In addition to timing and spacing, it is also important to make a visual plan of our animation sequences, so that we can use it for reference and direction when making our final animation.
As a warm-up exercise, we created images for a pre-conceived storyboard given to us by our lecturer, again using the flour sack model as an example. I found this helpful because it allowed me to recap on what I had learned in previous weeks about tone and value, as well as thumbnail sketches and perspective;
As my final group, I have chosen 1920s Supernatural / Neo Noir/ Sugar Prohibition. These three groups were combined because they had the fewest members when it came to choosing a theme, however, after a group discussion, my team members (William Dolan, Matthew Spiers, Alexander Johnston) and I decided that our story would center around sugar prohibition in a neo-noir setting.
In this world, sugar is dealt in alleyways by gangs as a drug, and the animation features a sugar mafia, a detective, and the genre’s trademark femme fatale. We decided that the colour scheme would be monochromatic greyscale, apart from the candy, to highlight how taboo its presence is.
The segment of the animation assigned to me is the scene in the club, featuring the singing femme fatale and a worn out detective;
The main inspiration for the creation of my storyboard was from the movie ‘Last Night in Soho’ with some influence from ‘The Great Gatsby’ and Jessica Rabbit;