Final opening credits

Premise Ideas

I like the idea of blue-because i am a tomboy and I also like how both buzz and the iron warrior's have stripes.

I am going to design graphical images based on my narrative words I have and still stick with a background that is cut-out paddington style with the main character of past me and present me in these guises to be 3d and stand out I am going to do some more designs like this to help get my final designs.

Premise Idea Style

I am going to go with a style that is kind of like Paddington's 70's animation with the background not being as much of a focus as the character e.t.c and a few important props.

The reason for this is that my animation is going to be focused on my personal relationship to imaginary characters and worlds from both my childhood and present. This is to show why I like animation in the first place and has many opportunities to make humour by sharing my experiences for example I am going to be talking about how when I was younger i didn't understand why I couldn't wear my buzz costume to a family wedding. The background will be drawn.. but attention will be on me and the guise and also how I could have been at that wedding, how I saw those objects e.g. wedding cake shoots in the middle, seeing it as emperor zurg etc. 

I am going to do some drawing and figure out how I want my characters to look but I want this feeling like haven't grown up in terms of how I was with buzz is how I am with Warhammer I spend n awful time on it, it becomes an obsession and a passion to interact with that world somehow as I enjoy it more than real life. So the characters and main props 3d. Possibly vibrant colour and background less, hence paddington bear as the focus is more on the characters. 

Changes made. need to add the colours coming in at ending title.

No sound ( will probably need some re-working in. )

Hunk may need to only do the movement once seems like its going twice. 

Fantastic Mr Fox: Wes Anderson Film Review

This is part of the Christian Devita board which shows Wes Anderson's focus for keeping shots flat and focused into the centre.

The Universe: Wes Anderson has showed his vision on what he see's rural England to be and that is urbane, Urbane means refined in it's manner. It is Fantasy Britain. There is an American angst which means fear or anxiety. But the clothe's and everything are unmistakenly British and so this quirk actually works due to being able to have a world for him to play in. He doesen't ignore the Britishness or the Author's 'look'.

The Production: The animation was made with highly detailed animatronic's miniature character's in stop motion hence the jerky movements and full of texture. Wes Anderson see's this as more of a feature than a problem. Video's were sent via Quick Time and if not acting out his vision he would act it out and send it back asking for a fix, when an animation is so focused on a vision everyone need's to commun icate to make sure it follow's through. The recording's Wes did with the actor's like Bill Murray were done in a Conneticut farmhouse to get more of a "rustic" effect. There was also 30 unit's made and things were recorded in a live setting this is so he is welcome to any suprises or otherwise things that wouldnt be expected to happen,happen causing more realism and atmosphere. Puppeteer's also used different heights for the miniature's for distance reason's. Wes aslo handpicked the suits and wristwatch prop's for the character's depending on whether the character's were outside or indoor's Wes would make sure to capture noise's of floorboards or echoes off walls even. The production artist's also had to make duplicate's of the character's incase any issues would arise and this took hours for them to do.

Bill Murray-Badger

The Core Premise: This stop motion is a adaption of Roald Dahl's Mr Fantastic Fox.

Auteur Theory ( Wes Anderson ): Auteur theory means that the director has a distinct style, this style is consistent and becomes recognisable. It is said that the most cinematically and most succesful films have this undeniable style and so the audeince recognise it instantly as the director being Wes Anderson. for example the board above shows the specific camera angle choices that Wes would have used similarly in for example The Grand Budapest Hotel, He can be known as a meticulous maker as he is so symmetrical and specific in design to which you can see thier fingerprints over it. The other camera shot that Wes like's to show importance to is close up's of all these specific character's and thier identity. Part of the charm would be effect's of boiling or even fluttering that was also not intended.

Bibliography
Filmekibi.net. (2019). Wes Anderson'un "Fantastik Bay Fox" filminin storyboard çalışmaları | filmekibi.net. [online] Available at: http://www.filmekibi.net/inceliyoruz/wes-andersonun-fantastik-bay-fox-filminin-storyboard-calismalari
Russell, T. (2019). Wes Anderson Directs The Fantastic Mr. Fox From Afar. [online] WIRED. Available at: https://www.wired.com/2009/10/pl_screen_wesanderson/ 
Barnes, H. (2019). Wes Anderson's urbane Mr Fox is truer to Roald Dahl than most. [online] the Guardian. Available at: https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2009/oct/20/wes-anderson-fantastic-mr-fox

OGR Thesis Proposal

Life Drawing today

Opening credits changes made longer title screen etc

Changes needed.

