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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.