Week 6B

In Class

Today in class, we moved on from Rotoscoping to Stop Motion. Over this weekend, by Saturday at 12 Noon, we have to have our name reveal up on D2L. By Sunday at midnight, we have to respond to three other students stop motion projects, each response being 200 words each.

Week 6A

This is my final rotoscoping project for National Love Your Pet Day, on February 22nd.

Critique:

Questions:

- Is there a narrative?
- Do they use rule of 3 well?
- Is boiling consistent with style?
- How does timing work?
- How is overall visual form & composition?
- How can they improve the visual form & composition?

1. Sophia
- Lines are smooth, which made the final execution turn out very well.

2. Ben P.
-  Like how he took initiative and made the clouds slightly move, it sets the scene.

3. Bailey
- Good details, the facial expression is visible even thought it's small.

4. Bryce
- If you fill in the jelly beans it might make Happy Easter easier to read.

5. Summer
- Make the person bolder if you don't want to add color to them, just so the important parts of the video stand out.

My Critique:

• like how the view is expanded to the proper size.
• Have the fish make it's way out from behind the castle faster.
• Use a hand-writing font instead of strong sans serif font
• Add more detail (like to the fur)
• Like how the camera is moving a little bit, makes it dynamic
• Color schemes are nice
• Have the words appear at the end, or appear throughout each scene.
• Like how the words appear, kind of makes it like it's a gif.

Week 5 Outside of Class

Week 5B

In Class

In class we had a meeting with Professor Pannafino about our scenes for the rotoscoping project.

Week 5A

In Class

Today was an in class work day for our rotoscoping project. I continued to work on Scene 2 of my project, and decided to add the castle into the animation.

Week 4 Outside of Class

Rotoscoping Project - Scene 2

Over the weekend, I worked on Scene 2 for my rotoscoping project. This scene is going to involve my goldfish swimming around in his tank. I am also going to add a castle. Here is the progress I have so far.

Week 4B

We did not have class today. I still came in to work on my scenes for my rotoscoping project. I began Scene 2 and continued to edit Scene 1. I had to redo Scene 1 due to the fact that it was not in the proper video format.

Week 4A

In Class

Today in class, we went around the room and critiqued everyone's first scenes for their rotoscoping project. Here is some of the feedback I received:

• The dog goes pretty good, you've even got the motion of the wagging tail just right
• fluid movement, I imagine muted colors with maybe some bright accents
• the hand is a little cut off which makes it tough to see the petting movement
• Interesting first few seconds...excited to see more
• good depth & realism
• not 100% sure about holiday yet, however you only have a few seconds done
• why portrait?
• eyes could look more "finished"
• I like the squiggly eyes
• can't tell what line on floor is
• Fill in the dog's eyes with some color
• The form is there and there are not many shaky lines
• full of life; make the style a confident, consistent choice. I like the loose scribbly eyes - go with that
• The style choice to make it look like it was filmed on a phone was a cool choice; Perhaps play around with that concept.

Week 3 Outside of Class

Rotoscoping Progress

This weekend we are supposed to continue working on the progress of our scene for our holiday greeting.

Week 3B

Rotoscoping: First Scene

This is my first attempt at my first rotoscoping scene for our holiday. This is a video of my dog walking up to me and I'm petting him. This is for the holiday National Love Your Pet Day.

Week 3A

Today in class, we took a quiz on the first 33 pages of Animation Unleashed. We were allowed to have notes with the quiz - except it had to be one page, one side of notes. Here are my notes:

I think I didn't do bad on the quiz.
After the quiz, Professor Pannafino showed us some basic skills in Adobe Animate, the program we are using for our first rotoscoping project. We were supposed to have our storyboards today, along with a video you will be using in your project. Here is my storyboard:

Explanations of each frame is in my previous post, Week 2 Outside of Class. 

I recorded 3 possible videos to use in my video. I have posted one below that I will be using in my rotoscoping project.

Week 2 Outside of Class

Storyboard Sketches and ideas

Top Left: My chinchilla can sit on my shoulder. I was thinking to add a small clip of him sitting on my shoulder, maybe while I'm on the computer or something. 

Top Right: I give my chinchilla a treat every day when I wake up, before I leave to go anywhere, and before I go to sleep. I could film a clip of me giving him a treat and have him take it and nibbling on it.

Bottom Left: As the ending, I could have a clip of a family member (or me) hugging my dogs, and having hearts pop up behind us in the background. Then have that clip fade out to National Love Your Pet Day showing up (Bottom Right). Obviously the text will be centered and proper. 

Below my first 4 sketches, I sketched out a storyboard of 9-12 frames. 

• The first clip would be of one of my dogs, and him coming up to me, wagging his tail, and me petting him. (Frames 1-2)
• The next 3 frames would be of my chinchilla coming up to his cage door, and then I would open it. I would pet him and give him a treat. 
• The next two frames will involve my fish. I am going to be looking in the tank and it will be filmed where you see my face through the tank and you will see my fish swimming around. If that doesn't work out, I will film myself feeding my fish. Except I don't think the first idea will be an issue.
• The next 3 frames will be where myself or another family member will be sitting on the couch, and the dogs will come up and sit on the couch with the owner. The owner will pet them and they will all sit together. Hearts will be animated into the clip, and then the clip will fade out into the last frame.
• The last frame will show "National Love Your Pet Day" on the screen. I think I will handwrite it so it will apply more to the style.