During my presentation people seemed to like my photo montage characeter the best , so I have decided to
create a montage scene to see what the character would look like with the scene ...

After our presentations I have re done my contrast mood-board.

Animatic Final

I had to re-do my final animatic, so that it was the correct aspect ratio and so that  it filled the entire screen, as it didn't before.

Here are my final storyboards for my animation ... I started my creating my storywords in Microsoft
Word, and then re-did theem using photoshop so that they were in the correct format and had the correct aspect ratios.

Location Images - Outside House

Location Images - Inside House

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It is a month until hand in date for this project. I am finding this project interesting as I am learning skills needed for pre-production which I am also finding useful for my final year project. I am currently working on my animatic, I have created all the images for my storyboard in Photoshop and then have created some additional images for my animatic to create more movement.

Whilst at university today working on my animatic, I ended up discussing my projects with a class-mate. We thought that it would be an interesting idea to maybe have my final piece in the same colours that I have drawn my storyboards in as it creates a frosty, cold, christmassy atmosphere. I have created a character sheet for one of my main characters the deer and I am going to create the same character and try out doing in in the blue and white colours to see if I like that image better. I have created my montage for my other main character, Ellie and I am going to create my character sheet for her using the blue colours.

Animatic

Here is my animatic for my project.

Deer - Character Sheet

Final Storyboads

Here is the final images for my story board ...

Storyboards

Contrast Mood Board

Contrast mood board

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Nightmare before Christmas

I have been looking at Tim Burton's A Nightmare Before Christmas and have been looking how the Christmas town has been shown in this film.

I like the bold colours in this shot, the red and yellows gives a warm christmassy feel.

Final Christmas Mood Board

Montage

Montage of my main character Ellie

Contrast Mood Board

In Class.

Here is an example of character and enviroment montages that we did in class today ...

First Draft of Treatment.

A child follows her curiosity, and is being lead to an enchanting wintery world that is full of magic and adventure. Meeting characters from a world she will never forget, learning what friendship, family and home really mean.

Sketches

Here are a couple of rough sketches I have done over the last couple of weeks. None of them are the final idea, just initial sketches. I have also sketched  a first draft of Ellie's grandparents house.

Initial Idea.

For this animation I would like to create an animation set at Christmas time about a little girl called Ellie. Ellie lives with her grandparents and discovers a secret gate at the end of the Garden, which she finds when she spots a dear at the end of the garden to who leads her to the gate.  Ellie is then transported into a world of magic where animals can speak and the deer is in fact one of Father Christmas' reindeers who is in need of help to find his way home. Ellie decides to help the reindeer and then embarks on a magical adventure, and has a Christmas that she will never forget.

Mood.

Here is a mood board I have made on the theme christmas. It is just a first go at doing a mood board for the theme of my animation for this project.

Halloween.

Characters.

Here is a character design of Rudolph the reindeer that I did just playing around with basic shapes in Flash.

 

 

I recently brought a new Wacom Tablet, I have never used a tablet before so this is me just playing around trying it out.

 

 

 

 

 

Here is another character I designed using shapes in Flash.