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'.

Lip Sync Technique

In Tuesday's animation workshop I was working on 'Lip Sync' Technique with Naomi. We chose soundtrack 2 which is the second scene in the animation above of a character with tiger eyebrows and funny eyes and mouth. 

Drawing Poses and Other Drawings

In the drawing workshop with Lewis I've drawn poses of classmates as silhouettes that show emotion. The top picture is about drawing random lines when listening to music.

Tone Drawing

I started drawing with tone, shadows, light and dark along with details. It doesn't matter if it's not perfect. It's just an exercise and it's fun to draw. 

My Drawings

Cloudy Character

This is my drawing of my creative characters.

 

These two are my Classmate's drawings

My Character Design

I was at a drawing workshop class with Lewis and classmates drawing and creating characters we like. A classmate and I switched character drawings and this is how he drew my cloudy character into something different.

My Fun Drawings 

My drawing of a ocean

I've been drawing pictures for a long time and been in art classes at school, college and university. I researched artists and used ideas for my projects. In my spare time I draw things at home and anywhere I walk.

I drew dad sitting in the train.

My first animation- The Aeroplane Crash

This is the first animation I've made, it's about an aeroplane crash. I used I Stop Motion and did lots of drawing and planning in my storyboard. I think it was a interesting idea about Phobias. It did turn out the way I planned it and I'm pleased with it.

The problems I had was trying to get the running and walking movement right. I looked at pictures in books, on the internet and also people in real life, then tried to figure out which camera angles I should use. 

On the scene when the girl was running away from the burning plane I made a mistake with the camera as you can see the peg bar, but on the big screen you can not see it. Sorry about that.

Cartoons and Animation I enjoyed watching when I was a child

When I was a child I enjoyed watching cartoons and animation. It brings back happy memories. I love the opening sequences and the theme tunes of Mysterious of Cities of Gold, Ulysses 31, Thundercats, Ducktales, Batman and lots more.


90's cartoons opening sequences





Popeye