Dominique Camilleri Animation year 2 blog, Ba2

'Lady Ice'- Liron Pe'er - 2010 A student film ' 'This is a personal project that started as my final project for the Animation program at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Israel and after graduating I kept working on it to finish it alone. Working on and off (weekends, holidays, etc) it took me about 5 and a half years to complete' This film not only has ABC structure, but has many stylised shots similar to films. Such as shape/match cut, scene with her model of the man turn into an out shape of the stars. Very impressive for a one person animation. it took her 5 years to make. She began it in 20015, at her 'Bezalele Acdemy of art and design' 'Reversal of the heart- Carolyn Chrisman's Senior thesis 2011 / A student film, made using flash, after effects and photoshop , which took her two years to make. I personally  like this film because I find that despite its very simplistic animation and art style, it really had good use ch...

In todays lesson we focused on transitions, the use of different ways of changing shots. The different types of transitions can be  grouped into: - Cut - Wipe - Fade - Dissolve - Morph A cut is the most used form of transition, there is many different types of cuts such as; 'Shape'/'match cut', where shapes are used to link smoothly two scenes. 'Cut away', where you cut from action to an object. 'Cut on action' where you cut to show anther part of the action, for example the end of a punch or running through the door. 'Cross cut'- two different actions cutting between each other. 'Jump cuts'- Jumping Intime/ jiggered continuity. 'Parallel  cutting' Builds tension on two things coming together. Wipe- The different types of wipes are 'shape wipe' for example hearts, circles, stars. Horizontal v.s vertical. Fade- Fades to black/white or any other colour. Normally used for beginning/ ending sequences. Di...

Film Studies brief Home work: Good v.s Bad shots Bad shots Halloween, 1978 https://youtu.be/2ymKC2Se0Us Hand held camera / Pov shot. I have chosen this clip to highlight the issue, the use of p.o.v shot was unsuccessful here, as the camera (AKA Michels eyes/view) watches the knife as he is stabbing. which is very unrealistic, as you can not act out such as action and not miss when looking away from the object you are stabbing.. Although the use of hand held works well as a point of view shot, they clearly made some errors. Good shots  Alice in wonder Land- 2010 - Tim Burton - Disney- Us- why I like the shots used; Why i Like the Shots in Alice in Wonderland Film Home Work of Good vs Bad Shots dominique camilleir by Anonymous eAhbcpo on Scribd

Todays lesson 24th october 2018, motion graphics lesson. by Anonymous eAhbcpo on Scribd

Today we were briefed on our new project, Motion graphics by Aran Quinn. (The due date is the 26th of November) This project involves collaboration on making a 1 minute motion graphic short based off a refashioned Aesop fables. We have to retell/change the story,  but has to have the same message. Meaning. Each student should do ten seconds of the clip in the group. What is motion Graphics? 'Dynamic animation which creates the illusion of movement' key points of motion graphics: - It makes things more accessible, used a lot for brand designs. - More quicker  compared to a full blown animation - quick turn arounds Style of Motion graphics/rules: - Anything goes - Less is more - simple, reserved - short, gets what you are trying to say across quickly - Bright colours - use of seamless transitions - use of kinetic typography - Illustrative quality - simple, clear narratives -  Elegant, simplistic design - uses colour to project feelings - abstracted ...

Notes from todays lesson; Shots that contain lots of depth are rich in frame. Flat frames convey loneliness/ tight framing. Size= the importance to the film. The bigger something is, the more important to the film it is. The distance between characters shows the relationship between them. Contrast is important, we are naturally drawn to to high contrasts images. Contrast is not only colour/light, but also size and shape. Rule of thirds, nose space/ looking space/ - importance of giving enough room for a character to walk, look, turn with out being out of frame. 180° Rule; do not go over the line of action. When there is three characters, there is two lines of action. You can use over head shots/cutaways/ intercutting/ establishing shots to change the position of the action line. This weeks homework; camera angels that have been used good v.s badly.

Unknown film; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8G3uu8vEjPg&feature=share Chitin no suzu / the rinning Bell The good film; https://youtu.be/VC6Z_kdQoHw Fight club ending scene The bad https://youtu.be/KvlRbZiR-Lc Ghost story (This the part where me my boyfriend decided to stop the film.)

