Reven

When I was younger i created this character. His name is Reven and was named after my cat at the time :) I'm going have him introduce my self promotion website thing that were doing with John Kelly!!!

Spit Art

Thats right SPIT ART!!! Its a new type of art. It did really interest me when i found it because its just so different and weird. Here is a video of a guy doing some. It is quite amazing how they actually do it!!! Have a look.



There are more spit art videos on YouTube just do a search for 'spit art' and check them out!!!

Sprite

Oh nearly forgot here is my Sprite Animation and the drawings of him too. I actually based him on my boyfriend, Matt. I've included a photo of him too so you can compare the cartoon version with him. Enjoy!!!

FRONT

BACK

MATT

UPDATE
YouTube is being a bit funny about this so when I'm back from visiting Matt in Bournemouth i will try again at uploading it on here :)

Morphing Animation - Dollman

Here is a more upto date version of my hand-drawn morphing animation also known as George or Dollman. It now has a Monty Phython feel to it but it is better and longer also has me doing silly sound effects :D

Animatic

I meant to do this before I left Uni to come home as we didn't have internet here as we just moved house!!!
So here is my animatic :) Its not finished as I'm getting people to do the voices for me and get a sound editing programme. Then I'll add them in and post the finished version on here. I currently don't know my mark for this yet as I gave it in on the last few days when ever that was. i get my mark when i come back.

Michael Gondry

Gondry was born in Versailles, France. Simply known as the director whose work makes other directors cry, Michel Gondry sets the standard in everything he does. His career as a filmmaker began with creating music videos for the French rock band Oui Oui, where he also served as a drummer. The style of his videos caught the attention of music artist Björk, who asked him to direct the video for her song "Human Behavior". The collaboration proved long-lasting, with Gondry directing a total of six music videos for Björk. Other artists who have collaborated with Gondry on more than one occasion include Daft Punk, Radiohead, The White Stripes, The Chemical Brothers, and Beck. His groundbreaking videos for artists have won him every music video award available, and he is in the Guiness Book of World Records as the director of the commercial that has won the most prizes in the world, including the Grand Prix at Cannes, three silvers at D&AD and the best campaign at BTAA (Levi’s Drugstore).
Gondry has also created numerous television commercials. He pioneered the "bullet time" techniques used in The Matrix, notably in his "Like A Rolling Stone" video for the Rolling Stones and a 1998 commercial for Smirnoff vodka, as well as directing a trio of inventive holiday-themed commercials for GAP.
He has also completed three feature films, Human Nature, the Oscar-winning Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and the recently completed The Science of Sleep, which was premiered at the Sundance Festival in February 2006.

Finished Versions of my Storyboard

These are the first 2 pages of my storyboard that are completely finished. I'm having problems with Flash and photoshop at the moment so its going very slowly :(

The Online Me

This was an assignment i got for New Media Culture. It was a 1000 words about how I use the Internet and why. My final assignment is below.


THE ONLINE ME

I use the Internet for a lot of different things from emailing to blogging to games. It seems that you have to register to do anything on the Internet now. At first it took me a long time to actually get a username for my main use, Hotmail.com. I probably spent about 2 hours trying to come up with one and then a memory just clicked in my ‘dogactor87’. This is because when I was younger I used to run around the house on all fours and growl when I was angry so my mum’s biker friends named me, dogactor. Its ‘dogactor87’ because I thought it sounded more right for an email, at the time. When ever I type it I always remember the guys and taking me out on their bikes. So if you typed ‘dogactor87’ into any search engine such as Yahoo.com you will find a lot of pages! Strangely one is a bob the builder club that my mate signed my address up to, still makes me giggle.

There are 6 websites that I use the most, which are listed below: -
www.hotmail.com
www.yahoo.com
www.blogger.com
www.bebo.com
www.ebay.co.uk
www.humcc.co.uk

WWW.HOTMAIL.COM
This is a pretty obvious reason for using this site, its home of my main email address. I particularly like hotmail because it’s easy to use although it does seem to send and receive some files differently so it’s hard to open them. I also use MSN Messenger, which is part of hotmail. Every time I go on the Internet I log on to MSN just so I can keep in touch with my friends. I went to a boarding school in Llandudno and a lot of my friends came from around the world, such as my best friend, Jenny who’s from Barbados! Without it I probably would have lost touch with her but because of MSN I know that’s she’s happy and in University in Canada and complaining it’s cold!

