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This is my final version submission for VCD2501 Animation Practice and Creative Workshops: Year 2 (two- minute film).  FINAL FILM FOR DEFERAL DEADLINE

My overall thoughts on this project were particularly interesting, from originally planning the pitch to directing a team. At first I thought I was able to manage the workload when it come to producing a production bible as the director however, I should have communicated better with my team and gave the more role to help out with when it came to putting the bible together and as a result I ended up working pretty late for most days in order completely finish the production bible before hand in. Although I would not change my team as they really did help bring this to life, and I am glad to have them both.   

Continuing on with post-production, my team and I decided to change a few things with the story and with that we create a better narrative structure after showing the previous animatic to a couple of people and receive feedback to make the story more clearer. Once we agreed on the final outtake of our animatic we started pre-production and at this point we had more of a 3 minute film which then we decided each of us would have about a minute to animate, although, I felt we could have picked one minute from the rough animatic to animate instead of each picking a random scene to make a minute, that way it would have kept more consistent with who animated what part. 

Finally it came for us to meet composers and recruit them. At first we couldn’t decide who to pick and eventually we went with this amazing 8-bit style artist. We felt their style suited our animation quite well. They responded quickly which was great, we got to talking and explain what we needed, however, communication on their side die out and we couldn’t not get in contact with them for a while, luckily we sort it out with getting another composer who was glad to lend a hand and we were extremely happy with the result, it was a lot better then what we expected. 

To conclude, animating had become more difficult for me over the past few months, as my equipment started to become more and more faulty and I wasn’t able to replace it for a while. Although I am happy with the result of my scene, I definitely felt I can do a lot better with the animation and lineart.

Grad-assist rough animation.

This is my final version of the background and including my short rough animation I also did for my grad assist on Becky film: “Bring in the night”. The whole experience from start to finish was interesting, I learned a lot from Becky especially when working on the rough animation (even though it was a simple head shake). Designing a background what was consistent was actually a challenge for me, and a all of redo’s, but eventually I manage to design something that hopefully she’d enjoyed and something I was proud of too. Also working on grad assist while working on your two-minute film definitely was stressful and I wasn’t able to reply or do work for Becky for a week and so. 

Overall I enjoyed working with Becky (she was really nice) although I do wish juggling grad assist with and other work together was stressful and perhaps working on gran assist earlier in the year could have worked better.  

Final Rough animation two minute film crit. My group and I really tried to complete as such as we can, before the crit so I’m grateful for my teammate. 

Companies I found Interesting:

Blinkink Studio- Tramways HouseUnit 1, 377 Camden Road,Holloway, N7 0SH

Passion Studio-  33-34 RATHBONE PLACE LONDON, W1T1JN 

Bluezoo-  Chesterfield House, 385 Euston Road London NW1 3AU United Kingdom

Freelancer I follow on Instagram: 

Carles_ dalmau 

Remusandkiki

Hamish Steele

art_of_emfitz

Jimek_draws

M_layzell

My research into companies/ freelancers and the people that replied back too me:

Passion studio director- Anna Malin Mantzaris is a Swedish Animation Director based in London, she has over  50 international awards on her short film enough (one of my favourite animation production by her) Mantzaris was very easy to get in contact with, plus I really was interested in her stop motion design and films, especially the action in her films is pretty realistic and relatable, which is why I am glad she responded so fast to my question. 

Blinkink Studio director-  Remus Buznea & Kyriaki Kyriakou are both based in London and originally starting up students. The relationship they have as co-workers, really made me wanted to contact them, although it took a much longer waiting time to get a response, I was presently surprise that they did, because I was really interested in how they started from students and defiantly their animation and character design skills. I was eager to learn a lot from them and was really glad they responded. 

My thought of the whole experience:

The two studio I deiced to look into was something I found Interesting and Creative with their Films, most of Passion Studio directors I got in contact with Inspired me with their characters design aesthetics. fortunately I got a really nice reply my a person I found amazing. Finally after contacting many directors and freelancers, and having no luck with other director I really hoped to get in contact with, I’m still very glad to have gotten a reply.

This was relay that I got from one of the directors I contacted at Passion Studio: Anna Malin Mantzaris from email. and directors from Blinkink: Remus Buznea & Kyriaki Kyriakou from Instagram. after researching my chosen directors I then started to asked them all a few question regrading their experience as an animator. 

Rough animation all put together- we need to look over some animation as well as the music choice for the film before start inbetweening.

Final background unfinished design for my two minute (film non-coloured) 

My recent progress on working on Becky (third year) film background 

All of my rough animation for my two-minute film. 

My New Showreel for the grad-assist. 

Colour me in project final animation: Sunny and Beige. The colours we were given were Yellow, Beige and Green 

Final Version of all my Advance Animation Skills Video (as much as I can finish).