Notes on today’s lesson; In today’s lesson we looked at the animated short ‘world of motion’; We where able to identify wipes/pans, decor style, the camera translation  from moving to solid. This stylised piece uses shapes to distract us from cuts and edits, changes of scenery, motion etc. The use of vertical lines create a smaller, trapped look on the subject. Extreme close ups should only be used for intense moments. The standard abc film set up ; Wide shot      🔻 Mid shot       🔻 Close up Rule of thirds; Look space/ motion space  When characters are different sizes, you have to get creative to make characters have same eye level. The rest of the lesson was spent watching overs film clips. What I learnt from this lesson; - the importance of eye level The use of space/ rule of thirds The way lines can be used to distract the viewer from change, yo create fluid movement

Today I did an experimental styled frame with acrylic paint. I'm not sure if F12 will be able to hold paint, so this something I shall have to test. My painting was inspired the artist  Leonid Afremov, who often paints romantically lit nigh time scenes. I find that his colour pallet draws the eyes in. What I also like about his work his technique, he uses a pallet knife to create beautiful textures, something that I would like to explore more. Although my painting is not beautifully textured nor has the similar vibrant colours, I do like the use of block colour and textures that I have used, would like to explore in ways I could create more exciting textures using paint. 

Weekly summary Inanimate objects: In today's session, we discussed that I need to research the way paper would look in relationship to the way I angel the camera over the pencil/paper/scissors and work out positions of the objects. Recommended was taking pictures of paper/ scissors/ scissors in the framing to be able to understand what objects look like in each angel of height. I had an possible idea of using paints, however it is worried that F12 paper will not be able to hold paint, and it would be to time consuming for this project, at it would be not economical of time if something where needed to be changed. Unlike in Adobe After effects where you can digitally add textures, change colours ect in everything frame with a click of a button. traditional fine art materials v.s Adobe Creative software; I decided the best idea would be to draw on F12 paper, and colour in digitally on the computer or either my Ipad. ALSO, I would Like  to paint different textures and backgroun...

About Joana Quinn: Joanna Quinn, a British animator in partnership with her partner, Le Mills; founded the company 'Beryl Productions International LTD'.  She has a BA in Graphics and a foundation in art, but ventured and then became a professional in animation after experimentation at Middlesex university during her Graphics degree. Becoming well known from her first complete animation, 'Girls Night Out' (1986), (in which she won many awards), she developed her skills further and did international animations,  became a lecture with even more awards. ' fine drawing skills, wonderful characterisations and her humour mark her out as a unique talent.' - (http://www.berylproductions.co.uk/company/joanna-quinn/) Watching Joanna Quinn's animation, 'DREAMS & DESIRES:FAMILY TIES' video on YouTube, I can tell that she as an animator and director uses very interesting and dynamic camera movement, she has adventuresses angels and shots to e...

I was advised to try the iPad Apps 'Rough Animator', to help with my animating process, such as an animatic and the actual animating. 'Rough Animator'- cost £4.99 off Apple. From downloading the app, It has  very professional programming, allowing me to change frame rate and layers. It also works well on my iPad pro with the apple pen. However, I do feel the line style is rather clunky looking. The question I have to face is how I would like to animate; using '2d Paint' using a graphics tablet with windows, 'Rough Animator' on my iPad, or going traditional using F12 paper to hand draw animate an edit it in. I prefer my drawing quality on the F12 paper compared to the technology, however I need to further experiment with Rough animator to truly get an opinion on it. I would most likely prefer to use digital tools to colour in my frames, and it would be most time efficient for me to use adobe after effects to experiment/colour in change frames wit...

Looking into illustrative books, I noticed their use of textures to story tell, specially nigh time set ones. I would like to experiment with textures for my animation before creating it. One particular style I really enjoyed the story book 'The house in the Night', picture drawn by Beth Krommels. I really Liked her use of colour, using yellow and white to contrast to the black,  what I most like is her use of texture, which creates the scene truly. It is much more expressive then realistic. I tried to create a response to her work with my own drawn frame, where as hers looks hand drawn, I did my version digitally. Although I used a lot less white, and far less etched details, I feel the hatching/lines on the lamp, desk, scissor blades and pencil works well. It defiantly creates a more dramatic and cold atmosphere, suiting to the ending shot. for my animation I would defiantly like to add textures, mainly to the pencil and blade of the scissors to get that night...

Clearer version of F12  animation/ animatic.

During the weekend, I bought some F12 paper and worked on a simplified animatic/ animation to work out movement and space, and also camera dynamics. I feel I have now worked this out, and only now need to scan this in properly using dragon frame and then edit it digitally. (This is a clip to test if the paper animatic/ animation works using an app called stop motion, which does not allow you to adjust frame rate.) The use of the app was to check the frames worked  before scanning properly.

