Hand in day , just a sum up post realy

Soo yeh the sting this is what i thought:

As for my group

matt obviously didnt exist but glad he wasn't realy because he probobly would have made it harder to get things done.

Liam- Was both good and bad to work with,

good at: the ideas and we were always on the same wavelengths so it was easy to get things across to eachother. He got the work done when underpressure at the end and finished in time.

issues were that he was a bit lazy and left it a bit too long before he started, however from the start i new this would happen so i tried to compromise it so i had the majority of the animation as i had trust in myself to get it don

also he didnt do anywhere near as much as i contributed concidering it was his sting idea so it kind of seemed like i took over his sting as he did his end bit of the animation the initial background and the microwave character but i did the rest, it was a bit unfair in that respect but i supose it suited me better as i could get it done to the quality i wanted which could be pushed more.

overal liam was a good team mate we got it done in tim so it turned out well and as he said it was because it was his sting and he thought he would work harder if it was mine which i understand.

feelings about the sting itself- I think it turned out well thanks to neils critisizms early on i manged to make a far more appealing toaster. I like how my animation turned out i didnt think id get it done but a few late nights solved that and i think the qulity of my animation was prety good.

the negative id say is just the background i would have liked to have a half decend background done after last night im still not happy with the colours, this shows that in future i should try and work with someone who can do backgrounds as i think we both struggle at that aspect.

My performance- i think i coped well with the workload, i probobly shouldn't have done as much as i did as it was rather uneven but i coped with it and got it done so yeh no worries.

overal im happy with what we acheived, could impove the background in future, was a bit one sided in the workload howver lia was a good partner and id work with him again but probobly kick him up the bm a bt more and get him started a bit earlier, but yeh it turned out better than id thought so im happy. didnt no what to make of the reaction though today so yeh duno if people thought it was good or bad. but i like it and what we acheived and have learnt alot from doing this that il take onto next year.

The complete sting with the my new background (HOPEFULY ITS BETTER THAN THE OLD ONE OR IVE JUST WAISTED VALUABLE SLEEP LOL)

The complete sting with the old background

my section of the animation with my new layout and sound

Erm yeh thought id just show what exactly was my contribution to the sting

So yeh I did:

Character design for the toaster fridge and had a go at the kettle which was dropped from the animation altogether,

The sound effects and music

animating quite a fair amount i think

and finally just now the new layout which i hope is more appealing than the last- (also did the poker table and contents throughout)

Below are the images of my characters and the new layout as a still frame of the long shot within the sting:

Now for a nice friendly post after that one

Yeah hand in in like 5 hours so hmm yeah mr perfectionist i guess wanting to improve everything.

anyway yeah today was pretty stressful Liam finished his animation at last would of been better a bit earlier because would have had more time to put it together and changed a few things

Erm as for me i finished all my animation so i was adding sound to my part then did to Liams when he had finished, found this bit fun. s

o yeah were in the studio until like 7 trying to get the dam quick time to export properly played with it in like 4 different software's getting equally naff results, but in the end i manged to get one by dropping the quality down, it still looks no different to the other quality's though so its OK.

most of that wasn't happy i spoze oh wel

Dam my picky self, instead of a nice sleep after a stressful time as we thought we were done i decided to play with making a new background at like 1 in the morning and yeh its like five in the morning now and i dont even no if ive made it better or worse. hmm yeh the background looks better but in the more close up bits i need a blur realy as the lines of the kitchen serfaces and cupboards stand out and draw the eye a bit too much

my work- think its done animation wise

This is all of the animation in which i have done i think its done however the bits need puting together through a zoom etc

still going to go through the animation checking it tomoro, hopefuly Liams done or nearly done so we can get it all working together and can also add the music

work so far

quick update post

Im puting together my peices of animationat the moment and adding reactions and more emotions to make the characters more lifelike and exiting. The work its coming along nicely at the moment and i should hopefuly finsh the animation in time.

Colour options for liasmircowave before i start animating

Current animation

New layout with new toaster and fridge plus added chips

new fridge?

