Final Animation Link

http://youtu.be/u0b27JcOPtw

Wed 1-3 my office work due. Thanks!

Animation in AE file, animation (compressed OK), all work done earlier.
I'd like a record of process as well as product.  Thank you.

Thanks for excellent work! Latest all work due: 12/12..

Very nice show last night.
Apples?  Did you notice apples everywhere?!

See end-of-semester instructions in previous post below.
I'll grade from
    blog
    all work to me on disks or download
    quality of final work (including work not in show)
    and process/participation.  
Y'all did good.
Please post final animation to blog if you can... or give address on vimeo or youtube.
Thanks!  Have a great semester in Germany or wherever you go....
 

Final animation

Here is the link for my final animation!  This one is compressed slightly so that i can actually run it on my computer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8ZxuiilO9w&feature=plcp

Almost Done, Guys!

I just wanted to wish everyone in this studio "Good Luck" in the final few days we have to finish these projects. Its been a crazy semester, but I'm glad I had the opportunity to interact
with everyone in this studio, seeing everyone learn so much. So, finish those projects up and hope have fun relaxing once its over!!! I love y'all!

-Ethan

YOLO

Final Work and All Work Due

FINAL WORK:

1)   Final is due the last day of class, T 12/4, 8:00 am to Glen upstairs, if you want to have it considered for the VIST show the next day.
Go here for instructions:
http://www.viz.tamu.edu/staff/gvigus/vistshow/

2)  OR you can submit finished final on F 12/7 3-5 pm or W 12/12, 1-3 p.m.
Bring to my office.

3)  In any case you should submit your work by T 12/4 to the blog either as finished or as WIP.   (When work is completed, submit that to blog too.)

ALL WORK:

F 12/7 3-5 pm or W 12/12, 1-3 pm is also the day and time to submit ALL your files done this semester.  Bring on jump drive etc to my office.  O

Ethan's Mega Update

Since I haven't posted on here in forever. Here's a little update.

Right now it is Monday morning, 7:20 am. 

I haven't seen sleep since I woke up Friday morning.

I've basically locked myself in my room for the past 3 days with nothing but my cintiq and 

energy drinks (I'm such a hypocrite, making these animations and then drinking these 

things), besides the occasional leaving the house to breathe/ eat. 

You may ask, "Ethan, my dear and near friend. Why so diligent in working all of a sudden?"

And with that I will answer, As you may know up to this point I have had at least 3 or 4 

ideas for this project leading up to where I was last you saw me. 

And unfortunately (not really) I am in no way proud of the product I currently had. 

So quickly going through character sketches and ideas earlier in the semester

I am revisiting one that I had started animating but left behind. 

In this short geared towards a teenage/ college audience, two characters are

compared side by side, one in a positive light that is backed up by healthy life choices, while 

the other is seen as negative and has poor health habits. 

Nearing my 72nd hour of active working these are a few screen shots to prove I actually am 

pushing forward (God forbid I work at home) from the monstrosity I was working with 

before. At this point I would say I am about 80% done, needing only as few basic 

background assets and character animations.

 This is the character design for Shaun (good example). I am very satisfied with how crisp the

style looks as opposed to the previous.

This is the character design for Chad (bad example). He is full of bad attitude and shows that just

because you're not fat doesn't mean you're in shape.

This is a shot of Chad partying and making poor life choices. It's still missing a background, but

 was cool to edit in AE.

Woah! Look at all those layers and assets you have to work with there, Ethan!

You must be a really cool guy when it comes to making things in After Effects!

I can't believe you've never used it before!

False.

That about sums it up.

Michelle R at 5:30 Friday!

Disney Animation Studios Presentation

Friday, November 9, 2012

5:30 PM

Langford C105

Guest Speaker:

Michelle Robinson

Look Development Artist

Former MS VIZA Student

Sugar & Kids Again

Sugar-Sweetened Beverages

.
Sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB) are drinks with added sugar including: non-diet soft drinks/sodas, flavored juice drinks, sports drinks, sweetened tea, coffee drinks, energy drinks, and electrolyte replacement drinks.  The calories in sugar sweetened beverages can contribute to weight gain and provide little to no nutritional value. Sugar-sweetened beverages do not fill you up the same way that food does. Those extra calories can lead to other health risks including obesity, tooth decay, heart disease and type 2 diabetes.

