Making Components for Animation

This blogpost summarises what I have been doing for this brief over the last few days. 

Part of my designated tasks was to do some set design ideas for our animation. I took some inspiration from the internet, searching for images of Somerset, festivals and farm life. From this I completed five possible options for a set design and sent these via Facebook to my teammates for feedback. In return, one team member said they like the one labelled as 'alternative arrangement' but the one with the marquee would also work well because it is meant to be at a festival. 

I also did some research into festival clothing but from the initial images I collected, I felt that the clothing didn't feel very British. This is why I chose to look at outdoor clothing styles as well to hint at the weather in the English 'summer'. I want to find some middle ground between these styles with my character drawings. I used ink for these because I felt most comfortable with this material and I know I had a limited amount of time to get on with this. I used textures and patterns I found online on their clothing to capture the festival theme, I also thought this was a good method that could be replicated by other team members to ensure the imagery we were making worked as a set. I am pleased with my outcomes, I feel I have captured the target audience of the product well, especially within the festival market. 

I briefly spoke to one of my team members in the studio about dividing the props for the set so we could get on with stuff by ourselves. My task was to make the tractor, buckets of apples, hay bails and some tents. My team mate was responsible for the orchard pig crates, bunting, some tents, and needs to finish her half of the festival people. 

I took the same approach as before to my half of the set props, drawing the outlines in ink and using found textures to fill them. The set is going to look collaged but I think this will help with it looking less flat because we have included real life imagery. 

I printed all of these out, stuck them onto white card and cut the shapes out with a scalpel. I was staying late in the studio so I thought I would get started on the set because this was a shared task, this was the night before we had booked to do our animation and I felt like there wasn't much time left. I printed grass textures and sky and started to collage something together. Seeing as I hadn't seen any alternative set designs from my team, I went ahead with the design I had received positive feedback on. I messaged my teammates with images of what I had completed and a list of things we need to complete before starting the animation. 

At this point I can see this starting to come together although I have not seen my teammate's contribution yet. I am hoping when both of our work is pulled together tomorrow morning then we will be ready to get on with the animating process as soon as possible.