Week 2

Week 2: Friday 17/01/20
This week I researched the colour of wine, (here is my slide of my research) 
I found that wines colour is affected by a variety of things: type of grape, environment, and age. There is more what can manipulate its colour. However, that detail is not vital for our animated short. I need to further adapt the environment as the team wants me to adjust the colour scheme. I also need to add-in a colour pallet for crows for the team to evaluate.

We also had a meeting this week to discuss style frames. Analysing my style frame, I was asked to do flat colour (no shading or highlights), and have thicker lines; next week we will discuss the choice of colours for the crows, and if we will have light outer lines and darker insides or darker lines and more luminous fill. Here are two versions of my previous style frame from a potential storyboard:

Furthermore, this week I met up with the producer of 'Happy Places' to discuss my additional role as 'marker.' We agreed that I would promote events, our work and product (the film), and initially be our online presence. The producer and I have begun pitching ideas and concepts of logos for the online platforms. For now, I have created an Instagram account and Facebook page for our short film, with a mock tempory logo and 'Facebook' banner, using free online software called 'Canva'. However, when we have agreed on a design, I plan to design using Adobe. Applications such as Photoshop, Indesign and illustrator. 

This week on the project, I have also begun drawing up my storyboard and plan to do my animatic and style frame next week. 

With 'Light Frogs', this week I have begin drawing up draughts of my storyboard. However next week I will be digitalising it, making for a swift transfer into Adobe Premier or Tv for my Animatic. The team has decided the order of scenes we will be taking, and have problem solved how we will show the development of time passing and transitions. I suggested, as our frogs are elements of stars, each scene should be featured at night; which brought up the issue of how we will show time passing if the time always look the same. Where I suggested we use moon phases, Using shadows on the moon to represent different nights of the period of a new waxing moon. 

For my personal showcase project, I have are-reading over my previous plans. I see my next steps are for me to re-adjust my animatic accordingly, find new voice actors as the previous were not the right fit, experiment with sound design; and do research for character acting. Then I can move on to production part of my pipe-line after editing parts of the pre-production and be back on track. This is a small fall back, but it should take two weeks at the most. After re-constructing my animatic I can also begin doing rough animation on the side of additional research and adapting the designs of the props and characters; finding more economical designs for tv paint. If I fall behind, then I will go back to my previous animation plan of drawing the parts of my character and animating in After effects. My current plan is to animate characters in tv paint (with editing of colour and textures in after effects) draw rough of the boat in tv paint in (so characters movement, position and weight is correct.) and then do the proper animation using after effects, with the tv paint version as a  guide for composition and movement. To have a smooth compositing when I seam my animation. Backgrounds will be drawn in Procreate and photoshop.  After Effects will be used to animate parts that do not have dynamic movement, for economical reasons.