Second Shot

Now with the second shot, the environment was originally going to be a beach, but with the water and sand it would be too much hassle to animatie and also unnecessary since it'll only be shown for a few seconds at the most. So I  kept to a much simpler more "still" environment of a grass field by the mountains.

Again I kept with the same colour scheme and basic lines, trying to achieve a cartoon look and I'm pleased with the final outcome.

After finishing the scenery I added the girl reading. We wanted to include the E4 logo in every shot, so here as she turns the page of the book an E4 logo is on the next page. Each shot is shown for only a second or two, so I animated little jitters that would happen such as the grass swaying and her hair blowing slightly in the wind. I'm pleased with the final outcome, as I kept it simple with little detail making it easy to animate but the only improvement I would make is to give the girl some feet. But again, since the shots transition to the next so quickly I didn't think its necessary to spend time on it. 

First Shot

While searching for videos of blinking eyes, I found this pretty cool product called a KinetiCard Eye Think. Obviously I could have just recorded by own eye blinking as reference, but I didn't want any eye, I wanted quite a simple illustrated looking eye. Where it was realistic but also not at the same time and this KinetiCard was perfect. I really like how the eye was drawn and it blinks in quite a creepy way. 

And below was my own version of the KinetiCard Blinking Eye. But to put an E4 twist to it, I put the E4 as the pupil and added some purple dripping out as the eye closes. I did this because I wanted the blinking to cause an effect, then after it'll zoom out to the next scene. I kept the colour scheme to black, white, grey and purple to make the E4's signature purple colour to stand out more. 

Group Roles

With a quick animatic done, Amelie and I have split up the tasks at hand. I will be drawing all the 2D scenes, which include the backgrounds and simple animations. And then Amelie will take care of the 3D aspects and the compositing. We assigned the roles according to our strengths and skills we already possess, as I am a much more 2D based and confident in drawing where as Amelie prefers 3D and wants to experiment with particles. 

Intial Storyboard

Above are the initial storyboards I drew. The idea was to have random environments, zooming out to the next, revealing worlds within worlds. We decided to have random unrelated scenes as E4 is known to have quite a quirky and strange stings. 

And here is a rough animatic to help illustrate the storyboard clearer. Problems I found so far, was that it was quite tricky to align all the shots together and make them zoom out at the same speed. And because the sting has to be 10seconds, it doesn't give us much room to let the audience see much. The last shot is also the most difficult, where it zooms far out from the ipod to the E4 logo. Because we're trying to portray the ipod as a tiny pixel in the E4 logo, it means the camera has to zoom really far, therefore the camera has to either, increase it's speed a lot more or I need to give the camera more time to zoom out. However, because the sting is only 10secs, I'll have to increase the camera speed but if its too fast it'll look very strange.

E Stings

For the final project of this year Amelie and I have paired up to create a 10second animation for the E Stings competition.

When we went to Stuttgart we saw a very inspiring animation by Andreas Hykade. 

I like how the animation progresses in time with the music, getting more elaborate and colorful each time.

Below Amelie found this piece online but the artist is unknown. We really like the idea of an image within an image within another, almost endless. 

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It starts off with a toilet, then a man steps in to the toilet which shows the toilet as a small part of a set. Then it zooms out of that showing the previous shot in a book, with a man reading it. Then it zooms out further showing that he's in a tunnel, and from that, it shows the tunnel as a picture in a frame of the wall in the toilet of the first shot. It's cool how the images keep zooming out in a continuous loop.