For the class this week we looked into animating forms and storyboards. For the workshop we looked at animating the jump of a flour sack.

I first did a rough sketch of how the sack would move and squash/stretch.

I then went in and looked at the sack tassles at the top and bottom and how they would move with the sack in motion.

I didn’t struggle too much with this exercise, the main bit was getting the sack twisting correctly before it launched itself into a jump.

After doing this exercise we looked into storyboarding a set described scene but we had to animated the scenes as we felt appropriate.

This exercise was fun to do and I learnt how to express a still image of a character with poses within the scene. I found it hard to show emotion through the flour sack as it has no face to show expression on. However, I felt like through the flour sack poses I portrayed very well the expressiveness of each scene.

For homework we were to look at storyboarding our own animations. Due to moving into my new team we had discussed about the storyline to our plot in the previous week and came up with the idea of each individual member animating their own TV show in their own style and a main character being glitched between our channels. I chose to base my channel off a star wars theme, but was unsure what exact storyline I wanted to go with. We discussed in our group about how we wanted our timeline to go and where we wanted to be placed in it. Our group now consists of Rebecca, Karl, Sophie, Charlie, Kennie and myself.

My initial idea was to do two Jedi in a lightsaber battle, when our main character glitches in he sees a void coming towards him so he gets up and runs through the lightsaber battle. This causes shock and confusion in the two Jedi, and they stop and watch the main character run on and glitch, eventually glitching to the next scene. The two Jedi then look around to see the void the main character was running from and they turn and run away from it only to be eventually consumed. The animation would then cut to the next members channel.

When I started to plan my animation and getting it finished within the timeframe given, I decided I had overloaded myself with too much to do and animate to the standard I would want in that given timeframe. Therefore, keeping within the theme of star wars I replanned the story of my animation to allow me to make it smoother and of a higher standard.

This storyline would show the main character glitching into a scene, dazed and confused, he would look around and spot a creature. The scene would cut to the creature looking at the main character in confusion. It would then cut back to the main character, who is terrified on the creature and starts to scream, cutting back to the character again which also begins to scream. The scene will finally cut back to the main character who is still lying there, screaming, he starts beginning to glitch and he glitches so much he disappears into the next persons channel.