30 Frame Sequences

Here are the 30 frame sequences for the 4 Manipulate animations.

Manipulate 1:



Manipulate 2:



Manipulate 3:



Manipulate 4:

Manipulate Animations

Test:



Manipulate 1:



Manipulate 2:



Manipulate 3:



Manipulate 4:



Overall, I'm not impressed. I still can't quite get my head around this program as quickly as other people but I hope to improve significally later on.

Binary Binary Binary

For the past few months I've had major drawing block. I started focusing everything on uni work and when I would come home (and do more work) I simply didn't have the energy to draw anything. (That, and every time I picked up a pencil an act of war was committed to paper)

And then that went away the other week:


Warlock from the Marvel title; New Mutants. Yes he's an alien robot. No he's not a transformer.(Though coincidently, they did come out in the same year...ekk)

On top of quick digital drawings I have also been trying my hand at digital painting:


No it's not David Bowie. I haven't finished it yet and it probably won't be done with for a few months. (slooow)

My illustration skills are not quite up to scratch, I need to work on them if i'm really serious about being an illustrative graphic designer. I still don't know what area I want to go into (whether it is character design I want to do) or narrative graphic design.

I have a few months to ponder that one out. I don't want to stick myself in a comfy specialised corner as I like all aspects of Graphic Design including this current module. obviously it's going to take me some time to get my head wrapped around After Effects, but it's proving very useful and I'm currently really enjoying the module.

Am I Good? Am I Evil?

New task today!

After looking over our condensed story boards, we where given a new task and it involved that handy little website know as youtube.

We had to team up and find a good example of Kinetic Typography. (For the animation, please look at my Design Context blog)

Today was all about looking at the pace of a animation and breaking down.

1: (JD and Chartreuse, handy for those rolled up pieces of work.)

The first treatment was taking a 30 second section of our clip and breaking it down into a time line. 30 second animation, 60 cm time line broken down for 2 second clips. (There where 16 screen grabs overall but we left off the last one because well...it didn't fit.)

2:

Then we had to take each of the sound clips and map them out a time line, with corresponding image grabs.

3:
I'm terrible, I've forgotten what this one is about.

Story Boarding Task

After Fred's workshop on Thursday, he set us a task to go away with. Before we had 3 treatments for our letter with 12 frames each. We had to condense that down to 9 frames. We also take those 3 original treatments and condense them to 18 frames on the same sheet.

I thought it was going to be tricky, but having only 9 frames to work with sort of helped with the planning.

Movement:

Horizontal & Vertical:

Static:

Combined 18:

Story Boarding

Today we had a story boarding workshop with Fred.

We could use only one letter and had some restrictions, such as in one the letter has to be static, in another it needs horizontal and vertical movement and in the final one it needs to move from front to back or any variation there of.

Also, they had to be to do with our chosen word. Mine is 'manipulate'.

Static:
My idea for this would be electric shooting through the letters, changing them from a serif letter to a san's serif. Shooting the serifs off, in some kind of Doctor Frankenstein making his monster kind of thing.

Horizontal & Vertical: (Please excuse my drunken image, I'll straighten it out later) Serif letter floats upwards, it's serif's are caught and fall back down. The, now san serif, letter floats back down.

Movement: Serif letter zooms out woods and comes back down as a sanserif with it's litter serif's tumbling back down.

Module 2 GO!

A new day, a new module. Design for Digital and I'm quite looking forward to it!

I did a year of animation on my ND graphics course so I'm looking forward to learning more about that.

But first, the return of the randomizer box! After the module briefing with Fred, we did a small brief in the space of a few hours just to get the brain going again. We where to pick 3 words from the box and visually represent them on A2 paper.

My words where: Manipulate, Tap, Open

So first, my doodle/idea sheet:


I just wanted to throw some idea's down first and then move along to actually putting them down on paper.

Manipulate:

This is my favourite one. It's based on a font I found on DA font, but I changed it to show manipulation. As you can see, the electric shoots through the Serif letters and zaps away their serifs, making them, eventually, san serif.

Tap:
I didn't just want to draw a tap, or anything related to tapping. So I made the Spinal Tap logo/font. I think this could be animated quite well, if you use a little imagination.

Open:
Worst, representation, ever. Seriously, it looks like clip art.