Post it note Animatic.
Taking some advice i added a few shots in order to make sure that the respective character was on the correct side following the 180 rule.
Digitized, lined, grayscale version of the animatic
Video of Greyscale Animatic with Sound
Coloured Animatic Frames
Final Coloured Animatic
Editing Sound effects.
from the grayscale animatic
Shape Stop Motion
Using paper I cut away shapes in order to create a smooth video, starting with a square then made them progressively larger and eventually divulging it into a octagon that decreases in size.
Pixilation with Character
Pixilation video that played with stop motion effects on humans, this one shows the character transforming from a member of our group.
Final Group Project
using a top down angle to shoot out stop motion we were able to recreate gravity as well as posing out 2d puppet in ways that didn’t involved out hands being in the frame. The brief being “transformation / metamorphosis” we decided to create a cycle of the creature falling for a suspicious mushroom.
Editing
Editing of sound and frames, adding fade effects and repeating the cycle of mushroom from the beginning at the end.
Sketch version of animation
Key Frames
Final Product
Sound Editing
Using Photoshop as the animating software then exporting the video in order to correctly time frame holds as well as editing in audio needed for the scene in Premier.
My idea was a music centric world as life functions from the frequencies that are emitted with sound. Until a screeching high pitched tone brings chaos as it throws the “harmony” of this place into a mess. I wanted my character to be the one to defeat the monsters that are creating this sound and disrupting the peace.
A4 Page on my character. With quick sketches of her movements and emotion
An alternate male design using items collected to draw inspiration from as well as a collage style creation from those same objects.
The first design is in a style that i am comfortable with, a dark and grungy girl but i also wanted to explore the idea of a more cartoon like aesthetic with exaggerated bodily proportions.
Though neither of these seemed to fit the world that i had imagined and i settled on a design to which melded both of these concepts into one character. I always envisioned her hair resembling a music note to symbolise her connection with sound, but i also adored the thought of her being a deaf to contrast the world that she lives in. This also allows her withstand the disruptive sounds that others couldn’t.
Character turn around.
Expression Sheet
Notes on Melody’s motion plan as well as sketches