Final Storyboards

My final storyboards. I removed the first few frames of the setting because Meg suggested as did Tom that they weren't necessary.

2D Walk Cycle

Turned out better than I thought it would. I thought it'd look worse than this

Disney- Up

Up is a film created by Pixar in 2009 and was directed by Pete Docter. The film is based on an old man trying to move his house to fulfil his deceased wife's childhood dream.


I rather enjoyed the film. However I didn't see how it was supposed to be completely tear jerking at the beginning. Kinda guessed something bad would happen. Although I thought at first when in his childhood he was standing outside the bordered up house that it was because his parents had left him. After the beginning though the film was rather hilarious. I also find it rather interesting that Pixar give hints to what is about to happen. Certain objects are placed in the beginning of the film so they don't 'suddenly' appear towards the end.

Female Hatstand- Try 2

Here's hoping this is the last time I have to draw a design for my character. Spoke to Phil and we both agreed that the strange 50's/60's dress like look worked best.

Ping Pong Ball Try 2

The bounce motion on this is a lot better, however it could be a little faster still.

Different Animations

On Friday Meg was talking about different mediums used to create animation, such as cut out and paint etc. When she showed that it reminded me of a few short animations I did whilst at Maidstone.

The first one is a mini animation I did to practise getting into the hang of using a program called 'Dragon'. Dragon for those who don't know is an animation program created by animators. It's very easy to use. The animation is created using cut outs of different materials (mainly cardboard and paper) and the backgrounds are ink and bleach. The music isn't that great because we had to create our own. We weren't allowed to find anything off of the internet.



The second one was for my Final Major Project at Maidstone. This time I chose to create the puppets and use stop motion to create my animation. Again I used Dragon to take the shots.



The music could have been better on this as well, however the animation had to make do with me playing the recorder.

Ping Pong Ball

The ping pong ball. I need to work with my timing better, for this is far too slow.