Initial sketch of character + hex codes
Outlines used in the blink sequence
Drawn from the initial sketch
Walking figure for character
Separate body parts below + frog
Motiongraphics: character sketch, outlines and body parts
Category: Rotation 6: Motiongraphics
Final Motiongraphics film + PDF
Above is the download link for just the pdf containing my evaluation.
Below is a link to where you can find a padlet with the zip folder containing the .mov file of the video + the pdf together. The password to the padlet is ‘bunnyigloo’
Early storyboards and inspirations for Motiongraphics
Interpretation of the theme + initial storyboards:
For the theme ‘Connections’ I want to focus on a small connection formed between a person walking in the rain and encountering a frog. (inspired by a walk in the rain in England)
This week’s goals:
1) I intend on working in a different visual style to what I usually do
2) Making shorter narratives is also something I want to improve on, since it’s something I tend to do less.
3) I want the final product to be as clear as possible (referring to the animation principle of staging)
(Might cut out the final walk cycle scene if it’s too ambitious, see storyboards below)
Three artist inspirations:
For this rotation I want to focus on the work of 3 different artists to inspire the visual style for my short animation, the first one being ‘Cermrnl’, an artist who specialises in making moving paper dolls, below are a few examples of their work, but you can see these in motion on their website: https://www.cermrnl.com/
I chose this person because I think the shapes used to construct the puppets are simple but extremely effective and I think this look could work very nicely in a motion graphics sequence.
The next artist is Genice Chan: https://www.genicecream.com/
Her work, especially in the BNA ending credits reminded me of the look motion graphics can have, since most of her stuff is pretty clean and lineless.
I know that character animations like the one seen in the video are pretty ambitious for the time we have to complete the work, but I would like to try my best.
The work of studio ‘HURRAY!’ http://hurray.fun/ in this one video ‘Rain with cappuccino’ will be the final inspiration I’ll look at for this rotation.
My reasoning for all the inspirations I listed is all 3 have a very strong, clean style that I feel would translate well into motion graphics and what I want the final result to look like for my attempt this week.