What you should know

• Approximately 11% of the calories youth consume come from sugar-sweetened beverages. (more)
• Each 12-ounce soft drink per day consumed by children increases their odds of becoming obese by 60%. (more)
• Among young children, aged 1 through 5 years, consumption of sweetened, carbonated soft drinks was associated with an 80-100% increased risk of dental caries. (more) 

Source:  Rhode Island Dept of Health:
www.health.ri.gov/healthrisks/sugarsweetenedbeverages/index.php

Assets

Just figured I'd post up what I had. All of the character parts are movable and changeable, the backgrounds are all in movable pieces so that I can manipulate parallax and subtle camera shifts. 

Not sure if I'm still utilizing a shift from desaturated at the beginning to bright at the end, but that will be easy to apply afterward in AE.

Honeybees and not-really-snow-white Turtledoves.

Figuring I won't need anything from the opposite angles, but that I could just mirror these in a pinch.

Remaining Schedule: Animation

Please note due dates, when there will presentations and critiques.
Please schedule work-time outside of class.

Week 9:    (This Week)
Work on assets and backgrounds
Work on 10 seconds
                 What is your artistic expression?  References?

Week 10
T 10 sec due
Attend talks upstairs?

Work on 10 seconds
Week 11 
T 20 sec due
Work on 30 sec

Week 12  
T 30 sec due
Major Critique
Work on Critique suggestions; Light, Textures, Color; Title & Credits

Week 13  
T Critique changes Light, Materials, Color adjustments due
Finalize All
Thanksgiving

Week 14  
T Finalized Due
Th Render Due

Week 15  
T 12/4 Animation Due to Glen upstairs for VIST SHOW
W VIST Show; Geren:  Artwork reception 5 pm; Animation show 6 pm

Week 16  
Digital Portfolio Due

Esquivel, Saslow, Davison Today 2:20, 2:40, 3:00 Geren!

Esquivel on Bubbles, me on recent art and where it came from, Dick Davison on Heavenly Architecture.  Geren Auditorium 2:20 - 3:20 to hear and see all three.

Video Tutorial PS to AE Workflow and Hot Keys

Hot Keys

·         Ctrl/Cmnd I – import file

·         Shift/ - Scale to fit to composition, view

·         R – will reveal Rotation for Selected Layer

·         Cmnd/Ctrl Z – Step Back

·         End – Jump to end of composition

·         Cmd/Ctrl d – Duplicates Selected Layer

·         S – will reveal Scale for Selected Layer

·         P – will reveal Position for Selected Layer

·         G – Pen Tool

·         Cmnd/Ctrl C – Copy

·         Cmnd/Ctrl V – Paste

·         U – Reveal/Collapse all current key frames for selected layer

·         Shift Pg Down – 10 frames forward in time

·         J – jump back to previous keyframe

·         Cmnd/Ctrl A – Will select all layers

·         Home – jump to beginning of timeline

·         T – Reveal opacity

·         +/- Will zoom you in or out on timeline

Make Image in Layers on PS

Couple of ways to open up Photoshop file in AE (2:40)

·         Footage: everything is one flattened layer

·         Composition – Retain Layer Sizes (will look same as PS file, can edit PS file and automatic update)

·         Have Folders and Keep Everything Organized

·         Pan Behind Tool and then choose layer upon which you want to put anchor point on for rotation (4:25)

·         When spinning for rotation if you cross 360 degree mark it will count one revolution and so on, u can edit the number of revolutions, it is easier (5:39)

·         Before making copies, you should parent objects that need to be together

·         Parenting tool, click whip looking object under parent and drag to layer desired (7:50)

·         You can move Layers above and Below to put in desired order

·         Can scale object non-proportionally by selecting the bounding box handle, to scale proportionally hold down the shift key

·          Solo Button allows you to only view that layer, first button right of the eye on selected layer (12:40)

·         Can copy other layers from your different folders and copy and paste them into the document you are working on (13:14)

·         Holding Shift while dragging handle of layer will make it snap to lengths of other layers