WWW.YAHOO.COM
Everyone I meet says oh no don’t use yahoo use google but I grew up using yahoo so it’s just hard to swap. I think everyone has one search engine website they always use, mines just yahoo! I do also use it for emails and games especially Pool! I love playing with all the people you find on there and meeting new people. I’ve never met anyone on there like the ones you hear on the news.etc. Its just a bit of fun although I usually just end up on the same points I was on originally as I usually win one then lose one! Oh well, its all fun.

WWW.BLOGGER.COM
I didnt actually know that blogger.com actually existed until I came to Huddersfield university and I’m glad that we actually got told about it because I strangely enjoy writing on my blog and adding photos and videos.
I haven’t actually set up a separate blog about myself as I’ve actually not had time but updating it with information, research, videos and photos is fun enough anyway. I have especially found the ability for people to leave comments on my blog and contact me. It’s very helpful because I have actually had people sending me messages with suggestions!
Blogger does have the feature of mobile blogging, which I’d love to try but I just can’t afford it at the moment. I do think it’s an excellent idea because I personally have a terrible memory and by the time I got home I would have forgotten about what I was going to say in the blog plus it would be an easier way of getting photos off my phone!

WWW.BEBO.COM
Bebo has to be one of my favourite websites as I use it for everything! From storing my photos to meeting new people! I actually met Andy through bebo and he is now a good mate of mine! I do actually have a blog on there too but I don’t actually update it much. It’s just a fun site, which actually feels like a homepage for myself. It has quizzes, polls, photos, blogs and information about me. I think my biggest and most helpful use for bebo is the photos option. I have a total of 986 and I’m uploading more everyday!

WWW.EBAY.CO.UK
You can buy practically anything on eBay and at great prices! I love going on eBay whether buying or selling, it’s easy and fun and you'll never know what you’ll find especially as there are over 100 million members worldwide and over 25 million items for sale everyday!
I mainly use it for buying things, especially motorbike parts/accessories, CDs, DVDs and books. I find eBay very addictive, which isn’t always a good thing as I have had some problems with some sellers before.

WWW.HUMCC.CO.UK
This is the website for the Huddersfield University Motorcycle Club (HUMCC). I am a member of this club and also help to update the website and take photos for it. It’s used to let people know who we are, where we are and what we do and have done. People can contact us through the site and send us videos, photos and information. It lets people get closer to us and for us to get closer to them. I’m currently trying to work out how to get videos to work off the site as I’m having problems with it as the site was originally set up with a program and not html so I cant do it the normal way I would of. I’ve tried using flash to upload them onto the site but just get green boxes! The point of the videos is to make people laugh, see what its like with us and for current and past members to see all the fun times we had.

The Internet is one of the greatest technologies and without it I would never have anything that I have spoken about in this. I grew up with the Internet and to lose it would leave a gap, for this century the Internet is necessary.

Flaming Text

We learned how to make fire today and using Masks made it inside text.

South Park Type Animation

Today with Jose we are learning to do animation like in South Park but with a skeleton arm drinking a pint of beer.

Autobiography Storyboards

Here are my Storyboards for my Autobiography Project.

The Little Chris Moyles Show

There is an online animated series based on the Radio 1 show, The Chris Moyles Show made by Popnoodles.com. The audio was blatantly robbed from The Chris Moyles Show, mixed up a bit and shoved together, with cartoon style attributing South Park. The episode are shown below.

Episode 1
Little Chris introduces his little friends and does a little impression or two. Completely unofficial, slightly unoriginal.


Episode 2
Little Chris is back again with Dave, Dom, Carrie and Rachel.


Episode 3
Little Chris starts a brand new band for X Factor. Part 1 of 2.


Episode 4
Chris, Dave, Dom and Aled practice for X Factor. Part 2 of 2.

My Profiles over the Internet

I thought that it was about time that I put this list up. They are of all my profiles across the internet, well the ones I can think of at the moment any way... If I think of any more I'll add them :)

BEBO - http://dogactor87.bebo.com

FACEBOOK - http://hud.facebook.com/profile.php?id=283800366

FACEBOX - http://en.facebox.com/dogactor87

MYSPACE - www.myspace.com/dogactor87

TAGGED - www.tagged.com/mypage.html?uid=8770632

DEL.ICIO.US - http://del.icio.us/dogactor87

Flying Hexagons and text

With Jose I then made the below animation of random hexagons flying round the place and changing colour. It looks a lot like a screen saver actually. I did this in Adobe After Effects.


