.:Finished >WISE< Animation:.

.:An Eight:.

At this stage of my animation, i have completed the fox's talking, and have started the penguin taking out the normal light bulb. I had some problems with the movement in my penguin. I had trouble getting the movement in such a way that it doesn't look like the penguin is breaking this arm trying to put in the light bulb. I over came this by just giving the penguin a thumb and having the light held and tip of his flipper between his thumb and his other side of the penguins flipper.

.:First Penguin Idea:.

This was my first idea of what my penguin was going to look like.

This image is from: http://www.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/6071423/2/istockphoto_6071423-googly-eye-penguin.jpg

.:Colour Thoughts:.

I found my fox on the Internet, i googled fox and that's where i found my image. I then followed this fox to its website where i found lots of googly eyed animals. This site was: http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/6071343/2/istockphoto_6071343-googly-eye-snow-fox.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup/animals/mammals/6071343-googly-eye-snow-fox.php%3Fid%3D6071343%26refnum%3D840626&usg=__6Z9ZbOliI95ZC2I68U31wYXSky0=&h=380&w=309&sz=41&hl=en&start=2&sig2=cn8N1poDEtI4IEECj61cYA&um=1&tbnid=APn9RBmi7zUKOM:&tbnh=123&tbnw=100&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dgoogly%2Beyed%2Bfox%26hl%3Den%26rls%3Dcom.microsoft:*:IE-Address%26rlz%3D1I7SKPB%26sa%3DN%26um%3D1&ei=Do0oSrG1Ac-AkQWoh4jVBg. This is also where i got my first version of my penguin from. This version proved not to be right, so i changed it. It wasn't right because i had already decided on a fox of the same type and i thought it best that my two character are different. I was presented with two choices of colour for my fox. Image one, is the red fox, this image i liked a lot but deiced against for the fact that its not an Arctic fox. I chose the arctic fox looking one- as seen in image two. I then changed the character to look like what it does in my animation. I changed it because you can just copy someone else work straight off the Internet. that would be wrong. So i took away his whiskers because they made him look a little strange. I also lost the tone of colour and shadowing that the fox had. If i had kept this is would of been to had to move him, therefore i just made him white, with the all important purple fur. I made him have purple fur because purple is my favourite colour and also because it adds a bit of colour to the once plain white and black fox. the colour would also attract kids yes making them like this character more.

.:Evaluation:.

The name of my serise is, "Global Adventures" although ofcoarse my animation is only a 32 second trailor of one of the episonds.


The main tools and processes i used were; layers, duplication, grab tool, move tool, select tool and the speed dial. i discovered that you can copy and paste a whole lot of frames by holding down the shift key, clicking copy, then clicking paste when over the blank frmaes.
the select tool is basically just a hand that selects any part of your image that you want. the duplication button is very handy and is used to duplicate frames.

Throught out this project i have deleveloped various skills and techniquics, most of these have already been posted on my blog.

Through planning and reasearch i was able to create fictional character that almost seem real with there personalitys and there movements.

the main problem i encounted in class was how tempormental the mac books are. either ianimationish was not responding or in unexpectedly quit, i always seemed to lose my animation. this kept settinf me back and is the bigggest reason to why i only managed to get 32 seconds of animation. I over came this problem by working throught it all, and just learnt to save every second almost.

I found that i under planned with my animation i also didn't plan correctly, i expected to much of my self and didn't get enough done.

I am over all quite happy with my finished animation, its not quite as long as i would like but it is of some quality. the arctic fox i think has clean lines and is rather cute. Kids would be able to connected with this character as he teaches them all about global warming.
My final result good be better, but i'm still very proud of myself for completing an animation - that i drew myself that has sound and looks good.

there aren't many thingsd i would like to change but one of them would be that my animation went longer and the penguin looked over all as soomth as the fox.

I think that yesm pixtur would buy my animation, as i've said before its most be one of the first animation that is purly based on climate change and that is educational, also my characters are cute, funny and colourful - which kids love!

if i could start again i might have a wider range of character in my trailor to show exactly how much my serise has to offer.

.:Pingu:.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGPhXrc78Jg
If you follow this link you can get to a page where you can watch pingu. It goes for 2:32 seconds, this is only one little episode from pingu's vast collection.

Pingu was a great inspiration for me and my penguin character. I used to watch it when i was little and thats where i got my penguin idea from. Pingu hasn't got the best drawings but the sounds and story line is gold!

As abc television puts it;
Animated series about Pingu, a friendly little penguin from the South Pole whose light-hearted creativity sometimes gets him into trouble but equally often gets him back on his feet again.

.:Tweening:.

