Animatics For Jean-Claude

Animatic of Jean-Claude

I created an Animatic with sounds to make the story board and 

story be a lot clearer for my final movie.

Enjoy! 

:)

https://vimeo.com/75324359

5 Ideas Become 1: His name is Jean-Claude

After presenting the five ideas to represent ARC, The french guy on a Bicycle who would be falling was chosen. 

And thus my Character Jean-Claude was created.

 

I present to you Jean-Claude

         

The story is about a French Man who rides his bicycle as quickly as he can to get home in order to crack his bread open. The thing is if he gets home too late, the bread will either get cold or soggy or cold and soggy, making the crackling sound of a open baguette nothing close to perfect. 

As Jean-Claude hurries home to get that perfect crackling sound, he doesn't notice a big rock in the middle of the path, and collides with it; propelling him off of his bike, and unto the ground. 

Both baguettes fly out of the basket as well and land in different spots. One ends up broken in half, while the other miraculously landed on a bush and remained intact. 

As he picks up the one who is still whole, it is still warm and gives him hope that the possibility of getting that perfect crackle is still possible. He rushes himself back upon his bicycle, hurries home, and abruptly comes to a stop when he gets there. You see him sitting down, almost praying, and cracks the bread in half. The crackling of the bread, is in fact, perfect. 

The End. 

The short story will be transformed into a short 10 second movie on the dragon frame program.

Stay tuned to see how it turns out! :)

Story Board of Jean-Claude

The Story Board of Jean-Claude

The Story begins...

1.  Camera is focused on Jean-Claude (J.C) Riding his bike on full speed.
2.  View on J.C top and back, with the view of his house approaching.
3.  Camera on left side of J.C focuses on him again, but this time there is a rock on the path in front of him.
4.  Close up of front wheel of the bicycle making contact with the rock takes place.
5.  The ARC principle is applied to J.C and his baguettes as he is being propelled from his bicycle into the air. (ARC1)
6.  After Jean-Claude's fall, he is on the floor, one baguette is also seen broken in half.

1.  As Jean-Claude gets up from his fall, he picks up the broken in half baguette and yells "NOOOOOOOON!" in a sad and crying voice
2.  Once he stands up, he takes a look around of his surrounding, looking for the second baguette and sees it in one piece on a bush.
3.  (switch 2) Elated by this good news he puts the baguette up in the air as a sign of Victory!
4.  (switch 1) he rushes back on his bicycle to get himself home
5.  He makes a forced stop in front of his home (ARC2)
6.  You see him sitting with a plate in front of him, and when he cracks his baguette, its the perfect crackling sound.
7. Fin, The End

 The Following pictures are samples of what my ARC1 will look like:

12 PRINCIPLES OF ANIMATION

12 Principles of Animation

1. Squash and Stretch
2.  Anticipation
3.  Staging
4.  Straight Ahead Action and Pose-to-Pose
5.  Follow Through and Overlapping Action
6.  Slow In and Slow Out
7.  Arcs
8.  Secondary Action
9.  Timing
10.  Exaggeration
11.  Solid Drawing
12.  Appeal

 I was given Appeal, and this is what I came up with in about a half hour:

 An Elephant with wings. 

I drew this character on Illustrator. It was my first time using the program. 

There's a lot to it, but you get the hang of it when you start using it continuously.  

Appeal to a cartoon character is what Charisma would be to an actor. 

"A character who is appealing is not necessarily sympathetic – villains or monsters can also be appealing – the important thing is that the viewer feels the character is real and interesting. 

There are several tricks for making a character connect better with the audience; for likable characters a symmetrical or particularly baby-like face tends to be effective."  

-Johnston & Thomas

We were then given another principle to work with, to create a short story. The principle I was given was Arc.

Arc  is the arched trajectory that tends to follow most natural actions. 

In animation, adhering to this principle creates greater realism. 

This can apply to a limb moving by rotating a joint, or a thrown object moving along a parabolic trajectory. 

Some exception apply to mechanical movement, which typically moves in straight lines. 

"An object in motion that moves out of its natural arc for no apparent reason will appear erratic rather than fluid. 

Therefore when animating (for example) a pointing finger, the animator should be certain that in all drawings in between the two extreme poses, the fingertip follows a logical arc from one extreme to the next. 

Traditional animators tend to draw the arc in lightly on the paper for reference, to be erased later."

-Johnston & Thomas

By next Class, We had to come up with 5 ideas

that would be based on this principle; 

and incorporate the previous work of what 

the students had come up with their principle. 

This is what I had to work with for the ARC principle:

The Five Ideas I came up with were the Following:

•  An Airplane and a pilot doing tricks throughout the day. once night fell the airplane crashes into the mountain due to poor visibility. Tricks would be the ARC.
•  A little boy with playing with his friends. They are playing baseball. He is trying to pitch the perfect ball, which takes so long that nightfall begins to set. One of his friends yell: "C'mon man, hurry up we aren't going to see anything soon!" So he quickly pitches the ball. Its the worst thrown ball in history. Pitch would be the ARC.
•  A french guy is riding his bicycle with baguettes in a bag attached to the rear. He hits a rock and falls to the ground. Fall would be the ARC.
• A distant figure would approach the camera as the sun moves up into the sky. The higher the sun, the closer the figure gets, and the bigger it becomes. As the night starts to settle in, the figure is less visible, but the figure is more distinguished and is gigantic. once the night sets, and the moon is in the sky, eyes, teeth, and sharp claws appear with a twinkle in them. Sun and moon setting would be the ARC.
•  Llama walks through the image, eating grass. Makes dancing moves. Sun and Moon Setting would be the ARC.

Falling Bouncing Ball
Done on day One

Day Number Two

Dog and Its Flea

A bit about the Blogger:

My Name is Natacha Palay 

I am a Junior Transfer at the University of South Florida (USF).

GO BULLS!

I'm taking Computer Animation this semester!
I have always been interested in illustration, computer animation, as well as creating characters and stories; but never thought I'd actually take a class.
Taking this class is a little out of my expertise.
But I am really psyched and excited to see what we get to create!

Enjoy:)

Welcome, Bienvenue!

Hello, Bonjour!

Welcome and Enjoy what I 

am doing in computer animation 

here at USF, University of South Florida. 

My Teacher is Ms. Dana Corrigan. 

She has been doing this for quite some time and is 

breaking it down for us step by step. 

 

 
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