Research Laika

I really like the work of the film Coraline. So I did a bit of research in to the company Laika. Their website is http://www.laika.com/. Unfortunately they are based in America, but I going to try just incase. They do feature films but mainly commercials.

Animation Shot 17

As you know I did the blue screen of the Sand Troll and now I have animated the beach and Sophie. In post production I will add water which surrounds Sophie.

The quick time file was too big but I did a quick shot on After Effects to see what the final shot would look like. Luckily when I put it together, everything was timed right.

Animation Shot 12 - 15

As Sophie walks along the beach she kicks a glass bottle. I was a bit worried about finding a glass bottle the right size, as my puppet is very small and it would have been difficult to make one. Luckily Rob has a tabasco sauce, which was the perfect size.

Shot 13 was very tricky as I had to animate her taking off her necklace and making it swing side to side as though is was a chain. As well as animating the necklace going in to the bottle. I had two problems with this because one, the shell was too big to fit in, so I had to crush it to fit it inside. Problem two, was that the necklace was longer than her arm length, so she couldn't drop it in from above. In the end I decided to make her look like she was threading it in, which I thought look fine.

Another thing I had to do was super glue the bottle to her hand, because there was no way I could attach it due to it being glass. I was very worried that the hand would be destroyed, but it luckily peeled off

Animation Shot 11 - 12

Here is the shot of Sophie walking down the rest of the steps and on to the beach. I had to do this shot twice, as the first one didn't have enough momentum.

Research On Self Employed Work

Recently I visited an old friend of the family who wanted to show me her grand daughter's illustrated children's books. I really liked her style, as her work was designed as a collage. I thought it would be a good idea to email her and ask if she would like if I turned one of her stories in to an animation. She emailed me back and sounded interested, and asked what my idea was.

Here is one of her illustrations

www.sparkypinklet.com

If everything goes well I plan to do this over the summer and find out from futures if I can come in and use the facilities, as I would like to do my animation on the multi-plane.

Research Hot Animation

Another place I'm planning to apply for is Hot Animation. This company does 'Bob the Builder' and 'Pingu'. Their website is http://www.hotanimation.com/, which has contact details. This is another children's t.v company.

Business Cards Research

Ready for the show and applying for jobs we need to make a business card. So I've look online at some sites to get some inspiration, like http://stocklogos.com/topic/ultimate-creative-business-cards-collection. I wanted to some different, creative and interactive. These are some of the business cards that I thought stood out to me.

I want something colourful with a picture or pattern covering one side. I also would like to do a set that is in 2 or 3 different colours. My business card needs to relate to animation, so thought I could make a business card that when you spun it, it would create an optical illusion (video below). I thought I could do this with my logo name.