Research guide

Just thought it would help if I put down what the picture is from and what animation it contributed in research towards

1. UP! - Russel a little boy who wants to have an adventure helped in designing my little boy for VS. Monster

2 - 3. Toy story - Andy and the imaginative scene helped also in coming up with the idea of VS. Monster

4. The lost thing - About a man finding a thing on the beach that doesnt fit in anywhere else gave me an idea of what the unknown object could be it also helped a little for VS. Monster and Opposite

5. Stewie - In this family guy episode stewie clones himself to carry out the mundane tasks that he doesnt want to do, this helped in creating Opposite

6. BBC news - This is an article discussing the likelyhood of a parallel universe that could be no more than 2 millimetres away from our own. Which helped in the story creation of Opposite to help explain it to peers and the lecturer.

7. monster drawing - helped in character design for Vs Monster and my monster attack concept idea.*

8. Imaginationland - South Park Episode about them meeting things from their imagination helped in how to merge the boys imagination to real life for Vs Monster

9. Dr.Who - Dr who meets a clone of himself this helped in Opposite

10. the simpsons - Opposite

11. boys imagination drawing - Vs Monster

12. AnglerFish - helped in making the flower and monster attack idea*

13. My Neighbour Totoro - Vs Monster

14. Futurama - Professor Farnsworth creates a parallel universe into a box this episode helped significantly for the creation of Opposite.

15. The Switch Animation - helped for the box concept idea*

* although not helping in the design/story of the final idea directly the research into them and the ideas themselves led to the creation of opposite and Vs Monster

Some research pictures for you...

I said I would be making a post about topology research 2 days ago but i have been busy with my other modules so it had to sit on the backburner but what i have done is got some research pics to upload that i forgot to upload earlier these are both for my final ideas and the ones that didnt quite cut it:

"time and strange forms of exotic matter. some of them may even contain you, in a slightly different form."

Right thats them for just now i will probably keep adding to it especially for the Opposite idea.

Topology Research will be up soon i promise!

Character and model sheets for your eyes now...

week#2 day#2

today i did my character sheet (i did this when i couldnt deside out of the two stories what to do) but first al show you this wee sketch of the idea that evolved into opposite.

now for my character sheets...

So yeah this was mainly for Vs. Monster so that I could see visually how the sizes of characters compared to each other the guy on the left is from Opposite which i decided to go with for my final idea as i dont think i would be able to give Vs. Monster enough credit in 30 seconds.

Model sheets

so yeah heres the model sheets for Opposite I cant really draw his feet directly straight on but i think that would be easier doing free hand in maya we shall have to see.

Thats all I have to show for today so far (getting some research into topology done) so shall hopefully get that up tomorrow maybe even some geometry planning sketches of my character aswell.

Although al be getting some other module stuff done mostly but we shall see...

and more...

My kid idea kinda game from what i use to do when i was young ( and im sure everyone else did too!) much to the annoyance of my parents as the floor would be littered with staples..

My idea also comes from an animation i seen and liked but i cant for the life of me find it on youtube anywhere which is annoying but i can give you a rough jist of it now and if i find it al post up the link.

its a 2D traditional animation with a young boy waking up for school and he has "superhero powers" super fast super strong etc, he encounters bullies and ends up flicking a rock that ends up causing a huge explosion he then wakes up and realises it was all a dream.

anyways heres some sketches of it..

also heres George Johnstones representation of my character aswell...

i like the james bondness feel to it :)

Lastly heres a character sheet of all the characters that would be used in both Opposite and Vs Monster

just need to pick what i am actually going to do by next Monday...

I give you more....

Hello,

Well its been a week and i shall give a quick summary of whats happened:

I have 2 ideas now that I kind of want to do:

opposite: the one i mentioned before

Vs Monster: this one was born after al little brain

storming with angie as we bounced ideas off of each other I thought of a kid finds a stapler and his imagination leads him to believe that he is shooting a ray gun

(or something) at a huge terrifying monster when he is brought back to reality after shouts from dad,mother, sister or brother and hes actually been shooting a teddy bear with the stapler.

anyways also got new sketches i did over the week.

first off the sketches of the ideas that didnt make it.

The Box: man finds what appears to be a small box lying about it makes a strange noise then starts to vibrate and grow he drops it as it starts to show a rather ferocious looking mouth and runs away.

The Flower: man/woman goes to pick a flower for his/her partner but the flower doesnt want to go without a fight.

which then morphed into....

The Monster: the same as 'The Flower' but instead the flower is actually attached by an enormous monster which eats them kind of like those deep sea fish

AnglerFish

This idea after some roundabout roads turned into the Opposite idea taking some inspiration from "the switch" animation. (in my previous post)

other animations which helped in any way creating Opposite and the ideas leading upto it are:

The lost thing - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HbM4ffXX6M.

Just a really beautiful animation all about someone encountering something completely unknown.

Krapooyo - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvK_VzYDlzU

Guard Dog - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyS5GlTTpx4

these two both led to me to think of the flower ideas.

Day 1 - sketch #1

First off - Hi, this will be my blog for my Advanced Visualisation module so everything on this will be for that module if you just want to see my random work pretty much as it happens check: http://youhavejustbeenblogged.tumblr.com/

week #1 Day#1-2

animation must be 30 second long and the character must come across an unknown element

First week back in Uni and during my lecture my brain was already thinking of ideas, didnt manage to do any sketches until the following day but here is a sketch of my favourite idea so far called "Opposite"

Opposite is about a person coming across a mysterious rod protruding from the ground and he must have it for a closer look, he starts to tug and pull harder and harder until it finally gives way, and he finds himself to be staring at himself.

Other ideas

man comes across a box, curiosity leads to him being eaten by the box.

man comes across a plant in the ground and starts to pull at it a monster comes out and eats him.

man comes across a giant bouncing ball he kicks it it bounces of the ground and absorbs him when it bounces back then spits out tones of small bouncey balls (that use to be him)

these ideas were far to similar to each other and in my opinion pretty rubbish also the last one i found out is nearly a carbon copy of this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESv55r4emPY

good animation though :)