Tweening orginated from Walt Disney- as does almost everything in animation- it started out as inbetweenig, as in between the key frames. This over time got shorten to Tweening- which i think is rather catchie.

.:Snow White:.

Image: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3291/3095808662_b0b0034523.jpg

Snow white is a another example of a great animation, the way all the charaters move and how the voices coincide with the movement of the lips is so amazing- especialy for such and old animation. This is a walt disney classic and a timeless animation.

Snow White (in German Schneewittchen) is the title character of a fairy tale known from many countries in Europe, the best known version being the German one collected by the Brothers Grimm. The German version features elements such as the magic mirror and the seven dwarfs, who were first given individual names in Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_White

.:Script:.

Fox- Global warming is dooming the earth! To help prevent this save energy! To save energy change all your normal light bulbs to energy efficient ones!
Penguin- Ohh
takes light out- Clicking sound
puts light in- Clicking sound
light turns on- Ting sounds
penguin- Yay!

.:Layers:.

In animationish there are two layers, the foreground and background. these layer become increasingly important when you start to work with, key frames and having more then two characters moving at once. I didn't use key frames in my animation but i watched everyone else struggling with having two things moving in the foreground. The problem was that if both characters were in the foreground , they were linked in a way so when one moved the other did as well, but not in the way you want. the other character would be pushed off the screen by the other. The way they over came this was by moving one character to the background, moving it there while the other character remains in the foreground, moving there. For my first scene, my arctic fox was in the foreground and the outside view of the penguins igloo was the in the background. for the second scene my penguin was in the foreground and the background was of the inside of the igloo and the light fixture. you can't import more then one picture into either the fore ground or the back ground bu you can draw in any number of things like my light fixture in the background.

.:My Animation:.

This new series is important for Pixur, and is aimed specifically at the 12 – 17 year old demographic. My animation is not the required 60 seconds but he 32 seconds that it is hopefully will be of good enough quality that they will not care. my idea is for a funny, quirky, little animation that helps raise awareness of climate change for the younger kids. If we can teach these kids all about these important matters through animations, it will help provide a strong base of whats important for the next generation. My animation through-out its series will introduce new, fun and cute characters along the way, helping to captervate its audience.

.:Truck Tool Icon:.

The tool that has the icon of a truck is used in conjunction with the key frame tool. I do not know the proper name for this tool so I will just call it the truck tool. I don’t actually use this tool in my animation but I thought it best to write what it does anyway. When the truck tool is activated, the moving history of an object is shown. This means that you can make your object move evenly across the screen and see how much it is moving per frame. This can be very helpful when you have a character that moves a lot, this tools helps you save time, and makes the movements fluent.

.:Anime:.

Anime, like manga (Japanese comics), is extremely popular in Japan and well known throughout the world. In Japan, the term does not specify an animation's nation of origin or style; instead, it serves as a blanket term to refer to all forms of animation from around the world. Anime also tends to borrow many elements from manga including text in the background, and borrowing panel layouts from the manga as well. Like all animation, the production processes of storyboarding, voice acting, character design, cel production and so on still apply. With improvements in computer technology, computer animation increased the efficiency of the whole production process.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Modernanime.jpg - Anime Image

Information- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anime

.:What Is An Animation:.

An animation is the rapid display of a sequence of images of 2-D or 3-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement. It is an optical illusion of motion due to the phenomenon of persistence of vision, and can be created and demonstrated in a number of ways. The most common method of presenting animation is as a motion picture or video program, although several other forms of presenting animation also exist.

.:Walt's- Animation Process:.

The Process of Animation
1. A storyboard is made, all the animators and directors come together to discuss the entire film.

2. The storyboards are presented as the story

3. Once the story is laid out, the dialogue is recorded. This is done before animation, so the animators know what the characters will say.

4. After the dialogue is recorded, the animators can make rough sketches of just the characters. Usually these drawings are quite messy, there is still no color, or background. Some animated films have used over 50,000 individual drawings. At most animation studios, the best animators only sketched a few animation drawings, leaving gaps in between. Later on, a person called an "inbetweener" would finish the scenes, by drawing in between the areas that the animator had left.

5. Once the entire film has been drawn on paper, the animation drawings go to the inking department. There, the inkers copy the animation drawings on to a clear celluloid acetate, sometimes called a Cel.

6. After the outline of the characters has been made, the unfinished Cel's go to the Painting Department. The painters flip the Cel over, and paint the colors on the back. They paint on the back so the characters appear crisp, and have an outline.

