Scruffier look

After looking at Hollie's animation of before he let's go of the umbrella, I decided that as I forgot to change his appearance as planned in the 3rd reaction shot I must make up for it by doing an in between animation, so that he is half way between being smart, and half way between having his tie undone.

So to make him messier I have made it so that his tie has loosened and dropped down his chest.

4th reaction shot- Filled out animation

4th reaction shot key poses

4th shot- planning the eye expressions.

I was trying to test some eyes to use for this hot to hopfully get his current frustration level across to the audience. I played around with both frustration/anger and and some with some with confusion in them. Through this I got to two sets of eyes they I though would fit, however I couldn't decide which ones should be at the begining and which oes at the end of the scene. Through this I posted it on facebook to get the groups opion.

We decided that the best eyes to start with were the right ones however Hollies gave me some ideas to adjust them a bit.

  

The eyes to finnish are the ones on the left which will hopeuflly leave the guy with a more frustrated look on his face

Added a settle onto the end of the animation

Flled out animation with expressions for 3rd reaction shot

Created a stern faciel expression with the eyes to try and show the frustration.

3rd reaction shot Starting faciel expression (a moderately frustrated look)

Key poses for the 3rd reaction shot animation

cleaed up head turn

4th reaction shot video reference

vdieo reference for 3rd reaction shot

new head turn experiment with after reaction

new head turn with hat in

I used shapes to strengthern and keep the form throughout

Easter tasks

SAM

Sent Sam another message but on facebbok to tell him his work and to check if he got my email but once again NO REPLY.

I realy want to give him a chance but if he keeps ignoring me after his meating with Sean it's rediculous quite frankly, I keep giving him chances but theres nothing else I can do I don't think we can use him after all the times he's been letting us down.

Feedback on blackboard for our group

We had feedback posted on the grades today. There were some realy encouraging comments and Paul appeared to be impressed with how the group was runnung, however he had an issue with how the character looed. At this point in time it was the old animation so I think most of this is prbobly due to how i drew alot of it because he chnged shape when he looked to the left. Once the animation is looking better I think the character will be alot moreappealing.

Sam

Today Sean came to me and then the group to tell us that Sam had talked to him that moring and they had diwscussed his issues.

I was shocked that his mum had phone in etc to sy stuff. I realy have gven him chances but I can't help him feeling left out or that he's worse than us if he's never in or never talking to us. I mean Sean told us that Sam showed him some sound design and that it was average, however we hadn't even heard that he ha been doing it.

I feel kind of bad as being the director is it partly my fault/ should I have tried to help him more, and I don't want to feel like it's partly my fault that he'l proboly fail the year. On the other hand he hasn't contacted anyone, asked for advice and help like everyone else and he didnt't even attnd the first semester to learn maya.

Anyway I have sent him an email of a few new tasks he could do which were finnish the sound design and make us the credits for the film (which I even wrote out for him). I unfortuntely couldn't give him anymore maya work as ther was nothing left to do.

3rd attempt head turn using a circle and triangle

Plasticene model of guys head

 

Here are some images of the plasticene model I made of the 2d guys head. I realy struggled with drawing the frames in flash so modling this realy helped my to visualise perspective and positioning of features etc.

Unit hand in

Today we had what we thought was just an updated animatic/work showing however Sean came in saying that we were getting graded, and it was an end of a unit. I wasn't very amused as I hadn't been able to improve much in terms of new animation and had to leave in the old wrong one in for the animatics timing. I was realy worried at this point because I hadn't realy got much to show and get grade on apart from the imp model, doin the animatic and a load f wrong animation. Luckily after showing them all we got told that it was going to be a group mark andthey were going to re assess it at the end ofthe year anyway. Luckily for me at this time my group had produced allot of nice work especialy Hollie and Erica's backgrounds and Martyna's amaising little town.

As the leader once again I was very pround of the group and real happy with what we have acheived. There were no bad comments atal and the lecturers were very impressed.

Pauls help

Today Paul looked at the animation I had started to do for the new head turn, and gave me advice on better ways to do it and helped with issues I was having with the drawing side of things

• He gave me advice to make the break down far more exciting by raising the characters shoulders and make the chin dip down .
• He also suggested that my current animating of the caracter I have bee concentrating too muh on the mechanics and nt on the emotions etc of the character, so I he ran through how I could do that and suggested that on the first head turn I should make it look likethe guy is boed and not raly paying attention and te as he turn its as if he is ingaged with the train.
• He suggested that I shold also add the blink into the turn has I had'nt previously done t and was't sure if I should as he's mean to be watching the train.

As wel as the animation Issues I explained how I was realy struggling with the drawng of he guy asnd working out how things should look and where they sould be etc. So he ran throgh some of my problems and helped to find solutions.

• He then said that what I needed to do was draw the guy as much as I could and get used to drawing him, finding a process of how to do it successfully every time. The suggestion was to used shapes to keep his form e.g. a circle with a triangle on the bttom for his head.
• Paul also helped me to grasp the erspective side of things which heped grasp how things should look.

Below is Pauls paper he explained things on, so I will use this and what he said to make the animation better.

Starting he 1st head turn with Hollies drawings plus a couple more

Starting new head turn

I was really struggling to get going again because of my drawing skills. I find it hard on the head turns to get the drawing right. I knew that I can animate ok most of the time once I have the Key frames and the Breakdowns in. As I was finding it hard to get the breakdown right I decided to get Hollies help as I figured it would save me allot of time.

Even though Hollie gave e the break down I still needed a bit more help as I was still struggling with where the nose, hat and mouth were and how they would look, so I asked her for a drawing in between the start and halfway to get me started ad understand the mechanics a bit better.

Feedback from Neil and Paul

In the studio today I had both Neil and Paul check out my animations and they werent to keen on the head turns atal. there were issues like

1. The neck in the wrong place at times.
2. Some of the spacing was even.
3. They wanted more anicipation.
4. Te 2nd turn had issues with its timing with the watch check and faciel movements.
5. They both realy werent a fan of the third head turn with the sigh saying the thing doesn't move right.

From this I realised I would be better off to start from scratch on all the head turns as I think the general vibe was that it wasn't working like it was.

Takning into concideration I decided to start again.

3rd turn experiment with adding stubble

2nd attampt 3 head turns

Updated task sheet for the group

2nd attampt of 1st head turn