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Short Film Animatic
The finished animatic / story reel that myself and http://www.youtube.com/user/DaiskiAnimeJ created for our last Uni brief.
Our story is that of a little girl who grows up with an imaginary friend as a way of dealing with her loneliness. Her parents are so concerned by the time she turns 12, that they take her to a therapist, whose ink blot cards transform into the girls memories.
We were very much inspired by Monsters Inc., Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends, Up and the musical score for How To Train Your Dragon.
We hope to turn this into a fully animated film one day! :)
Concept, design and visuals are copyright ©Jessica Leslau and Gemma Roberts 2010.
Music
Forbidden Friendship by John Powell
Stuff We Did by Michael Giacchino
Animation Progression
A step by step progression of my 2D animation process. Animated using Edward Muybridge's photographic reference.
1. Study reference by Edward Muybridge
2. Rough animation on paper using an A3 lightbox. 16 frames.
3. Clean-up lines on fresh paper by tracing rough animation. Added in-betweens. 32 frames.
4. Scanned in clean-up animation, touched up in Photoshop, compiled in Premiere.
5. Ink and colour (coming soon)
6. Background (coming soon)
Music: Reckoner by Radiohead
Enjoy, thanks for watching! =]
Abstract Animations
My final animation for this semester at Uni. Inspired by the Surrealist Manifesto by Andre Bréton and 'Fitter. Happier.' by Radiohead.
The poem is comprised of an assortment of newspaper headlines and clippings that I put together in a completely random order, in honour of surrealism.
Thanks to Andrew Kramer (http://www.videocopilot.net/) for his tutorial on creating the After Effects text animation.
Thanks to Rob, Zara, Vikki, Jess, Bryony and Alex for supplying the voice overs.
Enjoy! =]
My second animation for my Uni course. This involved taking a keyword (in this case my keywords were 'Looking through a keyhole') and expressing it through abstract animation without drawing anything figuratively.
I used charcoal to draw roughly 26 seconds of animation, Stop Motion Pro to line-test it and Adobe Premiere to edit and add sound which recorded by Alex here on Vimeo. (http://www.vimeo.com/user1531292).
This was my result for our first Uni animation project--a ten second metamorphosis that began and ended with the logo for the course.
This contains just over 135 frames for 11 seconds of animation and was filmed using 12 drawings per second rather than 24 drawings in Stop Motion Pro.
It was done to represent my love of music and playing bass and was presented in an abstract way. I enjoyed creating it immensely!
Old Animation
This is the work in progress of the introduction to a short animation in Flash that I wrote and animated about Stitch from Disney's 'Lilo and Stitch' in which he confronts a powerful rival in the form of a water-squirting robot.
Please bear in mind that this is a work in progress and the animation towards the end is quite rough and the backgrounds are simple pencil sketches. I hope to finish this sometime before going to Uni (likely story)!
Stitch ©Disney and ©Chris Sanders
Enjoy!