P2. Animation Comparison

making of dot

for the making of dot a 3D printer was made to make over 150 small figures for dot(50 for each different post and 3 back up for each pose)

for each frame they took one photo of the dot figure running though the wonder land, they could make about 4-5 seconds per day at the speed they where going at and they couldn't go any faster, all the photo's where taken with a nokia phone,

the printer makes dot and what they do they had to was attach it to fine wire and then for painting they had to stop breather for a few seconds so they could paint dot,


making of south park

they have 6 days to make a brand new episode so the story board/design gets given a small portion of the script and they have to make each action into a camera shoots and build it up like a comic book, and they have like an hour per 6-7 pages.

each character is built like a puppet so they characters can be moved(but if its s special type of moment the design guys have to do that movement)

matt and trey go into the recording studio half a dozen times per week and they take 23 minuets to do a 22 minuet script, it is then taken to editing where the hole prodject can be put together into an episode


peppa pig
the 2D animation style of peppa pig is designed in a way so that it makes the animation look like is has been made by young children(which is the shows target audience. using CelAction 2D program.
as always in the animation process the script is written first to get a story outline for one of the 5 minute long peepa pig episodes. then they move onto creating a rouge sketch of the charters for the episode and the storyboard, then the actual episode is made using CelAction 2D, they the voice acting is done and the episode it put together with the voices, then sound is added and they just a phase of fixing it up before its ready to be published

turtle Character analysis

1;OCTONAUTS;
simple smile facial expression, freckles on side of the face, simple body shape like that of a real turtle, colors are blue and other shades of blue, appeals more to younger children because of its face is like that of a young child's more than perfect design for its audience,


2:POKEMON;
anthropomorphic, walks on two legs and has two ars, squirrel like tail blue skin, red eyes, and brown shell, originally based for a younger audience, but more appealing to an older one now, design is good, is appealing for its audience


3;T.M.N.T;
anthropomorphic bodies, different shades of green skin with brown shells, large feet and hands,design is ok and fitting for its audience

4;ADVENTURE TIME;
slightly anthropomorphic, simple stick arms and legs, long blond hair, very simple farcical expressions, just two lines for eyes and half a circle for a mouth. ok design for the target audience

character design

Character design from Shiro28

Animation story idea's

Trends in animation part 2

TV series,
young children
 cbeebies, milkshake, ben and holly, fifi, postman pat,(2D cel animation)

more aimed at teens
simpsons, family guy, south park, america dad, beuvis and buthead, King of the hill

aimed at young teens
adventure what, ed edd eddy, the amazing world of gumball, regular show

episodes are individual stories or few shorts in one episode  and driven by the characters or key events

characters are nor really developed, but may developed in a episode, but lose that in the next episode. tends to be erratic, abstract, and are 2D characters with a 3D background of some kind

WEB SERIES

popular web animations are  Tootin’ Bathtub Baby Cousins with 151.1 million views The Gummy Bear Song with 115.2 million views these are aimed at young children who like to repeat stuff over and over again

character analysis

character shapes

Trends in animation

animation features
2013 1 Frozen
         2 Despicable me 2
         3 monsters university

2012 1 Brave
          2 Madagascar  3
          3 Dr seuss Lorax

2011   1  Kun Fu Panda 2
           2 The smufrs

sequels are in, boosts the francises popularity and brings in more money
each series has tone of merchandise and some have spins offs, Madagascar  had the penguins of Madagascar and Despicable me will have a minions movie

there is well established companies such as Pixar, Dream works, universal , most of them have some hollywood actors doing the voice acting,

most of the films are family friendly and the target audience is families and people who grew up with their movies

the films are like PG rated

other types of movies are things like, nightmare before christmas, corpse bride, 9, Coraline, paranorman, frankenweenie
these are still family rated movies but are a lot darker, they are quiet gothic,

while the lego movie is very quirky and its humor appeals to all ages

Character Design

"Character design is a combination of physical trails and narrative"

Narrative/storyline defines personality, gives  context (genre, location, setting) there for has to feed into look and design of the character.

the face is the primary channel to express emotion. (-a reason for the many large headed character. A lot can be said with posture and body language - this allows personality that to be identifiable in silhouette.

Solarski - states that how a character carries their physical weight can tell us about their personality - which body part they lead with is important
Hero- leads with their chest

Pelvis-Laid back/Lazy

Head- Intelligent

Knees-  coward

Cuddy
power and dominance resolves around expanding power! Expand-take up-space, Weakness cowers up, makes your self small