Ok we also animated text which can be seen below.

Bees, Bees and more Bees!

Firstly... AHHHHH MY HEAD!!! So much information at once. Although I am enjoying this master class with Jose it is a lot of information :)
We have been animating Bees, I've uploaded what we've done so far below. Im not too happy with how all the Bees turn at about the same time but i dont know After Effects well enough yet to change that.
Well enjoy and let me know what you think.

Eboy - Sprite

YAAAAWWWWNNNNN
Too early today but oh well here goes :)

We have been working on our Sprites again and we got told about an original sprite type website called Eboy. www.eboy.com
It was made before Habbo Hotel and is very good. I especially like how they make the images and when refering to a city bringing all the most famous parts and bringing them together. Such as in the image below of London. See how many famous things you can spot. I also love the little funny captions such as the octopus. HE HE

My Caricature

Here is my final version of a caricature of myself. Im not happy with the mouth as its a bit big and i didnt put enough yellow in my eyes but its ok... im sure my eyes will change colour again to like that :) (for those that dont know, my eyes change colour)

Autobiography Characters

Here are a few more characters for my Autobiography Animatic. They are of -
* Hallway Guy
* Me
* Hederwick.

Morphing Animation

Here is part of my morphing Animation, which isn't finished yet so its very short. Its of a Voodoo Doll who turns in to a man who stands up and starts walking. Eventuallly he will then be stabbed by pins by a hand and fall back down into a voodoo doll again so it loops. Enjoy :)

My MOHO Animation

Ok Firstly Rob... I put you in this animation because Alison told me to do you!!!
Any way I used the sound from the Hannibal film called 'Red Dragon' and also me recording my voice. I have no idea where this came from... just the first thing that popped into my head i guess! Its nearly finished, i just need to finish the lip-syncing as I only did the first sentence of Robs speech. Well enjoy and please leave your comments :)

100 GREATEST CARTOONS

From Mickey Mouse to Marge Simpson, Top Cat to Toy Story and Bugs Bunny to Belleville Rendez-Vous a programme recently on Channel 4 charted the 100 Greatest Cartoons of all time, as voted for by the public! Whether you grew up on a diet of Tom & Jerry and Porky Pig or modern classics like South Park, The Simpsons and King of the Hill, everyone has their favourite cartoon and characters.

They covered everything from Popeye to cult Japanese Anime in what will be a comprehensive history of over a century of animation, as well as a poll to find out the nation's favourite cartoon of all time. Funny, nostalgic, heart-warming and occasionally down right rude, the 100 Greatest Cartoons was the ultimate tribute to the 'thwock' sound effect, to running in the air but not going anywhere, to being a mild mannered janitor by day but kung fu super hero at night, and of course to saying 'D'oh' every time you mess up.

Below are the results of the Top 100 and I watched for quite a few hours to get this list! It was a good watch though :)

The Results!

1. The Simpsons
2. Tom and Jerry
3. South Park
4. Toy Story/Toy Story 2
5. Family Guy
6. Shrek/Shrek 2
7. The Lion King
8. Spirited Away
9. The Incredibles
10. Bugs Bunny
11. The Flintstones
12. The Iron Giant
13. The Nightmare Before Christmas
14. Finding Nemo
15. Wallace and Gromit
16. Akira
17. Aladdin
18. The Ren and Stimpy Show
19. Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
20. Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies
21. Princess Mononoke
22. Monsters, Inc
23. Popeye
24. Danger Mouse
25. Pinnochio
26. Futurama
27. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
28. Spongebob Squarepants
29. Dungeons and Dragons
30. Daffy Duck
31. Mickey Mouse
32. Beavis and Butthead
33. Beauty and the Beast
34. He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
35. Sylvester and Tweetie Pie
36. Magic Roundabout
37. Transformers
38. 101 Dalmations
39. Charlie Brown
40. Rugrats
41. King of the Hill
42. Samurai Jack
43. Ivor the Engine
44. Spider-Man
45. Pokemon
46. Inspector Gadget
47. Road Runner
48. Bod
49. Scooby Doo, Where Are You?
50. Donald Duck
51. The Little Mermaid
52. 2DTV
53. Fantasia
54. Thundercats
55. Winnie the Pooh
56. Fritz the Cat
57. The Jungle Book
58. The Powerpuff Girls
59. Chicken Run
60. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
61. Foghorn Leghorn
62. Battle of the Planets
63. Bambi
64. Top Cat
65. A Bug's Life
66. Captain Pugwash
67. The Snowman
68. Hong Kong Phooey
69. Wind in the Willows
70. Monty Python
71. Alice in Wonderland
72. Legend of the Overfiend
73. Pepe le Pew
74. Willo the Wisp
75. Lady and the Tramp
76. Belleville Rendezvous
77. The Adventures of Tintin
78. Noggin the Nog
79. Peter Pan
80. Yogi Bear
81. Barbar
82. How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
83. Dumbo
84. Roobarb
85. Droopy Dog
86. Watership Down
87. Jamie and the Magic Torch
88. Woody Woodpecker
89. Felix the Cat
90. Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels
91. Mighty Mouse
92. Animal Farm
93. Mr Magoo
94. Queer Duck
95. Charley Says...
96. Betty Boop
97. Huckleberry Hound
98. Wait till Your Father Gets Home
99. The Pink Panther
100. Wacky Races

