Post 24 - Week Update

I have offered to help my friend Lucy on her animation and storyboard. She is still working on the story and so I will help her with camera angles and shots as well as adding my input to the story. I think this will help further develop my skills and add collaboration points.

As well as Lucy's, I am also working on Shaz's and Jordan's animations. In return, Shaz and Lucy have offered to help me with my 3rd film "River Man".

From here, I shall be leaving the layouts to Lucy and Shaz will be helping me with the animating next year. As for my showreel, I will be doing part animations, so just animating key skills such as turns and proportions.

With my character designs, I will get my feedback from Neil, but if I need to change anything, I want to turn to my friends Lucy and Amy who are building on working on character designing.

Post 11 - Week Update

Starting the new brief from Sean, I am a little unsure about what to do for an idea. I don't know whether to start a new one, or to continue the original idea that I had with the action piece storyboard (Post 10). I feel like I don't want to continue the story from the action piece, as I want to expand my storyboarding skills with something else. I did have a short story idea but I didn't think it would be a very good one. I shall talk to Neil or Peter about this later on. What I do want to try and do though, is add some music to the animatic that will come from my storyboards, instead of using voice actors, that way I can try to explain the story without the use of words, and the music will set the mood so that it is more understandable to the audience. I could even try to turn the short film into a film trailer. Perhaps even taking the original idea from the action piece and turning that into a trailer. This would mean that I could team up with others who had skills where I didn't, so as I was not doing all the work. But it would also mean that I would be able to work on it in the 3rd year.

I understand that for the showreel I wouldn't have any animation because I am taking on storyboarding as a full time career, but it would be interesting to be animating in the 3rd year to develop my skills. I will also have to talk to Neil or Peter about this, as I know that I want to be a storyboard artist, but I am also very good at animating, and this would also mean that I would have better luck in employment.

Post 5 - Week Update

As I haven't been very well for the past 2 weeks, I haven't been as productive as I would have liked to have been, but I have been thinking about what it is that I want to do. For the past few days I have taken a liking to Storyboarding, and I feel that this is something that I wanted to do as a serious career pathway, because I personally think that I am good at capturing expressions, but I don't feel that I want to go into animating. As an example, I have storyboarded the "achorman" sound clip that I wasn't initially going to do, but without character design, I haven't detailed the figures, so I just sketched it as I would have expressed them to act.