·         Holding Shift while dragging an object will allow it to move only on the direction of axis desired (16:29)

·         Using Layer order to create a sense of depth

·         Can enter in any desired time code to jump to that spot in the timeline (17:51) (18:12)

·         Can move the layer and will automatically add the key frame to desired spot

·         Ease in on object – select desired key frame, go to animation toolbar, key frame assistant, easy ease in (changes key frame interpolation so that there is easiness on selected key frame) (19:14)

·         Clicking diamond to left of stopwatch will drop key frame in selected place

·         Move desired Layer behind time of cover up animation to avoid it being in shot (22:04)

·         Holding Cmnd/Ctrl will allow you to select multiple individual objects of layers (24:48)

·         Take finished Composition in put it in Master Composition, Draw Composition and Drop  (27:47)

·         Can trim preview section of your video by, grab yellow handle and slide (28:40)

ANOTHER ONE

http://vimeo.com/groups/2Danimation/videos/6693568

This one's a good ~2.5 D~ type deal. After effects!!!!!

My Favorite Thing Ever

http://verabee.com/snowbo.html

so good. so so good. look at me, sharing with the blog.

Watchmen Motion Graphic Comic

A Little Something

After Effects Review

http://tv.adobe.com/show/classroom-after-effects-cs5/

Episode Title	Runtime	CC	Products Covered	My Library
Part 1 - Animation and Compositing Basics	00:27:36
Part 2 - Animation Technique and Keyframe Interpol...	00:26:54
Part 3 - Masking and Duplicating Layers	00:23:44
Part 4 - Parenting	00:09:36
Part 5 - Pre-Comps and Master Compositions	00:23:50
Part 6 – Photoshop to After Effects Workflow	00:30:39
Part 7 - Final Touches and Rendering	00:31:43

http://www.videocopilot.net/basic/

Effects
Expressions

Inspiration: Wolf Children

As you start to work on your animation, look at this example of level of detail, and motion of camera and placement of camera. Any special effects? Other?

REEL ANIME 2012: WOLF CHILDREN TRAILER (English Subtitles) [HD

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=8xLji7WsW0w

The Real Bears

Please watch for inspiration and information!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=myxwCEGcBYc

Poster Ad for Bottle Brawl

Concept Art

Concept Art

1st animation

this is the animatic with the improved storyboard

I have posted comments on all visual work here

I commented on all visual work that was on the blog.
Much of this was covered in class, but here are the comments anyway.
You can learn by reading the comments on other students' blogs too.
Did not comment on research or story, since we have discussed these so much in class. 
Happy Concept Art!  All work due midnight Thursday, as you know.

Basics of PS and AE

PS for Concept Art

You are working on your concept art (and then on whole script),
and should know enough Photoshop to do it.
Here are PS basics taught be Adobe.
Start with Changing the Photoshop view, end with Working with Zoom tool: 19 short tutorials = only 1 hour and 40 minutes.
http://tv.adobe.com/show/learn-photoshop-cs6/

AE for Animation

Set aside THREE HOURS to watch these -
Basic Compositing and Animation in After Effects
http://tv.adobe.com/show/classroom-after-effects-cs5/

Note particularly Photoshop to After Effects Workflow:
http://tv.adobe.com/watch/classroom-after-effects-cs5/episode-6/

This is an interesting one from After Effects CS6 Digital Classroom:
This one is 9781118142790 on camera flying in (and interesting layers). 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owO8aHt6TMc
You can look at other tutorials at this site, too.

WIP animatic

WIP Animatic. Still searching for some more music.

Intensity Chart

Intensity Chary: Salvation Apples

Next week's work: end of basic design

SB 2:  Recently you made SB2: the cinamatic version of your storyboard.  You considered framing, motion of camera, motion of characters, transitions, cutting, etc.   You used the Transformation Tools in  the Composition Timeline of anchor point, position, scale, rotation, and opacity to pan, dolly, make close-ups and distant establishing shots, etc.  You ran through animation again and again for timing.  You added music.  We had crits of 7 of these; 3 more next Tuesday.

