animation device.
• The disc would spin around and the user would look through the moving slits to the reflection of the disc on a mirror.
• It was invented simultaneously by the Belgian Joseph Plateau and the Austrian Simon von Stampfer.

Kinetoscope (1889)

• The Kinetoscope was the successor of the Phenakistoscope.
• It introduced the basic of cinematic projection.
• It was "described in conceptual terms" by Thomas Edison and was developed by William Kennedy Laurie Dickson, his employee.

"Humorous Phases of Funny Faces" (1906)

• It was regarded as the very first ever animated film.
• It featured a cartoonist using a chalkboard to draw faces, which eventually comes to life.
• It was created by J. Stuart Blackton

Giraffes

Here are some screengrabs from youtube of giraffe, which I have picked because of the way it walks.

Follow this link to see a giraffe's elegant yet calm walking. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFf2yT7yiGg

Yellow Bird Project

This is a screengrab of the main page for The Yellow Bird Project website.

The target audience for this particular website is young people who like Indie Rock music.

I can tell it's targeting young people because that generation has a thing for Indie Rock and nice T-Shirts.

The strengths of the website is:

• The nice graphics
  
• The template always stays the same
• A good layouts
• Clear font
• Creative Logo
• And the good navigation that is always displayed the same

According to what is viewed on the homepage, there are no weaknesses I can see.

http://www.yellowbirdproject.com/

Vlad from Horton hears a Who!

Here is Vlad, the vulture whose style I liked from Horton hears a Who!. 

Prior to me learning about animation at college I would like to comment that the animation is Computer-Generated. The animation works well with the character.

Picture - 321858_com_horton_hears_a_who_ver4-1.jpg

Another vulture image

This is another image for my Stereotypically evil character.

Note: This vulture research was for me to being start updating my blog.

Picture - ridgewoodcameraclub.org

Research for a stereotypically evil character

I chose a vulture because it is a predator with wings that are big, black and powerful.

I decided to make a vulture as my evil character because it was the first thing to come up on my mind.

I saw the film "Horton hears a Who!" which included a sinister vulture named Vlad in it and I liked his style.

Picture of feeding - kennedy121.wordpress.com

Picture of Wings - ibc.lynxeds.com