For our Animated Narratives project we were tasked to create a 30 second animation that involved the theme of “Escape”. I was in a group with Andrea, Ellen, Aaron and Kaitlyn, and although my doubts got the better of me and there were times I shied away from the work, looking back, I’m glad I got to work with this group again. We all worked together in the first semester and always found ourselves working alongside one another again, and I’m glad to say I couldn’t have found a nicer and more comfortable team to work alongside.
Category: Animated Narratives
Animated Narratives Portfolio.
My work and contribution towards the “Get a Grip” short!
Animated Narratives 3: 3D Previs.
PREVIS 1:
In order for us to get proper timing down for our animated sections we were told to create a “3D Previs”, which simply just means visualising a scene before creating it. As I was off this day I had trouble trying to understand how to animate using the cameras and basic models, however through the online videos I was able to create a really rough visualisation based off of the refined storyboards. I used very basic shapes to nail down the framing etc as final designs/models for our characters weren’t finished at this stage and I wanted to animate from a neutral standpoint.
This is the video I used to base my previs around, using very general shapes to get the basic idea across of what the scene will play out like:
Animated Narratives 2: Pipeline Planning/Design.
The following post details my designing and modelling processes involving my characters and props!
INITIAL MODELS & CONCEPTS:
We started to discuss character designs and how to allocate, mostly from discussions and meet ups we had prior to this. We were focusing mostly on using “prey” animals with a soft design.
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Animated Narratives 1: Introduction and Initial Planning Stages.
In the very beginning of this course we were tasked with rolling a picture dice in group, and whatever these dice resulted in we had to create a story on. We had gotten pirates, and when it came to developing a short story we used a whiteboard to briefly come up with a narrative based on the pictures we received. This was a nice small ice breaker exercise and introduced us to creative thinking through narrative and working in teams to develop ideas and tell our input. We also gave a brief presentation to the class to discuss our over arching idea, this exercise giving us a glimpse on what the main project would expect of us.
In terms of telling a story we were also shown the format of the “Hero’s Journey”, which could be found in a large selection of fairytales and well known stories, such as Lord of the Rings and Star Wars. The structure always involves a hero who goes on an adventure, learns a lesson, wins a victory with that newfound knowledge, and then returns home transformed. This narrative structure helped us form our narrative for our 30 second animated short. I always enjoyed writing my own original works and ironically never heard of the Hero’s Journey before, so I came away from the lesson with the newfound knowledge and skillset to improve my own narrative telling’s.
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