You based SB 2 on the Making Comics PowerPoint lecture, and on careful analysis of camera in Sleddin' by John Pettingill on Vimeo:  vimeo.com/4229747   You are continuing to refine your SB 2 after crit!

DUE TUESDAY: 
BRING INTENSITY CHART AND COLOR SCRIPT TO CLASS. BRING LINE ART BLACK AND WHITE CONCEPT ART DRAWING & Reference Images TO CLASS .  Do thumbnail sketches first to consider alternative construction and views.  

1)  Art Direction:  Intensity Chart and Color Script (Done before or after concept art.)   You can do this simply, but must carefully consider colors you want to use and include those at bottom of intensity chart. (You can also include colors as reference dots on PS shots if you like - you will later.)

 

2)  Concept Art: Design of Major Environment(s) (Establishing Shot(s)) in Photoshop

*You must gather reference images.
 

*Please study the following blog as a reference:  sleddin.blogspot.com
   Note particularly (in list on right in BLOG ARCHIVE):
   Lighting Paintovers
   FX paintovers
   Concept for set-dressing of final shot 
*Study also at this demonstration of one way to find what you are looking for:
Feng Zhu Tutorial on Speed Painting of Concept Art:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmff8bBCYW4&feature=relmfu  
Episode 56 - MMORPG Landscapes  

Do Concept Art as black and white drawing on paper first.

In class we will bring black and white drawing into Photoshop.  Finish painting in PS in color/value. 

(Can be wider and taller than movie frame so you can pan or look up.)
Post to blog as flattened version when finished or as WIP (work in progress) as you go along.
(Keep original version in layers in PS so easier to animate later.)

Add detail, textures, light now if you have time, or wait until you start animation following week.

All work Due (including earlier work):  Midnight, Thursday Oct 11, MCS office: burn to disc.

SMEAR BRUSH PRESETS THAT LOOK GOOD

ESPECIALLY WITH PEN PRESSURE WITH A TABLET

WITH STRENGTH AT 70%
AT HIGH SIZES IT GOES PRETTY SLOW BUT YEAH SERIOUSLY

Storyboard 2

Matthew Garrett, Character Design

Finalized character design with color for villian: Coke Bottle

Matthew Garrett, Character Design Cont.





As I continue to develop my storyboard in after effects I have been finalizing my character designs.  The water bottle on the left is starting to get the shape I want.  I think I will use the name 'TAP' with the same bottle design above.  I am not very sure about the eye placement for the watter bottle (the main character). I am very pleased with the Coca-Cola bottle and will continue to develop his appearance. 

Matthew Garrett, Intensity Timeline

Matthew Garrett, Intensity Chart

2.5 D animation test

I am planning on animating my characters on a 2.5 dimension photographic surface, so I am dissecting and rearranging these photographs to create the environment. After several rough attempts and a handful of tutorials, I got a glimpse of progress.

3 sec test animation

Walk Cycle

This is really rough, but it was my first time and it was realllly sketchy

Week 2- Character Hansel Kelly Richard

Ethan Gallardo, Story, Week 2

MONSTER ENERGY! DONT FEEL THE CRASH.

This is an advertisement promoting water and demoting artificial energy drinks. 

Two boys named, Little Poet & Jonny Fuego are placed in a competition where one is allowed to drink an energy drink and the other is allowed to hydrate properly by drinking our best friend, water. 

Little Poet would drink the energy drink and starts out at a rapid pace (with steam blowing out of his ears, his face about to burst, and even his skin is changing colors) and wins the first event, jumping rope. As round two starts Jonny Fuego, who drank water, goes at a steady pace while the other begins to feel the effects of a crash from the sugar high and loses the 2nd round. 

Little Poet is completely useless from by the time the final round starts and is asleep or something of the sort.

The ad will end with a setup glorifying water as a part of all our diets, recommending 8 glasses a day. The Slogan of the ad will be "Don't feel the crash!"

Exposition: A child is sitting in a park looking glum, an cartoon character approaches him    

Conflict: The child feels bad for being picked on and being insecure about his appearance 

Climax: Together they confront their enemy, The Sugar-Bully, who is affecting the playground.

Resolution: The Sugar-Bully is defeated and the child loses weight and becomes happy.

