More References

Here are a few more videos and photos to aid me in my animating where certain poses and movements cause some difficulty.

River:

AJ character actions:

Shot 2 + 3

After a think about the film, I decided that the hair wind blowing wasn't going to be an issue because I asked a few people and they said that a in misty conditions, wind wasn't present, so instead I gave AJ a scorning look towards the photograph in his hands.

Shot 2

Shot 2 coloured using the colours from the insert picture.

Shot 3 (rough).

Film Shots

1. Title and Pan up to bridge
2. AJ looking at Photo
3. Ripping up photo p1
4. Ripping up photo p2
5. Tossing paper into river
6. Looking down at hand
7. Taking off ring
8. Looking at ring and throwing into river
9. Ring falling into river
10. Man walking away p1
11. Man walking away p2 and ring coming back up
12. Man turning round
13. Ring on the bridge
14. Man suspicious and walk over to ring
15. Picks up ring
16. Looks at it and then at river
17. Ring falling over side of bridge again and man looking over
18. Man reflection in river and RM jumping out of river
19. RM landing on bridge and man stumbling back p1
20. Man stumbling back p2
21. RM head cocking
22. Man walking over to RM p1
23. Man walking over to RM p2
24. RM falling back into river
25. Man running over to bridge p1
26. Man running over to bridge p2
27. View of river from bridge
28. Man running from bridge p1
29. Man running from bridge p2
30. Man running along river
31. Man stops at river wall
32. Man looking frantically for RM
33. RM appears near man
34. Closer shot and RM walking towards man p1
35. Close up of man
36. RM walking towards man p2
37. Man and RM (from behind RM)
38. RM shows ring
39. Ring in RM hand
40. Shocked man goes to take ring
41. Shot of their hands together
42. Far away shot of both characters
43. Man snatches hand back, scratches head
44. RM smiles and rummages through sleeve
45. Confused man
46. RM pulls out photo, lifts p1
47. Lifts photo p2
48. Man shocked goes to take photo p1
49. Man takes photo p2
50. Touches photo
51. Smiles at RM
52. RM smiles back and walks away
53. Man looks on at RM
54. RM walking away far off shot
55. Man smiles then takes notice of left hand
56. Raises left hand and opens it (ring on finger)
57. Shocked at first then smiles again and turns to walk back to bridge
58. Walking back close view
59. Walking over bridge

Test Animations

A test animation of the second shot:

Done in Flash to see how the animation would pan out. I wanted to try animating hair blowing in the wind.

Colour Quicktime Test. (The colours look brighter than they should be because of the upload).

The film will however be done in flash as PS takes far too long and is rather fiddly to colour.

Mime Poster

V.1

V.2

Jordan Character Designs

Some character designs for Jordan's project.

Animatic 3

Slightly changed version, added some more motions to the story, but the timing still seems quick, so I'll adjust that and neaten the lines ready for animation.

Final Concepts

Here are the colours for my characters and the surrounding landscape.

River Man in 'river' form.

AJ and RM (human)

General Background colours.

Colours blurred to add more focus to the characters.

Ring design.

Colours and patterns for bridge.

AJ looking at photograph v.1

AJ looking at photograph v.2

AJ and RM in 'river' form.

Refined bridge and landscape design. (Note: These aren't the proper colours as the line drawing of the bridge is a scan and it came out dark, so the shot looks darker and greyer than it should.) 

Bridge vector and colours.

Bridge and landscape without lines showing proper colouring.

RM heads and fins.

Sound Effects List

Sound Effects for Nathan

• River water running/rippling
• Birds singing
• Trees rustling
• Wing blowing
• Card ripping
• Clothes shuffling/Coat
• Average Joe breathing heavy
• Paper fluttering
• Water splashes (plop for ring (two versions) and big splash for Riverman falling into river (three versions))
• Footsteps on bridge (walking and running) and feet shuffles
• Ring ‘clink’ on bridge
• Water falling on bridge from Riverman

Jordan Businessman Concept Sketches

Last week, Jordan and the rest of the pre-production team working on his film had a sit down with the tutors and we went over the character design for the businessman in Jordan's film. After a chat, we decided that it would be best to re-design him to something less 'Boss-like' and turn him into something more 'Employee-like'. So I suggested something along the lines of 'Paperman' (Disney's newest 2D/3D animated film) and have done some sketches for Jordan to work from.