Today I decided to look into anther version of story telling, rather than an animation.. Illustration books. A mood board of my visual research What I noticed; -Limited colour pallets, either no colour or limited colours. tend to stick to one main colour with different tones (example, 'Bump in the night' uses different hues of blue. 'Night time' keeps into blue white scheme, with yellow and white and black. (I noticed three colours are mainly used with different tones of each.) - Simple, clear drawings. - Mainly uses texture, less detailed more expressive. - Most have black, blue and white used for the representation of nigh time. Colour Pallete Mood board of the illustrative drawing. From the relationship of colours, Noticing three types of colours used mostly with different tones, I have decided to also only use three colours, blue, yellow and black, and possibly white for texture/highlight.

In todays session, we carried on working on our animatics, I decided to make a more detailed one once again on Tv paint. However, I went too detailed and it became more of an animation. But making this has shown me how I would like the dynamics of the camera movement to work. As one of my lectures said, it shows a lot of dynamic energy, which I feel is effective look for a conflict. This animation also highlighted some issues, I needed to work out the distance between the two objects, in the camera movement it becomes confusing the distance between the scissors and the pencil, as they look much more closer than they should be. Things that have worked: - the three shot types - opportunity for dynamic animation - I believe the story is clear, I just need to make more detailed frames. - things I need to work on: - camera movement is a little confusing, need to fix space/angels of objects when spinning. Things I need to do: -Pick an art direction -complete a fin...

In this animatic I decided what shots I wanted, order and action in each shot. I also made a sound track using adobe audacity using different sound effects for the clip. This is a much more simplified animatic, which shows what I want to happen, however I would like to create a much more detailed animatic which more clearly works out camera movements, angels, space between the objects. For this animatic I just used Tv paint,  I would like to work things out using F12 Animation paper, as I feel I can calculate space better. I plan to upload a paper animatic using dragon frame and then take the shots and edit on photoshop or procreate, to create the animatic.

1 I used for this concept piece, a similar colour pallet to Van Gogh's 'starry night' painting.  What I like about Van gogh's paining is his use of blue and yellow, the way it intensely contrasts, yet romantically. In my version, I added darker tones and some purples to create a darker, less romantic style. Further using his use of yellow, black and blue to create a stronger contrast and dramatic effect. In Van Gogh's legacy, we know that he was depressed and going through mental difficulties; struggling to cope. He also struggled finally, and dealt with a lot of loss in his life time. It is known that he once tried to reach happiness by eating yellow paint, believing yellow to be a happy colour. Which signifies that this painting that visually looks romantic and pleasing, has the opposite meaning ; he could represent isolation, as it overlooks the town not shown from with it, the stars that look beautiful have a darker representation, the bright yellow...

today in our lesson we learnt about the sound program audacity. We learnt how  not only use the program, but to edit and manipulate sounds to recreate sounds more fitting to our needs. for example changing the pitch lower to make the animated creature sound larger. I found todays  lesson very informative, I had never used Adobe audacity and was unware of the ways I could further manipulate sounds, I only knew about speeding/slowing down music, cutting it and duplication and reverse, from software such as premier pro. I was unaware about being able to change the pan, envelope, stretch/thin, change it complexly so it quiets and gets louder in different areas, add and adapt the reverb. Todays lesson has allowed me to find a solution to the sound problem in my animatic. Yesterday I tried to add a 'cowboy show down' music score and a Jaw shark music theme to my animatic, for different shots and movements in the sequence, as expected each music score was long and I couldn't ...

F ilm language lecture week 2; 'You make something to make people feel something' Home work : find a 'crap' piece of work, a unpopular piece and a good piece to show the class next week. Notes: Jaws is so successfully good at its story telling and visuals because it follows all the film language rules. Wallace and Grommit:  Nick park, the director is a a film buff, his interest in films has helped create very well made claymations, he uses lot of expression and smooth editing to give subtle hints that gives the audience information, that they do not realise the have consumed. for example, shots of eye lines: Gromit eyes look up, which then cuts to Wallace upstairs, giving information to the audience of where we are. Also, a quick cut to the calendar which is done well paced, tells us its Gromit's birthday, setting up a expedition for the upcoming scene. Also, as a film buff Nick park uses film references, an example is in the title sequence of a tilted cam...