Ethan Gallardo - Character Animation Test

Character Animation Test

Just trying things out, seeing how a 2D character appears in 3D space.

test animations

THIS LOOKS PIXELATED & GROSS. THIS DOES NOT LOOK LIKE THIS IN REAL LIFE AKA MY COMPUTER.

                                          

Josh Seal-Test Animation

Take in mind I'm planning to do this animation in 3D, so it'll look quite different.

Sally Franckowiak - Test Animation

Not sure why the lines look so funky here. Probably because it's so shrunken down. Anyways, it was a "test" so I tested making a 3 second animation in photoshop. And then just turned it into a gif to post here.  Those are candies she's throwing into her mouth.

Maggie Trigg - Adjusted Character Design

Since I'm pretty sure I'm working with my little sister as a character now, I figured I'd adjust accordingly. I think the design is simple enough to make After Effects animating feasible, too.

Just one angle:

Playing with the idea of technicolor monochromatic children as crowd though. Just to keep down on the details (easier to work with fewer colors) and up on the cheerfulness (hooray, colors).

THOUGHTS? :0

Scedule until start of animation

Needed before the start of  animation:

* Research 

*  Story

*  Character Design

*  Storyboard 1:   Narrative: text becomes consecutive images

*  Test Animation: Apply After Effects to facial animation or 2.5D; 3-5 sec

*  Storyboard 2:  Cinematography   

*  Art Direction:  Intensity Chart and Color Script (Done before or after concept art.)

*  Concept Art: Design of Major Environment(s) Establishing Shot(s) in Photoshop

Follow schedule posted in studio.  
Post work to blog.
These are critiqued along the way, and graded as a group before animation begins.

Due:  Midnight, Thursday Oct 11, MCS office: burn to disc

Good Luck!

Shots & Vocabulary

CAMERA SHOTS
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shot_%28filmmaking%29

FILM VOCABULARY
http://www.wabashcenter.wabash.edu/syllabi/w/weisenfeld/rel160/filmterm.html

After Effects 2.5 D tutorials, etc, to watch

 

After effects 2.5D modeling tutorial (Harry Potter)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71WOiuXpIpg

City, Box, Harry Potter title

Matte Painting - The Making Of "At Oblivion s Gates"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NYrBc_dDAE&feature=related

Three strange, complex French animations. 

Note design, character design, art, environments, motion, layering, parallax, 2.5D.

One Day

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFART6ZMeEA

Le lac gele (the frozen lake)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVl7a0sZ21k&NR=1

Trois petits points

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0yC2ldpBFI&NR=1&feature=endscreen

One of the excellent AE tutorials at creativecow.net                                                                      Character Design and Animation in AE: Part Two (Motion of eyes and lip motion)         http://library.creativecow.net/mize_rob/AE_Character-Design-Animation-2/1

 

Josh Seal, Character Design, Week 3

Here are my character designs for the tortoise and the hare! These are just basic character designs to get the shape and stuff down. I envisioned the rabbit being a bully, with a bandana or something trying to show off his toughness. The turtle I plan on making a nerdy active guy by giving him some goggles (I would give him glasses but turtles don't have normal ears so there's no where they can go!) and maybe a cool watch or something. They're both supposed to be in elementary school, so they'll have some kind of school supplies as well.


J

Maggie Trigg, Story, Week 2 (Well, Storyboard)

Working off of/parodying that video (the first 30 seconds).


I only really needed to rewrite the line about Coke to be about water...

Here are my storyboard-things (just a quick pass over the shots in the video + what I'm changing) in GIF form. I will be redesigning the people to not be... real people...

Thoughts on whether they ought to be children/animals/whatever?

Ethan Gallardo, Character Design, Week 3

This is not a final representation, I might still play around with certain aspects of the character such as layering, color and various stylization. I need to start thinking of a way to make this character easy to integrate with a live actor on a live environment.

Matthew Garrett, Character Design, Week 3

Maggie Trigg, Character Design, Week 3

Just a rough idea for a cute vegetable-paletted character.

Going to work out a story; it would be cool to adapt something like this to Josh's tortoise and hare? But probably make the hare less... visually kind.

Monochrome:

Tentative color: