The next week was non-stop work as we had been focusing on our major project animations as there was some progress made to our posters but not as much. We were experimenting with colours and used the white grey black colours to help with our poster colours this week for progress. Here are the two posters I’m still in progress off.Β
We had made some progress with our posters as we decided to take our own sketches between 1 and 2 at most and put them onto our software’s to start doing them digitally and meeting our criteria. Making it at 150 x 100 cm and RGB at high resolution. Using the references I have collected for the team here is my progress of the poster using Krita. Only then can we figure out which poster of ours will be for the final version for the film and how to balance between our major project schedule.Β
Tutorials
I had redone the hand waving scene by removing the head turn as it looked to awkward and had made the boy more timid when he is waving to the monster back and forth to give it more feel to the boy’s fear. I had my talk with the lecturers about this scene and they say it improved but I need to follow my reference correctly as well as making the animation much slower when waving.Β
Afterwards I had done a small one second head turn with the boy looking over to the window which is connected to the last head turn I did with the arc. Which needed no improvements whatsoever.
Finally I did new sketches to fill in the backgrounds for my next animated rough shots to move onto after.Β
I also added more detail to the bedroom using Dylan’s reference of the bedroom.
TutorialsΒ
I had successfully re-done the arc movement for the boy in his rough animation with the detailed background and fixed the timing of the head as it seemed to fast for it’s pace of moving. Since it is in the rough stage I will focus on other animations at the moment with more sketches of the backgrounds to aid Dylan so we have backgrounds to animate our scenes.Β
Here are some backgrounds sketch’s I’ve done for certain shots using my storyboard for the project as reference and Dylan’s completed room view for the boy’s bedroom and the hallway to the living room using Krita. They are only sketches nothing too detailed yet but there to hep animate future scenes.Β
Taking the next three Fridays off, give us time to go over our final sketches that each us of picked out and did from the previous week on doing 2 designs and narrowing it down to one. For it will be next week that we will pick one of own and go for that design for our horror/thriller short movie poster.Β
Here is my final sketch before our voting next week.
Tutorials
This week Sarah wasn’t present but showed progress on her previs of the monster waving. As for me and Dylan showed our progress on our progress. For my animation with the one included on this page has too have a proper arc with the head moving and more exaggeration with the examples I looked online for reference. As for the animated shots as we have problems lacking behind certain backgrounds, my role now is too sketch concept art of the rooms from different perspectives and sides to help with the animation process with Dylan so can up our speed with the background shots.Β
Here is the animation I had worked on and what I need to improve. I looked examples online by Gifs, YouTube videos and Websites to aid me with my improvements for the 2D animation with the boy head turn before next week.
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Posters, CV’s, Business Cards, Design Decks and Cover Letters
We went deeper into CV’s, Business cards, Design decks and cover letters for the future of our employability. During Henrys lesson all I could think of was working on certain areas to help improve my employability. Like for our major project we had to create posters for short film, then think about how we will present our work to the audience. As well as our updated versions of our CV’s cover letters and optional business cards. It gave me thoughts on on recreating my logo on my CV and updating it this year 2024.Β
Our group continued onward with our poster designs by narrowing them down from 2 to 1 with our own sketches and sharing them with each other to find out which design will we go for. Since we are off the next 3 Fridays, we will take this time to focus on our poster and how we will present our work to our future employers.Β Β
Tutorials one to one
Unfortunately, I was absent that day but still submitted my first rough one one shot with Dylan’s background of the Boy’s room with the boy looking around from left to right from the sound coming from outside which wakes him up.Β Here is my first rough to test out the background with the boy on the bed lifting his upper body with his hands on the cover.
Aodhan gave pointers on my rough and how the head turn was a bit too fast and needed a proper arc for the head with a bit of exaggeration to sell it. So I took what he said and tried out a new scene with a arc as an example to see if would look better this time before moving on to the next scene.Β
Poster Design and Workshop
The second week of creative futures took us in the direction of the major project which includes creating our own poster designs for our short film and show it off to our future employers from countless businesses. Henry talked about Design thinking and why it is significant for us to have a poster for our short film with the concept, contrast, hierarchy and grid.Β As well as getting an emotional response from it’s viewers to have a conscious level of it with the positive design from viewing the poster and editing it in a proper layout and design.Β
Our tasks for the creature future was to draw concept posters, 3 each on what our poster for our short horror/thriller film be. Sarah, Dylan and I had drawn concept art designs and our short film and try to narrow it down to one.Β
Group TutorialsΒ
For this weeks progress after completing our presentation assignment last week, I had updated our asset list on Miro for Dylan to add certain 2D assets in each room and other assets that are optional for the short film itself to make it real life setting. I also updated the animatic from one of the shorts that needed to be changed for Sarah to edit finally fixing and improving minor mistakes before animating. The rough I did with Sarah needs a little work as we await for Sarah to finish her sculpting and her previs to be animated and done by the end of the week.Β
My plan before next Tuesday is to continue animating other scenes which Dylan has given me one background to do but only with one shot where the boy looks around the room when he hears a strange noise in rough animation. I will continue chatting with the group two times a week before and after classes and watch videos to help with my animation process for the weeks ahead so I know where I’m at.