This post contains links to all my work and is divided into the two categories of my Course Work, Independent Practice and Creative Futures: Pro Practitioner.
A quick warning about this post all the links work but for some reason when no mouse hovers the actual post, the Creative Futures: Pro Practitioner section looks like there are no links and when it does all the links light up and so does the text, just click the links and it should take you to the desired post. I apologise about this I have gone of the link software several times and I don’t know what is causing this.
Independent Practice:
My Independent Practice process started with me deciding what I would do as my main project. I draw up some brainstorms to help me come up with ideas for my project as well as what I could possibly do within these projects during the process of making them.
Once all my ideas for this project were presented clearly on a piece of paper, I began to decided which project I wanted to pursue for my final major project as long as it stay within the brief that we were given at the beginning of the year. The project I had chosen for my final major project was Bubble and Squeak, I created these two characters last year, but I wasn’t really happy with the way they had come out last year, so I decided to redesign them and create a new episode of Bubble and Squeak. Since I started a new project had had to come up with some new objectives and aims for said project:
Bubble and Squeak Aims and Targets
I started to then come up with several potential narratives for the animation, these scenarios where simple ideas that popped into my head during this creation process to find a suitable story for Bubble and Squeak to follow in this new animation:
Bubble and Squeak Narrative Ideas Development 1,
Bubble and Squeak Narrative Ideas Development 2,
Bubble and Squeak Narrative Ideas Development 3,
Bubble and Squeak Narrative Ideas Final Ideas 1,
Bubble and Squeak Narrative Ideas Final Ideas 2,
Bubble and Squeak Narrative Synopsis,
Once I found a suitable narrative I began to redesign the characters Bubble and Squeak putting them into various scenarios to see what sort of reactions that they would get involved in and how they would deal and react to them. This includes of course Bubble’s sudden change of species after I began to realise that him been a fish severely stunted the animation and it’s narrative:
Bubbles Character Rethink, Crab vs Snail,
Bubble and Squeak Animal Motion study,
Once I chosen the species Bubble would become I began to write up potential story boards to help make the narrative of the story that I had chosen and developed a lot easier to understand. These storyboards went through several different versions of the same story as well as different ones.
Storyboard 1, Storyboard 2, Storyboard 3, Storyboard 4, Storyboard 5,
I began to do tests in Adobe Flash to see if it was suitable for this project, I eventually found out that this was bad idea as it seemed to drain the life out of the story, the characters and the animation.
I began to experiment with the line reader to create a stopmotion animations with hand made puppets of Bubble and Squeak the first few steps of my project were a little rough as I was still new to stopmotion animation.
Stopmotion Test 5: Squeak Asleep,
Stopmotion Test 6: Squeak Asleep 2
Once I grew confident enough to use the line reader I decided to use it and stopmotion to produce my final major project since I have never really used any other means of animating other than Flash so it might be a nice road to go down this year:
This was one of my early takes at creating Bubble and Squeak via the line reader and stopmotion animation after my experiments, so their was still a lot of room for improvement, my later work see down below shows that I started to improve both in my understanding of the technology and the animation style.
Bubble and Squeak Climbing Prototype,
Bubble and Squeak Climbing Prototype 2,
Bubble and Squeak 3D Background Experiment,
Once I started to get the hang of this new type of animation I also began to compose more complicated scenes with my puppets as well as putting together my older animation clips to see how well the animation came together with some sound effects.
Bubble and Squeak Narrative Experiment,
Bubble and Squeak Climb Sink Part 1,
Bubble and Squeak Climb Sink Part 2,
Bubble’s Solo Climb and Attempt V2,
Once I had done most of my scene I began to realise that I needed to also create my credit and opening sequence so I began to design design the Title Card and Credits in order for me to record this last sequence.
Title and Credits Cards Design,
Opening and Credits Animations,
Eventually I posted up my combine all my clips and sound affects to produce my first final version of Bubble and Squeak:
Although after watching the completed video I realised their was still corrections to be made.
Bubble and Squeak Final Youtube,
During the process of creating Bubble and Squeak I also researched several different animation technologies, visited sites of exhibits from Hull City of Culture and done several sketches to help improve my overall art skills. As well as Develop my image in the art industry with creating my own business cards.
Animation Technology Research 1,
Animation Technology Research 2,
Animation Technology Research 3,
Animation Technology Research 4,
Independent Practice: Adobe Photoshop Practice 1: Line Work Notes,
Independent Practice: Lines of Thought Workshop,
Hull City of Culture: Opening Exhibits 1,
Hull City of Culture: Opening Exhibits 2,
Hull City of Culture: Opening Exhibits 3,
Hull City of Culture: The Propeller,
Hull City of Culture: Poppies Waving and Weeping Window
Independent Practice: Drawing Practice,
Independent Practice: Drawing Practice 2,
Independent Practice: Random Sketches 1,
Independent Practice: Random Sketches 2,
Independent Practice: Random Sketches 3,
Independent Practice: Random Sketches 4,
Independent Practice: Random Sketches 5,
Independent Practice: Random Sketches 6,
Independent Practice: Random Sketches 7,
Independent Practice Human Anatomy Research and Practise,
Independent Practice: Human Anatomy,
Creative Futures: Pro Practitioner
My Creative Futures: Pro Practitioner project started with me trying to decide what I could do for a potential client project and who I could find as a client for said project or in another way a client who would provide me with a project for the third year course.
Client Project: Women of the World or WOW!,
Now that I had decided what project I doing for a client of my choosing was, I was going to have to understand more about the women of Hull that were famous and I decided that 10 women would be a good number to help keep the length of the animation decent and interesting.
Women of the World or WOW! Women of Hull Research 1,
Women of the World or WOW! Women of Hull Research 2,
Women of the World or WOW! Women of Hull Research 3,
Women of the World or WOW! Women of Hull Research 4,
Women of the World or WOW! Women of Hull Research 5,
Once the women were chosen I began to draw up story boards of idea for potential narratives for this project. The ideas that I first created for these storyboard were only basic and I would later come back to design or develop new ones later on, some of the later on storyboards are after I started to do all animation redesigns for the women. These redesigns of these animations toke place after story board 3.
Women of the World or WOW! Women of Hull: Storyboard 1,
Women of the World or WOW! Women of Hull: Storyboard 2,
Women of the World or WOW! Storyboard 3,
Women of the World or WOW! Storyboard 4,
Women of the World or WOW! Storyboard 5,
The links below are my different ideas for the new animations, as well as some of the inspirations for them included:
Women of the World or WOW! Design Ideas 1,
Women of the World or WOW! Design Ideas 2,
Women of the World or WOW!: Phone Research,
Women of the World Maureen Lipman/Phone Sketches,
Hull City of Culture: Opening Exhibits 2,
From here I began to animate my project:
Women of the World or WOW! Animation Prototype 5,
Women of the World or WOW! Animation Prototype 11,
Women of the World or WOW! Animation Prototype 17,
Women of the World or WOW! Animation Prototype 24,
Women of the World or WOW! Animation Prototype 30,
Women of the World or WOW! Animation Prototype 35,
Women of the World or WOW! Animation Prototype 41,
Once my main animation was finished I began to look for a potential client who would be willing to show my work to the public:
WOW potential clients for my project,
WOW potential clients for my project: Maritime Museum,
WOW potential clients for my project: Kadromah94,
WOW potential clients for my project: Kadromah94 part 2,
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