The first animation assignment of the year really stressed animating on different levels. By that I mean, simply animating every object on a different sheet of paper and combining them when shooting the animation. Does that make sense? Hmm…
We had to animate the flour sack in a boat (or anything, I chose a bowl), and show the sack being forcefully tossed into the air by the water. When he falls back into the bowl, we had to animate a large splash.
I animated each object at a separate time, so after three weeks it’s all come together. The splash at the end is barely visible, thanks to the bad compression. Wish I could upload the Flipbook file instead.
I probably would have made the bowl and flour sack bigger. After four long months of sans animating, it was nice to jump right into an assignment. A little rusty though ;D Enjoy.
Wow, I can’t believe we’re into third week already. I feel a little stressed and semi-swamped with assignments. Need to get back into the swing of things, back on school time.
The first part of our first assignment in storyboarding was to interpret two poems and create concept story beats for each one. In class everyone pitched their ideas, chose the best from the two and created rough story beats that were more refined, cleaned up and applied proper tonal renderings.
The poem I ended up working from is called ‘I’m Nobody’, by Emily Dickinson. It reads -
‘I’m nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there’s a pair of us - don’t tell!
They’d banish us, you know.’
‘How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!’
And based on that poem, below in yellow post-its are my concept beats and on white index cards, the rough story beats. The beats read from left to right. Below those is a rough character lineup/size comparison.
Storyboarding is a bit different than last year, so this was challenging, but fun and rewarding. I’m becoming more and more interested in story and wouldn’t mind being a story artist someday too. Enjoy.
