*Input witty frankenstein related title here*

So I've finally finished my animation to represent Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. It's been a pretty long process; from the drawing stage to figuring out what the final output will look like...coupled with learning how to animate the way I want in after effects. It's actually a pretty sweet program and I'm definatly going to do some tutorials over the summer to buff up. 

So here it is. Frank, ready to be motion tracked onto our recorded film.

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This is just a rough guide I'm going by for the final Frankenstein animation, which is going to overlay the green screen on the book.

Working Progress

ANIMATIC

                

EXPERIMENTING WITH TEXTURING

TYPOGRAPHY

Frank design ideas cont.

ROBOT STYLE ARM

[Skin slowly animated over it]

SKULL & BRAIN 

[Skull envelops brain from outside in]



Frankenstein

So now that filmings done, i've started working on my animated story of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. I've tried to stick to a particular drawing style to better encompass her story; which she wrote in 1818. So I've been looking alot at victorian engravings and illustrations(they really loved their crosshatching), as well as the origional artwork that came with the book and of course our groups decision of a da vinci style.

So these are the images I've come up with so far. I'm still in the designing stage and havn't finalised what I'm going to show on greenscreen yet. We have around 10 seconds to represent each story, so I'm trying to narrow down a few ideas to get Frank across the best. Once I've finished the designing stage, I'm going to look at overlaying text to give it a more "worked on" jotter type look, rather than just a page with a few pictures.

Animation wise, I'm taking influence from the Sherlock Holmes title sequence, where a mixture of ink and illustration slowly shows the characters. I'm hoping to emulate this with my own work...the castle above shows me messing around with colour using coffee (I'd ran out of ink)

Sherlock Holmes style:

MY SHOTS TO ANIMATE

Filming process

So thanks to a great team; filmings now been completed and edited together. Below show the goings on of the filming process and of course the live action film...ready to have the lovely green screens turned into animations showing each of the 5 stories.

FILM

Inspiration/ Style

MOVEMENT & CAMARA ACTION

[Sahara]

 

  The title stills shown above, reveal the characters agenda/ role within the film by the objects the camara pans over. He is shown to be an explorer and adventurer by his accomplishments/ travels pasted throughout the setting. This is something we hope to achieve within our own t/s.

STYLE FOR HAND-DRAWN ANIMATION

[Toyota Prius]

Animation by studio Digital Kitchen, showing the evolution of Prius via the style of Leonardo Da Vinci. Pure Genuius.

Scouting the area...

We began our sequence with a lucky break. Kirk and Lee found an amazing location for our set in the form of an abandoned warehouse. It was whilst exploring the area that the idea for our sequence formed.

THE IDEA...

...is to recreate a scientist/inventor’s work space within the warehouse, giving us the perfect vintage atmosphere we’re after. The camera is going to slowly move through sections of the room; where various images/ experiments/ inventions are to come to life on strategically placed green screen. Each screen represents a different story and gives insight into the series.

We are working collaboratively on all aspects of the animation from pre to post; in order to keep the design consistant throughout.

Title Sequence Project

BRIEF

So it's a new term and a new brief and I'm stoked! Working in groups we've been given the task of creating a title sequence for a show, radio play, film or magazine drawing from what we've learned throughout the year. We can use conventional or experimental animation techniques, motion graphics and live action elements, or a combination of all of them to create an appropriate opening.

The sequence our group has chosen to work on is "Yesterday's Tomorrows", which is a series of 5 hour long TV films bringing to life stories from the science fiction era pre-1940. We've gathered the following stories, with the aim of creating a short animation for each.

 H.G Wells - War of the worlds

H.G Wells – The time machine

Francis Godwin - The Man on the Moone

Hans Pfaall - The Unparalleled

Frankenstein - Mary Shelley

Using a combination of motion graphics, stop motion, drawn animation and green screen and with a good old crack at the adobe suite... its my hope/ aim that we create a fluid sequence that marrys sound and image into a coherant whole.

We've come up with a vast design concept; so in order for us to work to the standard we want, we've set up a number of tutorials and workshops. These include areas such as greenscreen training, the use of camara equipment such as cranes and tutorials in lighting and generators. As well as this, we're collaberating with students from different courses for their expertise/ knowledge in certain areas. We currently have two 1st year and one 3rd year Film student and also 1 Music student willing to help us out.