showreel for college

soo yeah, evaluation

so for my final piece i was going to sit there with my work sort of like a performance, however its a really good over all idea but it didnt really work since i was say working away and realized people become very hesitant of viewing your work whilst you are there, i think they become worried of disturbing you, maybe i could do with a sign or something telling people to talk to me about my work and such.

the fundamentals are a good idea i think i just believe i should have through of a way of breaking through the barrier of people viewing and interacting with your work.

time plan

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Week (Monday to Friday)	Proposed Activity	Resources
1. Research and story development.	Look through out a series of story boards and storyboard artists work for large animation companies like the ones i would one day like to work for.	Books and computer
2. research and story development	Look through out a series of story boards and storyboard artists work for large animation companies like the ones i would one day like to work for.	Books and computer
3. story boards, character development and more research	Start to illustrate my story boards and develop the story into images i can use as key points in my animation, aswell as using my research and visual references to develop the characters with working personalities to match the way they act in the scenes.	Cork boards, 10”x6” card, pencils penss graphic markers, computer, books and sketch books
4. story boards and character development	Continue to greatly develop the story boards putting the characters emotions and visual development to good use.	Cork boards, 10”x6” card, pencils penss graphic markers, computer, books and sketch books
5. story boards and character design and development	Continue to greatly develop the story boards putting the characters emotions and visual development to good use.	Cork boards, 10”x6” card, pencils penss graphic markers, computer, books and sketch books
6.  story boards and character design and development and character and movement animation tests	Start to develop the story boards and character designs into small animation tests to get an understanding of characters movements and capturing personalities through movement.	Cork boards, 10”x6” card, pencils penss graphic markers, computer, books and sketch books, adobe flash and graphics tablet
7. character animation tests and more character development and visual referencing for movement	small animation tests to get an understanding of characters movements and capturing personalities through movement.	Cork boards, 10”x6” card, pencils penss graphic markers, computer, books and sketch books, adobe flash and graphics tablet
8. animation and exhibition set up with more animation development	Set up my exhibition and finish up alot of the test animations and scenes to then create a 4 minute long show reel to play on repeat throughout the day.	Cork boards, 10”x6” card, pencils penss graphic markers, computer, books and sketch books, adobe flash and graphics tablet, tables and desks for presenting, laptop, projector and speakers for presentation.

supporting statement

Supporting Statement

Liam Eccleston

20/06/14

So for my project I decided to demonstrate the process of building an animation from the ground up, starting with story development and character design through to story boards and carrying on to animation tests. The key feature about my work is it’s supposed to be still a working progress, this is just the beginning.

So I started with a story and from the story I could then figure out which characters i needed and the personalities that could apply to them, and from the personality comes the look and the mannerisms given to them. From there then really it just became a case of re inserting the characters back into their adventure through the means of story boards.

After looking into animation studios like Disney and Dreamworks and going through the videos from their story board artists and their processes it gave me a lot of visual reference and really helped to find a starting point within my work.

A soon as i had that development down and the project rolling i started to go into animating, not exactly animating the story boards but getting a good idea of movement and how things would work within the animation.

I feel like the project over all is working really well especially since i managed to make myself a nice comfy little studio and carry on working throughout the exhibition to give it a real lived in feel and show that its a continuing project that isny just finished easily on a 8 week deadline.

I feel like if i was going to do this again though honestly i would spend less time on making well presented story boards and just keep it simple to get the message across so that animation could really set off, although i think if i jumped into the animation it would be nowhere near as strong as the work is all together now since it has that strong development and depth behind everything that is being created.

a few vlogs and a vid for you

walking based off of watching videos of will walking around :D

looking at the muybridge walk cycle

soo messy but i think it has alot of life and at the same time looks rather smooth in the actual movement in itself

something ive been working on, quality sicks in gif

doing some animating

soo im working an a short section in the scenes between to cells after a girl askes who chris is, im working like this and making the components and then animating the dog and going to place them both over a back ground so i can save theyr little movments incase they need to be re used. b

me messing about on iphone and making this monstrosity ;)

a "quick" talk through of my work so far....its actually my talking shit for like 6 minutes but its pretty good i think.

the camera angle keeps changing btw D:

story boarding and working on figuring things out, am i stating to look like an animator yet?

 okay so i need to get this board on the wall, im working on scrolls and it works out both scrolls contain around 20 secs of footage value, but i like the cork board because its easy to swap out clips, i like working like this its nice to get my head round easy and ive also even added a few bits i didnt even think of origionally to add a stronger back bone to the story board so far :)

one problem, the cork boards are smaller than i thought they was they will only fit around 20 cells on, maybe 25 if im lucky, sooo by the look of where i am on the board and where i am in the story and on the scrolls im going to need another 3 boards atleast, soo a minimum of 4 boards if i can get 25 on thats around 100 cells, for around a 1 and a half minute idea :D SOUND PLAN