Winsor McCay















Gertie the Dinosaur
Gerti the Dinosaur was the first animated film with a star and a story line. Mccay gave his character Gertie personality and emotions by adding such tiny details as tears dripping.

He gave her slightly wild boisterous nature as she attacks jumbow the mamouth by throwing him into the lake after being told not to harm him by maccay like a parent commanding there child.

To produce gertie McCy drew 10'000 imagies on to rice paper and then mounted them on cardboard, MaCcay was then able to flip through the drawing to check through his work.

In 1914 in Chicargo McCay greeted an audience for gerties first premiere standind alogside the
screen. After explaing how he hadproduced the animated film, he introduced Gertie as "the only dinosaur in captivity" he cracked his whip and the film began.


Little Nemo

Was the first animated film to feature established new paper comic strip stars. The storyline begins in a regular film style where McCay and his friends make a wager where MaCcay must make his drawing move in an animated film. McCay is then shown doing so and ends with a viewing of his film, this features the characters from his comic strip little nemo which showed believable weight, dimention and motion, as well as personality and life.

We were given plastic armature models to put together which seemed a challenge in its self. After they were finally assembled we were told to use replacement animation to fashion a walk cycle, this proved quite difficult as we only had six models to work with and felt that this technique would had been far more successful had we had enough armature to align each next to each other so it would be easier to judge the cycle of movement. Although this was our first try at replacement animation I felt that the walk wasn't any where near convincing enough to convey any stretch of realism through your notice that the head and torso moves in a irregular arc. You will also notice that the arms do not move in tune with the bodies anatomy either.




This was just a test some of the group did whilst I was having a tutorial

EPIC ZOMBIE MOVIE

This was just an experiment test which was mainly conveying zombies walking towards there victim whom get as far as kicking one of the zombies a kick in the face. We experiment with two different camera angels the first of which I feel is completely ineffective through I didn't feel that the viewer would be able to see what was going on. How ever the next camera angel was far clearer and worked a bit better. The zombie walk I felt was quite convincing yet way too fast for the living dead to pull off. I quite like the us of 2D pools of blood especially when the zombie was kicked in the head, although I though the speech bubble did not show up for long enough for the brain to register what they were suppose to say.

Vincent


This is a short by Tim Burton about a seven year old boy called Vincient Malloy (top left picture) that wants to be like Vincient Price (top right). He spends hes day pretending that he is this dark sadistic lonley tortured soul, reading novels of Sir Edgar Alan Poe that is possed by his house slowly dying as he morns the death of his late wife. when really hes an over dramatic little boy. So although this animation is quite dark its also quite comical as just when you feel drawn into vincient dark and excentric world you are snapped right back out of it as the real world interupts abruptly showing you the reality of the present world.
The differnts between Victor's real and imaginary worlds are clearly demonstrated through lighting in the pictures above. The real world you notice shows far lighter tones effectivly appearing more alive, where as victors imaginary world is far more dark and dramatically mobid revealing its self to be practically dead.

I looked at the range of differnt camrea angle Burton had use to create the illusion of this wounded reality, which seems off scale twisting and turning giving you the feeling that there is nothing in your visions way that can be trusted causing you to feel some what disattached. You almost feel as if its closing in on you creating a certain claustrophobia, clasping tighter and tighter with every word and every movement convincing you of it mood, which is why the ironey is so amusing when you are snapped back to the lighter bright current world . The use of a spot light on victor is offen the trend how ever other lighting is used on his face accomponied by a shadow which show a great defined quality.

I made this flower bed out of green flanle and the flowers made out of ballons.
For the planting scene I used a mirror to potray water and just so the ceiling wouldn't be in view I made sure the colourful scriblely sky was in view which was effectivly on an A1 Piece of paper which I moved slightly back and fourth to convey water moving, rippling and reflecting.

For the scene where a whole body shot wasnt nessacery I made the contraption above and the hand was adjustable so I could animate just the hand.

STOP MOTION




This is the finial cut of the video which I felt worked quite well with the 3d stop motion and the pixelation which we split our group in half t0 do as half of the group wanted to try one style and the other half the other which feel worked brilliantly. The sound affect were all acapella using peoples voice from the group trying different sound affect on top of each other and editing volume to fit the mood which for this certain animation felt right.

In the above i feel that we did really well with the zooming out shot, how ever I feel some one thing that let us down was the lighting through your notice that it moves, the reason for this is because we put the octopus in to late which meant I was conscious that this character would be in the dark and deciding to try and gradually change the lighting effectively gave this scene a poorly controlled lighting. I was extremely please with the walk cycle as I thought Marcin did an excellent job with the animating and was also very happy with the scenery which we all shared efforts in producing.

11 seconds clip project

Untitled from Fay Maxim on Vimeo.

Untitled from Fay Maxim on Vimeo.

This is my first attempt to create lip sync motion where i realized that I had added far to many sylables. This was because I was changing the lips nearly in every frame. In my next attempt I followed my research properly and only added the vowels, m & B, unless a letter was sad with over exspession.

The Big Cheese from Fay Maxim on Vimeo.

The video above contaians my reserch I did for senseless George and the ideas that explored. Scene 1 I am kicking a can as this was one possible Idea I could of used to show my characters mood. Scene 2 I have used a ballon as a model of my characters head where I have stuck a piece of sting to the top on my charcters head so I could refence how the string was blown around by the wind. This helped me to figure out the motion

This is my out come Lucy wolf whom potrays three emotions happy, scared, angry and angry again. I had tried to add colour how ever when capturing two lights were out on the platform, this meant when I came to edit my drawin with live paint in illustrator, some of my drawings came out half black as the shadow was being picked up which was a shame.

This was my first basic test of a soft boncy ball. This helped me grasp the idea of the motion carried out between the arcs timing and spacing.

My finail attempt featured my simple arch acopanied by a votex at start and finish. I also attempted a falling bowling ball ,which I thought could of been better as it dropped or shall i say sinked into the floor quite unrealistically. If I was to try the bowling ball again I would like it to look alot heavier as it hit the ground, I think my primary mistake was adding to many frames at this crushal point!

This was my demonstraion on a simple jump, for reference I asked some one to film me doing a jump. The after I began starting and stopping the film, trying to draw as many frame as I could of the jump I simplefyde the apperance of the move into a stick man form. Finally I identifyed the key frames of the jump.

Previous I had began drawing from the music vidio Kriss Cross- Jump Jump to get the idea of a body jumping, as a result I began trying to create a pretty complex figure jumping from the front. How ever after doing a quick line test one a few of the key frames I had created i realised that the figues motion was not try to what would real life would potray , so I scrapted that idea for some thing slightly simpler to acheive.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-K3irNgcaA