DreamWorks Writes Down Flushed

Flushed Away, the computer-animated feature hasn’t been performing as well as some of DreamWorks Animation’s previous releases, the studio has officially acknowledged that it its likely to take a write-down on the film based on domestic box office results for the third collaboration with Aardman Animations. The announcement was made as DreamWorks Animation filed a shelf registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for the follow-on secondary offering $330 million of shares of Class A common stock.

DreamWorks SKG’s publicly traded animation unit invested approximately $142.9 into Flushed Away, which has earned a little more than $41 million in North America since opening on Nov. 3. The film has been released in several small foreign theatrical markets and is scheduled to bow in France on Nov. 29 and in the U.K. on Dec. 1 before rolling out in other foreign markets. The flick stands to do its best business in the U.K., where the popularity of Aardman and the film’s largely British voice cast should add up to boffo box office.
Foreign box office proved a saving grace for DreamWorks’ and Aardman’s Wallace & Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit. Released last October, the clay-animated comedy grossed just north of $56 million in the U.S. but raked in more than $136 million overseas, bringing its worldwide take to $192.4 million.

Since DreamWorks Animation is still waiting to see how Flushed will perform overseas, the studio is currently unable to predict the ultimate amount of the third-quarter write-down. Other factors include eventual home video sales and revenues related to worldwide television distribution.

The Happy Feet - New Animated Film

The Happy Feet features Elijah Wood from the Lord of the Rings trilogy as the voice of Mumble, a young penguin born into a nation of singing Emperor penguins where each needs a heart song to attract a soul mate. Since Mumble is cursed with being the worst singer in the world, he learns to rely on his tap dancing skills to catch the eye of a special young lady. Directed by George Miller, whose credits include the Babe and Mad Max films, Happy Feet is an animated musical comedy that also stars the voices of Brittany Murphy (King of the Hill) Hugh Jackman (Flushed Away/Xmen), Nicole Kidman (His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass/Moulan Rouge), Robin Williams (Robots) and Hugo Weaving (The Matrix trilogy/Lord of the Rings), among others. The movie opens to a lot of positive reviews, most praising the film for its stunning visuals and soulful music.

Digit

Digit is one of the longest established digital agencies globally. They help leading businesses deliver moments that matter by creating award winning on-line environments and content, and more recently ground breaking physical interaction experiences.
The Digit London site is www.digitlondon.com

For example the Digital Aquarium. It was an interactive experience using 150 Motorola handsets suspended from the roof of a tank exhibition space outside the Institute of Contemporary Art.
On the outside of the tank was a number that consumers were invited to call in order to interact with the installation. The tank was programmed such that when the number was called it set off a chain reaction of the handsets calling each other, lighting up and ringing in a staggered formation, giving the effect of a swimming school of fish.

Another example is Motoglyph.
Digit were approached by Motorola to create an interactive experience that highlighted their commitment to music and youth culture.
By fusing cutting edge technology and simple tools they created a digital graffiti wall on which users could ‘spray’ their own unique signature or drawing. Whilst creating a ‘signatureMotoglyphlyph also simultaneously generated a soundscape. Both the soundtrack and the image could be sent to the users mobiles to be used as wallpaper and ring tone. The motoglyph won a lion at Cannes, was commissioned to be part of a major contemporary design exhibition at the Pompidou Centre in Paris and has toured the world from Japan to Argentina.

Golan Levin - messa di voce

We watched Messa di Voce during one of our lectures. It is a concert performance in which the speech, shouts and songs produced by a pair of abstract vocalists are radically augmented in real-time by custom interactive visualization software. This was done by Golan Levin, Zach Lieberman, Jaap Blonk and Joan La Barbara.

