Animation

 For the past 2 weeks I've been working on an animation elective. From start to finish I've loved every minute! My idea was to make a comic looking animation. It had to be edgy, violent and exciting! I looked at some artwork from Frank Miller for inspiration, I love his style. Here are a few pictures that I found:

I flicked through a few more comics looking for the right style. Blade comics had great artwork.

So once I had written my script and drawn up my storyboard I had to figure out how to animate it. I decided , with help from my tutor, to Roto-Scope it. At the time I didn't have a clue what roto-scoping was, so I had to find a few examples. Here are a few that I found:

  

These videos, and a few others helped me understand how it worked. I then had to record my video that I was going to rotoscope over. I got help from two friends with the camera work and some acting.
I immediately started work in Photoshop once I recorded the video. The pace was slow and the work was tedious at first but once I got used to it I found a good rhythm. I also had to animate one scene in flash. Once everything was finished it was time to piece them all together. Most people in the room used premiere pro but I was told to use after effects and now I'm glad I did. The video was put together in no time, it was great to finally see it running together and looking good! I then had to work on the sound. I found numerous sound effects and a song fairly easily online. When they were added in correctly the animation came to life. Sadly I am having issues rendering the video at the moment so I cannot post it just yet, so I'll throw in a few stills for the moment.

Heres the video itself, having sound issues still but it all about the animation really!