Previous Animatics

As I have almost fully caught up with where we are up to now, I would like to take a minute to look back at the previous animatic versions we had created, just to show how much our movie has grown and changed, at first it was a very simple piece (which in essence is good) but considering that there was no tension building or escalation of ticking clock we revamped the idea for a while completely Taking into consideration all of the feedback from people around up, we attempted to fit everything they wanted to say as well as our own goals and how we felt about it, it became very convoluted and compact with dense information that really didn't help raise tension at all and instead worked against us. We did however keep key elements by the time we began our most recent and complete animatic.

the version on the left is the earlier V1 animatic, which contained only a short section of base information, and the version to the right contained a more final look and feel with sounds and musical composition to go with the feel of the movie. But when we had our critical reflection session with our class before the Christmas holidays, we were given very good feedback that allowed us to strip away a lot of the information that we believed yielded no glory for us. and we began again using our original and simple story and made the situation revolve more around her has a character instead of incorporating the captain so much.

Animatic Process

Our storyboards once refined were put on a timeline that were then expanded upon to create timing and emotion, we spend from November to the end of Christmas 2012 working on the layering and sequences, they were interspersed with sounds and voices so they became themselves a movie in essence. During this process we continually were watching movies such as the 1992 movie "Alive" that focused on an Argentinian group of football players that were stranded in the mountains for over a week. and others such as 127 hours, Buried, The incredible shrinking man, 9/11 etc. Basically anything to get out minds motivated towards this subject and also to help us get in the mindset of what it would be like to be trapped in the jungle, far above ground with no way out. We sat down and took this data into consideration when we worked with the animatic. We then made sure to use the wonderful film making skills of Alfred Hitchcock.



We extensively researched and watched Hitchcock movies that we felt matched the one we wanted to create also taking into account the steps and techniques he would use to create masterpieces. some of the effects he used most

of all were a things called a Mcguffin where by showing nothing sandwiched between a very tense action or shot, just to keep the viewer hooked, strategic and holding cameras for a very long time to build tension, these are essential in our movies, as over the process of 4 animatic's we began cutting our film from say 70 shots to almost half that amount as to build the character and stay with her though her trauma. A final thing when producing a clear animatic before moving on to the animation process, was as Hitchcock said if you can do it with out sound it would be better, and it worked that way for us, as when we did our first two animatic they were filled with voices and dialogue sequences of the thoughts of her inner mind, but they clouded the movie and rushed it along not allowing you to feel anything for her as a person.



Once we resolved that and stripped it away it really pushed us to know that the only way she would come over was with visual acting, in her minute body movements and the way she moved and turned. taking those things into consideration is a key point when working on this movie. We then began to work with backgrounds to fit a world to our story.

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one minuite film animatic

this is the final animatic for my end of year one final animation. Titled Choice. The story behind it is basicly, a teen is inibriated and drink drives, while driving in his rear view mirror is an angel and devil, goading his decision.

Journey Animatic

This animatic is the final version of our "Journey into space" project. Basicly i took fifty odd images and applied a woodcut effect in Corel Painter XI. I then began to paint in trails using green pastel to attempt to show flowing motion so the audience gets an idea of where the charecter is moving to.

update Pinocchio animatic

well this is the first update i have made for nearly a month, uni has really kept me busy ( no complaint). This is our recreation of one of disneys most memorable films "Pinocchio" the idea was to create an animatic of the scene when pinocchio is goaded by the fox and cat to leave with them, while jimini attempts to stop him.