IDEA
the Idea is that me and Louis will use the rotoscope technique that we learned to rotoscope one of the fight scene's from Naruto.
we will thing of the style of our characters, whether we will make our own characters or we could do a mix or our and and the current one by using some of the features of the characters and using our own ideas.
the second idea is to go out with a camera and fake a fight for us to use in photoshop and rotoscope it into our animation,
only downside to this is that each fight in Naruto can be up to a couple of hours long and as short as a few minuets. the point is to select a possible moment into a short rotoscope animation
ROCK LEE VS GARRA
Naruto vs Pain
Naruto vs Neji
other idea's
anime is full of epic fights which is what helps make it great, so it would be great to expand it from naruto to other series
Shirou vs Archer(legendary hero Shirou)
Wednesday, 30 April 2014
Tuesday, 29 April 2014
P2. REPRESENTATION AND ETHICS IN CARTOONS
RIO 2
the problem lies in its characters and voice actors, Rio being Americanised was voiced by a while voice actor while the other birds that live in rio have more ethical voice actors that are move lively than rio and dance and sing more than him. such voice actors for the other birds are Andy Garcia, Rita Moreno, Bruno mars, Jamie foxx, Will I Am and Tracy Morgan
i think what the writer of this article is saying that Rio 2 has segregation in it since the lead male is voice by a white voice actor and is slightly boring in a way and the rest are non-white voice actors and they are full of life, always sing and dancing and other things
PEPS
"PEPs" Problem Contexts, Entertainment Contexts and Performance Contexts
th3 character tend to be racial stereotypes in the way they are made, a good example is in madagascar, where you got Alex the lion voiced by a white voice actor and he is the king, and they you go Marty the zebra who is voice by a non-white voice actor and he is all whacky and crazy, then you got melman the giraffe who is voice by a white voice actor and is the Jewish stereotype in the way that he is paranoid, jump and is always on edge in a way, the Gloria the hippo who is voice by a non-white voice actor and she is stereotypical black women that can often be found in old cartoons where she is back and sassy in a way. when designers go into make there characters they don't fully think about what that character is saying and tend to be stereotypes of certain cultures and such

with turbo the lead character Turbo is voice by a white voice actor and the rest are non-white voice actors and in turbo as he succeeds in things and gets gain the other snails, this is social mobility
the problem lies in its characters and voice actors, Rio being Americanised was voiced by a while voice actor while the other birds that live in rio have more ethical voice actors that are move lively than rio and dance and sing more than him. such voice actors for the other birds are Andy Garcia, Rita Moreno, Bruno mars, Jamie foxx, Will I Am and Tracy Morgan
i think what the writer of this article is saying that Rio 2 has segregation in it since the lead male is voice by a white voice actor and is slightly boring in a way and the rest are non-white voice actors and they are full of life, always sing and dancing and other things
PEPS
"PEPs" Problem Contexts, Entertainment Contexts and Performance Contexts
th3 character tend to be racial stereotypes in the way they are made, a good example is in madagascar, where you got Alex the lion voiced by a white voice actor and he is the king, and they you go Marty the zebra who is voice by a non-white voice actor and he is all whacky and crazy, then you got melman the giraffe who is voice by a white voice actor and is the Jewish stereotype in the way that he is paranoid, jump and is always on edge in a way, the Gloria the hippo who is voice by a non-white voice actor and she is stereotypical black women that can often be found in old cartoons where she is back and sassy in a way. when designers go into make there characters they don't fully think about what that character is saying and tend to be stereotypes of certain cultures and such

with turbo the lead character Turbo is voice by a white voice actor and the rest are non-white voice actors and in turbo as he succeeds in things and gets gain the other snails, this is social mobility
Monday, 28 April 2014
indigo deconstruction
i personally feel like that Indigo will fit in with the current marketplace, but can be something new yet at the same time isn't Indigo will mostly be popular with the gaming/comic books/manga/ and other things like that fan base. the theme of it is 3 room mates living their lives but things don't go as well as they should, on narrative on my product compered to existing cartoons/animations indigo will be like eddsworld a bit in some terms,
there are 3 friends living under one roof with each other,
there is that one that stands out and gets the mick taken out of them, for Indigo its Simon, and for eddsworld it tends to be both matt and tom.
i would like Indigo to be shown on vimeo or on youtube/something like that, as it is a web short. it wil fit in well because a lot of teenagers tend to be online at some point for a while as it will be more appealing to those who spent more time online than other and gaming/other types of media because it does contains gaming references and of sorts of references from comic/manga and other things.
