Animation Begins

The Listening Project has continued through the the second semester and has finally reached the animation stage. Alice has broken down each shot from the animatic into a spreadsheet to keep track of the overall progress.

Above are the animatic panels from the shot I have been working on. The idea is for the Lego brick to slowly rotate before popping and disappearing. However when it came to animating I found that it looked more appealing if the brick shrunk slightly before the pop:

The file has now been uploaded to the Google Drive to be reviewed by the group for refinement.

Storyboarding for the BBC's Listening Project

My team consists of Alice Seatherton, Kayleigh George, Krissy Ewins and Megan Ryder. We decided to work on the BBC's listening project for our live brief assignment, which requires us to choose a pre-recorded conversation and create an accompanying animation. The conversion we chose takes place between father and son, Roland and Laurie, who are discussing Lego.

We started the project by having group meetings early on to solidify our idea: keep the animation non-linear, with random objects and characters entering and leaving the shot to accompany the audio. 

The colour palette will be made up of multiple pastel colours with the art style looking hand-drawn, as if created by crayons. We first analysed the script to establish everything that would need to be designed or considered later in the creative process. Alice decided to break the script into coloured segments, which were then assigned to each of us to work on throughout the pre-production process, including part of the storyboard. Below is my three-part storyboard: