Ranger Rick Audio Files - Stage 3

While my Uni friends aren't the best voice actors in the world, or even cornwall, but the point was to film them in order to lip-sync the characters eventually.

Special Thanks to
Alex Garbould - Non-Student as Ranger Rick
Ben Topham-taylor - Film Student - Britt the Spirit Bear
Daniel Shering - Journalism Student - as Boomer Badger
Cat Branagan - English Lit and Creative Writing Student as Scarlet Fox
Chris Vickery -  Sustainable Product Design Student as Sammy Squirrel.
and
Elliot Padfield - Games student who let me use his equipment for filming.

Stage 1 was the original Post it Notes
Stage 2 was the Preliminary Background ideas
stage 3 is the Audio Files and video for eventual lip-syncing
Stage 4 will consist of the audio synced with the post-it notes,
Stage 5 will include more in-betweens with some sound effects (hand in at stage 5)
Stage 6 will  be hopefully fully animated, if i get that far and have enough spare time.

the Ranger Rick Page 

Undead Love

 Cinematography class had us split into groups of 4, designating roles, coming up with a script and  taking on a 2 minute silent film to make, which we called Undead Love...  imaginative, I know.
So I came up with a story from what the group had brainstormed, which was basically 'Xsenia falls in love with THAT skeleton' - Luke, pointing. So at first it was all jokes and laughter, i made some funny ideas that could have worked with their original idea and for some strange reason they seemed to take it seriously. this resulted in myself taking a directors role and generally helped with anything that needed an extra hand.
Spike was in charge of lighting, sharing the role of 'Rigging master' with Luke, Xsenia acted and Maj was camera man.

i believe it was a success for 5 hours of filming with equipment we had not used much previous to this project. we spent the first hour setting the camera and lights up with the help from some passing 3rd year animation student who had a moment to tell us how we mounted the camera and other jobs that should have only taken a minute or two each to complete.  Another thing that took way too long was the 'rigging' of this skeleton. We worked as a team tying string to every bone in order to get it to move properly, had problems getting him to fall without breaking him, or even getting any emotion. I believe that with more time and given a change to play around with the rigging before filming, we could have created a much more realistic film, though the humour may have been lost if that were the case.

Overall I thoroughly enjoyed the project, got to work with some people i had previously never spoken to and generally learnt a lot through the trials and errors we encountered. I found the end product funny which was the point and hence i believe that the project was a success.  :)

Practicing painting

So on today (14th of December) I tried to do some landscape art for my ranger Rick project , I like it but the depth of the lake didn't go exactly to plan.

Next time I'm in London I'll make some changes to this and other drawings I did over Christmas. Hopefully my perspective art will have improved by then.. 

Water Droplets

This is why Ugg is the best pt2

why do i enjoy the Ugg rig so much?

so the aim of this was to be able to change between IK and FK, but with some friendly input i  did more than just a simple catch and throw, and decided their idea to make it funny wasn't such a bad idea :)

Diving Man
Duration: 15 hours - but probably would have taken half the time if i didn'                                                                                                                                                                            `t over think and add extra jumps :/

Storytboarding Premilinary Backgrounds Stage 2

So I decided to paint some backgrounds in order to inspire my storyboarding project. the scenes are hopefully going to be used as the background for the Canadian Rainforest in a Ranger Rick episode :)
only one is complete but the inspiration is bubbling :)

the Ranger Rick Page 

Ranger Rick Project - Stage 1

the Ranger Rick Page 

Extra owl drawings

Fine line drawing

In preperation for my storyboard project for my drawing for animation course, a character  design for two owls, getting the shape and faces right. 

Duration : 1 hour 15 minutes 

Monty

using a rig to make a line movement. walking can be so difficult, getting each step similar but not exactly the same, trying to keep the same motion

but who is Monty?

time taken: 2.5 hours.

FOX TAILS

Pretty House (The Music Project, Pt 7)

Mucking about with flash and the Wacom tablet today, learning how to use both... Im just glad my drawings on paper are better...
(Listening to 'Home' - Michael Buble )