Thought Bubble convention

These are a couple of photos for the Thought Bubble comic convention, this is a hobby of mine and I also like to draw my own short comic strips in my own time and develop characters to suit my stories it has been something I have been doing before I started graphic design, in the future I aspire to develop my own comic story along with animations. 

BAF notes

BAF notes from peter lord talk and how he became a legend with animation, he talked about how he started out at the age of 17 filming and modeling all his characters from plasticine e.g. morph to now working with mechanical skeletons and replaceable face in a growing company now called "Ardman" a name Peter nick named a BBC TV presenter.

Few notes from some animations watched on the first day, they were generally alright but some seemed very boring and lacked excitement due to artwork and content.

Japanese animation on the representation of women by Nebuaki Doi, demonstrated men animation and women animation based on the perception of women, stereotypes, sexism, representation and appearance.

Notes from talk about Strange Hill high and how it was made, the functionality of the puppets and what processes and methods are taking into consideration before animating, like talking through different acts and scenes and the animation achievements. The actors Doc Martin, Richard Ayoade and Emma Kennedy.  

Laika Stop motion models for Box Trolls
 

Copyright

This PPP session was all about copy righting and what guidelines we must follow when using music in our animated videos and what symbols we were to be aware of, that could be of great use to us in the future as we progress on our course. We have to think about placing our animations on public websites e.g. Facebook, Pinterest etc because my very own animation could be pirated and taken which would lead to going court to reclaim my own work back. There is also the option of putting your work on to a copyrighted website so that people can borrow it but will not be able to claim it for themselves, I would never mind people glorifying to others and showing of what you have done but there comes a certain point where you must stop them from send your work away or it falling into the wrong hands.

SWITCH. A short film by Tyson Hesse

An animation called click, basically this animation is about a boy who discovers that a switch in his bedroom causes things to appears when its being flicked on and off. I don't know too much about the animator but I just happened to be browsing the web/youtube and managed to find this, I really like the design of the characters, I feel its similar to my style. I want to draw ways of making my animated characters look more like it in colour contrast and style, the effects are great and I think who ever thought of this is amazing.

Flash intro

Flash introduction, think it is an alright package but will not use it in the future for anythingI feel that it involves too many shapes and after a while shapes feel boring to me. I prefer actual body figures and characters I can configure at using my own imagination, that is why I use photoshop. I do not like the whole fact you can see line movement behind every you place on this package, very annoying.

~Burnt Toast~ Animation

This is an animation by youtube artist called Jordan Persegati, draws a lot of cartoons and anime collages using famous characters and some of his own made up characters which are sometimes can be badly drawn. This cartoon is not the best but it demonstrates some of the 12 principles of animation e.g. stretching and squashing, the animation could do with a lot of improving, the background is blank and the character is disfigured and developed inaccurately, the movements are very slow.        

Please! Teacher

Please! Teacher is a very funny anime, I have been watching lately. It is based on a boy who witnesses a space craft land in a lake when he is on a walk through the woods, he later on finds out the person that was flying the craft was his new High School teacher. I have currently watch only two episodes so far but I am finding them to be really funny and full of surprises, the characters are very lively and entertaining to watch. The movement of the characters are very clean and they seem almost like real people in cartoon form, the main characters foster parents are very hysterical especially his father when he happens to see his new female teacher.  

Illustrator induction

We worked on editing a character in illustrator using the pen tool and opacity to lower the density of the character and then drew with in the lines as an experiment. We didn't go through a list of settings in photoshop so we were very limited with using complicated effects. Me my self I know how to use Illustrator a fare bit but not too well because I jump between packages like Photoshop, I know how to use a lot of effects to neaten and clean up images for a flawless look.

Really funny twist on Mario and Luigi's brotherly relationship, mario is more like a tenager who does not want his little brother luigi to tag along.

