Evaluation of todays lesson

In todays lesson we had to work on things which we hadn't finished. I continued with my ten second animation book. In my animation I have added on to what I originally did to make everything fade out towards the end, otherwise all of the animation would still be in the frame at the end of the animation.

In tutorial I worked on my blog and I also did a bit on my sketchbook. In my sketchbook I stuck my jelly fish animation in and i also merged to pictures which I drew together and said about why it is a risk and what I think about it.

I still need to do annotations and add more imagery in to my sketchbook to make everything up to date, but I have updated my blog as much as I can.

My 'Big Jump' animation

L3 JAHMAL'S BOOK ANIMATION from cmdiploma on Vimeo.

This is my book animation, it show a bouncy ball which jumps on a trampoline and then goes flat as it lands on a pin. It lasts seven seconds, and at the end of the animation everything fades out. For this animation i had to have around 80 frames which took for ages to do, in some parts you can see that the ball and trampoline changes shape. This is because, for each frame it is very hard to keep in the same place because you are doing it on a separate piece of paper.

I really enjoyed this task, but I feel that for a seven second animation, i took quite long to do it, so i need to speed things up, but I do think that my animation looks good, and it is also quite humorous when you watch what is happening, especially the part where the ball goes flat after it has missed the trampoline.

Jelly Fish Animation

L3 JELLYFISH LOOP (Jahmal and Liam) from cmdiploma on Vimeo.

This is mine and Liams Jelly Fish animation. I think that our animation went well but i think that we needed more time, as we don't have any music, and also it doesn't loop when you watch it. We thought that we would add some humour to our animation by first of all making it look serious by having it on a blue surface making it look lke water, and then absolutely steering the whole animation into some sort of comedy, by making it swim up a wall and then come back down.

In each shot we had to position the camera and move it around, along with the jelly fish. We both took it in turns to take the camera shots, and puting the jelly fish in the correct position. Where you see the jelly fish on the wall, we had to stick it down with tape to keep it hanging.

I think that me and Liam work well as a team, and we are going to try our best to make the best animations of our abilities.

Evaluation of todays lesson

In todays lesson at Coleridge, our first task of the day was to look at another persons sketchbook, and write on a pink sheet the things which they have and haven't done, for example: Research and Reference, checkpoint planning etc....

When we had finished this task, I then started to update my sketchbook, and I made some annotations on some of my work, and I also added colours to some of my work in my book, using patterns to make it look more creative. The other day we did a task where we had to pick two of the short films which we watched, and in my sketchbook I cut out the notes I made and made everything look interesting, and I also put some annotations on these pages.

When i had finished with my sketchbook, I then moved on to creating the jelly fish character which me and Liam made. We had to enlarge the images that we had on tracing paper, and draw over them in thick, dark felt tip. When we had finished we then had to go outside the classroom and make a short animation film using all of our five frames. We had to take a picture of each frame moving them bit by bit, in each position. In our animation, the jelly fish is moving across a blue floor which looks like water, but then it goes up a wall. We did this to add some comedy into it. Here is a picture of me and Liam working on one of the frames:

In my opinion we could have work a bit faster, because we don't have any music, and it would have been good to have some, instead of an image moving around without any sound, because I think it looks quite boring this way.

I really enjoyed todays lesson, as it was very creative.

Evaluation of todays lesson

In todays lesson, Steve showed us how to do a stop motion animation. In his animation it was a one eyed alien like creature, jumping from one place to another in five points.

We then had to get into our pairs for this project, so I went with Liam, and we then had to do our own stop motion animation. At first we couldn't think of an idea, so we sketched out a few ideas, and then we came up with one that we thought suited best.

Our idea was a jelly fish moving around. It goes through five steps, but two are the same.

Step 1:

Step 2:

Step 3:

Step 4:

Step 5:

The five steps look very simple, but they are most definitely not. The reasons why they are not is because we needed to make sure that each movement flowed well with each other. They also needed to look like the same jelly fish. In step one, the jelly fish is relaxed, step two, the jelly fish has spread its tenticles getting ready to jump up, step three shows the jelly fish speeding through the sea with straight and stiff tenticles. Step four shows the jelly fish relaxed, and the last step is the same as the first, so that we can get ready to repeat it again.

