Final Project: The Treehouse
A short tale of two brothers with a love of painting and creativity, the treehouse is not what it seems and takes the duo into a world of colour and magic.This is an animation that will demonstrate my animation skills and storytelling ability.
Tuesday, 27 May 2014
Monday, 26 May 2014
Final Animation
Please click on the below link to view my end of year film.
Remember to watch in HD to view in its best quality !
The Treehouse from Jamie Price on Vimeo.
Please click on the below link to view my end of year film.
Remember to watch in HD to view in its best quality !
VIMEO LINK
The Treehouse from Jamie Price on Vimeo.
Friday, 23 May 2014
WELCOME
Welcome to the official blog for Rainy Days, this is my major project for my final year at university. I want to create an animation that warps reality, excites the audience and inspires children so they can see the positive sides and want to discover the joys of rainy days. Remember to keep checking out this blog so you can see the development and progression of the project.
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Thursday, 22 May 2014
Project
Proposal
Major
Project Animation 2014: ‘Rainy Days’
The purpose
of this project is to produce a 2D animated short that will show off my skills
and abilities to the world and prospective employers. I will be producing my
final project using 2D animating software such as Flash and Corel painter as
well as Photoshop and after effects for additional techniques to get the
desired effects that I want and further develop my expertise in the 2D art form.
The project
must be a length of 30sec to 1:30min, to fit the specifications required. I
will therefore be aiming to complete my animation in a time of 40-50 seconds so
that I can show off what I want in a shorter amount of time and still allow the
story to be clear to the audience. I believe this to be an ‘ideal’ time for the
final animation as it is just long enough to get everything I want in and not
too short that the film becomes unclear.
To begin the
animation process I will need to produce concept designs, backgrounds, develop
the story, story board and produce a clear and professional, high quality
animatic that can effectively tell the story in its simplest form. After all of
the pre-production processes have been completed I will then progress to start
animating, I still am yet to decide what the most effective approach is to
allow me to get the desired effect, I will begin by animating roughly on flash
first of all (outline animation) I will then go on to place the flash files
into Corel Painter which I will then be able to use to colour in the pre
animated scenes with different paint textures to give my animation a
traditional and animated Hybrid style. These paint styles will be decided as I
progress with the development of the animation.
There will
be key aspects that I will need to take into consideration when producing my
film, these are: Interesting and
effective camera angles, composition, Continuity, Audience Interaction and
Character Interaction.
My aims for
this film are for it to be engaging, fun and mystical so that it may have the
possibility of bringing back memories to older generations as well as exciting
younger audiences.
I also aim
to reach international audiences by uploading my final film to the web to
create interest in my work as well as giving people something unusual and
quirky to look at and hopefully bring joy and happiness to those who may view
it.
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Key elements
of my film:
Characters:
I will have a maximum of 10 characters in my film 2 of them will be human and
my main characters; the others will be fantasy paint animals. These characters
must have a strong design that will allow audiences to clearly identify with
them and immediately establish an audience/character bond to make the animation
as effective as possible.
Backgrounds:
The backgrounds will be produced using Photoshop and will be have a similar
aesthetic to a Cotswold village, quite, picturesque and magical.
Sound: I
will be using a variety of sounds throughout my animation and will be trying to
find someone to compose some music for the film. There is no dialogue in this
short.
The
animation must be completed by the 7/5/2014 and rendered using correct
formatting so that it can be viewed on a variety of screens as well as being
compatible with DVD and online uploading. I will be aiming to complete the
above by the 25/4/2014 so that I can tweak and rectify any issues.
Wednesday, 21 May 2014
Animation Breakdown/Rough Storyline
A Rainy Day
An
Animated Visual Journey
Jamie
Nathaniel Price – University of Portsmouth
Major Project/Final Animation
Opening
Shot:
Fade
in from black background to opening shot of rain falling/rolling down a window,
include condensation patches etc. view from window reveals a thunderous sky.
Very dismal, no life, boring, all of the feelings a child would have on a rainy
day.
Shot
hold for 3-5 seconds to establish environment.
Sound:
Gentle rain tapping on the window.
Title
Sequence:
Title
reading: Rainy Days appears on the screen using a fade in, this should last
from 3-4 seconds to allow viewers to have time to read the text.
Scene
1:
Camera
pans down slightly to reveal main set, an underpass bridge with a river running
underneath can be seen. Kids can be seen finishing off a chalk drawing on the
outside wall, just as the rain gets heavier and faster the kids hide under the
bridge for shelter.
As
they hide under the bridge a loud clap of lightning can be heard and the camera
slowly zooms into the house/window where the film starts. A small child peers out
of the window and sees the artwork slowly washing/melting off of the wall.
Scene
2:
As
the colours keep on washing off they spread on the ground and leave a trail of
colour until they meet the rivers edge where they swirl and mix around to
create a river of colour.
As
the colours spread another rumble of thunder can be heard and a lightning bolt follows
and hits the surface of the water, turning the colours into a neon form. As the
electricity fades the child in the window walks down toward the edge of the
water to see what has happened, as he peers into the water a huge colourful
whale jumps out of the water and splashes the colour onto the riverbanks. As
splash rises the small child falls backward in shock and his mother calls from
the doorway.
Scene
3:
As
each splash/puddle of colour settles more children start to come out of their
houses to see what is going on, as groups of children walk towards the river
bank and various puddles, the puddles start to pulsate and abruptly come to
life and turn into various creatures and plants creating a new environment full
of colour. At this point in time the rain has slowly subsided and the lightning
and thunder has stopped, the sky is still cloudy and dismal, but it is at this
point the colours are at their most vibrant.
As
the children become more inclined to be friends with the mystical creatures
which they are now touching and communicating with establishing a bond similar
to a human to their pet, a close up of one of the creatures and the child from
the window comes into view. The close up shows the friendship between the
animal and the child and as this connection is established the clouds begin to
part and rays of sunlight begin to cover the area where the children are.
Scene
4/Final Scene:
As
the sunlight increases the animals look to the sky and begin evaporating into
clouds of chalk, as they start to slowly deteriorate they look their new
friends/children in the eye and slowly blow away into the air. The children
look upset, showing that rainy days can be fun. The camera follows the smoke
clouds into the opening in the clouds as they become fainter.
End
credits 6-8 sec
END
FILM
Tuesday, 20 May 2014
Rough initial storyboard
Below is an image of my initial storyboard, I have drawn this so that I can develop my story, edit scenes out of the story as well as allowing me to add new scenes in that will hopefully improve and strengthen my idea.
As you can see these initial drawings are very rough, as said before they have been created so that I can develop my story, keep a look out for some more designs and an updated storyboard and animatic. Please click on the images to enlarge.
Monday, 19 May 2014
Initial village sketch
Final image
First layer of colour
Finished outline
Initial sketch
This is a design for the houses that will be in my animation's village, I started off with a simple outline before beginning to add in the colour, shadow and additional details. When I get round to animating the scene, one of my characters will be sitting in the window above the red door and I will add a glow to indicate that there is life in the house.
The finalised image has been darkened, as I want the scene's mood to be miserable and cold like the mood that you would feel on a rainy, stormy day.
These images have been produced using sketchbook pro.
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