New toaster character after Neils advice

meating with Liam on 13/04/2010

Me and Liam finally sorted out who's animatting what yesterday which was very useful, it has been prety much splited half way so hopefully wecan both get itall done in time. Theresnothing dramaticly chalanging it's mostly subtle things sowe should be ok for finishing the animating but then we have to do colour and update the background and add some sounds.


We have been instructed by Neal to redraw all of the charactes to give the more appeal as he didnt realy find them to be very good, which was a bit disapointing at first as i spent so much time on them however he made me understand why they werentas good as they could be and gave me some prety good ideas. Hopefuly i can get these redone for the end of today so i can crack on with animating as soon as possible.

Worrying qute a bit now tht were seriouslyy not going to finish on time because we should ofbeen pat way through the animation by now and weve not even started it. Finding t harder because its not my idea so i can;t realy just start animating it how I lke.

Experiment with a different table

I wanted to change the table to see if the characters would look better it seams to with this table but im thinking it probobly should be a more kitchen style mayby he traditional red and white checkers.

Current kettle

Heres how it looks layout wise with the kettle i tried to make the facil more crazy nmad like we first dicussed but was having troub;e so its now just basicly liams drawing.

Im not too sure anout the colours of the characters because their need to be more difference i think as th microwave should stand out. I think mayby if the microwavewas daker it could pull more focus.

Mayby a new layout idea can solve redrawing kettle and toaster angles?

Ive played with th positioning with the characters to fit in the initial fridge idea and it seems to be better in this format but have yet to show Liam so will see what he thinks

1st fridge attempt

This is my first attempt of the fridge character i kind of like it but i tink it needs more character in it. I have hadadvice to lean the fridge back on wheels n have more dramatic eyes and eyebrows, i think il have a go at these and see how it looks.

Im finding the frige quite awquard to show the elements of a fridge on the front and also balance that wit strong and exiting emotions.

Current layout with character postioning. Th fridgeis in place to get theangle right and the kettle will be adjusted and perhaps the toaster twisted run into the centre more.

Im happy weve got further now and we should hopefuly get more done quickr ow we know how itd be setout.

Having a good long session with Liam organising whos doing what and trying to arange how the characters would look at the table this is helping us well to imagine it and put it all together. We have also decided that for now I'm going to take over the characters apart from the microwave and Limas going to do the background as i have no clue what he's after.

Hopefuly now we can peice everything together and mayb get a start to animating next week.

There we go due to popular demand I hae been told to go for te characer with a nose. So with both me and Liam undecided i think il go for the nos as were aming it at an audience anyway.

Toaster with better toast

Hopefully this is the final one its taken alot of time to get it to this so im wanteing Liam to be happy with it now so that i can move onto the fridge.

Toaster character wih cleaned up eyes plus nose or no nose which one?

Happy ive seen Liams character and know were both workng on it and giving eachother advice now, which has been useful.

I hope we can get the charcters polished up and ready soon so we can get started on the animation etc.

im now workng on improving the toaster adding details etc so hopefuly that will be one character sorted

liam has done a good job on the kettle so far its not a mental kettle like we were originaly going to do but to be honist it's not going to move anyway like we orinialy wanted so it having smpler moving of eyes etc it doesn't need to be too complex.

Ive also got the task of mocking up the fridge character while Liam does the key microwave which is good because it was his idea so it will be eaier for him to visualise what he wanted.

Realy not sure how to do all the characters for the sting hmm i duno how realistic or human like to make them are they just the apliences or do they have the lims on full facials.

realy not sure how to take it further without more certainty of whats going on in the animation

Im rather woried that the characters are going to take too long to be designed and not enough times going to be put into the works progression and we may not have even started on the animation by the end of easter.

Toaster character

First time attmpt of the toaster character.

I'm faily happy with it. Mayby its a bit to exited concidering its a poker game but im pleased as im not even sure how its meant to look.

hmm need to think of goo character designs for the microwave, kettle, fridge and toaster how to do them hmmm

Hmm animation project bitdisapointed stil that my idea wasn't chosen however i can see alot of potential in liams so hopefuly we can make it work well

we keep thnking of ideas but they seem to be overcomplicating it however i still think there needs to be something aded to build up the humour.