In this task we also had to trace the pictures and we then took photos of them on photo booth. This is how far we have got so far, but we still need a few more things to do. Our next step which we have planned to do, is enlarge the frames, and then draw them onto cardboard. After that we need to paint them, and then take pictures of them on Istop motion, so that we can have all of the steps pulled together, to make one animation of the jelly fish moving.

I have enjoyed todays lesson, but i feel that I need to work quicker, so that I can have the whole animation as one, instead of taking ages trying to get the shape of the jelly fish.

Experimental and Undergound Cinema

The Big Shave:


My response towards this short film is that it is quite funny and humourus, but i think that other people may find it disguisting and disturbing. It is vey graphic, with blood which is very effective, also it is very clever. I like how when he has no hair left, he keeps going over the same place and isn't affected by the blood he is causing, rushing out from his face.

The director of the film is 'Martin Scorsese and his intentions for this film was to have half the people watching it, to find it disturbing, and the other half to find it humourus. Martin wants reactions and he knows he will get them, but he also knew that he would get different types of reaction for this short film.

This short film is also name 'viet 67' because it was done around the time the vietnam war was going on, and where people would harm themselves. It was also produced in New Yorks 'Tisch School', and the music 'I can't get started' by Bunny Berigan.

I got my information from wikipedia:

Wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Shave

To get the information on wikipedia, I went via google 'The Big Shave'.

Exploring two of my ideas

Idea 1(Uni-Tight rope):
In this idea, it starts off with at of complications all the way through his extreme journey man on a uni-cycle balancing on a tight rope who has a lot of complications wobbling all over the place. Half way through his extreme journey he stumbles and his foot slips off the peddle, and he spins round the rope a few times. When he gets to the other end of the tight rope, he wipes his forehead with his arm letting out a sigh of relief. He then gets his drink out of his pocket and takes a sip. When he pulls his drink away from his mouth, a pigeon flies in his face and attacks him. Whilst being attacked he waves his arms all over the place and falls off the cliff screaming. As you can see we have gone for a humourus animation, which will be cartoony. We are hoping that the audience find it funny.
Although I think that this idea is really good, it could also go wrong. The problem with doing an animation using cartoon characters is that you have to frame each movement, and I really want it to look like a well presented cartoon, and not a really bad animation. It could go bad because the movement might be too fast, and also the characters might be out of place or wrongly sized, for example: in one frame they might be quite small, but in the next frame they have suddenly got bigger. to stop this from happening we will have to be precise with every frame we do.

Idea 2(Fighting Force):
My second idea would be to have two people fighting in the street, punching each other, and then one of them gets knocked out. The one which knocked the guy out, runs away, but later gets caught by the police and gets taken to jail. This idea is much more serious, and shows people the risk of fighting in two ways. you could get knocked out and maybe brain damage or even die, and if you are the one who runs and leaves the person there, you could get caught and taken to jail. If I was to do this idea, it would be using real people and not cartoons. I think that this idea would be easier than idea one, but I feel that I want something challenging, and something that will push the boundries, which is why i prefer the first idea.

I think that I am swaying towards doing idea one, as I think it will be funner to work on and I also think that using a humourus animation on risk, will get the audience watching and laughing, but at the same time taking note of what happend, and to think twice of trying fun, but dangerous things like sky diving and things like that.

Evaluation of todays lesson

In todays lesson, first of all I continued with my ten second animation by drawing round each image with a black felt tip, my reason for doing this, is so that it is easier to see, and also I feel that it looks better in dark pen than pencil.
My second task of the day was to create a checkpoint, for the first week in my sketchbook. The checkpoint is going to help me see what i have already done each week, and it will also help me to plan ahead, and see what I still have to do in my sketchbook, and on my blog.

I feel that todays task was all about reflecting and monitoring what we have already done and what we still need to do in our research leading up to our animation.

Checkpoint

This is a checkpoint showing what i have done in the first week of the project, what I am pleased with in my work and what I could have done differently, and what I plan to do for next week.

