Maroon, Ecru & Rosey

Acacia & Tiina Group Project

Firstly, me and Tiina research the meanings behind the colours as it was at first a struggle to come up with concept due to the limitations. Tiina later had an idea of a goldfish swimming in thick liquid. I then tried to extend the idea to my whole 20secs. Since Tiina 20secs is abstract, I decided to make my 20secs to contain an character to provide an contrast between the two showcasing the dream state and reality.

I later created an pinterest board that we both can collect and add inspiration to help further our projects. Here is highlights from the pinterest board.

I did some character designs. The original concept was a woman was being experimented on lived inside a test tube and then breaks out but only to reveal she was within a bigger cage.

But after discussing with Emma, the nature of the fish concept it fit better if she was a Mermaid instead of a human symbolically attracted to a fish. We also change the setting to a aquarium instead of underground lab. I do need to do background designs.

I did 3 versions of my animatic. The first one is the longest being 30secs. The other three are shorten versions. I'm not happy with the current animatic as I feel it is lackluster.

Here is an another version of the animatic that has some revised elements from the feedback for my version. I did try to get a version where we had the whole 40secs but at the time we Tiina didn't not had her complete.

Here is the coloured animatic which is a refined version of the final peace

Here is another one where I changed the a small section to make a transtion from the charater punching the screen to the person hitting the button.

This is the combined version with the animatic and my final version. At the time, I only had 11secs at the time

This is the same one with sounds effects.

Here is the animation clips I made and extra animation to respond to feedback.

Final Animation (My 20secs)

Evaluation

With this project overall, it had issues throughout its production. There was a lack of communication with progress of the project. The story of the project was still in development mid-way of production. What to improve is to quickly assemble the storyboard and animatic to problem solve the issues arise with the story and fix continuity errors. Another thing to improve is to have deadlines before the main deadline to give time evaluate how the project is going. Another thing to improve is to offer help to elevate the workload. An example would be to one person pick colours the other does the storyboard and animatic etc. What I could improve on 20secs is fix the timing of each shot and have clean poses for better character acting. Another thing I could improve is too have more cleaner mix of the sound effects.