Minor Project presentation

That’s all-no video by emorley3 on Scribd

The Blob mixdown from Emma Morley on Vimeo.
LIONS & COWS mixdown 1 from Emma Morley on Vimeo.

Minor Project - 'Films' animatic - The Blob

Animatic for one part of the animation. This one is entited Films and Lucy is talking about 'The Blob'

Minor Project - Characters and audio coming together

Beginning to piece together all the parts of the puzzle now. Editing the audio is taking longer than I anticipated due to the differences in volume and quality of the tracks. In the meantime I've been working on the Poma and 2D Maya tutorials as I will be using these techniques in my final animation. I've also been working on the character designs using the drawings my children have made. I'm hoping to produce 3 characters, though they will be quite simple and most of the detail will come in the facial movements. Alan suggested I look at a programme called nDo which will help me with texturing. Below are a few of the drawings I've copied from the kids' artwork and I'm going to make an amalgamation of my favourite features. For example, I like the hair of number 1 and the eyes of number 4. Lucy seems to have a thing for drawing her people in high heels so I think this is something I need to include! Any comments on these would be greatly received. I've also shown how I am working on them in Photoshop to achieve a 'drawn' effect as if the children have drawn them themselves. I'm creating the facial features in different layers as in the Poma facial rigging tutorial so I can animate in the same way. 

Finally here are a couple of the audio tracks that I've edited. I see the 'Lions & Cows' one as part of a section about animals. Lucy will introduce it and almost be interviewing her little sister Alice about her favourite animals. I'm hoping to animate a little 'Alice' in an animal costume with childlike drawings of the animals being "friends" and "not being nice to each other" as you can hear in the audio. The 'Star Wars' one I could see as Emily trying desperately to talk about one of her favourite films with her smallest sister running around in the background shooting Lucy who, being a bit girly and princessy, is most unimpressed about all of it. Feedback welcome!

Kids' drawings for character design

I've gone through and scanned some of the pictures drawn by my children so I can use them when designing my characters. I will relate them to certain sound clips throughout the animation. For instance, I have a recording of Lucy talking about Rapunzel so I'll take her drawing of Rapunzel and use it to animate the audio. As you can see Lucy seems to have a thing for fairies...!

Lucy worm audio

This audio is from an old video I have of Lucy talking about worms. Thought it was fun and something I may be able to use later...

More audio joy from the 3 wise monkeys

Minor Project beginnings - audio tests

Minor Project ideas and initial work

After discussions with Phil I've decided to work on a form of adaptation for my minor project. I was inspired by the advert 'Emily's Oz' (link here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZU7NU_fsaSU) in which a blind 7-year-old girl describes how she envisions the Wizard of Oz. This was then made into an advert promoting Audio Description. I love the way a child's mind works and the descriptions they come out with, so my plan is to try out some things to give me a base to work with. Suggestions which Phil and I came up with:-

• Kids retell a well known story (such as a fairy tale, iconic film or much loved story)
• Kids describe a film which in its time would have been received much differently from now (so for example, my 8 and 6 year olds watched the B Movie 'The Blob' and found it absolutely hilarious, whereas when it was released in 1958 would have been seen as really scary)
• Play a game of 'consequences' with them where they add a part of the story in turn.
• Ask them to describe something, such as "where do bees go when it rains?" or "what does heaven look like?"

From this I will then make a short animation to bring their story to life.

Currently I have a sound recorder at home and I'm making recordings of my 3 children and some of their friends giving me their versions of the life, the universe and everything! Watch this space for the results...

Alice, 3

Lucy, 6

Emily, 8