Sunday, 27 April 2014
Friday, 25 April 2014
TARGET AUDIENCE
Name; Jake
Age: 15
Average day: Jake is a school student, he spends his school days studying for his exams. he would finish school at 3:30 but stays behind till 4 to do some extra work on some day, during his free times he spends time online(gaming,youtube,facebook) and hanging out with his friends,he has a small job where he can raise money to spend. he goes to bed around 11 after doings school work/revision and after spending some time online, he doesn't spend a lot of time watching TV
Hobbies and interests: Jake spends a good amount of his free time gaming after he has done some work, he normally spends hours gaming because he does all his work in the week. he tends to get up early and goes to bed later on his weekends so he gets more free time
spending power: Jake has a small job so he can get money every-other day plus he gets a monthly allowance from his parents, the more house work he does at home the more money he gets that month, jake tends to save his money and spends it on the last weekend of every-month before saving up again. for spending money he is mostly in control of it
typical media: Jake spends more time watching stuff online that he does on TV, and tends to spend a lot of time gaming and buy new games and trying to make games using software he buys
why the animation will appeal to them: jake is a gamer and he enjoys playing video games, Indigo is a web series about a group of gamers and has some game humour in it(jokes about games)
Age: 15
Average day: Jake is a school student, he spends his school days studying for his exams. he would finish school at 3:30 but stays behind till 4 to do some extra work on some day, during his free times he spends time online(gaming,youtube,facebook) and hanging out with his friends,he has a small job where he can raise money to spend. he goes to bed around 11 after doings school work/revision and after spending some time online, he doesn't spend a lot of time watching TV
Hobbies and interests: Jake spends a good amount of his free time gaming after he has done some work, he normally spends hours gaming because he does all his work in the week. he tends to get up early and goes to bed later on his weekends so he gets more free time
spending power: Jake has a small job so he can get money every-other day plus he gets a monthly allowance from his parents, the more house work he does at home the more money he gets that month, jake tends to save his money and spends it on the last weekend of every-month before saving up again. for spending money he is mostly in control of it
typical media: Jake spends more time watching stuff online that he does on TV, and tends to spend a lot of time gaming and buy new games and trying to make games using software he buys
why the animation will appeal to them: jake is a gamer and he enjoys playing video games, Indigo is a web series about a group of gamers and has some game humour in it(jokes about games)
Monday, 21 April 2014
P2. REGULATORY BODIES - BBFC
the BBFC is an non-profit organisation that is behind the labeling of age rating for media that is sold in the UK
there are 6 different age rating, each with their own meaning
U= Universal and is suitable for anyone over the age of 4,can be sold to any age,
PG=parental guidance and is suitable for anyone, and along as young children are accompanied by an adult, can be sold to anyone who is at the right age or being accompanied by an adult
12 and 12,= suitable for anyone over the age of 12 and those who are under 12 who are being accompanied by an adult can only be sold to those over the age of 12
15= suitable for anyone over the age of 15, but is not allowed to be shown to a younger audience or sold to a younger audience
18= suitable for anyone over the age of 18, but is not allowed to be shown to a younger audience or sold to a younger audience
the BBFC was founded in 1912, originally they did the half and safety as early film stock, and limelightand projectors which where both fire hazards
in 1916 T.P.O'Connor was made president of the BBFC
T.P.O'Connor summarised the BBFC by giving it 43 grounds of deletion. the list was drawn from one of the boards annual reports between 1913-15.
