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Second animatic edit

there are few changes and tweaks through out each other animatic as everyone has completed an animatic in the cohesive style of paper cut out, and other have updated their animatic with new ideas. 

For this week, following our tasks from the previous weeks, we were to research the 13th principle of animation and find inspiration as to what it could be. 

actually struggled a bit with this as I found it hard to find anything around the subject but here’s what I did find.

https://www.stevebristow.com/blog/should-this-be-the-13th-principle-of-animation

An animator’s goal is to make a connection with their audience. A great way to do this is to have the audience emphasise with the character by having the character experience relatable thoughts and feelings. The article above equates being alive to thinking. When we see a character in thought we connect better to them because only living things are capable of conscious thought. Therefore, if a character shows signs of thought, we can interpret them as alive.

CHANGE OF EXPRESSION

First get to know and understand the character The face must move and change with strong expressions.

facial expressions keep changing and it's exaggerated maybe? But also it could be done with mismatched paper or objects so it could look weird. like maybe it could be like those books where you put face stickers on a brick wall or an orange or something.

After a group meeting we decided on the motif of the human body.so I decided to re-work my idea and also put the thumbnail in a style closer to what the end project will be. I’ve decided to go down the comedy route with this. Since my principle is change of expression I made the body parts an arm and a head. the head acts as the volleyball and every time the arm hits/serves it the expression will change, until the head lands and throws up the phrase ‘change of expression’

The inspiration for the intended style comes from JibJab

After we had made our experimental 13th principle  animation we were tasked with editing it, along with our peers’ clips into one compilation.

But we started with a little warmup exercise 

This was pretty straightforward and was a nice taster to what we were doing next.

This week we were briefed on the Ba2b unit, the collaboration part anyway.

The project is about ‘the 13th principle’ of animation and what we think it could be. I had a couple ideas right off the bat. I thought perhaps it could be exploration, as what is animation without the exploration of deeper contexts and themes and social issues?

I planned to have a cut out image of a bouncy ball and every time the ball would bounce the background would change. My Original word/principle seemed a bit too abstract and didn’t really fit the result animation so I changed the word to Nature. It’s a change I’m ok with as when you think about it, animators take inspiration from the world around them all the time so having the 13th principle be nature makes a lot of sense.

 I started off by boarding a basic idea.

Originally I had the idea that the ball would start on a desk and bounce off it. As they land the background would change (Lion King style) and  it would just bounce and the background would change and it would eventually bounce back onto the desk. I also wanted to try my hand at pixilation because I own a greenscreen but this wasn’t actually all that practical considering we only had a week to pull this together.

I made the backgrounds in procreate. I wanted to have  a mixed media look. 

In my art in general, I like to put textures over what I’ve drawn. For this task we had to do the animation in grey scale. But I wanted to include the coloured versions in this blog post, not only for the comparison but because I liked them.