Almost finished Robot Dance!

Just a bit more to colour and some detail to add.

I've had to cut it considerably shorter than it was originally meant to be as I've almost run out of time, but I'm hoping to revist this and finish it in the summer.

Finished robot dance

Here's my finished animation.. It's not quite how I want it to be.. I need to tweak parts and colour in a few bits that I missed but it will do..
It's a lot shorter than I'd intended too but I've run out of time..

Animated Self Robot Storyboard

Here's the storyboard  for my Animated Self Dancing Robot.

Due to the fact that I have 4 days to animate it, however, I may have to make this a lot shorter and cut it down to 15 seconds.

Animated Self ideas

I really struggled to think of an idea for this project, but after talking to Mike, I ended up with too many ideas and then I couldn't decide which one to do!
The ideas I've had are:

Re-work one of my animations from earlier in the year (The music box from the first module).
Stop-Motion of my robot character from the ceramics workshop.
A 2D animation of my robot dancing.
Rotoscoping something.
Doing a colaboration with someone who designs the characters and I make up a story to animate around them.

After some thought, I've decided the one that appeals to me the most is the 2D dancing robot, and I'm going to rotoscope the dance moves (as I'm not the best choreographer) 

Mike said to make a short narrative withing the robot dance, so the robot is going to slowly fall apart while dancing.

Phineas and Ferb

Phineas and Ferb is a Disney Cartoon about two young boys and their teenage sister Candice. The show follows their crazy adventures while Candice tries to tell on them to their mother. They even have a loveable pet platypus who doubles as a secret agent.

I really like the simple colour palette of the show, and I like how the three main characters are mostly created from one shape each, Phineas is a triangle, Ferb is a rectangle and Candice is circle based. I think this adds to the child-like nature of the show. 

I think this television series works well because every episode includes the loveable pet, some crazy adventures and there's even a token bad guy (who isn't good at being a villain)- Dr Doofenshmirtz.

Late Night Work Club

The late night work club is a ' loose, rotating collective of indie animators.' Otherwise known as animators who do independent, non-commercial work. I really like some of the work on this website, as there is a variety of styles, and I like how they all work together to bring the artists to the public's attention. They even have a member's page so visitors to the website can see who the animators are so they can explore their work further.

It's called the Late Night Work Club as the animations are made late at night when other people have gone to sleep, or at the weekends by all sorts of people; students, freelancers, people with other day jobs. It creates an interesting world of animation which I think is really exciting and it would be awesome to be a part of this one day.

The late night work club has made a 'short film anthropology' which explores each animators camp fire stories-  'Ghost stories'. 

PPP presentation ideas.

Travel up from Surrey - Leeds little car moving

Me having an awesome time doing EVERYTHING on this course

Fighting an essay monster beast


Things I have enjoyed this year:
Almost Everything.
Being away from home.
Learning how to animate.
Seeing my work get better.
Getting Alex drunk.
Elliots terrible jokes.

Things I haven't enjoyed as much:
The essay. 
Sitting on a coach for 5 hours to go home again.
Missing my friends back home.
My Cyprus flat mates that don't understand the idea of being quiet at night.

What I'm excited for next year:
Living in a house with 7 awesome people.
Being 21.
Learning how to animate in 3D.
Getting better at animating.

What I've learnt this year:
Sleep is the best.
Sleep is unnecessary when deadlines approach.
I'm terrible at time management, even when I think I've managed it, I still fall behind.
Days go way too quickly.

Laika Studios

Laika Studios are responsible for the wonderful, and creepy animated movies; 'Paranorman' and 'Coraline'. 

These two animations are done primarily as stop motions, and the characters have interchangeable faces to make it easier to do multiple expressions and to make the lip synching more accurate. 

The models used are created by a computer so that there are loads of identical models available for consistency.





I really like the way these movies work with the chosen media, they both move so smoothly and realistically.

Paranorman also incorporates some CGI into it which shows that Laika studios can work with many types of animation. They use theatre knowledge and innovative camera angles which help tell the story in a more interesting way that previous stop motion animations.

Laika don't just work on feature films, they also work on adverts and short films.