7. Before the Animation Cels get photographed a background must be added. Because a Cel is clear, and it only has the painted character on it, if a background is made, it will show through. Usually backgrounds are painted with Tempera or Water Color paint. Although, in some Disney productions, the background was painted on glass, and combined with other glass painted backgrounds to create the illusion of extreme movement. (This technique is use in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.)

8. Now all the combined elements (the Cel and the background) can be photographed. Although, the final product is not filmed with a normal projector, or camera. A special device, with a lens mounted facing down on to a table top captures each frame of the animated feature. Usually, the background is placed into a special mount, then covered with the Cel, then covered with a large piece of glass, then photographed.

9. After all the drawings have been filmed, the dialogue is added. Sometimes the film is edited at this step.

10. The animated film is released, and the general public may view it.

http://www.justdisney.com/animation/animation.html

.:Export to Movie Format:.

Exporting an animationish file to movie format is needed when wanting to saved your animation so your able to watch it. This is particularly useful for when you in a situation, like the one I'm in, where you need to save you animation every step of the way to put on a blog. the way you do this is by clicking on the TV icon next to the saving icon. This will then take you to a mini screen where there are yellow bubbles with things like quicktime in them. These are different formats that you can save a movie as. The one i always use is the quick time; this is because all the computers i use are able to play quick time movies. the reason you wouldn't put it into quick time format is if your computer wasn't able to play quicktime.

.:My Thoughts:.

The main reason my animation is focused on climate change is because it is also for my wise project. So this is how i decided what i was going to do for my animation, the next thing i had to decided on was my characters. Originally i was thinking of having a polar bear as the main character. i deiced against this because i didn't something on the polar bear in year seven, so i thought that i had already done that. I wanted from the start a penguin sitting in an igloo. An old kids show called "Pingoo" inspired this. i had always loved the show and so that's why i have a penguin. as for the reason for my arctic fox, well i really like that animal and i've never done anything on it, so here was my chance. As spoken about in the fox's personality profile his best friend died, i originally wanted to have this seen happen gradually as the fox spoke, but then i rethought this, and it turned out to be a very crazy idea considering this animation is meant to be a trailer for a kids program. i don't any kids would want to watch the show if a polar bear died in the animations trailer.

.:Shortened Much:.

I had to shorten my animation because i was running out of time. It was also proving to be quite difficult to remain on task and battle a head with the aniation when the mac books kept "unexpectedly quiting" which pushed my further behind and made me more angry. i also quite alot of my animation since my story board was. This is after all just another part of the creative process isn't it, trail and error constantly changing until it is perfect? Took out the second bit of the hot weather and didn't included the hare wheel in my animation. i didn't want to do this but i was forced to by lack of time. my animation lost its funny facts, which might make it slightly boring but i can live with that, i think...

.:Personality:Penguin:.

My penguin whose name is Pat, was not aware of the amount of electricity he was wasting by not using energy efficient light bulbs. My Fox then had a very long talk to him about this, in the animation you see the pat then changing his light bulb. Pat has always been the quite achiever, a little nerdy in fact and his favoured hand gesture is the thumbs up. pat likes to eat fish, sip lemonade on hot days and watch tv. He is an indoor type of penguin which is why you never seeing him running about outside. Pat because of his under exercise is kind of fat, as you can see in the animation. Pat and Fox are rather close friends now although Fox is the dominant one in the relationship.

.:Personality:Fox:.

My character; the arctic fox, has an interesting personality. He is kind, caring and loves a good laugh as well as being very passonate about climate change, global warming, endanged animals ect. As you will notice, when he speaks his very animated, this is because when he was just a baby his mother acerdently gave him pep pills instead of aspin. Because of his young, tender age he adapted a kind of twich, that is still with him to this day. The reason why he has joined the fight against climate change is because his best friend Pete the Polar Bear died because when he was sleeping the pack ice broke off and Pete went with it. Pete has been missing for ten years and has been presumed dead. The reason the pack ice broke off was cause by global warming.

.:Jiminy Cricket:.

Image: http://disney.go.com/vault/archives/characters/jiminy/jiminy.html

Jiminy was not part of the film's original story line. Concluding that "something was missing," the creators of the film took the minor character of a cricket from Collodi's original story as a source of inspiration and expanded him into the character we know as Jiminy Cricket. Before Walt selected Jiminy Cricket as the character's name, the phrase was used as an exclamation denoting surprise or bewilderment. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the phrase has been around since 1848. In "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," made over two years before "Pinocchio," the dwarfs exclaim, "Jiminy Crickets!" when they return to their cottage and find the lights on. Jiminy was the first Disney feature character to speak directly to the audience. Voice Artist: Cliff Edwards (1940-1971)Eddie Carroll (since 1975)Character Design: Ward Kimball. As you can see all great animations go through various steps to get them what they are, however this did not occur for me. - I will talk about this in the blog called "my thinking".

