Adaptation B: Figuring My Charcater

Following the twist of my animation to the dialogue, my character would be the exact opposite of everything that is being said in the dialogue. Since its Usian Bolt (The faster man on earth) is being interviewed, my character would have to be the slowest - visually. To do this I have decided to take on the idea of making my character a tortoise which we all know are pretty slow and sluggish. the challenge is making my character not any other turtle but yet simple and easy to rig and animate. The idea of having some exaggerated parts of the turtle seems appealing, I mean - a tortoise with a HUGE head, skinny neck and tiny legs wouldn't be able to move as quick let alone have the straight to lift its head up. that aside, I was also thinking about mixing slow creatures together to form the ultimate slowest creature like a snail tortoise (a Snailutle ) maybe with Nike shoes on.
Also looking at the color and style of the animation its obvious that its a Jamaican accent, so looking at the green and yellow colors would be preferable to fit my character. The style of my animation would be something like Creature Comfort, since its an interview the setting would also be important in the animation.

Adaption Part B: Dialogue Idea

For my adaptation part B speaking with my tutors and myself have now come to a conclusion of doing an animation to an extracted dialogue from YouTube/interview or films, but the idea is to have a twist as to what the dialogue is about and to what the animation is presenting.
below I've chosen different dialogues of which might be interesting to animate to.

The Interview

Here's an Interview of Usain Bolt that i edited and cut short, picked bits to make him sound cocky and knowing that his the best and fastest. As for the animation I was thinking of having a snail being interviewed but rather than showing the interviewer the facial and body expressions will show that there is someone talking to to the snail and also having the snail looking at the audience from time. and the little joke is that we all know snails are slow but then a snail expressing that "He's the fastest" but we all know that's false.

Eating all the Food

Listening to this Dialogue i had an idea of to bins talking to each other, one being a recycle bin and the other eating all the food is the food bin. 

Your Fired

I Have a Gun

As for the rest of these dialogues i believe that they have a potential of being a funny animation e.g 'Your Fired' could be two books talking or an ice cube holding a lit match stick pointing and waving around which then melts him in the end, Other than that The Interview seems strong to me but feel free to leave a comment/idea.

Adaptation A: Life Cycle of a University Student and Making Of

life cycle of a university student

Adaptaion A: Animation Progress

A short preview of where I'm up to with my animation info graphic. After my tutorial earlier on today, some changes would have to be made to the animation - first scene and introduction. since my info graphic is going to be cartoon like I would need to focus on the colour scheme and picking a suitable font. Staging the text would play a huge role in my animation (placing and size of the text).

Adaptation Part A: Text Animation Test

I've been thinking about which software would be easier and quicker for me to use whilst creating my info graphic. Here I used Flash Cs5 which is easy to use but it took quite a while for me to complete this short text animation :(

Adaptation Part A: Refining the process list

Today I asked a couple of my friends, uni students the crazy things they've done during uni. this info graphic will cover the lif cycle of how an innocent fresher turns naughty/corrupted during the process of they're first year. 2nd year they start realising that university is getting serious, then they stop and fix up for 3rd year becoming innocent again and graduate successfully.

- Start Uni, getting to know your flatmates.
- Early for the frist day of lecture but on the second day - late.
- Go out clubbing first time you ever got drunk.
- Handing in essays 3days before *Impossible*
- Dressing up a Jesus in a bed sheet
- Getting drunk in a foam party, leaving all your things, stumbled down the road. A random stranger wanted to drop you home *NO*, Police drove past and dropped you home.
- So drunk you decided to try opening your flat with someone else flat keys.
- Going to an Halloween party  looking like got with a girl out on her coloured month even though even though you were meant to look like a vampire.
- leaving a project to the last minute
- wheeled home in a shopping trolley whilst drunk cause too drunk to walk.
- finally having an house party and a student kicks off the fire extinguisher in the house.
- leaving a deposit of liquid in her mouth as she smiles.
- looking back at the fun times.
- focusing of 3rd year
- handing is essays late.
- finishing project
- graduate.

Adaptation Part A: Research

whilst doing some research and thinking about my info graphic, I've decided that it would be more interesting and fun if it was comedic as it is a cycle based about university. The Audience for this animation would be the group from 17 and above as it will cover mature content.

The video below shows a bit of a student life at university, how its presented and made it funny. 

 

 

 

I like the style of the first couple of seconds in this info graphic, the character that I was thinking of was exactly what was used and animated in this animation, basic stick character. I also loved the use 2D, how it was in combination with After Effects also how they stylised certain words and the layout.

Adaptaion: Life Cycle of a University Student idea

Life Cycle of a University Student

Adaption: Video Info graphic idea (updated)

Life cycle Of A

Star

Frog

Plant

Butterfly

Water

An IPhone

Cell

Hair

Student

Debt

Bordem

Car

Texting