Hand-in Info

After seeing Tracy and Derek this morning I think I understand what my hand-in dates are and what needs to be handed in for each section. Below is my breakdown of it all.

Research & Development - 4th May
* Blog
* Study of cats
* Study of cat behaviour
* Anthropomorphism research
* Visual References
* Videos, animations.etc I've watched.
* Sketchbook scans
* My animation tests
* A concluding statement stating what I did and why I did it, what I achieved, what was easy and was difficult.


Special Study - 4th May
* Blog
* Technical stuff -
- How I did stuff.
- What methods I used and was thinking of using.etc.
* My animation tests
* A concluding statement stating what I did and why I did it, what I achieved, what was easy and was difficult.


Dissertation - 4th May
* Dissertation
* Appendix
* Research associated with my dissertation


Showreel - 17th May
* Animated Short
* Storyboard
* My animation tests
* My animatic
* Script


Presentation - 20/24th May
* Presentation for Special Study (20min talk with audio/visual)


Derek also said that he will look at my animation on the 17th and if he thinks it will affect my grade if I have more time then he will put in for as much extra time as I can have that will still allow me to graduate this year. It would probably be only a few extra days.

Plan of the Week

Monday
* Meeting with Tracy - 9am... Ouch!
* Talk to Derek.
* Talk to Keith about hiring out sound recording equipment to get background noise of a fish shop.
* Complete dissertation main text.
* Label stuff in blog that is R+D and Special Study.


Tuesday
* Book out sound equipment.
* Proof read dissertation main text.
* Dissertation appendix.


Wednesday
* Go to fish shop to record background noise.
* Create disc of all Special Study animations.etc.


Thursday
* Print blog.
* Proof read everything.


Friday
* Bind blog together with other special study documents.
* Meeting with Elaine - 3.15pm


Weekend
* Make any last minute changes.
* Any further information from Elaine, Derek and Tracy.
* Bind format.


Tuesday
* Hand it in :D
* Get drunk in celebration.


Wednesday
* Regret the drinking.
* Start on the animation again. Due 17th May (Check that).

Plan for this Week

* Storyboard idea (1. that's in post below).

* Make basic animatic.

* Go through references and comment on sources as good or bad references. Any valuable information relevant to my project/dissertation.

* Carry on with animation tests.

Plan of the Week

Seen as my dissertation has been handed in and I won't get it back this week I will focus on my project. I have decided that I will go with my Fish Shop idea but with a flat above as a possible advancement depends on what stories I come up with and if any would suit a home instead. Any way, below is my plan.

Wednesday
* Christmas Party in the Studio
* Do more designs for my cat character

Thursday
* Take photos of pet shops and make a collage/display of them.
* Do some designs for my fish shop
* Uni - Karen Dissertation Lecture
* Do some concept art

Friday
* Do more concept art
* Do model sheets for cat
* Look at human character (people have said to have me as the main person in the shorts but have Matt as another member of staff)
* HUMCC Christmas Party

Saturday
(Will probably be dead today)
* Do some self portrait caricatures

Sunday
* Do some caricatures of Matt
* Design my people characters

Plan for the week

1. Have a final character design for Remus finished by Thursday.

2. Do a short hand-drawn animation test of Remus.

3. Get other peoples stories of funny things their cat/s have done and post them onto my blog.

Plan for this week

1. Work on character design of Remus.
For help print images of him in different poses and do guides to get his rough shape.

2. Look at other animations of Little Red Riding Hood.
Do any have characters as animals instead of people (excluding the wolf)?

3. Come up with 3 different rough scripts for my 3 favourite ideas (Remus the Naughty Bengal, The Fish Shop Cat and Little Red Riding Hood parody).
Show these to people to see which they think is the best idea/story. Remember to let them know any problems that any of my ideas may have such as it could be difficult to make under 1.30mins or if the script needs changing and its just a rough idea of the story.

4. Print out my blog for presentation of Research and Development.
Probably just stick with normal print out. No fancy colours or anything. Although I could possibly print out any Cat stuff on say Yellow paper and any animation research on errr Blue paper and anything else on Green paper. Oh and make a cover page and include my name, course, Research and Development and my blog address. Also create a first page explaining about writing all my research on my blog and also how I use it to show my development.etc. Basically an intro.

This weeks plan

Planning time again. Yeah not really that exciting and having a chest infection is making it harder to concentrate on actually doing the work. Any way, here is my plan of what I want to have done by next week.

• Finish writing Jungle Book part of essay
• Write rough intro
• Do 500 words on different types of animation
• Look at people and cartoon characters with the type of acting I’m looking for.
• Do life drawings and experiments for my human character
• Do a thumbnail storyboard for my short film

First Weekly Plan - 2/10/09

I've decided that each week I'm going to make a plan of what I am going to research and do during that week. Admittedly I might end up changing the start day so I might not get a whole week but any that I feel I didn't cover enough can be continued. I would prefer to avoid this though as I may use that as an excuse to not do it.

This week my plans are to: -

* Come up with a possible idea and title for my dissertation.
* Research DISNEY's traditional animation backgrounds.
* Do some practice paintings/sketches of background styles based on Disney.
* Find and print out any images that I can think of or come across that will inspire me.