O’Donnell Tiernan’s Animation Blog
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As I’m coming up to the point where I can start animating for Snatch and Screech, I decided to put a plan in place to how I’m going to organise my animation schedule. Considering the time frame I have of five months between January and May, I know I’m not going to get this shortContinue reading DES 525 Major Project- Animation Planning Sheet
After finishing my storyboards for Snatch and Screech and moving on to updating my character designs, I also decided to test out updating my sound effects that’ll be used in the final edit. Some sound effects from the previous sound edit post are permanent, whilst new ones that have been added are from the websiteContinue reading DES 525 Major Project- Sound Edit Test
After completing my storyboards, the next section of feedback I was given after my Pre-Production presentation was to adjust my character designs. The main points that I was advised to touch up were varying the pink in Screech’s design so it was easier to read, changing Snatch’s tail design as the stripes would be difficultContinue reading DES 525 Major Project- Updated Character and Prop Designs
After the Pre-Production Presentation given on the 5th of November, I immediately went on to finish the rest of my storyboards as the version in my presentation was only 2/3s finished. So over the next week I had worked on shots 17 to 28, and then edited them into the final version of the storyboards.Continue reading DES 525 Major Project- Completed Animatic
At this point in time, I have given my pre-production presentation on the work done over the three weeks since our Pitch Presentation, my slides being seen below. The most notable being the Updated Schedule slide as I have changed my week plans in order to better suit my work load and time at thisContinue reading DES 525 Major Project- Pre-Production Presentation Slides and Feedback
After getting my second script draft done, I had now started storyboarding Snatch and Screech two weeks before our pre-production presentation. I had decided to start on the second shot instead of the first as it is merely an establishing shot of the Patty Prince restaurant setting. Furthermore, I had initially gone more detailed andContinue reading DES 525 Major Project- Storyboard / Animatic Progress and Placeholder Sound Design
Before getting into storyboarding Snatch and Screech, I wanted to create a shot list of some kind to get a better sense of the sequence of events I plan on using, and to know my runtime and work load for this project as I am working solo. Due to my latter reasons for needing toContinue reading DES 525 Major Project- Scripting for Snatch and Screech
After giving my Pitch Presentation, I got to work on making improvements on my work based on the critiques I was given, one of which being that I’m getting there with my art style, however I need more time and practice with it. Below are further sketch practices I had done to practice the 1940sContinue reading DES 525 Major Project- Updated Character Designs
For week 3 of our Major Project, we were to give a Pitch Presentation on the short film ideas we had been building up over the first few weeks of the semester. I took it as a last opportunity to either find a group I was interested in working with, or find people who wouldContinue reading DES 525 Major Project- Pitch Presentation
As an extra part of my research, I decided to buy an copy of old Tom & Jerry cartoons that I used to watch when I was younger as reference material for the style I wanted to go for. My plan being to study part of each episode and take down notes on the animation,Continue reading DES 525 Major Project- Tom & Jerry DVD Studies