• A Dreamwork's Netflix series at the beginning. text
• Voltron Legendary Defender at the end text.
• dissipating effect, scale get's bigger, further apart floating away abit always in motion text.
• Last part with voltron legendary defender 'slices' should be black so a black background? and then the colours come in as seperate diagonal's to make the whole to have an ending and joining feeling.
• e.g. shoot off ,separate individually, and rejoin. 

Ethel and Ernest :Film Behind the Scenes and main info. Review

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Core Premise: Ethel and Ernest focuses on the progression from 1928 to 1971 which is the meeting and death of Briggs's parents. Ethel is the housemaid and then later becomes a clerk for the second world war and Ernest is a milkman with social and economic ideas and is very interested in technology. And the son Raymond living here. There is also shown the Great Depression and arrivals of things such as television.

Animation: Ethel and Ernest is a graphic novel and an animated film and is subtitled a true story. The animation was hand drawn.

Reception:The animation is a biographical one and was received very well and was Broadcasted on BBC One.

Author: The author is an author and illustrator called Raymond Briggs. And the animation director is called Roger Mainwood. 

Fig2. Behind the Scenes.

Over 100 animators worked on this ten year project. Roughly 12 drawings equate to a second of film. So there was 61,200 drawings.They used vowel sheets which give a framework to the animators which helped keep the style the same throughout. The animator's also had to talk to Briggs's regularly to get the characters as realistic as possible. The animators used Tv paint and this was the first to be animated in comparison to the other films like The Snowman which were done on paper. 

Fig3. Behind the Scenes.

The bar underneath is the vowel sounds so they can match up to what is on screen. Although the characters were animated digitally the backdrop locations were scanned in and were done in pencil and ink and paint.

Raymond Brigg's was in tears and was addicted to it as it was like having his parents be brought back to life.

Bibliography

Anon, (2019). [image] Available at: https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2016/10/26/12/ethel-and-ernest.jpg

Gill, J. (2019). Behind the scenes of Ethel & Ernest. [online] Radio Times. Available at: https://www.radiotimes.com/news/2016-12-28/behind-the-scenes-of-ethel-ernest/

Changes made to opening credits

Changed font, made longer added two more credits etc.

Cut down music which was already edited from the original theme.

Think I need to make the beginning bit longer with the helmet and title as the other credits are longer. I will do this next.

My Cone of Cogency

I feel like I understand the structure and work flow now I just need to specify what films I am using e. G western and Japanese with something in common like ai and see if the tropes are the same for example ghost in the shell. 

Life Drawing

Today we had to think about stretching the body, and also draw holding our breathes and find a way to have multiple figures lated out structurally in a scene etc. 

Ponyo Film Review

Core Premise: Hayao Miyazaki used the core concept of the original Little Mermaid, there is the themes of family bonds, power of friendship and also this idea of appreciating the natural world in which we live. This animation is darker for example the tsunami due to Ponyo creating ecological changes and also more weirder than Finding Nemo. This is a Studio Ghibli film and he is seen as the Disney of Japan. Ponyo's father is worried about nature's balance due to the evident damage and debris of our civilization.
Animation: There is 170,000 hand drawn frames and is very fluid and organic questioning the effieciency of CGI. The character artist that worked with Miyazaki, Katsuya Kondo says that the title is similar to other previous titles except this one is more aimed at younger children.
There was 50 in house key animators. Each staffs individuality needs to be taken into consideration with the animation for variation but Miyazaki is the base for everything.Its also described that the hardest part of the animation is to make things look like they are actually there this is through either bold movements or less noticeable but alive. The character designer thinks that 2d or 3d depends on whats suitable most for the naimation not one superior.
Reception: Ponyo did very well in a variety of countries.
This could be due to collaboration and the core concept being taken from something that was as popular as The Little Mermaid but also just the artistic style and story of Ponyo in general.



Bibliography
Anon, (2019). [image] Available at: https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Ponyo?file=Ponyowater.png 

