Animation Post-Production Pt.2

My musician friend said he would be glad to help with the BGM for our project. He's just going to need access to a piano. I've sent him our groups animatic and the voice acting involved so he can get a feel for the animation and try and make something that works with it. My other friend hasn't gotten back to me on the voice acting request. Initially he said he would love to do it but I mentioned he would have to come up to Leeds he stopped responding. It been a week since then so i doubt hes going to, and my classmates have already gotten some voice acting done for it so I don't think we'll need him anyway.

Animation Research Pt.1 - Gravity Falls

Callum has expressed an interest in making our animation have an aesthetic feeling of Gravity Falls. He wanted it to look something like the opening to the show, noting how the trees and wildlife looked.

 I don't exactly know how we'll get to that stage of detail but perhaps we could figure something out.
I assume that since this is a project about the environment, specifically about deforestation, using trees will be very important. The region that Gravity Falls takes place in is a fake town in Oregon, so looking at some various fauna from that region might be a good idea.

Animation Pre-Production Pt.2

Callum has told me that we're going to be using Paper cutouts for the animation. I expressed my ideas about it and told him about how i'm more comfortable with digital work, but I doubt it's going to be too much of a problem for me. We're going to be going with Deforestation as the topic of our project, so I assume there's going to be a lot of tree cutouts appearing in the next few weeks. There hasn't been much updates for this other than that. We're all too busy working on other projects at the moment to care about this right now.

Animation Pre-Production Pt.1

I'm won't be involved in the Pre-Production process so I'm just going to be using these blogs on the updates that Joe and Callum have told me about their process. So far I have not heard much other than them telling me to get in contact with my various friends (you can read about that in the Post-Production Blogs i'm going to be writing in the meantime) and that they're using mixed media to make the animation. I'll update as the information comes out.

Animation Post-Production Pt.1

We've been talking about what to do for the music in post production and I noted that I have a friend in Chicago who's a musician and he would be up for making some BGM for the animation. I also have a friend who wants to voice act in one of my animations who lives in London, so I might be able to get him in to record some audio for our animation sequence. I want to reach out for this project and see if we can't get more people involved in it. My classmates said to reach out to these people and see.

Introduction to Applied Animation.

Today we got an idea about what our Applied Animation Project will be on. I got teamed up with Callum and Joe to make an animation about one of the following:

• Sport
• Mental Health
• Family
• Environment

Honestly speaking not a lot of these appeal to me. The only one I really see myself being somewhat interested in is the Environment one, but even that seems at least a little droll. I want to see how this can become interesting though and I hope to make it appeal to me the more I figure out.

We managed to put out a general idea of who's going to do what so far and I like the division of workload.

Joe will be working on the Pre-Production, Background Colours, Scriptwriting, as well as some parts of Production.
I will be working mostly on Production/Animating, as well as Post-Production Assembly and Editing. I'm also going to be communicating with a friend about musical collaboration.
Callum will work on Pre-Production, Drawing, and Character/Asset Design. He will also be helping me with some Post-Production.

Callum wanted to use mixed media to get the look of our animation and I have no problems with it. I noted that doing it digitally might make it come out faster however. 

Overall i'm looking foreward to seeing how this project turns out. I just hope it will be able to hold my attention.