the finished product !

i set it to some music by massive attack (intro to 'inertia creeps'). youtube distorted the sound a little at the end  though. I put all my clips together using imovie, its maybe not the most professional tool but it did the job ok. i would have liked to play around with the editing more than imovie allows but this will have to do for now!

a little something i did for another project (an element of risk/gold project). I used this guide by Richard Williams to help me.

The background is a painting i made and manipulated with photoshop.

some sketches to help me plan out my frames

Shark swimming test

water splash test

this is a summary of what I've done so far, youtube makes the clip longer i think its actually like 12 seconds and i need to cut down some of the looped sequences so really ive done more like 9 or 10 seconds

the editing is pretty bad in the final version i will probably re-capture some of the scenes on take 5 so the brightness/contrast is consistant and also make sure the frames actually line up cause it goes pretty squint in the second clip.

I plan to work up the quality of the second clip as it doesn't really match the others and also i need to recapture the last sequence in one go so it doesnt look so stupid.

On the last clip I continued to use the layering feature in take 5 and used a single paper cut out 'meteorite' and moved it manually out of the crater. it needs a little more work to make it look convincing though

i've realised with almost 10 out of 20 seconds already done and only a third through the storyboard i probably wont get to complete it and i might have to round it off at the point where it falls into the lake or something .....

testing out the smoke sequence after the meteorite crash. For this I experimented with Take 5's layering options and had the crater, the boulder and the smoke on 3 different layers. I threw the camera's focus off a little on the smoke layer to blur it and give it a better smokey effect.

Here is the clip of the meteorite crashing into the mountain that I plan to use in my film. I drew the frames in Paint Tool SAI and imported them into Pencil to animate them.

It took me a few attempts to get the meteorite to look convincing. Here are some of my first tries:

The first attempt I used too many frames and didn't take enough care to align them properly. The second was better but still too many frames to make it look real. The final version I only used 5 frames of the meteor in the sky as opposed to the 20ish i used in the first version.

If I have time I would like to do something with the lighting in this scene to make it a little less static, maybe i can try animating the clouds/mist too.

Here are some of the clips I used as references:

Scene background

completed storyboard

Test sequence for the first scene of my animation

(meteorite falling from space)

5 frames at 12fps looped for 5 seconds

shaniqua the shark

storyboard for 'when balls go bad' animation

so this is the start of my ideas for this assignment - my 'ball' starts out as a meteorite that falls to earth into the side of a mountain. It rolls out of its crater and snowballs down the mountain, getting bigger as it picks up the snow. Eventually it reaches a lake/sea and falls in, the snow melting off. it gets eaten by a fish, which is subsequently eaten by a larger fish and  in turn is eaten by a shark. i'm not sure how many seconds this sequence will take so i may have to end it at this point, however depending on how it goes i would like to have some way to get the ball back out of the fish and have it come to a final resting place.

character sheet

Bouncing Ball Animation Exercise

We were given a task to complete 3 animation sequences depicting balls of different materials bouncing.

The materials which I chose to animate were:

Rubber ball x2

Water balloon 

Iron ball

Ping pong ball

The first sequence I created I did entirely from my imagination of what I percieved the movement of a bouncing ball to look like. I did no research prior to starting and as a result the sequence was not very convincing. There was no sence of gravity as the balls in each frame were all placed an equal distance apart. 

I decided to start from scratch with the rubber ball sequence and used an arc to trace the placement of the balls.

This helped me align the balls better however I was still not getting a very realistic feel of movement and gravity. The squash and stretch of the ball was over-exaggerated and the overall effect needed to be improved upon.

The next sequence I made was a water balloon. 

I realised I could make things a lot easier for myself if I drew out each frame on a singe sheet of paper and later trace them individually. 

I used YouTube videos as references for the distortion of the water balloon.