Shrek Forever for After

I'm a fan of the Shrek series and it seems like the final one will be the Shrek Forever for After releasing in may 2010 but i also found out that there will be a spin-off for Puss in Boots and anyway here is the trailer for the fourth movie:

Pixar lamp Parody

I found this little parody of the Pixar lamp introduction which i thought was brilliant and the emotions were good:

Animation Week 10:Shane Acker

In one of my earliest blogs i had chosen Shane Ackers 9 as my appealing visual trailer which has a connection to the course and i believe that i had chosen this movie as it was first based on Shane Ackers lone short film which was created entirley by himself and friends and was so brilliant it was developed further into a feature film. What stood out to me is the way that the characters seem so much as there real life objects for example the characters are made of rag dolls and they are resembled perfectly as the rendered image captures that true look of a rag doll and seeing what a young animator has done in what Shane Acker has done, to me shows that if we as young animators can have the focus and confidence in what we will create than we can create something as brilliant as 9 no matter how long it takes.

Animation Week 10:Animation Artists

As i have mentioned in my previous blog posts i have realized some great amateur animators and found most of their work interesting and see it as a point in animation i would like to see me create or surpass, anyway i realized that with amateur animators being so good i found that professional animators are good as or even better than the amateur animators. An example of these are companies such as Toei Animation which are a Japanese animation company which are recognized for their work on Sailor Moon, Saint Seiya and Dragonball Z series.

Animation Week 10:The technique

My Animation Techniques

I had found this video of someone's technique to creating their animation as they had begun with simple drawing doodles and then became further developed and made into a animation using paper based drawings to begin with the creator eventually develops the process of creating the animation from doodles to a short animation.

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Animation Week 10:Simple Animation

Stick Fight created by Micheal Lubin

These kind of animation intrigue me to the fact that they are simple stick animation and don't seem like they took that long but when you see the animation you realize how much time is put into it even though it looks simple and i watched this video an saw how good it really was because i had become fascinated with the action scenes and noticed how long it must have taken because i had used pencil in creating simple animations but it would take longer to create a fight scene in pencil.

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Animation Week 10:Website of Animation

Aniboom
I have looked through many animation websites and have found a website called Aniboom, which not only has some kind if professional animations but has many animations created from amateurs. With people uploading their animation the Aniboom website, along with FOX created competitions for the animators that had their animations on the Aniboom website got a life time prize such as $10,000 and a development deal with Fox and along with that the Aniboom has a partnership with Marvel Motion Comics.

With this website i looked at many amateur animations and saw some interesting and funny animations and found this animation which stood out to me the most, crated by Michele Dauria called 'Soichio Honda' which with it's simple style of art, emotional story in the sense that the story is told with the music playing to it's scenes creating a connection with the viewers and what they are seeing. When i had first seen this short film i saw how good the art was and it reminded me of similar art in the cartoon network cartoon called 'Samurai Jack' which kind of resembled the emotion of the 'Soichiro Honda' story.



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Animation Week 10:Completed my animation after fixing problems

Animation Week 9:Think i've completed my animation after reediting it

Animation Week 8:Think i've completed my animation

Animation Week 7:Rendering

A weak attempt but its still my first rendered object and in my opinion good.

Animation Week 7:Move! Project-Match vs. Lighter Character Development 3

Here is my latest version of my Move! Project in which i have completed 10 sec of the intended clip, well here is the 10 sec clip its not much but its good enough for me so far:

Animation Week 6:Move! Project-Match vs. Lighter Character Development 2

Here are my characters designed and colored and with my view is tat the colors are more similar to the way they are in life.

Animation Week 6:Move! Project-Match vs. Lighter character Development 1

Here is my characters designed in Maya.

Animation Week 6:Move! Project-Match vs. Lighter Animatic

Here is my Move! project animatic lasting 13 seconds.

Animation Week 5:Truck Movie

Animations Week 5:Move! Project character designs

Here is a characters design sheet i had found last week essentially it contains some ideas that were good and some that were bad.

I had a couple of characters i liked such as the jack in a box which i had got the idea from the name of Jak Jak the baby from The Incredibles movie which the name reminded me of a jack in a box.

I had got the idea of a dice when i was coming up with the amounts of emotional expressions and thought that there could be six which i could put on to a dice and when the dice gets angry it jumps into the air to land with an angry face.

The first two sketches are the images i had created from looking around and coming across a mouse and a hard drive.

The spray idea came across my mind from my brother spraying around me and i had seen the amount of movement from this spray, with the nozzle being turned down showing a face appearing from within.

The one i had chosen as my main move idea is the match vs the lighter which a match and a lighter come across an unlit cigarette see each start a stare off which gets the lighter angry causing flames to appear from above its head and the match sees this and scrapes its head across the floor to light itself which then causes him to set on fire to eventually burn to a crisp and then to ash and to end with the lighter lighting the cigarette.

Animations Week 4: Move! Interim Crit...

On the right is the rough idea for my two objects in which a lighter and a match have the same intention and end up starting a face off and which ends bad for the match as it sees the lighter have a flame above its head in rage and causing the match to set itself on fire only to learn that he has eventually burnt himself to ash.

here is my basic sketches for my characters and what i will be using to create from for my story.

On the right is a rough idea for the project i call it sneeze spray in which the spray awakens scrolling down it head, smells some flowers and ends up sneeze spraying another object (not figured out what other object should be) causing a fight to occur and which the ending would have the nozzle on the spray bent and the spray sneezing in a dodgy way.

Animation Week 2:Newtons Cradle Storyboard

Animation Week 3: Newton's Cradle - Start of the creation