Research:
For my research in the first week of this project, I have looked at many forms of capture, for example I have looked at a bouncy ball animation, which shows an animation of a ball bouncing up and down. This taught me how to create an animation. I have watched 'Beautiful Losers' which is about a group of artists. In this week I have also looked at experimental films, such as 'Berlin Horse' and 'The Big Shave' which I have talked about previously in the blog, and I have looked in the colleges LRC libary, where I have looked at a book called 'Animation'. With this book, I have looked at some drawings of cartoon birds, because in mine and Liams animation, we want to have a cartoon pigeon. In my research I am pleased that I have looked into books such as 'Animation' as it will help me later on in the project. I could have made some more effort to look at more books, to get an idea of how to create a really good animation. In my research I plan to go onto the internet and find some cartoon art.

Plan Ahead:
In the first week I have planned ahead by creating mindmaps of what capture is, and also a spider diagram of 3 ideas which I could develop on to make a final idea for this rick project. I am very pleased that i have created a mindmap and a spider diagram, because if i was to ever get stuck on a idea, all I have to do is look at the two maps, and they will help me to decide on what to do. I am also pleased with the ideas which I have, and me and Liam have already decided on which one we are going to use. If we were to find our chosen idea challenging, then I have the other ideas for backup. If I could do one thing different, then I would probably make more mindmaps and spider diagrams. Next, I plan to develop on this one idea which we have chosen, and hope for it to become a great success.

Explore & Experiment:
I had to look for new techiniques by looking at animations on the youtube. By looking at the animations it helped me to decide on a brilliant idea, which I think, when its done it will be a great animation to watch. Our style of animation, is very similar to the book which we looked at in our research at the libary. Our animation is cartoony, and in the book we looked at 'Animation', all of the work in there, told you how to draw cartoony animation from step to step. I am extremely pleased with the animation idea which we have come up with, and I feel that it is something which we can work on, and I feel that it is very possible to make in the time we have. I aslo think that it will be good to have a humourus animation which it is. The next step for this, is to actually start making the animation, by starting off we will have to draw our characters, and when we are finished we will have to use Istock Motion, to make our still images come to life.

MAKE:
In the first week of the project I had to make a ten second animation as a practise task. In this task I first of all had to draw lots of frames of basically the same thing. This is because they weren't aloud to move quickly, otherwise it wouldn't look good, if the character was in one place, and in the next frame he was half way acroos the screen. I have also made a few maps, so that I have ideas of what I still need to do. I am pleased with my ten second animation, but I feel that i should have timed it better, so that I could have finished by now. My next plan is to take photo's of this animation to create a moving animation, and then to start sketching images for my final project idea.

Monitor & Reflect:
I have updated my blog everyday, doing research on artists, and also saying on my blog what I have done everyday since this project started. I am please with how my blog looks so far, as it has everything I need, and also I have collected lots of pictures and videos, to show what i have done in lesson, and what art we have looked at. On my blog I plan to add more artist researches, and I also plan to find more work related to the idea me and Liam have created.

Art Research

For my art research, I have looked at a book called 'Animation (from script to screen)'. I have taken down the reference from this book, and I found out that the author of the book is called 'Shamus Culhane' with the initials (S.C). The title of the book is called (Animation). It was published by Columbus Books Limited, and was made in 1989. The page reference is pg 191.

The reason why we chose this book, is because it is something which relates to our risk animation that we are going to use. I also feel that it has alot of information that is going to be useful in days to come, and we can look in this book to find out information if we get stuck on anything. This book also has drawings of birds, and in our animation which we are going to use, there is a pigeon, so we can look in this book if we want and idea of how to draw a pigeon, or any other type of bird in a cartoony way.

Here are photos taken of the front cover, and some photos of pages in the book, which i think be useful to look at:

Front cover:

Animation from script to screen:

Drawings of cartoon birds:

Evaluation of todays lesson

In todays lesson at coleridge, our first task which we had to do, was to sit down and watch a few short films. In my opinion all of the films which we watched were very strange and nothing like what I have watched previously.

Out of all of the films which we watched, my favourite one was The Big Shave. In the big shave, it starts of with a few shots around a bathroom, and has no music. When the music starts, you feel that something is going to happen, and then a man walks in the bathroom and the music, again changes. The main focus of this short film is when the man starts shaving over the same place over and over again. Eventually he starts bleeding, but he doesn't seem to care at all. By the end of the short film he has taken layers from his skin, and the blood starts pouring on the floor.
This can get the audience in two ways; it can either freak them out, or it can be very humourus, and make them laugh. I know that i found it be very humourus.


