Final Animation

Evaluation:

What I could of improved upon: 

- Although the sounds for some unknown reason bunched up and played in the wrong order and time 

below is the same animation but with no sounds.

- Some of the animations and movement were a little simple an could of done with a few more complex movements and effects.
- The charters in my animation would of me improved with adding more depth, such as shadows and variation to their body shapes, and movements.

Hand drawn Storyboards

Here is a series of draft storyboards:

Introductions to characters, this will be at the beginning, but the band logo kept to the end.

Baga yaga opens his door, and see the flyer, then collects his bass.

The band sets up there equipment, and get ready to play.

Drum sounds are heard and then Space is kidnapped.

Characters & scene design.

Scene and character designs.

Day and night cityscape.

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A different colour sky to be added

Baba Yaga character, design

Meditating in his flat (intro and opening)

Answering his door.

 Gig flyer 

Inside the bad guy club before kidnapping.

(Other characters to be added)

After!

 Corridor scene. the background here will zoom out and characters will bob up and down to show them walking.

Each item of the band equipment is set up in turn. 1 The lead goes in. 2. Knob is twisted 3. Mic goes into holder 4. the cymbals raise.

 Discovering the ransom note: this scene will zoom in and the drum stick will fall.

 Tree characters intro: the birds will move around

 Space character design.

Research: Other artists/animators

Research: Other artists/animators

How It should of ended

(http://www.howitshouldhaveended.com/)

Movements are simple but effective, it has a similar feel to a cut-out  style animation. Although this animator uses adobe photoshop instead of vector based illustrator to create the artwork for the animation, many of the tools are the same in both programs.

In the animation, several techniques are used, such as layering to allow characters to appear behind each other. Basic movement, such as rotating and directional moving objects are also used.

Bret De Wall

(http://www.dementeddreams.com/)

More complex movements in this animation, the movements are synchronised to the music. The animator has used a zoom in effect where the object size increased to give the impression that the camera has gotten closer. I also like how they have made it appear as if it has been shot from many different angles.  Although some of the movement appear to be repetitive.

Cyanide and Happiness

(http://www.explosm.net/movies/)

Black humour of this one is not  to everyones taste, but as for the animation, lots of complex movements are used here, and  in sections (such as the characters talking) has been done a process of replacing different features in place on top of others that are needed to give the appearance of moving seamlessly: E.g the artist would have a a pallette of different noses, mouths, and eyes, ready to be placed over the current one in the animation. (this too would of been done with the other animations above too.)

The above is a test of my first expriance of using Adobe flash, here i learn how to make objects move and resize.