here are some of the grounds of deletion
1. Indecorous, ambiguous and irreverent titles and subtitles
2. Cruelty to animals
3. The irreverent treatment of sacred subjects
4. Drunken scenes carried to excess
5. Vulgar accessories in the staging
6. The modus operandi of criminals
7. Cruelty to young infants and excessive cruelty and torture to adults, especially women
8. Unnecessary exhibition of under-clothing
9. The exhibition of profuse bleeding
10. Nude figures
11. Offensive vulgarity, and impropriety in conduct and dress
at the start there was only two age ratings U and A and there was only two examiners then in the 1920's there was 4 examiners and a women, how ever their identity still remains a secret
in the early days the BBFC had no rules or guidelines but that changed in 1930 when Hays Office introduced them in Hollywood
during the time of the wars the BBFC was mainly concerned with the Gangsta and horror films that where being made in that time period. so some councils where banning children from seeing A rated films even after they had been cut to match BBFC regulations
Disney's snow white and the seven dwarfs was originally classed an an A film by the BBFC it was then cut in 1938 and cut again before it could be a U, the film was then re-released again as a U
Coraline
Coraline was given the PG ratting
the BBFC allow some horror aspects in PG rated films but to combat the horror silly songs and the dancing mice where introduced because a younger audience my view the film, and this may cause negative effects on the young children( them being scared, nightmares and such) and they did not feel that a U rating would not work for this film
in other aspects the fight scenes in the film has less intensity added to the instead of being intense
there are 6 different age rating, each with their own meaning
U= Universal and is suitable for anyone over the age of 4,can be sold to any age,
PG=parental guidance and is suitable for anyone, and along as young children are accompanied by an adult, can be sold to anyone who is at the right age or being accompanied by an adult
12 and 12,= suitable for anyone over the age of 12 and those who are under 12 who are being accompanied by an adult can only be sold to those over the age of 12
15= suitable for anyone over the age of 15, but is not allowed to be shown to a younger audience or sold to a younger audience
18= suitable for anyone over the age of 18, but is not allowed to be shown to a younger audience or sold to a younger audience
the BBFC was founded in 1912, originally they did the half and safety as early film stock, and limelightand projectors which where both fire hazards
in 1916 T.P.O'Connor was made president of the BBFC
T.P.O'Connor summarised the BBFC by giving it 43 grounds of deletion. the list was drawn from one of the boards annual reports between 1913-15.
here are some of the grounds of deletion
1. Indecorous, ambiguous and irreverent titles and subtitles
2. Cruelty to animals
3. The irreverent treatment of sacred subjects
4. Drunken scenes carried to excess
5. Vulgar accessories in the staging
6. The modus operandi of criminals
7. Cruelty to young infants and excessive cruelty and torture to adults, especially women
8. Unnecessary exhibition of under-clothing
9. The exhibition of profuse bleeding
10. Nude figures
11. Offensive vulgarity, and impropriety in conduct and dress
at the start there was only two age ratings U and A and there was only two examiners then in the 1920's there was 4 examiners and a women, how ever their identity still remains a secret
in the early days the BBFC had no rules or guidelines but that changed in 1930 when Hays Office introduced them in Hollywood
during the time of the wars the BBFC was mainly concerned with the Gangsta and horror films that where being made in that time period. so some councils where banning children from seeing A rated films even after they had been cut to match BBFC regulations
Disney's snow white and the seven dwarfs was originally classed an an A film by the BBFC it was then cut in 1938 and cut again before it could be a U, the film was then re-released again as a U
Coraline
Coraline was given the PG ratting
the BBFC allow some horror aspects in PG rated films but to combat the horror silly songs and the dancing mice where introduced because a younger audience my view the film, and this may cause negative effects on the young children( them being scared, nightmares and such) and they did not feel that a U rating would not work for this film
in other aspects the fight scenes in the film has less intensity added to the instead of being intense
Sunday, 20 April 2014
ANIMATION FLOW CHART
KEY
PINK= DEVELOPMENT
BLUE=PRE-PRODUCTION
GREEN=POST-PREDUCTION
RED=SHOT PRODUCTION
description of the stages
Idea, brief, treatment, script, production planning
this is the first stage and is the pre-production stage, first an idea is made up or a commissioned brief. then a written treatment to sell is made for the project, write a script, an outline of the budget. the concept must be pitch. then after the go ahead finalise the budget and the schedule of the project and put a crew together
Concept Design
the concept art is started during the preproduction phase. the concept art is the first stage of the design for the project with preliminary work to illustrate both a narrative for the production and visual treatment of the project, experimenting with characterisation and different styles
Storyboarding
the projects director will work close with the storyboard artist to visualise the script and to tell the story. storyboard illustrates the projects, narrative, composes the different types of shots, demonstrates character actions and shows camera movement and maintains continuity.