Illustrator Induction

Worked with illustrator on using the pen tool, had a practice though I will need practice with drawing pen tool shapes. This was just a basic experimentation to understand the basic parts of a complicated package.

This is just a demonstration of just a play around with brushes the pen tool together.

Animation Research

Animations

Samurai Champloo

Samurai chamloo flows three main characters, Mugen, Fuu and Jin who are three wonderers through out japan centuries ago. They bump into one another when a big fight happens in cafe where Fuu works. This fight is held between Jin and Mugen who are rivals through out their journey. 

"A young woman named Fuu is working as a waitress in a tea shop when she is abused by a band of samurai. She is saved by Mugen, a mysterious rogue, and Jin, a young ronin. Mugen attacks Jin after he proves to be a worthy opponent and they begin fighting one another and inadvertently cause the death of Shibui Tomonoshina, the magistrate's son. For this crime they are to be executed, but with some help from Fuu, they escape and Fuu asks them to travel with her to find "the samurai who smells of sunflowers."
"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samurai_Champloo"

I have followed all 26 episodes this anime is full of surprises especially the first episode when all the main characters meet. I like it because of the action that the anime is packed with especially the fight scenes, Mugen is my favourite character of all, love his Hip Hop inspired back rolls and spins. Another thing with the cartoon is that it is highly inspired by Hip Hop in so many ways even the way all the characters dress and walk. I wish they had made more episodes, i really think they should have stretched the cartoon further.

     












The same character designer that developed the characters in Samurai Champloo developed this animation for Kill Bill Vol 1 for O-Ren Ishii one of the assassins for Bill. The artist is called Kazuto Nakazawa.

Boondocks

Boondocks an adult swim cartoon currently running at season 4 on 2014 is based on three main character Robert, Riley and Hue. Robert is a grandfather that has moved to a place called Woodcrest which a highly rich populated white neighbourhood, he moves here along with his two Grandsons Riley and Hue. Roberts newly found house happens to be owned by Ed Wuncler the third who his a highly regarded rich man who owns a bank. The story follows these three main characters and how they get into so much trouble  in every episode whilst they are living in their current home an neighbourhood.

Created by Aaron McGurder  and animated by Lesean Thomas.

This was known to be a comic created by Aaron McGurder and moved on to become an world wide black adult swim cartoon.  













Black Dynamite

Black Dynamite is another Adult swim cartoon and another favourite cartoon of mine. it follows a ruthless pimp like hero that leads his own crew to saving their own black pimping civilisation. Black Dynamite is a action packed cartoon with surprises and excitement.

"The show is predominantly a parody of and tribute to blaxploitation cinema. The show continues the story of Black Dynamite and his crew of Bullhorn, Cream Corn, and Honey Bee as they engage in dangerous and over-the-top misadventures sometimes involving African-American stars such as Michael Jackson, when he was part of the Jackson 5, O. J. Simpson, Richard Pryor, Mr. T and other celebrities such as Elvis Presley, as well as Black Dynamite's recurring nemesis President Richard Nixon, who was also the main villain from the film. The show makes references to the original Black Dynamite film, such as Fiendish Dr. Wu as the leader of a group of ninjas; the show follows its own continuity, as some characters from the film who were killed off are alive in the series."
"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Dynamite_(TV_series)"

  

Pat Lee - Concept Drawing "From Thought to Form", Top 10 Panel/Page Lay Out Methods and How I Make Comics, Pt. 1 [Script/Pencils]

These  are some forms of animation I have looked at in relation to scenery for animation and story plots. One of my favourite comic artists is Mark Crilley who is a highly known Youtuber and comic book author for his comic books Miki falls and Brody's ghost, I like his drawing style, he like to draw a lot of manga and has a very neat drawing style which I like. The bottom two videos belong to mark krilley and the top video is on drawing and shading a character which is one of the techniques I need to focus on including my proportion to scale.    

