Ross Salter

Unfortunately, I have reached the maximum amount of videos to upload in day. As it will be past the deadline for hand in by the time I can upload anymore videos, I shall put the rest of my comps and also the final animation for Aberdeen: nae so grey on my USB stick as part of my submission.

This was a difficult animation to have running completely smoothly. The ramp was struggling to stay on the roof but after it eventually stuck, the animation came together really well. The rise of the hands as the trick lands is a personal highlight.

This is one of my favourite of the stills, so I wanted to keep the same look going with the animation. The ice creams both sits nicely on the wheel while the hand comes in and grabs it. I was a bit nervous about the hand movements but it has turned out well.

This was one of the more difficult animations to pull off. As much as it would have been easier to just make one layer of flowers to grow on the crest, I wanted to make it look perfect so each flower was made separately so that they all bloom together in a wave to form the crest.

I wanted to include not just the Duthie skyline with flowers, but also some of the winter gardens plants bursting out of the roof. The animation works really well and the movement between the Duthie Sky and the Winter Gardens is really smooth. 

With the ship and the diver sitting in the water, all it needed was the water to sway inside the building. It now feels more like a fish tank. However to make it more realistic, I added some rain to the area because realistically, it is likely to be raining. 

I din’t have a still for this, however I had the dolphins ready so all it needed was to increase the silliness even more being giving the ship a fire shooting exhaust.

The animated version for the ‘bird race’ continues on from the still with the birds all at the starting line. I also included some traffic lights to make it even more of an anticlimax when the birds don’t move.

I decided to mix both of the ideas that I had for the lighthouse. The lights swing around the area and then back around again, while the colours change. 

The common link between the two is the fisherman. So I made the fisherman pull up the background as if it was a fish. 

For the Maratime section of the animation, I felt like there was something missing from it. Just having the water and the diver seemed a bit dull. So I made a ship to have sitting on the top of the water. It represents the industry and also brings some new life to the ‘fish tank.’

These will fit perfectly into this segment of the animation.

After making a background called ‘starry deen’ with a dark nights sky, I wanted to make a morning sky version too with the sun rising and the blue sky forming. It’s a good contrast to the night version and works well with the texture.

I wanted to get a good idea for the music hall as I is a great live venue in the heart of the city. Unfortunately as it is getting work done, the building was covered. However, I wasn’t going to give up that easy. The only way for it to work was to cover it. The perfect idea was to have curtains at the front on the music hall. It’s a great way of covering up the scaffolding while also highlighting what is inside the music hall.

The colours really work well with the black & white and it makes a really interesting pattern.

I returned back to the Brew Dog image to make it look more realistic. The bottle looks more like an actual Brew Dog bottle without breaking copyright and the building looks more like a box.

Along with the text, I felt that some quirky icons would be a good way to separate the text so that I wasn’t just a cluster of text that would be a chore to read.