It was really interesting seeing how the technology could register where they are and what there doing to reacted to it visually. I especically liked the one with all the balls.There is a website about it if your interested - www.tmema.org/messa/messa.html

Sprite Idea

If I can get my Sprite to actually interact with objects I could make a pretty good idea that I'm sure could be sold to a company so no stealing my idea people this is my idea!!!
If I made a background, which is the floor plan for an exhibition show such as the Motorcycle and Scooter Show at the NEC www.motorcycleshow.co.uk
Then as your Sprite walks up to a bike or stand a picture of the bike pops up, along with information about it. Like a virtual guide of the show, Big Companies such as Honda and Yamaha, I believe would pay for there products to be on the virtual tour!!!

Habbo Hotel (Sprite Work)

Habbo Hotel is a virtual community where you can hang out with your friends, meet new ones, create and decorate your own personal space and take part in a wide variety of games, activities and competitions. The characters that you can actually create to walk around and meet new people with are the kind of simplicity and design of what I think our sprites should be like. Maybe look at to see if our sprites can actually be made to interact with objects like in Habbo Hotel.
In the Habbo Hotel world you can actually buy furniture and credits to play games and do competitions so it also includes real money. Any way check it out and you will see what I mean.
The UK website is www.habbohotel.co.uk

John Lasseter

John Lasseter is one of my idols :D He is Vice President of Pixar and has made many animated films.
He is actually ranked No.1 in Premiere's 2004 annual Power 100 list with Pixar CEO Steve Jobs. They had ranked No.23 in 2003 and No.31 in 2002.
He went to the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia. While attending California Institute of the Arts, he produced two animated films, both winners of the Student Academy Award for Animation, Lady and the Lamp in 1979 and Nitemare in 1980.
He was a member of the Computer Division of Lucasfilm Ltd. (which was later sold and became Pixar), where he designed and animated the computer-generated Stained Glass Knight character in the Steven Spielberg-produced film Young Sherlock Holmes (1985). He's also a member of the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Short Films and Feature Animation Branch).
In 2004, he was honored by the Art Directors Guild with its prestigious "Outstanding Contribution To Cinematic Imagery" award, and received an honorary degree from the American Film Institute.
He is also very involved with Hayao Miyazaki as he is a close personal friend of his. John Lasseter actually introduced the DVD release of Hayao Miyazaki's Tenkû, Castle in the Sky, which is actually one of his favorite films. He also organised the English version of some of his films including Spirited Away.

Character Drawings

Here are some of my character drawings, well their heads any way! What do you think?

Life Quotes

These are just a few quotes about life that I like and may add to my animatic for Studio.

Life is like an onion.
You peel off one layer at a time
and sometimes you weep.
~ Carl Sandburg ~

Too much sanity may be madness.
And maddest of all,
to see life as it is and not as it should be!
~ Miguel de Cervantes ~

Life is a series of collisions with the future.
~ Jose Ortega y Gasset ~

Foundation Studio

I do enjoy Studio. We have watched quite a few animatics especially animatic versions of Gorillaz music videos. Also, animatics of Howl's Moving Castle. I watched it the other day and it was really good!!!
We did some learning about doing storyboards. Here's my notes.
*Sound effects
*Cutting
*Zoom
*Panning
*Pace
*Use arrows

work in 16-9 widescreen as its more cinematic. Download from Blackboard!!!
Also, use a soft pencil for shading and thick dark pencils or pens for other parts.
A good idea is to cut on the beats of the music.

mmm my notes must be in a different notebook so I will find that in my mess of a room and type them up. Sorry so this will be a short post... for now!!!

Process and Production 1

Ok what we have been doing in Process and Production 1 :)

We looked at a few people work such as John Mader, Gollan Levin, Jaap Blank and Zachery Lieberman (sorry about spelling)
We also set up blogs and del.icio.us accounts.
Mine are obviously this one
http://dogactor87.blogspot.com
http://del.icio.us/dogactor87

on everything I use my username is always dogactor87... long story why that name but if you ever need to find anything of mine just put that into a search engine or something!!!
Oh Tag for people on our course is - mmvran1


We then looked at www.tiletoy.org
They used a chip called 'Basic stamp'

We should be doing one but one of 2 boards
Talio board - is £160 for an intro kit
Ardrueno board - is £20 each

We also looked at Tuomo Tammenpaa who is a media artist/creative director
and Daniel Blackburn who is a managing director.