Production Design and Visual Development
the production designer and the art director will develop the type of style for the production and produce the final designs for the characters and the environments. for a 2D design a model sheet is made and turnarounds of the characters with key backgrounds, for a stop frame characters and set will be designed for a CG designs for the characters,enviroment and the special effects will be produced. much of the design at this stage will be drawn regardless of what the final type of animation technique is
Recording the Dialogue
the producer and director will cast the voices and the director does the supervising of the recordings sessions, this is usually attended by a Editor often all the actors will be gathered and the script recorded in one or even more sessions but producers work in various ways and there can be many good reasons
Building the Models, Rigging
after the approved design the modellers will translate the drawing and start to build the CG models of characters and the environments, before any movement and animation can be made with the models riggers will create a moving skeleton to provide working joints and parts
Layouts and Animatics
first the pass at timing is done with the story real or in a animatic, in a stop frame this is most likely to become a working real and there will be no layout
Animation
the animation starts when is arrived layouts, designs,(models), voice tracks and the timing for the animator to work with and the animation director all assign scenes to animators who produces images that give off the illusion of movement
Final Backgrounds and Colouring
in the 2D animation the final colour backgrounds can be produced from the approved layouts onwards in CF colouring of characters and the environments are enchanted by effects and lightning
Lighting and Compositing
Lightning is a very crucial stage in the animation. CG dictating the final colouring and atmosphere of each shoot, composing can be applied to all types of animation
Post Production
During post production phase all music will be recorded, sound effects are added and the final soundtrack is finalised,
Indigo
short-web series
there will not be much character development and nearly half of the series will not be connected, some episodes that have important events in them will carry on and well developed the characters more and some aspects of the show will change
E.G in the spider they plan to turn there spear room into a study, but they find a spider and after fighting with the spider they are kicked out, and the spider claims that room, it later eps the door will have a sign saying do not enter, then in the stranger when they are trying to chase the stranger out of their apartment he will go into the spiders room, so some changes will happen in the series but only minor ones
the running time for each animation will be a few minuets long with with a max of 10 mins for an ep
series one would have about eps
ep 1 the spider: the gang decide to change there spear room into a study but when they try to chase the spider out things get out of hand so the war between the spider begins, it captures, michel and daniel, so its up to simon to try and rescue them
ep 2 mushroom pizza: Daniel and michel had just finished playing the last of us and they walk into the kitchen to find simon eating a mushroom pizza, they over react and nock it out of simon's hand and bin the pizza, they then later find out simon loves to eat mushrooms and has bags full of them in the kitchen they bin all of the mushrooms and find out that simon is outraged by this, so he packs up some of his things and leaves for a few days
ep 3 infecte: simon has been gone for a week and daniel and michel are fine with him being gone, their door bell rings and they find simon out side who is pale and looks very sick, they over react and refuse to lit him in because they think he is one of the infected, so simon has to find an other way of getting in, he opens the door with his key, when daniel and michel are gone, when daniel and michel return to see simon they over react attack him and but him in a giant bin in the alleyway behind the building, few hours later they are called to the hospital to see simon laying in a bed looking very angry with them
ep 4 the stranger: one day simon walking home and see's a strange fat man sitting on the sofa he ask's who he is and he just replies with I'm a fiend of daniel's simons leaves him and walks on, later daniel walks past and asked the same but this time the strange says he's a friend of michele, so daniel leaves him, when michel walks buy and ask's who he is the stranger says he is a friend of simon's michel thinks something is up so he calls a meeting and talks to daniel and simon about it they then realise he has broken into there apartment and try to chase him out but the stranger runs into the spiders room never to return
ep 5 apartment wars: one day Michel got his mail to find out he also got the mail of person living next to him, so he goes to give it to them, when the next-door neighbour opens their door an old man is standing there, he accuses michel of stealing his mail and takes away him mail, michel tries to tell him he didn't but the old man wouldn't listen, the next day the old man, tries to get revenge, he waits for michel to come out and whacks him over the head and takes his keys, the old man then runs inside and takes michel's ps2, michel is out raged by this and gets revenge, they both kept playing pranks and other mean tricks on one another until they find out the old man has died
ep 6 fright: after the old mans death michel starts having bad dreams and tells simon and daniel the old man is haunting him, they just laugh at him, then things start to get weirder and things go missing and objects start flying around, so the gang over reacts and calls and exorcist, upon open the door and letting the exorcist they find out the exorcist was the old man and he had fakes his death, once they realise this they notice things still flying around and weird stuff happening, all 4 then release that the apartment is haunted and run out of it
ep 7 thou art death: daniel's gold fished died and he is full of grief, this annoys simon and michel a lot till one day they got a knock at the door and the grim repair is standing there, he forces him self in and demands the soul of Daniel's pet gold fish, daniel says not and death challenges him, if he can beat him in a dual he will bring the goldfish back to life, daniel accepts and death says that simon and michel must chose the dual they pick who ever can get rid of the spider with out the use of any special powers and such, both daniel and death both tried to remove the spider but both fail, since it is a draw death comprised a bit will the deal and turned the goldfish into a zombie and then leaves