New updates on my parts of the colour me in project 

Here is all of my Advance animation skill project (some incomplete) 

colour project animatic- I realise I forgot to finished off the colouring for the background when it was my part of the animatic 

Sunny and Beige: this is my and my teammate new character colour project characters, storyboard and background design. 

new updated version of my finished quadrant walk cycle.  

Incomplete version of my mixed media project 

Storyboard, character design and background design

I experiment with taking photographs of plastic bags and bubble wrap (and others material) and edit a lot to have a interesting background design so that my character blended way in the film.

 the story: My group and I discuss and overall came up with a fun ridiculous  plot with the three images we had to represent in our film.

Incomplete element project.

Incomplete version of my obstacle project.

I wanted to redo my quadrant walk and run cycle so this is an incomplete version I’m working on.

Obstacle animation project: these are my background/ character design as well as my planning, I was inspired with images like old antique living rooms. and I wanted to changed up my character from a bear to a cat and felt it was fitting for a scenery and the scenario, were the cat (milk) starts  to ruin the environment around her.

Teaser:

A computer game enthusiast, “E” travels blindly through time, changing her past and future only to arrive at an unfamiliar reality.

Synopsis:

E is an average girl who plays way too many PC games, as a result of this she has a somewhat zombie-like appearance. One day when playing she travels through time and visits her past, however, she is oblivious to the fact that she time travelled and is constantly glued to her PC screen through the entire phenomenon, not realising she’s permanently altering her past. A tragic event occurs in front of her just as she time travels back, this causes her future to change without her knowledge or memories of the experience ever occurring, thus leaving E to return to an unrecognisable life.

Plot/ Animation Techniques:

This story is about a young teenage girl oblivious to the world around her, which inevitably ruins her life and changes the lives of the people she cares about in the past.

The story unfolds with little clues and hints that the past E visit is her own and that the people that she encounters are her parents (for the audience to relate to the character E but at the same time feel for her too).

Hopefully, the software I use this time would be TV Paint compared to Photoshop from my last project, but I guess whatever software I use I want to convey to the story with a lot of lighting in my animation to symbolise the bigger picture, what is happening around the character and how it can affect the story.

Soundtrack/ audio:

For my two minute film I don’t feel like I should have audio as I want the audience to focus more on the background then the characters talking, I do though want a sort of chilling sound in the background that slowly sounds darker as the film progress.

All Character Sheet/ information of that character:

E : She 19 years old female, she enjoys playing PC games, isn’t really interested in making friends unless it’s online, and doesn’t really leave her room. Although she seems unsociable, she has a big heart for the people she cares about.

Like her parents!

Kara & Karl Jeffery (age 32 and 35) both of her parents care for and play with E so they support her dream of becoming a pro gamer, although they worry for their daughter when she doesn’t leave her room for 2 weeks. Kara is outgoing and Karl can be quiet, they are the perfect couple.

This is the younger version of Katelyn Jeffery (age 11) before she dyed her hair and formally goes by E. Katelyn was a joyful, outgoing child that was very curious about the world around her before she played video games.

Concept Art (Style Frames):

I wanted to convey the bigger picture when drawing this concept art with a sort of night and day as the character E isn’t fazed with the things around her and is glued to the screen, not realising the lights keep flickering.

Late Night Gaming The Full Story: ( new title: Absent minded space child)

The gamer girl known as “E” casually starts her day playing games in a very messy room with her favourite items in the background (Pokemon, family portraits, figurines, anime posters). One night as she prepares for a gaming session, a pop-up ad appears on her screen called “time travellers the game” (free 1-hour trial). E willingly downloads the game and opens the application. This then quickly shoots her 8 years  back in time (the audience can know what year she visits as the calendar on her desk shows the date and time she time travels)

E is transported into a long hallway where a family of three (a mother, father, and young child) are exiting their flat.

They are startled to see a teenage girl on her PC in front of their door however though nothing of it and assuming she was the new neighbour's child (E also doesn’t pay any attention even oblivious that she just travelled in time as she is too invested in the game).

After the family leaves, E travels through time again, however, this time she moves forward in time where she is in a gaming store surrounded by other, oblivious gamer’s a father and daughter walk by.

E then travels to a few hours later but this time into the middle of a road at night where an ongoing taxi is heading her way, E still doesn’t notice her surroundings, however, can time travel out of the situation, unfortunately, the passengers in that taxi were harmed  only leaving one survivor.

For the final scene E is in a foggy field wherein the far distance the audience can see figures in the background of fog surrounding two graves and a small silhouette. Finally, E returns to 2022 to a clean room where most of the items in the background are gone and revealing that the two people that died were her parents  as the family portrait in the background is replaced with a shrine dedicated to them. E finally switches off the PC and heads out the door into the hallway to visit her dead parents.

(NOTE: a Dark twist can be E revealing that now she is in a wheelchair due to “the accident”).