Week 4 - i Dent process

The 3rd week of this project was mainly continuing on with the hand drawn assets ready to live trace into illustrator.


Monday - Continue on with the assets in illustrator.
Tuesday - The assets by this point will be finished or nearly finished and almost ready to animate.
Wednesday - Once the assets are finished I will begin the animation process in either Cinema 4D or Aftereffects
Thursday - Continue on with the animation process throughout the day
Friday - Again, continuing on with the animating process, this could be continued on through the weekend but will ideally be finished by monday ready for rendering and importing the sound bite.

GASTON CABA

Like with the work of Tado, I really like the vector based illustration style used, again I really like the simplistic style of the characters and the block shading and the black outlines. Overall I quite like his style, although I prefer a style with a little more detail in the characters facial expressions.

TADO

The work of Tado is very simple, vector based illustration. This is probably my favorite example of his work, I really like the simplistic style of the character, as well as both the colors used and the vector style used.

iDent Example 2

Again this concept is incredibly simple, but is made interesting by simply having a quirky and original character

iDent Examples 1

The concept of this iDent is very simple, but the characters really make the final product an interesting and quirky piece, this is a perfect example of how to turn a very simple concept into a good final product just by having interesting and engaging characters.

Week 2 - IDent

Monday: Carrying on with proposals, improving and finalizing them before inserting them into a broken down shorthand version for the powerpoint presentations the following day.

Tuesday: Proposal presentation, present rough concepts in a group discussion and finalizing final narrative concept with contributions from peers and tutors.

Wednesday: Begin work on the treatment of my project, going into detail about the concept, the art style and producing a final storyboard with a coloured frame showing exactly what the final product will look like in terms of it's aesthetics.

Thursday: Carry on with the coloured frame and finish off the treatment, making sure I have covered all aspects of the animation and making sure each is in detail.

Friday: Once all these aspects of the pre-production work have been finished, begin work on the assets for the animation, this will continue over the weekend and throughout the next week until they are finished and ready to animate.

iDent - Week One

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Research into existing professional standard iDents relevant to the brief providing annotation on the style and techniques used. Research will be done by looking at existing examples on the iDent library on the E4 website and various other commercial animation websites. I will also research into various illustrative and character-based concept art that will inform the creation of my own characters, again commenting on the styles and techniques used and why I would like the apply them in my own character.	I will start to think of various concepts for my short animation; I will produce a range of ideas so as not to rely on one idea in the early stages of development. I will link the concepts back to the brief and the other aspects mentioned in the proposal and the treatment.	Writing up the proposal and the treatment for my own production. The documents will explain the theory and context of the work as well as the concept and how they relate to the brief given. They will outline such aspects as how I will like the animation to look, what techniques and programs I may use, the intended audience and the concept. It will also concentrate on how I will carry out the evaluation process.	Once I have produced these parts of the pre-production work I will begin work on rough character concepts and rough storyboards of the narrative, commenting on the shot type, movement etc.	Once I have finalized my rough storyboards, I will produce a set of polished images in color to show what the final concept will look like. I will also begin work on my PowerPoint presentation for the following week, the presentation will include all research, video clips and concepts, which I have produced and will be presented to the group for feedback.