Fiona's storyboard

Fiona has drawn me up a storyboard of my idea and it looks great. It shows Norman sorting through some vegetables on his farm, loading them into a truck. The truck then drives it to the restaurant and then it goes to a shot of Herbert throwing vegetables out of his fridge and carrying them the the bins in the alleyway. Toby then pops up and rescues the food, takes it to his cafe and cooks it into food for people that cannot afford much.

 

Foam Latex or Silicon moulding

I've been watching some videos on foam latex and silicone moulding and I think this is how I would like to create my characters. They seem to come out with a really nice texture and move easily and I think it looks really good. However, I have researched into buying this silicone and it's really expensive so I might have to go with foam as it is a cheaper option.

Responsive Collaborative Project: Stop motion research

To help us determine exactly how we were going to build and animate our idea, Bex did some research into set materials and other stop motion animations. I really like the delicate card cut out designs but did not feel this would get our message across well enough as our idea is about how the rainforest is being cut down, and making an entire animation out of paper did not seem right. We decided to use found materials to create a more natural world, using recycled paper and foliage to create the rainforest, and use old coke cans, plastic bottles and non-recyclable materials for the factories and the dead forest, as we felt this would be more eye-opening to watch the forest being cut down, factories appearing and rubbish and pollution destroying what was once beautiful.

Responsive WWF research

As research into the WWF project for D&AD, I looked into past WWF campaigns to see how they present their facts and images to get their message across.

I also looked into other animations that are campaigning against climate change and trying to make people aware of environmental issues. This helped us to think of ideas to make our animation less light hearted and more hardhitting. To get peoples attention and convince them to do their bit to save the environment.

Back to The Start

This animation is really cute, and child friendly but it really makes you think about the process involved in getting your meat and it's really interesting to watch. I like that this simple, quite childish style shows a serious issue and it makes it really enjoyable to watch. I would like my animation to be quite simple and cute, so that it appeals to children, while also informing everyone about serious issues within society and how they can help. I feel that watching a really nice, friendly, funny animation while listening to important facts will make more people pay attention and take action against food wastage in the UK.

Qwertee Designs

For my last two designs, I strayed a little bit more from my original theme. I designed a shirt with Gremlins and Gizmo outlined in the colours used in their characters, and originally I had wanted to fit Stitch from Lilo and Stitch in with it, however this was a problem as none of Stitch's colours were the same as the Gremlins and I did not have enough colours to put the two together. 

I really liked the style I did the Gremlins design in though so I created the Stitch design in a similar style and submitted both. 

Documentary Animation: Food.

The Real Junk Food Project.

Pay as you Feel Cafe's. 

They intersect food from restaurants and supermarket's that is going to be wasted- past its best before date but not it's use by date so all the food is still perfectly good but will be wasted, and cook it in their cafe to give to people for free, or for a donation of however much they can pay.

Skip Diving.

More extreme version, physically climbing into bins behind restaurants and supermarkets to find food that is still edible. Can get arrested for this but it's better for the environment than wasting all the food.


These facts were found on: The Real Junk Food Project.com http://www.therealjunkfoodproject.co.uk/

The problem, causes and solution

Food is wasted throughout the supply chain. Supermarket's aesthetic standards mean that in the U.K, over 40% of vegetables are discarded before leaving the farm.

There are strict food labelling laws that mean perfectly healthy edible food is being mindlessly binned at every stage of the distribution chain.

Food waste is a symptom of a much bigger problem that can only be addressed by re-evaluating our food production and distribution system.

WRAP estimate that food distribution and retail generates 4.3 million tonnes of food waste each year in the UK, whilst simultaneously over 900,000 people were regularly using food banks in 2014.

One Human Family

This short animation is beautiful. I love the style it is done in. The 3D animation is so smooth and the message that it gets across is simple but understandable and hard hitting. I really love the subtle colours in it and the way everything changes from grey to coloured when they start to work together. 

Qwertee Designs

My original idea for combining Disney villains with horror movies wasn't doing as well on Qwertee as I'd hoped, and also was quite limited as it was very difficult to find Disney characters and horror movies that fit together really well. Because of this, I decided to broaden my ideas to all well known cartoon characters. I really liked the idea of putting Chuckie from Rugrats in place of Chucky the doll and I'm really happy with how it turned out. 

It was really difficult to keep the colour palette to just 5 colours until I learnt how to use half tones on photoshop. This made it much easier to create all the shading that I needed to make my design better.

Pay As You Feel Cafe.

This video about Pay as You Feel Cafe's has inspired me to make an animation about the Pay as You Feel Cafes and everything they stand for. I will be using this video as reference for my facts and to get my story right. 

Food Wastage Footprint

This motion graphic about food wastage was very eye opening. While the motion graphic style doesn't appeal to me regarding what I want to do with this project, the facts about food wastage have made me realise that I would like to do an animation to draw attention to how much food is wasted in the world. 

RSA Short

This animation from RSA is a beautiful stop motion made using food. I really like some of the inventive uses of foods for certain objects, especially the popcorn puffs of smoke. I think this animation is really well done and really interesting. It might influence my own stop motion. 

Qwertee Designs

Here are my first two Qwertee designs, combining Disney Villains: Cruella de Ville from '101 Dalmatians' and the Evil old hag from 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs', with horror movies 'The Shining' and 'The Ring'. The biggest challenge I faced with these designs was keeping the colour palette limited to just 5 colours on a dark coloured T-shirt, and 6 on a light coloured shirt, however I learnt that colours that match the T-shirt colour chosen do not count in the design, and that made the Ring a lot easier to design as I could use the grey shirt as the last colour I needed. 

I struggled a bit more with my Cruella design, as the door in the design stood out too much against any coloured T-shirt, but on a white T-shirt, Cruella's hair did not look right as it blended in too much and there was no distinction between the door and the background. I tried to blend the edges of the design in with the T-shirt colour to try and make it sit better.

Documentary Animation

Documentary Animation, in my opinion, is a way to make a wider audience pay attention to some hard hitting issues within the world. A lot of topics are difficult to document in film either because they are too harsh that the film would be too upsetting to watch, or that they just aren't particularly interesting. This is where animation can help. Animated documentaries can be made more interesting and engaging, whilst still informing people of the facts, and they can also soften the blow of some more upsetting topics. The only problem with this is that you need to find a balance between making something less upsetting to an audience, and making it so soft that it ruins the message or makes a farce out of the topic.

Qwertee

I have decided to enter a collection of designs onto the Qwertee website.

A lot of the most popular designs already on Qwertee involve well known and well loved characters, or movie references and movie crossovers, so I think it might be possible to get a popular design by using well known characters and putting them in other movies. I have decided to try placing Disney Villains into well known horror movie scenes.

I have made a list of Disney Villains, including Cruella De Ville, the evil witch from Snow White, Jafar, Yzma, Ursula, Hades, Buddy from the Incredibles, and Dr Drakken and Sheggo from Kim Possible.

I then made a list of horror movies, and have started trying to fit Villains with movies.

So far, I have decided on Cruella De Ville in the place of Jack in The Shining, and The Evil Witch in the place of the girl from the Ring. I think these could be successful ideas and hopefully get a lot of votes on the Qwertee site. Hopefully they will get accepted.

I need to think of 3 more ideas to make this a collection.