Week 1 Project

Here is the process of work. We used a rage of materials for this project including paint, card and marker. This kind of wall animated stopmotion style project was inspired by Blu.

Here is the final result of the project.

Week1 BLU from Jack Vanes on Vimeo.

My top three most favourite characters of all time

Deadpool/Wade Wilson

The main reason Deadpool is one of my most favourite characters is due his personality going against the grain with relation to the Marvel Universe. Unlike almost every single Marvel character, he is known for his childish and cartoonish personality, excessive talkativeness and often breaks the fourth wall, which would never be expected amongst Marvel standards. Marvel is known for producing characters who have super-human abilities with serious attitudes who always seem to have goals whether they be good or bad. Deadpool typically lacks any main goals and is known to go around doing things however he wants. He also seems to be on the fence with good and evil as he sometimes is good but sometimes is bad.

Nick Wilde (Zootopia)

Instinctively foxes are known to be cunning, sly, and efficient. Which is exactly how Nick was portrayed as during the beginning of the film. Starting off as a primary antagonist, Nick was black mailed to work with Judy Hopps, a bunny police officer who required Nick's help in solving a missing animal case. We soon realize that he isn't bad because he wants to be, he is bad due to the fact that he's a fox then everyone will see him as such. Thus he does not bother trying to convince the other animals otherwise.

Cole Phelps (LA Noire)
LA Noire is set during the 1940s era. At this time, the average police officer was corrupt and typically never actually took crime seriously. Cole, however, was one of the very few LAPD officers who took his job seriously. He caught a large number of criminals for various crimes. He was even close to solving a big case involving a morphine heist on a ship and exposing corrupt leaders but due to their high power, this was never succeeded. He would put the safety of LA before anything else. This was possibly him seeking redemption after the evilness he bestowed during the war.

Introduction to Character Development

This module will be focused on the method of producing believable and entertaining characters which are achieved through creativity and ideas. It would consist of team work, generating characters and coming up with a final character to use for animation.

For an exercise, we developed a brainstorm for a character through an image involving a woman and a wolf-like character. And as a group, we came up with the story of two scientists who had been involved in an explosion during an experiment gone wrong. The woman survived the crash but the male however, did not. And he returned as a spirited wolf.

Introduction to Innovative Animation

The first module of the second year of University is Innovative Animation. The aim of this module is to experiment with sound, movement and colour. For the remaining weeks of this module, we will produce a 2-10 second long animation that will reflect on the creative stance of the animating process. This will be tested on the quality rather than the quantity. In addition we will be doing this in groups.

Here is the plan/storyboard I have made for our first upcoming project. It will be based on Blu's work.