Rotoscoping in Snow White

In Disney's Snow White, the character of Snow White was rotoscoped to get the movements flowing perfects. This rotoscoping of a person shows how realistic the movements can be and how rotoscoping helps to get the proportions right within the Character. It demonstrates the act of taking a real life person to capture the proportions and movements, and then creating an entirely different character over the top of these basic movements. 
This will help me get the proportions right for my Mr Tumble character in my CBeebies ident.

E4 storyboard new and improved version.

As my E4 dolphin idea was not quite right, I have put some more thought into it based on some of the feedback from my peers and have re-storyboarded my ident. 

My new ident now consists of a pirate ship sailing, with an E4 pirate who looks through a telescope at a nice scene and without him noticing, some giant kraken tentacles sneak up and pull the boat under the water, leaving only the pirate hat behind.

The colour scheme will be mostly purple, with small element of other colours where necessary, for example the sun will be a yellowish colour and the tentacles will be green to add some contrast and to draw attention to them.

I think this idea is a lot better than my other one and more suited to the E4 style.

E4 storyboard

Here is my storyboard and animatic  for my E4 ident, I'm not too sure about it, I think it need to be more quirky and strange as it's E4...

At the moment it's just dolphins jumping and creating the E4 logo. I've been really struggling with ideas for this ident for some reason..

Sketchbook- Fun drawings.

We've been encouraged to use our sketchbooks to just keep drawing all the time. Here are some fun little drawings I've done in my moleskin that I like.

Rotoscoping

I got this video from the Discovery channel of a shark breaching water and imported it into photoshop at every 15 frames to make it run faster.

I then rotoscoped it to form the basis of part of my final ident. 

I actually really enjoyed rotoscoping, even though it was quite boring and repetitive, but I really like how realistic the movement is and I'm happy with my choice to use this method for my final animation. I do, however, really need to work on the water and splashes in this animation as they look a bit crazy. 

Flow, Form and Force: Some final images.

Rhythm is a dancer. (12 short 10 second poses moving across a space.)

The short 10 second poses task was quite funny to do but at the start I found I was taking too long drawing each pose and running out of time. As the drawings went on, I found a simpler, easier way to draw the figures, with shapes and continuous line.

Like a Puppet on a String. (12 short 10 second poses of squashing and stretching.)

I had the same issue with these drawings in that I kept running out of time,  I also found that, when I tried to draw each pose like the person was staying in the same place, there was quite a cool effect from drawing over the top of each drawing, but it quickly got too confusing and just became a mess of lines. This meant that I went back to drawing across the page.

Ah, Push it! (5-10 minute poses of someone doing a push or pull movement.)

This task I found I could put more detail into the drawings, but I found myself putting too much detail into the first couple and running out of time again. The first of the two images I have posted on here I thought had worked quite well, the proportions and pose seemed right, but it looks like she's boxing instead of pulling a rope, which is what she was supposed to be doing. The second drawing I think worked better.



Strike a pose! (The longer 20-30 minute poses.)

 This was my favourite of the 4 briefs as it meant I could actually get some kind of detail in and spend some time working on the proportions. I think the one at the top worked best and the one at the bottom I found the most challenging because of the angle I was drawing from. 


Overall, I think I enjoyed this project a lot more than I thought I would, as I've never really been a fan of drawing from life, however after this project I think I would like to do more to work on my drawing ability.

Update: Sound

I have been thinking about the sound for my three idents.

I think for the E4 ident I'm probably just going to have sound effects of sea and splashes, maybe getting one of the E4 sound tracks they supply for their ident competitions, as they're license free.

For the other two, to avoid having to try to get permission for songs and soundtracks to use and it maybe not quite fitting to what I would like, I've asked my friend who does music production at Ravensbourne in London to make me a couple of 10 second clips for my idents, which he has agreed to. This means they will be license free and hopefully exactly what I'd like them to be as we can work together on them.

Flow, Form and Force

Disney's Snow White uses rotoscoping to get the movements correct in the film. Rotoscoping from a dancer that they got to model is another way to draw from life, getting each and every movement in. This shows the importance of life drawing as it captures the movement really realistically.

Sketchbook.

I did a quick sketch of a figure in my sketchbook. This has helped me work out proportions in the female form.

Flow, Form and Force

When making Sleeping Beauty, Disney used a live action model to capture the movements and make them realistic. This was done by doing really quick sketches as the model moves, similar to our project brief. Above is a video about how they did this and below is the finished movie scene that they were working on. It shows the importance of life drawing in animation.

Ceramics Workshop numero 2,3 and 4

Workshop 2: I covered my robot in plasters, to help the plasticine stick, and I then covered my robot in plasticine and added the details I wanted. The only problem I found with this is that I keep having to re-do the elbows and knees with plasticine because of the detail i put into the arms and legs, which means whenever I move them, the plasticine squashes. 

Workshop 3: I made my robot's head out of white earthenware clay. Unfortunately My robot cracked overnight. 

Workshop 4: I remade my robot head out of red earthenware clay and glazed it. This clay was more robust and easier to work with. It was a challenge though because we had to make a hollow sphere and then modify it to the shape of my characters head, which was oval and meant I had to squash the sides down to create the shape which put pressure on the structure and the air inside, which is why my first one cracked. I think I made the first one better as the eyes and nose on this one were a bit too big, however I do think this one worked well. My glazing, however, didn't work as well as I'd hoped because you can see the brush strokes through the glaze.. This kind of gives it a rusty effect though which does look quite cool.

Flow, Form and Force

Ryan Larkin's 'Street Musique' has elements of drawing from life in it, in between morphing these images into other objects. The life drawing elements are well drawn and I really like the way he seemlessly morphs them and changes them. 
The figures in the animation look relatively realistic- the proportions are correct, which would come from drawing from life, although they are simplified to fit with the style of the animation.

Flow, Form and Force

Thought of You- Ryan Woodward

This animation by Ryan Woodward shows the importance of life drawing and capturing the idea of a persons shape quickly to give the impression of movement.

This animation was done by rotoscoping and obviously has more than a few 10 second poses like our movement brief but it's done with really simple lines and not much detail which helps the movements flow. It's a beautiful animation.