Completed NSS Sting

Below is the finished NSS sting. I am pleased with the transition from Storyboard to animatic to finished piece. The sting was edited using aftereffects, and uses "A Swan is Born" from the film "Black Swan" as it's soundtrack. I am most pleased with how I feel I have improved in my own work through the process. When I first started this project I was perhaps a bit naive to how time consuming and difficult to get right it would be, but with critique from my tutors,  I feel I have been able to better my work as I progressed. I am also happy with the work my team mates have put in, as the project was harder for them, as they had to adapt to my style, whereas I already knew how I wanted it to look. I think we have done well, and utilized our time and resources accordingly.

Finished Animation

Below, I have presented my completed segments of animation to go with my sting. These pieces are fully colored and include backgrounds. Overall, I am happy with how these completed pieces look, and I can definitely see an improvement to the work I created several weeks ago.

Work made over Easter

Since my last post I have finished all of my assigned scenes. This includes the improvements made to my pre-existing ones, as well as three new scenes. This means that all of my pieces of animation are now ready to be colored.

I have posted my finished scenes below in Chronological order.

Update

I have had another critique concerning my new pieces of animation. My improved pieces are going in the right direction, but still need alot of work on them. The main problem I am facing is to do with spacing, anticipation, and ease in/ease out. If I can improve on these problems, my animation should get better, and I can move onto other scenes.

Progress so far

I am two weeks into production of my Sting, and I have reached a set back. The animation work I have created so far is not up to scratch, and must be altered, or started again. After a tutorial, it was clear what I had created so far was not of a good standard, and even ignored basic animation techniques such as The 12 Principles of Animation. The main problem that I had created for myself was that I was trying to follow the poses i had created within the animatic too much, whereas for full animation I needed to add more dynamic actions. From this tutorial I have seen where I have gone wrong and what needed to change.

From the mistakes I have made with these initial pieces, hopefully i will be able to progress further without the same problems as before.

NSS Sting Brief

Through this blog I will chart my course through the production of a sting; a short piece of advertisement. The sting will have to advertise the National Student Survey, and be branded towards the University of Lincoln. I shall be supervising a small group who will be working towards the completion of a sting based on my idea. The idea for the Sting started out as a storyboard, which was then turned into a moving animatic.

Within the brief, it stated that the sting must be no longer than 20 seconds, whereas my storyboards would create a piece was was much longer. I altered my Storyboards, and created an animatic using the new ideas.

From this animatic, my Sting was chosen to go into production. The time scale for the project was only 8 weeks, so each aspect of production had to be thought out before hand, so problems did not occur further down the line. I created a week by week plan to keep track on production.

I shall post my progress to the Sting as production goes ahead.