Ss1-Look at that wind - test

Ss1 Tests

Coming to the end of specialist studies one and to be honest I've impressed myself with my focus with all my research done filled out an entire sketchbook.Entered a competition for Red bull with a full advert which covers my age range set for ss1 4-7years with physical comedy engaging the audience to keep them wanting to complain if their internet goes half way through my advert.

From there I've been working on drawing out a few simple sketches and finding inspiration from the post before which describes where physical comedy is used best. Also to go with my earlier animation i will be doing mock up tests giving life to objects to give them a life like quality and with my puppet to create snippets to compile into a showreel ready for the end of this year to place on my website which is being made.

Here i've taken an idea and expanded it to add humour.

This snippet was done twice as the first test was lifeless and didn't really make gravity look believable or that the object had any weight.There will be three clips put together to make a short piece which will have rigging left in to show the focus, the animating.

getting back to the felts ruff of a shot in the sketch.

Another post will be up more often as soon as a test is done which will be a lot quicker as there won't be any rig removal so hope to have enough to show by friday at least then ill enjoy a talk by Director of Pirates Peter Lord this saturday in bristol pretty excited.

How i look as a Caricature - well i think its pretty accurate

Also this sketch was done by a friend of mine,check out his blog here - Joe Blakeston practicing characterise friends for his Ss1 

Ss1-Preparation Before animating 'No Bull' Canimation

Stages before animation.
Animation up next week if can't wait link at bottom of post.

Using  a junior saw to get the neck as low as possible.

The neck was sawed about 2cm to be able to get the head closer to the body as at the time was out of proportion.

Getting the set ready

Greenscreen had to be sprayed just before animating because i didn't have a board big enough to fill the entire space behind the character.

Head and hands into place

waiting for araldite to dry aprox 2 hours.

Oh still waiting but once try totally worked a charm

Keeping everything tidy and all models used before kept safe with materals i won't need while animating away safely in a box.

Lighting and shadows

Boardered up window with thick black card.

When coming to animating i new i wouldn't have the best lighting so i didn't want to hinder anything else to the animation by having flash or every frame being a shade different.

then curtains done up to make extra sure

Holding everything in place 

This picture above shows theres a clamp holding a clamp down because of issues of having the set move and the clamp didn't want to stay in place so to give it that little extra hold.

Covering the light from the laptop so it doesn't refrect onto any of the shots.

Furthest clamp away holding an area which wasn't as steady.

More clear image of the clamp holding the clamp.

Scale

Getting the scale right i used greenscreen for the background because original was to small and got an extra large size can of redbull.

As you'll notice the tie'downs left loads of freedon when walking.

Background images from original set to use as greenscreen.

this was the one chosen for obvious reasons so clear ans no refrection.

Acting out tests.

Seeing how to get the redbull easy to animate.

In the end i found a shot glass round the house used that to hold small amounts of redbull then dab it on using a paint brush.

No Bull by Gareth hirst #canimation