Look up Digit


*Update blog by 2nd Nov
*No P&P on Mon 30th Oct
*Have a look at Rustboy

We discussed the Bradford Animation Festival. SI amam really thinking of going especially to see certain things.

Workshop

In Workshop we have been doing a lot but here is a basic low down on what we have actually been up to.
We started by doing mind maps, which is one of my biggest hates in design! I did enjoy the group mind map though as you got some funny answers :D We had the theme Autobiography given to use so when I next see a scanner I will up load my mind map for you all to see how much I wrecked my mind thinking of ideas to go in it!!!
NOTE 2 SELF!!!
Remember to add drawings, colour and NO arrows!!!

We watched 'How art made the world' which is a BBC documentary that was very interesting even if I knew a lot of it any way. I found the story of Gilgemesh (ignore spelling) story quite interesting and especially like the idea of Trajens Column (again sorry cant spell) its a really good idea and I will have to go see it when I go to Italy this Christmas!!!
I made some points of what most good stories include - a hero, a good plot, sound and emotion!!!

Next up is scanning!!! It was basically learning how to scan and edit our storyboards but next bit is going to be my notes sorry!!!
Scanning - File, Import, Scanner name. Do in Office mode and scan at 800dpi
Save my storyboards as PNG and if there's no colour turn into greyscale.
Also, always make master files, which are high quality and DON'T mess with them... they are a back up!!!

There were a few problems with Illustrator but I got the idea, I don't particularly like Freehand so I think I will stick. Sorry my notes again.
File, Place
Find image on PC
Shift key to keep to scale.

Window, transform - set box to 160mm x 90mm

New
Size - A4
Units - mm
RGB Colour

Place storyboard box over the image. High light both!!!
Object - Clipping mask - make

LOCK LAYERS
Option + Alt
Pick object, press O+A and makes copies
If you press shift after goes up/across exactly

Control + Y = to see unseable objects

Well unless I have other notes that's what I have so far. Enjoy :)

Kreacher Animaton

If any of you have read Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix you will know the character, Kreacher who is Sirius Black's house elf. Here is an animation that someone has made of him with the voice from the american audiobook. Its really interesting to watch so have a look.

Family Guy's Brian Goes Blogging

I found this news article today and I thought it might interest anyone who reads this blog! It has a lot to do with the work that we've been doing in New Media Culture too.

FAMILY GUY'S BRIAN GOES BLOGGING
Family Guy fans can now go online to check out some nuggets of wisdom from the Griffin’s martini-sipping family dog, Brian. The character is featured as a guest blogger on familyguy.com and olivereader.com, posting his first entry today, Oct. 16. In addition to dishing dirt on his dysfunctional family, the talking canine is promoting his upcoming book, Family Guy: Brian Griffin's Guide to Booze, Broads and the Lost Art of Being a Man.

Brian will blog for five days, sharing details of being violated by a Borders Books security guard, offering a scintillating review of Danielle Steel's latest novel and listing all the things he plans to do as a published author, including bedding more women, donning a cardigan sweater and a pipe, starting to call wine "vino" and tricking out his Prius to look like Kit from Knight Rider. among many others.

Storyboarding Tips

Arrows - Suppose the camera is tracking in, following a bad guy's footsteps. Draw in an arrow pointing into shot to show the camera's movement. Now the hero's head is pulled back by one of the bad guy's goons. Use an arrow to show the movement of the head being turned. What about a zoom in? From each corner draw in arrows pointing to the centre, draw in a new smaller frame to show the end of the zoom. Generally I try and use thick white arrows to show camera moves and thin black arrows to show objects moving.

The Floating Frame - What if you want to show the camera panning to show a cityscape, or following a character as they walk through an airport? There's two options here: 1) Illustrate one shot using more than one storyboard frame showing the key stages of the shot's movement across a number of frames or 2) Draw out the entire scene (e.g.. the horizon of a city) and place a frame on it with an arrow indicating the direction of movement.

Transitions - The storyboard can also include transitions in your film. Write these in the gaps between the frames e.g.. DISSOLVE TO :

Timmy Cartoon

This is just a funny cartoon that someone did based on the theme were doing 'Autobiography' it made me laugh and its totally insane but it helps to give ideas for my storyboards.

Starting Blog

Ok well this will be my blog from now on and it will be probably be just for my course information, work and research. Enjoy looking!
Emma