Assignment_Write-Up

I have finished my most of the materials for this project, which is ready to be animated but I'm not all the way done with all my drawings or elements. 

I also have my revised animatic mov.

animatic write-up

This is my animatic for the proposal piece that I'm working on. Now when I look back on this piece I see a lot of problems coming out. It's still not clear about being slow and controlled so I will need to beef that aspect up. Also, I noticed that some of my story is not really integrated. 

Proposal Rewrite

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Workout item

Background

In my next project, I want to animate these characters above doing three different challenges/ workouts that will favor the turtle more that the rabbit. In this animation I will be portraying how taking ones time, being consistent, and in control is more beneficial than just pushing heavy iron. In this dual, I have created stages of development for both characters that will take place at different times in the piece to express the growth and mass build up, after every workout/challenge. I do plan on having animated text moving through the background so that it's not too static, but enough to keep the piece interesting. This piece is about rhythm, control, and growth. I hope that the use of text will help with the kind of energy that I'm hoping to achieve. I do want the back ground really minimal and close to static because I don't want to loose the characters in all the text. 

Critique Follow-Up

In response to the statements in class, I learned that I should really try and come up with a list of metaphors that I can choose from so I'll have something more broad to work with. I think that there may be a way to incorporate some kind of text into this next project and I feel that it may actually change the piece and take it into another direction. I also learned that I should really push the idea of muscle and growth and how it relates to my metaphors.  

To better explain my project I'm wanting basically play around with the idea of slow vs. fast. The main character, Mr. Turtle will be my vessel for depicting my idea. What I tried to do in class was come up of some kind of illustration of different ways I could possibly create my aesthetic. I want to basically show how be patient and taking time can cause more results. 

Proposal

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Assignment write-up (masks)

In this project I really tried to break away from the normal weight-lifting aesthetic. So, I chose a word that goes along with weight lifting and then basically came up of another way to portray that word. I chose "resistance," so in this project I have basically made an ant and a frog basically tug "o" war against one another to portray and kind of resistance happens in weight lifting. Back and forth up and down. I choose the ant because they have the ability to lift 10 times their weight and I wanted to express that. The frog was chosen because they come in all shapes and sizes and I know that the frog will be a total resistance. Sort of like trying to tug o war a tracker. 

About the masks, I didn't really take advantage off them so much because my piece is only fifteen seconds and the action starts immediately. Honestly I didn't think they would add or take away. However, I did use masks in some areas.