.:Walt Disney:.

Walt Disney was one of the places i got my inspiration from; not for my characters nor my story line but they inspired me to be the best i can be. Walt Disney demonstrates just how good animations can get.

.:Mickey Mouse:.

Image One: http://freenet-homepage.de/sabbelline1/mickey/The_Devils_CLAW_04_Mickey_Mouse_Steamboat-Willie-1928.jpg

Image Two: http://blippitt.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/mickey-mouse.gif

Mickey mouse is one of the first ever animations created. He is a Walt Disney classic and in my books remains to be beat by any other animation. Mickey Mouse was created to target a kids audience but also took the hearts of many adults as well. Mickey Mouse has developed and changed over the years since he was first created and now looks like the second image on the left. The first image shows a bit of the story board for "Steam Boat Willie" on of Mickeys most famous animations. Mickey Mouse is a great example of a timeless animation that will never get old or stop being great.

An Seven

An Six

An Five

An Four

An Three

An Two

I'm just posting up all my versions of my animation now, then i will go through and talk about each of them later.

An One

This is the first of my animation savings; I called it "An One" because it simply rolls of the tongue. The second reason being, for me, "An" is short for animation.

.:What Is A Story Board:.

Storyboards are graphic organizers such as a series of illustrations or images displayed in sequence for the purpose of previsualizing a motion picture, animation, motion graphic or interacative media sequence, including website interactivity.

The storyboarding process, in the form it is known today, was developed at the Walt Disney studio during the early 1930s, after several years of similar processes being in use at Walt Disney and other animation studios.

.:My Story Board:.

Here is my story board! All three pages of it! There is fourteen boxes, and underneath each is a description of what is happening and the sounds that are being made in that scene. My story board isn't of professional standard but it will have to do because my drawing abilities just wont change over night. To find out what a story board is, read my post titled - What is a Story Board.

.:My Characters - Part One:.

These two are my main characters, this is them before i put them through photoshop, so i guess they're like an intiail drawing in away.

This one of my main charaters, he is an arctic fox! He is very aware of global warming and climate change. He is trying to get the message through to his friend, the penguin (my other main character). My fox loves fighting against climate change which is juistfied by him helping the penguin make the right choices by saving energy. He also loves sun baking, which is shown in my animation towards the end.

Neither of my characters have names yet. That is why I'm calling them fox and penguin and not because that's their names. I'm more creative than that.

This is my other main character, he is a penguin! This penguin is quite oblivious when it comes to climate change and the rest of it. He learns how to help make a change along the way though. He likes fish, a cold climate, television and marshmellows. Although there will be no reference to him liking marshmellows in the animation, i just thought you would like to know.

This penguin likes fish because i thought it would be best if i gave him one true penguin atribute. As for him liking marshmellows, well, i just like marshmellows plus its a funny thought a penguin eating a marshmellow. I had to metion him liking tv because in one or two of the scenes you will see him watching it and when ever do we sit down and do something we don't like. I proume penguins like there cold climate otherwise they would leave so thats why i included that in his likes.

P.S Mashmellows are spelt marshmallows its just that the word looks cooler spelt the way i like it. (Marshmellow!)

.:Ideas, I:.

I was thinking today that i should do an animation on global warming, i thought that after seeing The Inconvenient Truth (the AL Gore movie) and considering I'm in geography, i think i should do something to do with global warming and or climate change. I could have hints and tips on how to help our planet without going out of your way to do so in my animation. Also something that makes my idea better is the fact that in geography we've been studying global warming and climate change, so that means i already have all the knowledge i need to.

My main characters will be an Arctic fox and a penguin, the reason behind this being that they are both commonly found in the arctic, they're quite different to each other and a lot smaller then most of the other arctic animals.

.:Key Hole Tool Practise:.

Today in class, we were taught about the key hole tool which has an icon of a box with a little plus sign. This is a tool the enables you to (after putting it at the beginning and end of a certain amount of frames) click on the moving truck icon so your characters moves fluently from their starting point to their finishing point, that you choose.

I had a bit of a practise at using this tool today, mind you it did'nt end all that well because the bell rang, therefore leaving me with no time to touch it up. The main character in this little animation has not had all the white around it photo shopped out, so it lots kind of weird. I suggest looking at it and pretending that you don't see the white around the penguin.

! ~First Blog~ !

This is my first blog for the term! Hopefully I'll keep on top of my reflections and not get behind. Don't mind my spelling, I've never been a good speller and I'm not starting now.
So, good luck with reading any of my stuff :P

Miranda.