The short film which I found to be the most boring and dull one, was the Berlin Horse. The reason why I felt that the Berlin Horse was the most boring out of all of them, is because, in the film, it only has a black horse running round in circles in black and white, and then half way through it, they decide to rewind and fast forward it, and add a few colours including:red, green, yellow, blue and orange. The film all the way through is also very blurey.



Our second task of the day was to choose two of the short films, and find out some information about them. I chose 'The Big Shave' and 'Berlin horse'.
Here is what i found out about both of them:

The Big Shave:

Berlin Horse:




The third task of the day was to get into our parteners. I have chosen to work with Liam for this project. We then had come up with ideas for our 'risk' project. Me and Liam drew out a spider diagram, and on it we plotted out some of the ideas which we might use for our final one minute animation. The idea which we are thinking of using at the moment is the one with the image of the man holding a unicycle, and a pigeon about to hit him. We decided we were going to use this one because it is humourus, and we wanted a funny animation.




The final task of the day, was to go to the LRC and find an artist or art book which has work which we would like to take examples from. I think that todays lesson was very fun, and I am very excited about getting down to doing the animation with Liam, as me and him have already got an idea we feel that we are going to use for our final piece, for this risk animation project.

Evaluation of todays lesson

In todays lesson the task which we had to do, was to complete our animation projects, which had to be about 80 to 120 frames long, and would last for up to about 10 seconds. I think that my animation is good, but is not perfect as in some places it moves a bit to fast from one place to another.

My animation starts with a ball with eyes which bounces around the screen. it then goes off the screen, and appears in the next frame which has a trampoline in it. He goes up to the trampoline and jumps on it; when he comes back down he misses the trampoline and lands on a sharp pin which then makes him burst, and he moves over to the trampoline again, but has no luck as a comet appears from the sky and blows him up, and it ends with a massive explosion. After the explosion he appears as just a tiny little ball, then it ends.

My next step for this task is to take pictures of each frame to make the animation look like it is moving. I think that my idea is quite good, as it is funny, but at the same time has alot of techniques in it.

Here are three of my animation frames:

This image shows me drawing the trampoline, which the ball later jumps on. The ball is in the bottom corner of the picture with two eyes.

This image shows me sketching the ball on to the frame; this is when the ball jumps on the trampoline. As you can see, in this shot I am drawing the eye of the ball.

This frame is the third from last, and it is when the big explosion happens when the comet hits the flat ball and trampoline. This is an action shot, as I took the picture whilst sketching out the image. I drew the explosion to make the animation more humourus.

Evaluation of todays lesson

In todays lesson our first task was a listening task, and we all sat round a table discussing things to do with risk.

Our first working task was quite fun, but took a long time to do. In this task we had to work in pairs on a computer and create a moodboard, with images that relate to the concept of risk. Me and Sven worked together and we came up with lots of images to do with risk, for example: Climbing tall buildings without a safety harness is a risk, as you have a great chance of falling, another one was, Chocking. We had to create and edit the moodboard in photoshop.

The next task we had to do was, use our moodboards, and turn them into a little animation video. We had to edit them on final cut. Me and Sven used some brilliant techniques which makes our animation stand out. For example, we had a picture of a gun and zoomed in to it, and then it zoomed out of a dogs mouth. We wanted to try things which we have never done before.

I really enjoyed todays tasks, and would like to experience more tasks similar to this, as i feel it would widen my skills of editing.

Both versions of Jahmal and Svens animated moodboards (un-edited and edited)

This is the un-edited version of mine and Svens animated moodboard:

L3 JAHMAL & SVEN - RISK 1 from cmdiploma on Vimeo.

As you can see in this version of the animated moodboard, the images just flash by and fade into the next image. Although it is the un-edited version there is still some movement going on, as we had to fade all of the pictures into one another. This moodboard was mainly just for puting all of the images on without messing around with them.


This is the edited version of the animated moodboard:

L3 JAHMAL & SVEN - RISK 2 from cmdiploma on Vimeo.

As you can see, in this animated moodboard, it is much shorter than the un-edited version, but there is more happening to draw the audiences attention into it. It starts off with fire which thenzooms in to another picturte of fire, and zooms back out and you see that there is still fire, but it is in a different place, and is a different image. My favourite edited part of this version, is when the camera zooms into the hole of the gun, and then zooms out of a scary looking dogs mouth.

