Proposal

For my final major project Iam creating a animation. I will start of with breafly explaining the idea for my animnation. Animation will start off in the morning as the main character is waking up from that point he has to start deciding what he will be doing. With every decision presented story line will split and bouth outcomes of decision will be shown. So there will be multiple story line and multiple endings.

Here is a visual representation of story line.

After looking through multiple animations of artists I found quite a few interesting animating techniques that I am planning to experiment with and if possible implement it in my work.

An animator called Ed who started with an account on youtube and called himself Eddsworld produced humorous work that inspired me in terms of storyline.

OneyNG’s and Harry Partridge's work are similar in terms of graphic style, but their storylines are totally different. They inspired me in terms of their graphic style. They use highly detailed backgrounds, which were probably made in Photoshop, along with cartoon animations, probably made in Flash or a similar programme. I like the mix of using  vector graphics and bitmap graphics for example bitmap background vector character or the other way around.  Another interesting animation technique is hand drawn characters manipulated in Photoshop and imported into image morphing software to create smooth illusion of movement.

I will be produsing my animation using flash, photoshop, fantamorph and after effects. Majority of backgrounds will be done in photoshop and character animations in flash and fantamorph.

I will be trying to make my animation visualy entertaining and nice to an eye so i will be using bright and clear colours even though background and character drawing style won't be consistent to keep wievers atention and interest

Timeplan

Give actual dates

1  march 2012                        Storyboard production

15 march  2012                     Design and creation of backgrounds in photoshop

1 april 2012                            Design and production of vector characters in flash

1 may 2012                            Develop audio plan

5 may 2012                            Research sound effects and music

 12 may 2012                         Flash authoring

 25 may 2012                         Use timing of visuals to edit sounds

 28 may 2012                         Finalise flash movie

 5 june  2012                          Beta testing

 6 june 2012                           Making modifications

 9 june 2012                           Write evaluation

13 June 2012                         Project finished

Gathering evidence for evaluation

To help write my evaluation I will keep updating my blog every 1-2 weeks with screenshots of work that i done during that time with coments on my work and I might include links to tutorials that i used. Also I will try geting feedback from my friends and tutors which I will include in blog.