Shaggy, leads with Pelvis

Squidward, intelligent, leads with head

animation analysis sheet

Animation comparison from PERSONA-BURST

making of a gif write ups

1 Rocket GIF-
1: for the rocket first opened up the document for the rocket photoschop document that was download
2: then go into windows and click animation(timeline) to bring up a time line
3 then click on duplicated selected frame to make a copy of the picture in the time line(do this a couple of times)
4: then on frame one hid all layers apart from flame and , then one frame 2 unhid 2, then on frame 3 unhid 1, then on frame 4 unhid lunch, then on frame 5 unhid flame copy
5: use the duplicated selected frame again to create some more frames
6: then ctrl click flame and flame copy, and slowly move the rocker up frame by frame, or on the last frame move flame and flame copy up to the top and use the tween tool which will create the rest of the movement
7:the  click file save for web and save it as a gif
2 ROTOSCOPE
1 first record a small clip of someone moving
2 in photoshop click file, import, video from layers to frame
3 it will then ask to select the part of the video you want, use the sliders to find the small clip you want to use and make sure to click, to every 2 frames
4  then go into windows and click animation(timeline) to bring up a time line
5 (very important) create a new layer to put above the video layers and then draw on that new layer over the body, this way you can then hid the video clip layer to see the image, make sure not to draw on the video layer
6 after you have done make sure to hid all layers that are not your rotoscope unless its a background you have added it
7 the  click file save for web and save it as a gif
3 AFTER EFFECTS
1 go into photoshop and make a new document and from preset click film/video
2 make a new layer and make a circle, then repeat this but for, left arm,right arm, left leg, right leg, and eyes, its important that each body part has its own layer, then save the document as a normal photoshop document
3 then open up after effects and import the photoshop document
4 click on all the layers apart from the body, then use the parent tool to and drag that down to the body layer(now when the body moves all other layers will move with it
5 use the key frames to make the body move slightly
6 download the yeah boy music film
7 take photo's of your self saying yeah boy, open them up in photoshop and either trace round them or look at them and draw them, save the file as a photoshop one and import it to after effects
8 in after effects we open the photoshop file into a new composition and line the mouth moves up in the way we need to make it look like the mouth is moving
8 then in the other composition we open the moving mouth and place it in the middle of the body, use the parenting tool to attach the mouth and it is done
9 insert the music then save the file and it should work

Bear walking cycle

1 first we exported the bear photoshop file into after effects
2 move the anchor points for the arms and legs
3 set a key frame from the body shot moves and and down as it walks
4 do the same for the arms and legs to make the move
5 used the puppet tool to move the arms and legs to it looks more realistic
6 do the same but make head move slightly
7 open the composition and import a back ground

P2. ANIMATION PRODUCTS RESEARCH

Movie
year of release: 2013
Company: Anime International Company(AIC), a Japanese animation studio who's headquarters are located in Nerima Japan. AIC has also done the animations of Persona 4 the animation in 2011. Rights of Persona 3 are owned by Atlus and the distributor of the movie is Aniplex
Director: Noriaki Akitaya
Animation Style;drawn/computer
Target Audience; 13+, any fans of the persona series, manly people who played the P3 games
Purpose of the animation;to bring a popular JRPG into a movie animation
What i like about it:though i've haven't seen the movie yet, the trailers and how well they have captured the characters is quiet good, the animation style is brilliant, the music is bad-ass and has a peaceful tone,



Short
year;2012
Company;Pixar
Director;Pete Docter,Roger Gould
Animation Style;computer generated animation
Target Audience; 5+
Purpose of the animation; a short about Mike's new car that he bought
What i like about it: a nice funny short about Mike's new car and how he destroys it in the end





TV Series
Year of release: original release 2007, English Dubbed, 2008
Company;Gainax is a japanese anime studio located who's headquarters are located in Mitaka, Tokyo, Japan. Gainax is also the company behind the popular 1995-1996 anime adaptation of Neon Genesis Evangelion(NGE), the NGE movies and the Rebuild Of Evangelion(four part move series reboot of Neon Genesis Evangelion)
Director;Hiroyuki Imaishi
Animation Style;drawn/computer
Target Audience;13+
Purpose of the animation;
What i like about it: Gurren Lagann is one of the most inspiring anime i've ever seen, as shown in the final fight, both Simon and Lordgenome give really inspiring speeches, not matter how many times i watch the final fight, it still sends chills down my spill,




Web-short
year of release; 2010
Company;Explosm
Director;
Animation Style;computer drawn
Target Audience;13+
Purpose of the animation;a short in a small web-series,
What i like about it: funny taking the piss out of bare grills, slightly dark towards end, enjoyable not matter how many times i've watched it




Music video
year of release; 2009
Company;warner brothers records
Director;
Animation Style, non-stop animation
Target Audience; any age
Purpose of the animation; to illustrate a story
What i like about it: well BNL is one of my fav bands and this is one of my fav music video's of theirs, plus its a great song


Advert
year of release; 2014
Company;forms software inc is a Japanese video game company founded in 1986 november 1st , there head quarters are in Tokyo japan, they also made demon souls and the first dark souls games along with several other games
Director;
Animation Style, computer generated animation
Target Audience; 16+ fans of fantasy games, previous dark souls and demon souls players
Purpose of the animation;
What i like about it: the advert capture the world perfectly, a dark and mysterious world full of danger and action, the BGM song works well with the advert and is a good song

yeah boy animation

rotoscope gif

Pokemon gifs

Rocket gif