Brief: Create a character then portray it through an animation to express its personality Contents of Project: 1. Storyboard which should present general idea of the script and succinctly show the process of how created the character 2. Animation final piece (2-3mins)
The aim and objective of the project The aim of my live client project is to create a character then portray it through an animation to express its personality. I want to make the animation more interesting with the aid of a humorous narrative and character design.
The concept behind the project and narrative plan:
My narrative idea is represented a Otaku who purchases comic toy on ebay。
The story happens in a disordered room which is full of comic books and computer games. A Otaku, who has dishevelled hair, dressed dingy clothes, beard and wears a pair of large black frame glasses, is sitting before a computer, with excitement and joy in his eyes.
He finds a limited edition cartoon toy on ebay and he has looked for it for many years. He presses “enter” key without hesitation to purchase it. When he is immersing in happiness, he finds that someone is also purchasing the toy. So, the price is getting higher and higher, which makes him anxious and angry. At this time, the price has up to an extraordinarily high level.
After he presses “enter” key for another time, he finds his rival stops, and he finally successfully purchases the limited edition cartoon toy model with an unimaginable price. He is relaxed after successfully purchasing it, so he continuous browsing other objects for auction randomly as usual. Suddenly, he finds that there is a similar model toy on the website, but the price is much lower than that he just spent on his toy.
Character Design:
A man with: Messy hair style Never clean up the room Don’t like have a shower Dress out of style, sluttish Interested in comie and Computer games Collect toys of comic and computer games\
Environment and Prop Design:
Basis props: bed, desk, TV table, X-box or PS2, bookcase, chair, comic and computer game posters
A messy room, full of the comic books and computer games
Otaku is a derisive term used to refer to people with obsessive interests, particularly anime manga and computer. In modern Japanese slang, the term otaku refers to an overtly obsessive fan of, or is specialized in any one particular theme, topic, or hobby. Common uses are anime otaku (one who sometimes enjoys many days of excessive anime watching with no rest) and manga otaku (a fan of Japanese graphic novels), pasokon otaku (personal computer geeks) and game otaku (playing video games).
In the other words, the otaku could be simply described that a man who is not adept in social, always enjoy taking the activity alone and likes stay at home.
The brief of PRP in term 2 requires us create 6 artefacts. It meant that we should through these artefacts to prove our research work. Obviously, my artefacts should be related with comedy and humorous in animation. I have decided to research into technique and method on how to represent humour in the animation. It might sounds a little inexplicit, but I believe it will be understood through the 6 artefacts.
I will use my puppet character and refrigerator to create series short animation clip. In terms of these six artefacts to analysis the methods of representing humour in animation.
Through the improvement, my first artefact has already completed. The camera views and sequel has been changed. The object of my artefact is that to see how to use different ways to present humorous in animation.
The story of my first artefact is base on my human being character and the prop is a refrigerator. A man was walking along a road. Suddenly a refrigerator fell down. The man touched his head by habit. It was lucky that his head was not wounded. But when he looked down, he found his foot was hit by the refrigerator. Meanwhile he screamed out because of the pain. The volume of sound was very high so as to make the refrigerator fall down.
Obviously, The gag of this animation is the ending. The man screams out because of the pain of his foot. The refrigerator has been pushed over by the loud scream. The exaggeration of story could be seen visibly from this artefact. I exaggerate the power of the voice in order to present the how much pain the man suffers from the refrigerator. Through this exaggeration method the whole animation will be let audience feel funny and humours.
There are varieties of exaggeration can be used in animation. For the following artefacts I will try to engage different exaggeration method to present humorous in the animation.
I really want to recommend this humourous animation. The cartoon show Usavich is a series of short films, which are completely animated and was produced by Kanaban Graphics for MTV Japan since the year 2006. The story of the cartoon series revolve around a number of odd lovable rabbits which are being imprisoned in a Russian prison.
In the first season of the cartoon series the makers depicted the daily occurrences of the imprisoned life of the two rabbits. The portrayal of the regular life of the rabbits is also done with much dexterity and the audiences seem to enjoy it all the more. The second series of the show however portrays the adventurous circumstances under which they escape and takes their life on the run.
