11 Second Club Finished Clip

This is my final clip for the 11 second club task. I am very happy with the outcome and the time frame i managed to do it in, I am especially happy with the lip syncing as it is the first time i have tried a full clip with fast and complicated speech and I think it matches up reasonably well. However I am not completely happy with the movement and character animation, I feel its to jerky and robotic. Because i have finished it so long before my deadline i'm going to try to come back to it and smooth it out and get some of the movement more lifelike.

11 second Backgrounds

These are the two backgrounds i have made for my final animation, i used most of the ideas from my storyboard and used screenshots from my block-through to make sure that the tables are at the right height and my current animation fits, as can be seen below. I am very happy with these backgrounds as they fit the style i like and want to go for, I spent a few hours on these because my Photoshop skills are very limited and i learnt a lot about the brushes and the different textures i can get with them, however i do feel that they look a but flat because even though there is lots of shading, there is no depth to the tables as they just look like flat beams.
Below is a quick test of my backgrounds with my block-through over the top.

11 Second Blockthrough

This block-through I did by using both my animatic and just the audio playing in Adobe Flash to add more movement to the characters, so this is closer to an extension of the animatic because i'm not properly animation yet, i'm just working out how they are going to move and get the basic movements and timings in. I'm going to work on the face detailing more next, with some basic speech movement.

11 Second Club Animatic

This is the simple animatic I made by syncing my storyboard with the audio clip, i am now going to use this in flash and start blocking out the animation before refining it and then adding the lip syncing. I am fairly happy with it all so far, with the character design and the ideas i've got for the movement and acting, however i hope that my skills in Adobe Flash and using a drawing tablet can keep up.

11 second club storyboard

Below is the final storyboard I did for the 11 second club, I have changed a lot from the thumbnails, the characters are now talking about a motorised skateboard instead of a food blender as I felt that the food blender was a weak idea and the skateboard would interest Marty more and fit the audio. I have also changed a lot of the acting in it as in the thumbnails it was just a lot of arm flailing and now it's much more subtle and fitting.

11 second club concepts and thumbnails

For some of the first work were doing this year, we are using the audio given on the 11 second club website, on the 11 second club website every month they give out a piece of audio for people to animate to and then vote on which entry is the best, however we are not going to be handing it in on the website as we started very late in the month. This month the audio is clearly from Back To The Future. 

Above is my character design for the Back to the future clip, although my animation isn't going to be a copy of the film the characters are clearly inspired by the film, with Marty wearing the iconic waist coat and Doc wearing a lab coat.

Above is a rough thumbnailing for my animation, with the two characters talking about a food blender which i am going to change. I am going to redo this as a more detailed storyboard with the two characters talking about a nuclear powered skateboard. and change the acting in it as i have had feedback on these thumbnails and have reconsidered the amount of arm movement in it and have more subtle but more meaningful movement.

2nd Year

I am now starting my second year of University and I am already working hard on making sure this year is much better than last year and making sure i am much more organised. This year i am mostly going to be focusing on pre-production as I am much more interested in the whole area. within pre-production I am very interested in and looking forward to working more on my story boarding skills and character design skills, as well as diving in to new areas like script writing and set building for stop motion. As well as pre-production i am still going to be working hard on production with stop-motion being my main focus, and 2D animation also being a focus but not as central as stop-motion.

2D Background Layout

This is a pair of 2D layouts I did for Uni from a storyboard.

2D Background

This is a pair of 2D backgrounds I did for a project Uni that went with a storyboard that we got given.

Life Drawing

This is a selection of my work from our life drawing classes as well as some of work I did in my own sketch book at home. most of the work I did in the classes I feel I could have done much better and think all the proportions are all wrong, however I am really proud of the ones I did at home in my own time because I spent much longer on them so that I could get the proportions correct.