If I had to choose which one is the best out of both versions, then I would most definitely say that the edited version grabs my attention, and is much more interesting to watch.

Moodboard

This is the moodboard which me and Sven made today at coleridge. For this moodboard we had to find pictures which relates to risk, as the project which we are doing is about the concept of risk. We have added lots of different images, for example: Drowning, Falling, and other examples which relates to risk.

Evaluation of todays lesson

In todays lesson, first of all we watched a short film, made from animator (BLU). I think that his work was very amazing, especially when the animation goes along the wall. I love all of the animation that he used, and in my opinion he is a fantastic animator.

Here is one of his short animation films:




In the lesson we also had to do the 'Bouncy Ball' task. Where we had to draw 31 points of where the bouncy ball would move to, and there where also key points as well. It had to be done on postet notes so that by the end of it, we could flick the pages and it would appear as if the ball was moving.

Our last task of the day, was to have a go at creating our own animation character, but we had to draw the animation, we then had to plan what was going to happen in the short animation. When we had decided what was going to happen, we had to start drawing our final peice, where we have to go step by step with each movement.

In my animation, it starts of with a ball rolling around the floor, which then crashes into a wall. After the crash the ball splits into two eyes. The eyes jump onto a trampoline and misses it when they fall back down and splats onto the floor. It then gets up, and is a cowboy and starts shooting around everywhere and accidently shoots a massive water barrel, which then explodes and he drowns in the water.
As you can see my idea is simple, but full of lots of action which will take a long time to do when sketching it out. My idea is also based on the concept of risk, because the person shoots a water barrel which he then drowns in.

I really enjoyed todays lesson, eventhough it was full of hard work.

Thomas Campbell (Profile)

History of Campbell:
Thomas Campbell was born in 1969. As he grew up he found himself to be a very unique visual artist. Beyond his paintings, he is also a filmaker, sculptor and a photographer. He immersed himself in the skate/street, art/punk, hiphop/hell raising scene. Campbell also featured in a surf film 'The Seeding' which was the first ever film he appeared in.

What I like about his art work:
The thing which I like most about his art work/paintings, is the patterns which he uses in most of his paintings. When he uses this effect, your eyes start to blur if you stare at it for too long.

In a few of his paintings, I have spotted that he uses similar techniques in each one. Also he uses swirly lines, and triangular shapes. When you look at his art work, you find that he uses repeated patterns in his work, which i think makes the paintings stand out alot.

The colours he uses in his art work, makes it more interesting, for example when he uses orange and white in one of his paintings, it makes you wonder why he has used these colours., as it lookes very strange.

Here are some examples of his work:

I find that in most of his art work he likes to draw the little huts in them, which i think is very interesting and I want to know why he does this.

Review on Beautiful Losers

The film beautiful losers is all about artists, and about the type of art work and paintings they do. In this film it basically shows how chaotic outsider art became mainstream, and popular.

Beautiful losers is a very facinating and different film to what you would usually watch, because, all of the artists are very weird, but unique in their own ways. You could say that they were charismatic freaks with creative minds. Everything about them is odd, whether it would be their statement t-shirts, complicated haircuts, and their impossibly rare trainers. It is a film directed by artist Aaron Rose, and this is a story of how 1990's outsider art: Graffiti, skateboard deck art, and graphic art- was co-opted by the mainstream, and how artists such as Thomas Campbell, Mike Mills, Ed Templeton, Harmony Korine, and Shepard Fairey, evolved into the great, creative forces they are today.

We look at all of the artists techniques, and why they chose to paint the way they do, and how they come up with what they are going to paint next. In this film, we see the interest in which each artist has in what they do, and how these people end up having incredible impact in the world of art.

In my opnion the film is very interesting, but strange. All of the artists have a brilliant creative mind which shows in the art which they produce. The colours and patterns that these people come up with make you wonder how such great, wonderful, and big things, come out of such small human beings..... Welcome to weird mans land!!!

Concept of Risk

This blogger account, is mainly going to be all about the concept of risk. By the end of the project we are going to have a one minute video. This video may be used with people or animation, but there will be no speech. The video has to be based on the concept of risk.

Welcome

Welcome to Jahmals Maddaz Blog (are you Maddaz fam)