For my actors for the final project I got CSM actors Mike Corsale and George Johnston to do the voices. George Johnston did the narrator and the director. While, Mike Corsale did the main characters of Claudius, The Dave of Dagenham, The Ray of Romford voices.
Due to limited time with my actors because of their schedules I only had an hour and weeks after that they would be working in a different country altogether.
This would have been the improvement for the animation I would have liked to due to limited time with the actors. Also, not recorded the audio in the sound studio also hurt us due to couldn’t get into it due to how busy it was getting into one. When we did record it in the animation studio in the end, we had bad background noise due to I was talking to one of actors on how I would like to sound like.
Also, an American student who is in the first year is overheard in the background from the recordings, so I had to retouch a lot of it in Adobe Audition so you don’t here the person. Because it doesn’t sound bad in a QuickTime file as it more forgiving, but in Premiere it is noticeable. Also, the score and some effects did helped to hide it well. But, if I redo it again, I would have booked them in a sound studio to sound much better.
Overall, I would work with them again if the opportunity come across.
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As you can guess, first post in a few months, as the image below shows on video 5 timeline (21/4/14) that I did almost 90 seconds worth on animation done.
And this image below shows on video 5 timeline (12/5/14) that I need to do almost 90 seconds worth on animation to do within the next three to four weeks I’ve got left.
And within three weeks between I have been animating the difficult scenes that needed to animated, which includes, the last scene,
the last but one scene,
and the Alfa scenes, which gives me 90 seconds left to animate to complete my final animation.
Also, I had my final rough cut viewing for the animation (8/5/14) with Pete Bishop. I think it went well. No major complaints, just minor changes with timing and laughing from my peers which is still a positive so its still funny.
Also, here below is some testing with some of the minor characters below, which includes Essex Girl, Chicken, Donkey with walk and run cycles from Essex girl and Donkey.
Bye.
First post for a while, and for the last three weeks I have been working hard on the final project.
The great thing is that the backgrounds are mainly sorted with a little help form my first year called Sasha, who has worked with backgrounds in Photoshop and coloured them in within two weeks which is great.
As for main characters they are sorted, with just the background characters and animals to draw. But, characters like Claudius,
…The Dave of Dagenham…
…The Ray of Romford…
and the Romans are drawn, scanned in, and glued in Photoshop, after weeks of doing this in Photoshop and basically being fed up with this in Photoshop, as you guess the title is called Photoshop Hell!
My big pursued from the last month is buying CelAction2D on my Toshiba laptop for £360 at a discount price which I’ve did.
After buying it, I’ve started to animate with it, which includes from the last eight days, 57 seconds worth of animation from the last week.
With seven weeks to go I’ve got 3 minutes worth of animating to do to even finish the animation, so basically that is 26.5 seconds a week worth of animating to do. More to come I hope.
Bye.
After weeks of getting the animatic sorted out, I am now starting to start of my animation. Firstly, I have been testing in CelAction2D with simple character designs that will be in the animation. To start with a squirrel that we see at the start of the animation, I started to work on simple walk cycles, run cycles and experiment with shadow effects too on Monday (3/3/14).
Then I imported a rough version of Claudius on Tuesday (4/3/14), this time I worked on a simple walk cycle and an improve one from yesterday. Also, experiment with shadow effects, and simple expression with Claudius as-well.
Then finally on Friday (7/3/14), I done an much improve version of Claudius with any colour. However, I didn’t had anytime to animate him in CelAction2D.
More time in CelAction2D next week with more character development I am hoping to do.
Bye.
After a few weeks of finishing off the animatic, and after weeks of feedback from professionals from the animation world I am ready to animate.
The feedback from the last few weeks have been positive, which include laughing, laughing and more laughing as positive feedback. Some of the negative feedback, I would not called negative but probably on how to improve it; is to make sure the Claudius character has a strong voice, make sure the characters colours are right such as make sure the Essex characters are bronze, and finally with the right voice actors it can reduce the animation time down 30 seconds less to animate. But, the best bit of feedback is my animation is like horrible histories meet Viz magazine, which was nice.
Finally, I have got my voice actors in place, and also I have found a composer in place for animation as-well giving me ideas what sounds I can use for the animation so far.
First thing tomorrow I am going start to animate my final year animation.
Bye.
Had a busy week of redrawing the new Rough Animatic for the Final Project which was shown on two last Thursday (6/2/14), with one of the scenes was removed and replaced with a new scene.
After this I showed this off to a few people if it works better. Which includes showing this to Martyn Jones, who is an animator who taught us a 2D program call CelAction2D from two last Thursday and Friday (6/2/14 and 7/2/14), which his form Essex, will be the acid test. With his reaction, the animatic works as he was laughing at the right scenes when needed.
This animatic was a little bit clean up version from last Tuesday.
Also, last Friday (14/2/14) we had animator Philip Vallentin come in to look at our animatics. With my animatic it needed to be tighten up in places and also add some more sounds effects when needed. And below, there is a much more clean up version of my animatic so far from Sunday Evening (16/2/14).
Bye.
Last week, we showed off our animatics to Shelly Page, which below was a little bit of a much cleaner version of the animatic in places and added one more establish shot to the animation.
Feedback it was funny with a few people laughing at it. But, sadly a few criticism, which included too many talking heads, too many lip-syncing to do in the time, there was also a criticism that the animation lived its live after the first scene, which I disagree with.
And the big thing that was removed I have to do due to many criticisms and opinions that the West Hammus scene has been too cut, due to too many characters to animate and possibly a very limit minded jokes that the audience won’t understand with, unless you are a West Ham fan. Anyway we have rewritten (cut and chop) a new script with an old scene from the previous script we have placed in and used that to re-draw the animatic. New animatic in the next post.
Bye.