How to Draw Fight Scenes

Another Youtuber called koizu, his anime drawings are very clear and strongly detailed, I like his use of a mechanical pencil and the way he observes vanishing points and scenery. I mainly like his drawings because of the details he puts in and the etching and sketching he does. His characters are filled with life and his outlining is superb.

Character Design Tutorial Part 1: Research

This video is by a youtuber called mikhail dingle he is a character design artist, I really like his method of designing and drawing style main for his colouring because his contrast is very good and the body plus toning is in proportion and stand out as designs on a page.

Mike Tyson Mysteries Series Premiere: The End | Mike Tyson Mysteries | Adult Swim

A Mike Tyson animation, this is wicked and I love the detail they get into the face of mike tyson, the cartoon almost reminds me of the old scooby Doo a classic Cartoon so people would say. I see some of the 12 principles in play especially pose to pose and squashing and stretching. The voicing of the characters is spot on and perfect.

Korgoth Of Barbaria I. [HunSub]

Very funny and mythical tale, its random scenes almost remind me of Adventure time and the drawing style is very soft but very aggressive and violent, content is very hilarious. When I watch this it brings back my childhood because the era reminds me of heman especially the main heroic barbarian like character along with the demon  like creatures, this cartoon is violent but funny.

King Star King: Watch "KSK !!!" the Pilot Episode Now | Adult Swim

Very funny and random animation, almost reminds me of Adventure time because of its random features it contains. Imagery is very detailed for a cartoon and can be seen as very explicit for an adult cartoon, very funny and classical fable.

The Birth of Captain Murphy | Adult Swim

This is a short animation by adult swim of a rap artist called "Captain Murphy" also known as Flying lotus the experimental Hip Hop music artist. It is very dark but I like the colouring and the characters are very funny and remind me of some of my friends I associate with. The main character is what I would like to see of my self, he is very creative and likes to develop his own characters from scratch, but the character looks like he has come back to haunt him like an unforgettable nightmare.

Photoshop tutorial 3

To days tutorial was a carry on of what was done the previous week with photoshop. We learnt how to animate by frames the previous week, this week was animating using a timeline. We learnt the basic principles of animating using photoshops, the brief was to communicate the four different elements of earth, winter, water and fire. The lesson was mainly focused around the timeline and onion skin settings which allowed the animation to be continues in phases by fading each stage of the animations movement.

e.g.

This is a clear demonstration of my Element animation, it shows the fading of the ball and leaves the fire behind and an traveling effect.

 These are both notes and ideas I jotted down for help with developing Ideas and techniques for my animation. Key notes were made whilst, I was talked through the steps of time lining. In the tutorial we were told that steps of movement were to be recorded before an animation was developed. The movement of a character is to be measured before animating because the animator needs to have every precise measurement so that the animation is very clear with its movements and communication of a characters feelings, emotions or depiction of scenery.

Pest

Pest from Cartoon Brew on Vimeo.

Wicked animation, cartoon style is very interesting with detail funny cartoon with very hilarious scenes that pushes the boundary. Very random, like the random scenes because they surprise you with laughter, your not expecting to laugh but the character just does something outrageous and then your forced to because of the excitement and the strange/abnormal behaviour of the character. I think the fact that they have made the character blue makes him look like an alien and gives him another funny aspect for a character, he almost reminds me of Johnny from Ed Edd and Eddy.

Storyboard (Liked example) "BZD ART"

I was surfing through the web when this storyboard caught my eye, I really like the drawing style and find the characters very expressive and communicative towards one another. Use of detail of the black ink is very well done. This piece mainly caught my eye because the style of drawing is very similar to mine, but I would like to develop my style further, until I can draw a lot smoother like this so that my work is very uniform and neat. This by an artist called "BZD ART" his work is amazing and I really like his drawing style because of its focus on accuracies such as; detail, colour, shading and drawing style.

This Artist can currently be found on blogger and this piece is another amazing piece of visual art, love the detail and the focus on the characters.