Usavich is really worth watching a comedy. It is also described by some as a bizarre series. The fusion of 3D animation and the traditional 2D illustration is really a thing which deserves special praise about this series. It is always expected that you will imbibe hallucinogen of choice while watching this series. The funny little creatures involving themselves in a series of adventurous twists and turns really makes the audience especially the children sit back and take notice of them.
There is the offical link for Usavich: http://www.usavich.tv/ if you are interested, you should go to that website to see this fantastic animation
The brief of PRP in term 2 requires us create 6 artefacts. It meant that we should through these artefacts to prove our research work. Obviously, my artefacts should be related with comedy and humorous in animation. I have decided to research into technique and method on how to represent humour in the animation. It might sounds a little inexplicit, but I believe it will be understood through the 6 artefacts.
I have decided to create a human being character that is fully rigged and has the facial gestures. I will use him to be the protagonist in the following six artefacts. I will also produce some accessorial models, such as plant, architecture and prop.
For my first artefact, I will produce a short piece funny animation. The story is base on my human being character and the prop is a refrigerator. A man was walking along a road. Suddenly a refrigerator fell down. The man touched his head by habit. It was lucky that his head was not wounded. But when he looked down, he found his feet was hit by the refrigerator.
Through this short humours animation, I intend to explain the anticipative psychology of audience. It means that the person stop to performance temporarily when an accident accrued to a person. Time is left to the audience to think about the consequent things and actions. When the person performs the result to the audience, the audience will feel surprise even though the result is reasonable. In the other words, it can be simple explained that unexpected scenes are seen in the animation, while the consequences arising there from usually go against the common sense. This is the charm of the animation.
For my other artifacts, I will use this character to create 6 different japes in animation and demonstrate different humor elements in the animation.
My previously idea for my first artefact is to create an animal character and then I will use this character to produce some simply short and funny animation. The below picture is the scene shot from 3D Max of my Rabbit charater. However there are some limitation of this charater which I didn't consider about when I designed it. Firstly the head is too big. Secondly the foot is too long. These limitations will let rigging and adjusting animation performance be very hard. Therefore I have changed my mind. I have given up the rabbit, instead of I created human being character to be my protagonist of my six artefacts .
I quite like this story which is for a insect spray adv. Although some of my friend said it's infantility, I don't care about. I think it is really funny and I quite enjoy to producing this kind of animation. hahaha~~ Just post and share this 30sec short animation adv storyboard to people. Sorry about silence, coz it's just require for the storyboard, so I didn't put any sound track at background. Hope you will like it and enjoy it!
For the simulate client project we are require to produce a storyboard that conveys the plot and action of animated 30 second advert that informs, entertains and sells insect repellent (no more than 20 frames). The advert must contain a 3 second “ pack shot” at the end.
The aim of my project is to produce a storyboard for an advert sells an insect repellent product in a fun and facetious way. I want to make the advert more interesting with the aid of a humorous narrative and character design. My target audience has no age range it will appeal to both adults and children.
My narrative idea is represented the powerful effect of the insect spray and portray the substance of a good insect repellent.
According to the overall theme, the story is based on two all out conflict Spiderman. The one will dress the normally Spiderman cloth which people are familiar with. The other will wear a black cloth. The Black Spiderman represents felonious. The Red Spiderman is righteous. They are fighting with each other. I will produce the cartoon style Spiderman in order to give the light hearted, cute and funny mood to audiences in this advert. There will be various battle scenes between two Spiderman and they will be more comical than serious. The Black is very jesuitical, he wants to frame the Red one. So he throws a little piece stone on the ground while the Red one runs towards him. Then The Red falls down on the floor. In the mean time, The Black steps his foot on The Red’s head. The Red Spiderman seems to lose in this fight. In the urgent moment, The Red takes an insect repellent from his pocket and sprays it towards The Black’s face.
The final year of my university is a really busy year, I even forget to post any progress of my work on my journal. Hope it won't be too late to post my stuff on the blog. Fingercross xxxxxx.
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