After effects (puppeting)

A quick demonstration of After effects workshop 3 

Final Storyboard

Teddy is strolling along through a meadow with a sad expression on her face,

Teddy see's a butterfly that starts circling her head and Teddy looks happier and puzzled by this experience.

Teddy Follows the butterfly,

And begins to chase it and try and catch it,

The butterfly leads the Teddy through the meadow to Mr Teddy and they fall in love,

Mr Teddy then picks up a flower and gives it to teddy and then they stroll off together :) 

storyboard Ideas (Teddys)

Teddy is unhappy and looks lost,

Hand comes in from the left and pokes teddy, Teddy then looks surprised and shocked,

The hand draws a bow for teddy and puts it on the Teddy, resulting a smiley face, 

The hand draws a heart and a question mark asking Teddy if she believes in love at first sight, 

Teddy shakes her head,

The hand then draws a male teddy and The female teddy falls in love,

Do you believe in 'Love at first sight?' (Text appears at the top of the page)

Hand then draws Mr teddy a top hat and puts it on his head.

From the start 

---> Changes at 12 seconds 

---> changes again at 23 seconds 

---> again at 33 seconds 

---> 44 seconds

---> 1.05 

---> 1.43

---> 1.54

---> 2.05

---> 2.15 slight change 

---> 2.31

---> 2.37

---> 2.58

---> 3.20

---> 3.31

---> End 

I listened to the track and made notes of where the music changes,

for my animation I'm going to use the first 33/44 seconds.

Storyboard research

I collected a few good examples of storyboards to get ideas ad ways of presenting of mine.

Further Rayograms

I went into the darkroom again to experiment with movement using the images from the character design workshop, and messed about with the Light exposure to create movement.

Animated Children's TV programmes

Following on from looking at children's drawings I researched children's animation

TV programmes and films, and looked at, 

Colour, Characters, Movement, Backgrounds and Sound.  

Peppa pig, 

Bright colours

Simply designed characters

Minimal & repetitive movement

The background dosen't change at all

And the sound is very repetitive and minimalistic.

Pingu, 

Colours used are mainly black and white, with a few colours that are bright when used

Simple characters

Simple movements

The background has slight changes to show that the characters are in a different environment

The sound is very minimal and very child aimed. 

From this research I have learned that to make my presentation childlike, I will use 

Bright colours, simple and repetitive movements, Simple characters and slight movement in the background but not enough to take the focus of the characters.

Primary research

After listening to the music and making notes of how it made me feel and what it made me think about, I looked into Children's drawings because I get a very happy, Bright, playful and child like feel from the music. I found out some of my drawings from when I was a child to get a feel for how children draw and what children tend to draw. 

From this researched I discovered that Teddy bears occur quite often when a
child draws and bright colours are essential.

Character design & Cell animation

Quick development of Character Designs

Working in a group of 2 we Me & Sarah Oram combined our characters and developed and
story in which the teddy and the girl have a picnic. We spilt the work and went away and
created a cell animation, and then put it all together on After effects when we had finished.