For my final project I want to do three shorts all using different animation methods. The shorts will be no longer than 2 minutes.
For the first piece I want to edit Argle Bargle's Fantastical Circus so that the movements are more realistic, fix any issues, make it more appealing, and to finish the scenes that I wanted to do. This piece is mostly animated by After Effects.
For the second piece I want to do an all traditionally drawn animation. The idea I have for this is inspired by a royalty-free song called There It Is. It would be an opening for a cartoon called the Funky Bunch, a 70's based spy team. The opening would just consist of introducing the Funky Bunch members: Al-Fro, Psychedelia, and Dyno-Mike.
The third piece I want to do is a stop motion animation. The idea I have for this is inspired by another song called Fluffing a Duck. A family of ducks walk along a stretch of land covered in holes because they are home to a colony of gophers. They are on their way to the pond. The three baby ducks constantly jump down the holes in curiosity only to be popped back up by the gophers. Mama duck scolds them and they walk sadly along. However, once again something catches their eyes and they scurry down the holes again. Mama ducks sees her babies missing and freaks out when suddenly an angry old gopher pops up and chucks the babies at her, angry they were disturbing his home. The baby ducks smile at the adventure and Mama duck is just glad they're okay.
What I want from these pieces is pretty much what I achieved with my Paint Sample stop motion animation, just a few feel good pieces that entertain. I also want to try as many different animation styles to see which one(s) I like the best. The idea to do three shorts though is a little too much given our time frame so I would love to hear which idea you guys think is best to help me narrow down my choices.
All of the music I acquired from Imcompetech created by Kevin MacLeod and are free for use as long as credit is given.
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
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I like the ideas. However there are three of them like you said. I think you could drop the 2nd one. Though it may be funny, it would only be the opening to a fake show. The first idea would be cool for you to hone down and make sharp. And since you already have a good base, the stuff you add will just get better. And the duck story sounds cool too, it's got danger, excitement, love and family values. Ducks and the Circus.
I would like to see the pieces relate somehow in style or subject since you want to do different styles of animation. 3 pieces to me seem hard to keep up with, but more power to you! I think that since this is for a single assignment maybe you could have them relate somehow like shorts in a single episode. But then I think you would need like in-between skits or a hosts or just something that keeps bringing the viewer back to focus on the entire pieces as a collective group.
I would love to see the circus short created in full animation. I think this one would look really good in hand drawn animation too. As with the duck story, will you be using paper to create the stop motion like you did with the paint rectangles or actual 3d objects? I'm just curious to know but both would work well either way.
The ducks would be with paper just like the paint sample animation
I dont think you should go with 3 that might be a bit much. maybe you could pic the best of the 3 and expand on the narration.
I do think all of these ideas are fantastic. I just feel like maybe you should put all your concentration in one to create a more outstanding piece. I really enjoyed the fantastical Circus so maybe you should expand that one. I understand wanting to experiment with more then one types of animation, but remember that this class is After Effects based. I would like to see the story boards for these animations and what the content is. This blog is very broad and a little vague.
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