Tutorial

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYAouIbPPhk&feature=related





I found this tutorial above very useful. Although it’s not Flash 8, the similarities in the two are almost identical. I think it’s a good tutorial because it shows how to create the figure through lines, and then fill it in very swiftly. I like how he demonstrates how to make the layers of animation a repeat of the previous frames, making the whole entire animation become a lot faster process. What I want to learn next is how to create a background behind the figure that animates in a loop but doesn’t get in the way of you animating your character.

Still love this animation, rather powerful stuff.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7R7HCAXFBQY

My Little Animation: Mr Blob

Mr. Blob by ~cemshaolin on deviantART






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The link above shows you a little animation I produced. I think this little character also has potential for a longer animation. I just got to figure out a plot line and some other reasonable characters he can interact with. I felt this piece went rather smoothly through its frames. I think its definite disadvantage, as I have mentioned before in my blog is that it needs colour. Again I will research into a online journal on how to make the whole process of filling in colour quicker.

Here are some photos I took last year and edited in Photoshop. I may use these as inspiration for my interactive narrative coming up soon. I think they are effective because they project their messages well, so using these techniques I can strengthen my photos used in the interactive narrative. For example black and white symbolises dull/ depressive.

Here is a drawing I did a while ago. I’ am thinking of making an animation out of this character to get used to body movements in frames. I find it rather difficult at the moment to incorporate colour into my animations when I do play around with Flash 8 because it takes so long. To get around this I’ am going to study some online journals on the programme to find faster routes in making these animations a lot faster process.

One Shot Inspiration / One Shot Pieces

As you can see we finally made some one shot movies.

This practice one was a very basic idea, but it went very well. We were very fortunate to get an out of order machine to add to our plot line. As you can see we applied my idea of using a person’s point a view like in the video below. Using the hand gestures really adds to the character and interactivity of the piece. I think the music is also another advantage to the overall video because it gives it a very casual feel. The only disadvantage to the video is the zooming in. Unfortunately we didn’t realise that you couldn’t zoom in. But we didn’t go over the top with the zooming in it, so it doesn’t look that bad.

FML from Jonny Sedarati on Vimeo.

Here is the final video. We decided to shoot the video in Jonny Sedaratis room. The concept of the movie is about a student who is constantly bothered by his drunken friends to come out and drink with them, while he struggles to write his essay.

This one shot took many attempts pull off. Mostly because we had so much going on within it that when you messed up, you had to start again. Timing was very important in this as we had to time it right each time, or we had to start again.

Once again we used hand movements and the person’s point of view idea. This time we also added thoughts of the person as a second audio. We did this by going into a quiet room and recording the dialogue we wanted and putting it into the one shot during editing stages (this was done in a quiet room to give the audio a slight echo).

There were a few disadvantages to the video it thought. One of them was that I felt we could have acted a bit better in some places, some places lacked character. Also the clock, although we did include looking at the clock into the whole plot, we were hoping that we could have altered the clock so it look like a lot more time had passed in the one shot, as his friends kept coming in and out, so it looks a bit more realistic. But it never happened.

Accept for that I think the whole piece was excellent; it turned out a lot better than I thought. The music, the plot itself, setting, everything went well. I also had a great time filming it with my group, we had many laughs trying to act.

Shots In The Kitchen... from Jonny Sedarati on Vimeo.

This clip if from a website named collegehumor (but embedded from youtube). I like this work due to its humour and its clever ideas. Although we have to include music into the mix, I thought it would be interesting to add thoughts to the audio, like in this clip. I think it will give a more overall understanding to whatever our piece will be themed around.

Although there is movement within the piece (which we are not allowed) I think the video has shown me that because we are not allowed to move, the atmosphere and the surroundings must be interesting, just like this club scene. So that the viewer we not become too bored from the one position.

http://www.collegehumor.com/

http://www.youtube.com/user/collegehumor

BarfQuestion

I really like this artist; under the alias BarfQuestion he posts his work on the websites newgrounds and youtube. This kind of animation gives me a feel of our whiteboard animation, due to the fact it’s drawn in black on a white surface. I believe this kind of work deserves a lot of credit because it’s very hard to animate like this, especially if you don’t have a team behind you, it must takes ages to produce each piece. The shady effect is also another great touch. It adds character and a more mysterious attitude to the piece.

You can view all his work on these two websites:


http://www.youtube.com/user/BarfQuestion

http://barfquestion.newgrounds.com/