Derek And Boggy Progress

Let me start off by showing you what the title should looks like. The animation piece will begin by panning out from the starry sky to this still image shown below.  This has already been timed out and simply needs to be added to the video.

The scene will then be set by making it clear that it is night time and that the two characters will be walking through the woods in the dark.

I possibly might add a text sequence to verify what the two characters are doing before they appear on screen.

  

I have managed to at this point to get the film's animation run time up to 49 sec leaving only a few more scenes let to be put in.  

 

One of the challenges that I faced was to have a sequence were one character (Boggy) turns from one position to another, at a moments notice. See below

Boggy start off pose 

Looking Right

Looking Left

I carried out research to establish how this sequence could be done. A looked at animation video created by Chuck Jones 'The Dover Boys' who showed how to make fast movement look effective.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=vrD0aog7Kts#t=829s

To achieve this I distorted the eye's shape making it stretch out and blurring it to give the look of boggy zipping across from left to right. Around 16 frames were used to created this sequence.

This save on the amount of frames used compared to if it was done more conventionally

See examples of frames in this sequence

Write up

Below is the link to the write up. This is a work in progress. 
So far I managed to write:

• Introduction
• History of Animation - Chuck Jones, Cosgrove Hall Films 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/74mh2mhlohskaa3/CP.docx?m

Update for work over Easter Break

There's a lot I have to say now that Easter holiday now over been really busy with both the animation and final report I've been working both at uni and home to get the most out during the uni Easter holiday

Some pieces of animation have taken longer to make than previously thought and a bit concerned about the film length of now (see below)

Here are some of the storyboards I've managed to do They show off the key frame poses for the eyes please note none of the pages have any writing on them yet as time is of the essence they will be put on later.


Storyboards


Each panel is taken from a line of dialogue and description of the scenes.  I have only drawn what key scenes will appear I have not included any transitions at the moment.

For this animation, which is of a comedic genre, I am animating to the sound rather than timing out each still image.    In my opinion this was the best way to produce, as the overall effect of the animation  relies more on dialogue and therefore the audio and soundtrack had to be completed first.

I have been working mainly on the animation which took longer than I had anticipated.  The sequence of Boggy walking on and off screen was something that I new would take a while to do, unfortunately it took far long than I thought it would.

I had a lot of alterations to do to get it right.  I have now finalised this but at present feel I will have to reduce this to one of these whereas I had previously intended to do three.  I will replace the other two with captions of walk on and walk off accompanied by sound effects.

The timing of the film at present is at 1 minute 16 seconds without the opening sequence and credits.  Due to the amount of work I still have to do I may have to reduce this further.

I have also been working on my dissertation outlining the structure and at present have written 1,000 words in relation to  my History of Animation section which is based on the work of Chuck Jones and Cosgrove Hall Films.