Triplets of Belleville film Review

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The Core Premise: There is a possible hidden moral or political meaning regarding commercialization of the entertainment industry and how profit is in charge. The Commercialism being shown by the Mafia characters which are so exaggerated they are like iconography in their shapes. There is parody seen and messages on Hollywood's cliche and industry standard for example the chase scene and also the sign' "Holly food". The triplets however connote individual artists with good skill but poor budget. The narrative includes a Tour De France cyclist and how thy started off with passion then the competition pushes them so far that they start to not be walking in the correct way and then they get kidnapped by this corporate mafia and are instead replacing their means of travel with machinery. There is connections like the train which symbolism a possible progress then there is a means of corporate reasons which causes going round and round in circles and not achieving all that much as the passion is not a part of it.In turn the whole Hollywood criticism is kind of all the same without creativity and also food representing greed and having a connection with money possibly. Like the Mafia can be seen as elitists and this French bonded family are trying to make it with these problems. The film is very Pro-France as the signs of the beret the colours white red and blue in the fireworks and is kind of depicting what could be lost by different nationalities due to them having this need to increase their marketing more like for example exploiting things like the cyclists for mere entertainment and if one loses they get shot.
Authors: The film is directed by Sylvain Chomet who decided to make this animation set in the 1960's. A french man who was working for Walt Disney who described it as a good thing but also a bad thing.he describes what he is showing is imposition of american culture on foreign cultures. So what is being imposed by them. He was influenced by people like Charlie Chaplain and other works in silence movie's and describes his style as a possible reaction to Disney trying to make characters look perfect and also because he loathed the formulatic approach and cliche that he saw in the movies they were doing he also liked having full control over the creative progress.
The Animation: There is hand drawn animation and water colour backgrounds and also there is a surreal french style without much language and more focused on the music as being a primary language instead. The film did well and got a lot of awards after finding his own path.

Bibliography
Anon, (2019). [image] Available at: https://itunes.apple.com/us/movie/the-triplets-of-belleville/id530478386 

Head Modelling

added apples to bowl mudbox

different fonts for credits.

Needs more action slanted? etc bold etc.Some fonts I have been looking at. 

To change to.

Should test some with the rest on screen e.g. helmet Voltron, coloured lines etc the transitions.

I think im going to go with the second or third one down.

get 4 pictures of robin/ real better for clay modelling

old school robin

Robin Burt Ward

Head modelling progress today so far.

 

                                 

done neck, added more edge loop and sculpted average etc and more detailed eyes more divisions and so on. 

Opening credits with music

Opening credits transitions so far

Timing still bit fast but gotta add two more. and edit so its all correct. Might have more opportunities for moving lines like at the beginning shifting after?

Opening Credits how to introduce the voice actors

Life Drawing

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Text opening credit Voltron

( I like where I'm going with this but now I need more motion focused on the lines and the credits so the voice actors for each main character. ) so that will be the next step I will focus on each light trail as a separate voice actor and character, the colour representing this. plus not straight lines. more like the angle is top down and they all speak outwards and separate and then you go from the left to the right of each one. then it ends. etc. The curved lines of motion will already be going a different direction.

(With music-theme song but edited.)

(without theme song)

This is just the beginning so you can see that each member is coming from Voltron. 

opening credit test/start

Waltz of Bashir film Review

The Waltz of Bashir directed by Ari Folman focuses on the story of Folman, a soldier that was in the Israeli Defence Force's in Lebanon. It is a documentary film where Foleman visits old war veterans to try and find out the reasoning for his hallucinations and missing memories that he is trying to recollect. The style of the animation is like a Graphic Novel to have the atmosphere and nostalgic feel it requires, its also quite real and emotional without being real. Folman did not want to use rotoscoping as he thinks it distracts from any emotions that the characters could provide and so they stuck with After Effects without rotoscoping. 

The veteran says Folman can draw but not film and then they talk about the past. 

The Last scene is contrasting the animation by uncovering the real life footage which shows the massacre of the Sabra and Shatila Refugee Camp showing that the animation isn't much unreal from the reality the animation makes it seem almost unbelievable then its in front of you. Because of the impact this showed of the war and it was considered negative it was banned in Lebanon specifically but it still did well getting awards like Best Language Foreign Film.

The Drawings were done by people like David Polonsky who was the illustrator and Art Director using 3,500 key frames. The Small group of animators only had 1.7mil as a budget compared to big studios.

Bibliography

Anon, (2019). [image] Available at: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_WkKZJVG5wTk/TOjGWEu4afI/AAAAAAACwl8/1pdrHucyoq8/s1600/waltz-with-bashir-2008_poster.jpg 
Anon, (2019). [image] Available at: https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX6Dgesk7YMIo2LH4hbsxj4EhRd10TCc0ASN0fYBTU8MvjZu3BtzhmIq032bRX9OJ93MeJ8T71O8NA8VM7pxLDuLxgzXtxblFy3jc_sxYyooN646hkXO6MqKngdTyslRtwExlIL3pPxJYk/s1600/Holland+-+Waltz+With+Bashir+%25282008%2529.png