ep 8 heart assault: michel just broke up with his girlfriend may and is hiding out in the apparent to try and avoid her since she is looking for him, he says that she its trying to kill him but no one believes him, then one day may enters the apartment though an open window and hides until michel comes home, when he does she jumps out on hims and tries to attack him michel manages to hid in the apartment and daniel and simon say that they will get rid of her, so they tell him that he is in the spiders room, so she runs in there and daniel slams the door behind he michel comes out thinking he is safe until she punches a hole through the doors and unlocks it and rushes out to try and get michel, but she then trips and is slowly pulled away from the gang and back into the room with the doors closing behind her
there will not be much character development and nearly half of the series will not be connected, some episodes that have important events in them will carry on and well developed the characters more and some aspects of the show will change
E.G in the spider they plan to turn there spear room into a study, but they find a spider and after fighting with the spider they are kicked out, and the spider claims that room, it later eps the door will have a sign saying do not enter, then in the stranger when they are trying to chase the stranger out of their apartment he will go into the spiders room, so some changes will happen in the series but only minor ones
the running time for each animation will be a few minuets long with with a max of 10 mins for an ep
series one would have about eps
ep 1 the spider: the gang decide to change there spear room into a study but when they try to chase the spider out things get out of hand so the war between the spider begins, it captures, michel and daniel, so its up to simon to try and rescue them
ep 2 mushroom pizza: Daniel and michel had just finished playing the last of us and they walk into the kitchen to find simon eating a mushroom pizza, they over react and nock it out of simon's hand and bin the pizza, they then later find out simon loves to eat mushrooms and has bags full of them in the kitchen they bin all of the mushrooms and find out that simon is outraged by this, so he packs up some of his things and leaves for a few days
ep 3 infecte: simon has been gone for a week and daniel and michel are fine with him being gone, their door bell rings and they find simon out side who is pale and looks very sick, they over react and refuse to lit him in because they think he is one of the infected, so simon has to find an other way of getting in, he opens the door with his key, when daniel and michel are gone, when daniel and michel return to see simon they over react attack him and but him in a giant bin in the alleyway behind the building, few hours later they are called to the hospital to see simon laying in a bed looking very angry with them
ep 4 the stranger: one day simon walking home and see's a strange fat man sitting on the sofa he ask's who he is and he just replies with I'm a fiend of daniel's simons leaves him and walks on, later daniel walks past and asked the same but this time the strange says he's a friend of michele, so daniel leaves him, when michel walks buy and ask's who he is the stranger says he is a friend of simon's michel thinks something is up so he calls a meeting and talks to daniel and simon about it they then realise he has broken into there apartment and try to chase him out but the stranger runs into the spiders room never to return
ep 5 apartment wars: one day Michel got his mail to find out he also got the mail of person living next to him, so he goes to give it to them, when the next-door neighbour opens their door an old man is standing there, he accuses michel of stealing his mail and takes away him mail, michel tries to tell him he didn't but the old man wouldn't listen, the next day the old man, tries to get revenge, he waits for michel to come out and whacks him over the head and takes his keys, the old man then runs inside and takes michel's ps2, michel is out raged by this and gets revenge, they both kept playing pranks and other mean tricks on one another until they find out the old man has died
ep 6 fright: after the old mans death michel starts having bad dreams and tells simon and daniel the old man is haunting him, they just laugh at him, then things start to get weirder and things go missing and objects start flying around, so the gang over reacts and calls and exorcist, upon open the door and letting the exorcist they find out the exorcist was the old man and he had fakes his death, once they realise this they notice things still flying around and weird stuff happening, all 4 then release that the apartment is haunted and run out of it
ep 7 thou art death: daniel's gold fished died and he is full of grief, this annoys simon and michel a lot till one day they got a knock at the door and the grim repair is standing there, he forces him self in and demands the soul of Daniel's pet gold fish, daniel says not and death challenges him, if he can beat him in a dual he will bring the goldfish back to life, daniel accepts and death says that simon and michel must chose the dual they pick who ever can get rid of the spider with out the use of any special powers and such, both daniel and death both tried to remove the spider but both fail, since it is a draw death comprised a bit will the deal and turned the goldfish into a zombie and then leaves
ep 8 heart assault: michel just broke up with his girlfriend may and is hiding out in the apparent to try and avoid her since she is looking for him, he says that she its trying to kill him but no one believes him, then one day may enters the apartment though an open window and hides until michel comes home, when he does she jumps out on hims and tries to attack him michel manages to hid in the apartment and daniel and simon say that they will get rid of her, so they tell him that he is in the spiders room, so she runs in there and daniel slams the door behind he michel comes out thinking he is safe until she punches a hole through the doors and unlocks it and rushes out to try and get michel, but she then trips and is slowly pulled away from the gang and back into the room with the doors closing behind her
Friday, 4 April 2014
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