Evaluation

Evaluation 

For the PPP briefs I really like the research brief as I think its a really good idea that we should know so many animations and practitioners, and doing this brief has helped me know and gather more information on these. Although i should of but more effort into this brief its self by continuously blogging about any animations that i have come across, which sometimes I would forget too, but I then made sure to blog about anything i come across and that i am interested in.

I also think the seminars in which we attended were very helpful, especially the presentation seminar. I found this the most interesting seminar, as i struggle to stand up in front of people and deliver a good presentation. For the studio brief 3, this is the presentation I stubbled the most to present as i got too nervous, and it came across as if I didn't know what i was saying and i had don't the brief at the last minute. 

The things i have learnt the most after doing these briefs for PPP is that i need to continuously keep track of everything i do or watch, for example if i go to an exhibition or watch any animations that I'm interested in or i find animations that have inspired me to create my own animations in the future. I have also learnt from the research brief again that I need to keep track of what animations or practitioners i am researching, this is because in the summer i plan to create my own animations out of university with friends and these will all be placed on my PPP blog, and i will be able to keep my production diary here too. 

Studio Brief 2- Research

I love the character designs for the character Stitch, this they have captured both the good and cute side of the character and the bad and mischievous side of him too, above shows a character sheet of Stitch in 2/3rd pose and below is another character sheet of some key poses, these key poses show some of the characters emotions too 

Studio Brief 2- Research

The land before time is one of my childhood favorite animations, I just love the character designs for the film as the audience was mainly for children the main characters looked soft meaning you could tell which dinosaurs were nice as the lines of the characters wasnt as harsh as the others. I personally just think the characters in the films are really sweet and friendly looking. 

Studio Brief 2- Research

     

For the animated film the Jungle book, I love the way the movements are captured for all the characters, but on the first character sheet above of Mowgli they have captured the movements for the scene where he is dancing amazingly, as they have kept the fact that these movements will be more exaggerated not only cause he is dancing but because he is a child too, and I personally think that if this was an adult in the scene the movements of the arms wouldnt be so extreme 

Studio Brief 2- Research

Eric Goldberg

Eric Goldberg is an animator who has worked on many animations, but below are just 2 videos of his work which are completely different, the first video is a pixalation for a Rolo advert, in this animation a character is drawn out and then as the character is complete he comes to life. In the second video it is a pencil test of more than 1 scene of the Disney film, Princess and the frog, as Eric Goldberg was the animator for the character Louis the Alligator. I love this character in this film as he brings humour to the film, not only through the script but the actions of the character himself. 

Studio Brief 2- Research

Dave Alex Riddett

In Dave Alex Riddett's guest talk he showed us one of his first pixalations, and then told us about he loves making things through cameras. This pixalation was for a music video and includes an armature character, this took him a week to create. 

He also helpped make the Sledge hammer music video, and explained how they are currently trying to remake the video as they still have all the old negatives 

Dave Alex Riddett also showed us in this guest talk a behinds the scenes video of the film Shaun the sheep, they expected to animate at least 2 seconds worth a day. 

Studio Brief 1- Absorb

Understanding of copyright

copyright gives the owner the right to control the way that their material can be used

-Films

-Games

-Illustrations

-Animations

Basically anything that have been produced

Content produced and hosted in the UK is covered by copyright 

Authors also have the right to object is their work is mutilated or distorted in any way 

The author or created owns copyright 

In the UK copyright is automatic 

there is no registration system 

the duration of copyright is, Life, plus 70 years

After this lecture I found interesting the part where my work is copyrighted 70 years after I die, but any work I do for or in university, they are legally allowed to use, with out permission 

Studio Brief 1- Absorb

Presentation skills 

-Communication of a story or journey 

-Convey meaningful information 

-Concisency 

I should 

-Know my audience

-Inform them about my work

-Explain who I am

-Explain what my role is 

-what im doing as part of a project

-How i got there 

-Work up with a sequence of things 

-How to plan to move forward

Presentation is not

-About me 

-About what you sound like

-Be stressful

I should be 

-Prepared

-Keep it simple

-Know you subject

-Avoid clip art

-Use imagery when neccessary

I should not 

-Use to much text

-Use bullet points

In this lecture I learnt the key things for a presentation, this is useful to me as I have poor presentation skills and have two presentations coming up in the future.