Life Drawing Session Two

I've just had my second life drawing session, these are the sketches I did...

The first four are again the walk cycle like we did in the first session. I took a different approach to it this time...I made each pose separate.

And then we had more 30 second poses 

Here a prop (pole) was introduced but still only had 30 seconds to draw

Anticipation

This is my first proper animation project! 

We have to make a drawn stop motion animation of at least 5 seconds (60 drawings) showing the anticipation of an action. We have a list of characters from different times and a list of different anticipations of different movements/actions. I chose a Roman gladiator sneezing. First I looked up a Roman gladiator to get a feel for what he should look like and made a couple of drawings from this. This is was I come up with...

And finally from the drawing I did from research I came up with my final character...

In the animation I ended up making it a little simpler like I took out the circles in the shield and on his belt and skirt and the detail on his helmet. I also didn't include the red. 

This is my final animation

I wasn't too happy with the sneeze as it should have been faster and the positioning with the heading when it tips back doesn't look 'real' or right. But I am happy with the anticipation. 

Overall I am very pleased with my effort for my first animation.

Life Drawing Session One

Today I had my first life drawing session at University, of course I had previously done a couple of life drawing sessions at A Level and then in my Foundation course and always enjoyed them, so I was equally excited about this one! ...And it didn't disappoint! 

These are the drawings that came out of it...

These two first ones are where the model posed in the different poses we make when walking. This allowed us to look at the walk cycle and capture each pose easily..of which would be near enough impossible just by someone walking normally.

After the walk cycle the model then walk around the room holding a pose for 30 seconds and then moved onto another pose for 3 seconds etc...These are my 30 second drawings...

Storyboard For a Commercial or Trailer

8th November 2010

This week we have to chose one option out of a list as to what sort of trailer or commercial we want to do. I have chosen 'Virgin Holidays'. 

'Virgin's new campaign will be based on the theme 'COLOURS OF THE WORLD'. They want to capitalise on the bleak winter season using hot colours on screen to entice people to book now for next summer. This can be abstract, shouldn't include aeroplanes, but must be stylish. Think colourful object from around the world in montage shown graphically.'

I need to -

-Make a storyboard

- Consider the soundtrack and script

- Aim for a professional presentation

My first thought is to possibly us silhouettes and flat colours? 

I picked up some travel/holiday booklets from some holiday shops and have found a number of warm places to go on holiday that I may look up...

The Mediterranean...Italy, Spain, Gibraltar, Corsica, Monaco, Canary Islands, Greece, Turkey

Egypt, India, Asia, Singapore, Mauritius, Maldives, Sri Lanka, Jordan, Eastern Africa, South Africa, Thailand, China, Vietnam, Angkor, Japan, Malaysia, Bali, Cuba, Mexico and Caribbean. 

I then looked at the brochures and picked out a few images that caught my eye...colourful/warm ones.

I researched previous Virgin Holdiays adverts and using the images I found from the brochures and the virgin holidays research I made this sheet...

I have images for examples from previous virgin holidays adverts and I made a mood board from the images I found in the brochures. I also stuck some extra images on the top for some inspiration, I'm thinking of putting in strong striking images of different object from around the world in. 

Looking from this I am definitely going to make something abstract. 

There will be no talking or narration but purely a soundtrack of an upbeat tribal song of some sort to give it that far away foreign feel and to give it an extra bit of culture.

From looking at the adverts it's obvious that red is the main theme due to the colour of virgins logo so I will try and include more red or certainly some striking reds in it to make red stand out so that people know that it is virgin. 

I then made a long strip of photo montage made from more images I found in some brochures.

From making this I decided that these are the images I am going to using and that the advert is going to be the camera moving along this montage but parts of the images are going to seem to dance and move with the soundtrack that I am going to use.

And so this is my final storyboard...

Overall I and really pleased with the whole project and my final outcome. I feel that it is really simple but effective at the same time. The bold images and colours make it stand out and the soundtrack and movement give the whole think life!