My Mini Comic "School Buliies

I was in another lesson called "Image and Text'". I met a new teacher named Marc Ellerby. I had fun drawing and I did a very good work. I worked on my mini comic called " School Bullies" It's about how things would be different if I had magical powers. I made my mini comic with the theme "Hybird".

Hybird is a thing made by combining two different elements ,a mixture of fantasy and real life.

My Mini Comic School Bullies

Image and Text

In electives I chose the 'Image and Text' lesson. It's all about illustration involves drawing and media. On Monday it started out as an introduction to the unit and presentation of Marc's work. Marc showed me his comic book. In the afternoon I started drawing pictures. I then followed commands to draw a 'Dinosuar and dancing out for a party'.

On Tuesday I brought comic books for a presentation and to discuss a theme. I drew a mini comic with four panels and drew pictures relating to a story about what happens in life. I did a mini comic about my friend. She was cycling down the road and an old lady accidentally walked in front of her.

Analysis of an Animation Film.

I chose an interesting animation film ‘Wallace and Gromit - “The Curse of the Were-Rabbit” to analyze. I’ll examine the shots one by one and frame by frame. I’ll look at different shots - like long shots, close ups, point of view shots. I need to look at sequences that stand out to me and what makes it more interested than others and why I like them.

I’ve watched the DVD of ‘Wallace and Gromit the Curse of the Were-Rabbit’ and I liked it because it’s funny, enjoyable and entertaining. It also stimulates the imagination.

 

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.