Work related

Task 1: You will document all animation festival and competition opportunities that are suitable for submission of your animated short or concept with supporting justification in annotated form stating why you are considering that particular festival or competition, its benefits and entry requirements etc. This information will be typed and presented in an A4 document to be submitted within your Work Based file.

Task 2: You will develop and finalize all the preproduction elements for your animated short this will include scripts, storyboards and an animatic. This work must be professionally presented in a suitable format for submission.

Task 3: You will complete and present a minimum of one live brief relating to the development of your practice, complete with research, analysis, development and a final product(s).

These briefs will be supplied by the Young Creative Network, D and AD and other possible sources. The brief must be client based and explore the commercialism of  your chosen discipline.

You will produce a Work base file. This should include:

- A typed and formatted time sheet documenting in detail your time management and project work relating to work experience or completion of a live brief. It must reveal where you have taken responsibility for the management of a project.

- Evidence of work experience or completed live briefs. You must demonstrate in your evaluations how you used what you have learned to solve problems in the work related experience.

Task 4: You will deliver a Work related presentation
Your powerpoint will cover:
- Investigation into companies/industry related to your future progression.
- Target markets/audience.
- Current and future trends within your chosen area.
- How this will influence your practice and development of new work.
- Opportunities, this may include competitions, commissions and exhibitions.

You will present your findings during a PowerPoint presentation, which should be a minimum of ten minutes. This will be printed and presented within your work related file for submission.

Task 5:
Written Analysis
Toward the end of the academic year you must produce a 500 word written document that analyses the knowledge and skills gained during this module. This must be typed and presented within your work based file.

Do, or do not. There is no "Try".

It's been a while since my last post, within that time there's been panic, Berlin, work and the like. Firstly, panic. At the time of writing I writing there are 2 weeks till May 11th... The deadline for this final module and may I just say, I'm both terrified and excited, terrified in the sense that I don't think I'll get done in time and excited because I can't wait to just have a break... 

I've produced a mock up of the opening, it's nothing amazing and still needs work done to it and I'm not fond of the music used despite my initial thought that it worked well at first. It didn't. It has too much of a foreign twang to it and for an animation which is mostly surrounded by a jungle... Doesn't really flow well...

Finally, Cor Humanum. What is Cor Humanum? Honestly... I really don't know, I wanted to hand in a digital speed painting for one of my modules at College and I really wanted to see if I could do something decent, what this is, is just that, an attempt to try and produce a decent piece of work in relation to a personal project which at the moment is simply titled, "N.K". What about the music? Well, the great guys at BloodandBiscuits gave me the thumbs up to use some of their music, really friendly.

We Boil At Different Degrees

So, the ball's rolling, frames are getting inked up and it's all coming together better than expected. Good. Currently, I'm just rounding up the remaining pencil tests as best I can, most of them consist of lip syncing and taking into account how I now plan to approach lip syncing, it really shouldn't take too long... 

Here's hoping anyway. 

Here are a collection of inked line tests which will form

Apart from that, Berlin was a great experience!

The World Went And Got Itself Into A Goddamn Hurry

For the past few days, I've been producing pencil tests, lot's and lot's of pencil tests, so much so I need another file to hold them. Besides that, I did one in particular, a lip sync test. The script is rewritten and everything is ready to go, or is it? See, I've just wasted 70-odd pages on a 3 second pencil test and I've learnt something by it.

It get's boring real quick!

Over and over again I drew the same image until by the end, the proportions had morphed out of position, so I've thought, it would probably be better to just take a base mouth movement and just swap and change each mouth over when need be, it would save ALLOT of time and effort and it's a shame I realised this half way through production, but I thought, "well, I've made it this far, might as well finish it off" and I did, and made a god awful mess of the end result. What I did on a whim, and will no doubt regret after I upload this, is record myself visually recording lines, why? I don't know, I was bored but I figured that it might be good for entertainment educational purposes.

The procedure doesn't get any easier and I'm not well off enough to afford a fancy microphone which could knock out the noise so I've just got to play with the cards I'm dealt. It's been a while since I did voice acting and although I like to TRY and get into character, the fact is my bland, monotone voice over shadows any and all emotion but thankfully, for the character of Piper, it's fitting. This is the pencil test and quite possibly the worst animation I've ever done. It's terrible.

Apart from that, I've been messing around with Corel Painter again, I enjoyed it... Until I saved out as a JPEG and I couldn't go back into it, so this is what remains of an unfinished, unfunny Batman image, speaking of Batman, I've fallen in love with it recently, finally got round to seeing the conclusion of Arkham City and it does leave allot of things in the mist, open ended and hints at a 3rd, and hopefully final closure to the Arkham Universe. 

Why do I say that? Arkham Asylum was breathtaking, I thoroughly enjoyed what the island and its inmates had to offer, my gripe was that it was FAR too short in terms of the main story and the Riddler Trophies only draw out that time span by a few more hours but granted it does give you a sense of accomplishment. Arkham City on the other hand allows the player to explore a much more elaborate environment and meet more inmates... Maybes too many. I sat there, playing away going from Two-Face, Penguin, Mr. Freeze and before I knew it I was 3/4 of the way through by the time I bumped into Robin which Rocksteady have really done a good job at making a previously campy side-kick, "bad-ass". With the main story complete I realised I had only completed a mere 30% of what the game had to offer as a whole, side missions, riddles and puzzles alike, Arkham City is scattered with more to uncover and un-lockable's to find, granted it was the Arkham games which spurred a greater interest in Batman and since then it's a franchise which I've grown more and more fond of, the character of Batman or Bruce Wayne is that of a mere human, no super power's, no invincibility, just him and his will to protect Gotham city. With this said, it would be nice to see closure to the Arkham Universe so as not to milk it for all its worth, it's set itself up for a trilogy, hinting that the 3rd would most definitely see, "Gotham Burn". If you haven't played the Arkham games, you can pick them up pretty cheap and considering they're not incredibly long gives the casual gamer a decent excuse to just try it out but also gives the avid gamer to delve into the Arkham games and dig out every little secret the game has to offer.