Aoife Murphy

From this project I reall got to learn about teamwork and the idea of working with people for an anaimation project. Although it was harder than what I expected I had a lot of fun creating the story with my team mates, I feel like we all grew a bigger bond with one another even if we struggled to communicate at times but I learned thats all a apart of team projects there can be a lot of struggle but I feel I really got to have fun with my team in the end.

Team Leader: I found this role very tough as I feel I am not a great person to assign people roles as I usually like to be the one assigned them but something I learned from this project is that I had to go out of my comfort-zone to try help our team to get things done. I feel I got better in the end even though it took me a while to get used to it

Last Friday I was team leader.

After getting a presentation about pitching and what we should include in our pitch, I knew as team leader that I should asign roles for my team members for the day as Friday was our final day to get everything done as a group before the weekend and I knew it was vital to get everything prepared before we leave.

Our group decided to start a presentation where we would layout ideas and pictures and get an idea of what we were going to present together, I gave each of my memebers a section to prepare for Monday for example: Naomi landscape, Hlib character design and myself aesthetics and prop design. I tried to make sure to ask for their ideas and opinions too and to keep our roles for the presentation fair and even for the day.

That evening at home I created an updated version of the powerpoint we made earlier. I tried to keep it clean, concise and cohesive, writing out extra text and adding more photos to my section as well as creating backgrounds and headers fit the theme of our presentation and make it look interesting to the viewers and to sell our idea even more by making the powerpoint visually intersting.

Here are the slides:

I decided that Hlibs planet drawing should be the opening slide as it really shows what Jack and Jill is about and once again it creates visual interest

After the line work and colour were added

I created an animatic

Using the programme ..... I made an animatic, I added transitions as well as movements such as zooming in and panning to make the story flow better and feel more animated and real.

Music:

I then added music at the beginning. Paul recommended that we find a song that would include western and modern elements since our story is a futuristic western, it would tie in perfectly.

So I ended up finding the song- Unforgiven by Le Sserafim

The band sampled 'The Good, The Bad The Ugly' the made a musical fusion of modern pop music mixed with Western elements

I chose to only add the instrumental part so it wouldn't be distracting

I also added the song from The Good, The Bad The Ugly to create suspense and a classic western feel to the animatic.

Sound effects:

I chose to add a few sound effects here and there to create better sense of story telling:

- Such as a real western shot sound effect

- Metal ping

- An alarm sound effect sample from the StarWars

- And a car crash sound

Anamtic One Minute Version

We were told to create a final Storyboard that would be in the style and colour of our animation reference- Invincibles.

To make the shots look clean and in the same style the whole way through we decided to split the work into; sketches, line art and colour.

I got the job of sketching the storyboards, we decided to do this traditionally, I drew the sketches onto A4 sheets of paper that were split in two.

I made sure I drew the characters how we created them making sure to add all the details and keeping in mind the invincibles style.

To help me do this I made sure to have photo reference in front of me when sketching the storyboards, wether it be our characters or the invincible characters as well as angles and facial expressions they made so it could look more like the style.

Here are some of my sketches before line art:

from the prop research I did earlier, we each created a prop design from this research, I made the robotic horse design:

From my research and using reference of a real horse I came up with this robotic futuristic horse.

I used elements from Star wars Mandalorian TV show to come up with design features on my horse, for example the jaw and shoulder rotators as well as tech wires I used on its neck.

Here are other peoples prop designs based off of the research:

During the week we got to attend a zine workshop where we could check out the art of folding and book making, it was super interesting how to create different type of books, I ended up making book made from one sheet of A3 paper. It was a great experience I had a lot of fun making it.

I added what my work from start to finish onto each page showing my progress as it goes along

I'm happy with my zine although the page got mixed up!

We decided that we would each make a character. for example two people created Jill and two created Jack, we would then pick our favourite elements from each character to make our final character designs.

I decided to make a Jill character design. Since our reference animation is 'invincibles' I tried to incorperate design features that are similar to the Invincibles style.

To create Jill, I decided to create a character turn-around, I found a female character from the cartoon and used her as reference for my own.

Fashion:

I already had an idea for the outfit since my team had looked up the fashion from western movies such as mad max and the good, the bad the ugly etc. So I came up with a style for her.

Yvonne reccommneded me to list out what materials her clothes would be and keep in mind what on her outfit would be functional to her environment. So I took these ideas into account.

Materials:

Cotton blouse for breathability in the desert puffed sleeves for feminine style

Waist coat light-weight linen

Khaki pants functional for adventure and camolauge

Stetson 'cowboy hat' wide rim to keep out sunlight

Holster for her pistol and belt

Below you can see the fashion research that I took inspiration from

Before I created the characters final face I went through a couple of ideas before deciding on this.....

As I said earlier I wanted to keep the style of Invincibles, as you can see, for Jills braid I kept it simple with sharp edged shapes to give the illusion of a plait. I also kept her whole outfit simple with a few details here and there to make her more interesting.

Final Drawing with line art

At this point we decided to change the shoes as I took elements from Naomi's character design to make them more functional for the character.

Colours:

We decided to keep the colours in a similar colour palate

Burgundy waist coat colour feminine touch

Khaki pants suitable for camouflage

Grey boots

Action Poses:

Although I didn't draw many action poses for the character I did when making the final story board

Our group decided to reference the style aesthetics of the 'Invincibles' Tv show, as the style is simple yet well rounded in my opinion, with basic cell shading and more detailed backgrounds.

We all thought the style and character design would easily fit the theme of our story well as there are many robotic and futuristic character designs. We also noticed that a few scenes or settings had similar atmospheres to our world, so we thought we could take colour inspiration from the show too.

After redesigning our storyboard ideas, we were told to create a bigger and more detailed scenes from the board. Our group decided to give eachother 2 scenes that we would recreate in more detail and using 'Invincibles' as a reference for the aesthetic of our style.

As you can see below, I created a scene in which Jack and Jill are having a stand-off, I wanted to include the flatter cell shading like 'Invincibles' as well as character style when creating this story board.

I want to mention that Paul and Yvonne advised us when creating story boards that location and camera angles are really important to create a visually interesting and understandible animation.

We were recommended to draw two sections from our storyboard that we make detailed and in colour so that's what I did here: