Conclusion

Now I have completed my sections and had my class crit I am pleased with my final outcomes. I feel that by not using the chalk smear was the right move. The reason that I think this is because I spent a long time searching for brushes that gives an effect and by adding a smear I loose the effect that the brush gives. Also I feel that by not adding buildings behind my Saul bass style sequence I have made a right move because if I went in the style of another person I would be moving away from the style I intended it to be in. but I feel that by adding a floor was the right way to go because it adds depth to the sequence.

By doing this rotoscoping project I have learned a lot more about combining software to created different outcomes. Examples of this are creating a PSD from a MOV through QuickTime. I feel that this will help me a lot in the future. Also I feel that by filming the footage as a group and planning the layout that I have furthered my knowledge of teamwork. Also with the filming of this project I have furthered my knowledge of filming and possible camera angles.

In conclusion I am very happy with my finished outcomes of the rotoscoping project. I have learned a number of new skills that I find very helpful and that will be very useful in the future. And I also feel that I have learned a lot more about filming, tracing and animation.

Testing Crit Suggestions

After getting suggestions from class mates I decided to thest what they would look like. the first being adding buildings to the back of my saul bass style animation. To resemble art work of Anthony gormley.

I think by adding these buildings to my style I would only be moving away from the style of saul bass. Also I feel that I would be confusing the viewers of the show.

But looking at my saul bass style animation I feel that I do need to add some depth to the image so I feel that I should add some depth to the image so I have decided to add a floor with a different tone of grey so that the figures don’t seem as if they are floating.

The other suggestion was that I add a chalk smear to my chalk drawn animation.

But after testing the suggestion I feel that I would loose the texture of the brush I took time to find. Also by using a smear it may confuse the viewers of what the style is.

Class Crit Comments : Glow

· Best animation of your three

· Don’t Do anything to it

My decision

· I feel that this is my best animation and I am not going to edit it in any way

Class Crit Comments : Brushes

Chalk Brush

Fuzzy Edges Brush

· The fuzzy edges brush animation and look is too over the top

· The fuzzy brush looks like tinsel or pipe cleaners

· The chalk brush is the better of the two

· You could add a smudge to the chalk brush

My decision

· I think the chalk is the better of the two aswell

· If I was to add a smudge to the chalk one I would loose the texture of the chalk brush

· I will use the chalk animation but I will not add a smudge

Class Crit Comments : Saul Bass

· Grey is the better colour

· Red is too bright

· Figures look like Anthony Gormley

· Could do a background that looks like buildings to refrencece being an Anthony Gormley figure.

My decision

· I will use the grey colour as my submission

· I feel that red is too bright aswell, this was my way of testing different colours

· If I add a background with buildings I will be loosing the refrence to Saul Bass

Scraped Ideas

While I was creating my Rotos I scraped some ideas. The first was when i was creating my brushes idea i though what would the sequence look like if i represented the whole body.
But as i was creating this i thought that knowing what the brush looks like when it is animated adding stripes might be too much, also by resembling the dancers i am not creating a diffrent style to what the dancers are dressed like.

The second idea that i scrapped was the idea of using textures but two different colours and a brush to create a style.
But as i was creating this style i thought that the colours were too dark and i then though what the style would look like when projected, and by using dark colours it wont be easy to view for the viewers of the show so it might just look like a wallpaper.

Finished outcome - Brushes

After finding brushes and narrowing it down to the ones i liked i have created two diffrent styles of the same video.

The first one is using a brush that gives the movie a style of a chalk board drawing. I say this because the path of the brush has slight tiny holes in it as if it was a chalk drawing.

The second one is using a brush that gives the effect of a scatter brush, also the other reason that I chose this brush was because when it was drawn it gives the style of the brush path being animated when the movie is playing.

The reason that i have done two diffrent brushes is because when i get back to class i can ask people which one they think is better. Then i will choose what one to submit.

Changing Idea - iTunes to Brushes

After looking at my completed ideas for Saul bass and glowing i decided that if i was to do iTunes it would look too familiar. So i looked at the last year completed movie and i liked the ones where brushes were used. Therefore i am changing my iTunes idea to that of using Photoshop brushes. Therefore after previous use of brushes i am going to search for free brushes on the internet.

Finished outcome - Glowing Idea

here is the image that i got my glowing idea from ...
This was where i would create silhouettes with a glowing / eclipse effect around them. And here is the finished outcome.

Finished outcome - Bass Idea

Here is my finished saul bass idea

I feel that it has a look of the original but with the zoom changing and the still figures changing position it looks a bit odd.

here is the classic in comparason