My Final Animation- The Naming Game

Last year I was working on an animation project called ‘The Naming Game’. It’s about names of people, things and others. I obtained information from a website called ‘ Baby Names World’ and several books. I realized many names have meanings but some don’t. I decided to use a person's name to develop my game I made a game that is interactive mixed with Flash and I Stop Motion. I realized it was complicated and I needed help to finish this work. My tutor assisted me.

I created my character which was formed into letters of my name as the main character.

In this game the character showed that names come from different countries and it shows the meaning of the name. It was a guessing game that enabled the viewer to guess the correct name.

Individual Voice

A Rough Storyboard about wallet stolen.

This is Crowd of people drawings.

This is Krik's Character as a thief.

My Main Character design

I been working on a project called 'Individual Voice' with Kirk and Hanna. We are working on a story about a man whose wallet was stolen by another man who had a heart attack. I was working on my main character, storyboard, backgrounds and camera angles of some scenes. Kirk is working on his other character and camera angles of some scenes. Hanna is working on the backgrounds.

Exploring Animation

I watched animations created by animators to get ideas to develop my project.

I’ve watched Paul Driessen’s animations of the 3 misses and Home on the Rails.

3 misses




Home on the Rails




I’ve watched Max Fleischer’s animations Popeye, Betty Boop and KoKo the Clown. When I watched another Betty Boop video it stated that It was banned because of the use of Drugs in 1934. At first I don’t believe it but it appears to be true and I realized why some of Betty Boop cartoons were not available.

Popeye




Banned Betty Boop cartoon

My Research, Ideas and Inspiration

When I was working on my essay I chose question 3 which was to discuss and analyze the work of two animators Max Fleischer and Paul Driessen looking at their styles and techniques, also their use of drawings as a dynamic form in their animation. In particular I am going to look at Max Fleischer cartoon ‘Popeye’ and Paul Driessen’s film ‘3 Misses’ because their styles are very different.

Paul Driessen's Animation Work


"Home on the Rails"

'Air'

Paul is famous for using horizontal lines. He uses it in the film ‘Air’ e.g.. Fig 3 it’s use is to emphasize the character and the scene he is portraying. The horizontal line helps to emphasize passivity in the bird. The bird appears to accept his fate before he dies. The horizontal line is shown with the bird perched on it looking downward with a sad expression. His blob like drawing is apparent. In figure 4 the fishes are trevelling towards the line gasping for air before they die. Paul is famous for his suspense.

Popeye

Max Flescher's Creations of Popeye and Betty Boop.
"Max Fleischer’s style can be associated with Expressionism and Surrealism. Max has been able" to capture the sensitive and lovable nature of Popeye rather than his physical form.

Introduction at Drawing Workshop

I've started my first introduction at the drawing workshop with Lewis Campbell.

My Animation Exercises

Below there are some examples of my animations. I learnt a lot about the timing and movement.

Kicking a football into windiow

Flower / Rose Glowing

By Me 

Readaption of Poem into a Storyboard

This was a group project I worked with Tracey, Demitri and Aaron. We read the poems and chose 'Star and Chain' to adapt into a storyboard. We spilt up the tasks between the group. I worked mainly on backgrounds.



After looking at different groups storyboards we had to chose another story to adapt.

Tracey, Demitri and I worked on a story called 'Cities and Disire'.