Funny In 15!

Another task we've been set this semester as a year group is to create a 15 second animation that has to make people laugh. Now I don't know about you but I consider myself to be a pretty hilarious individual just not always intentionally. Trying to make people laugh is the hardest thing in the world, especially when they know its what you're trying to do. I got put with Elf and Sammy, 2 people I hadn't worked with before but get along with well so I was happy. It's nice to have new inputs and views, it means you see things that initially you would have missed. We had a few ideas but Elf came up with one we went with as it was simple and fit into the 15 seconds well, it was just to do with a tree falling on a cow basically, but in our heads we tried to set it up in an amusing way. Here are the anamatic/storyboard boxes I drew up for elf to edit into an anamatic.

 

 

 

I hope from this you can understand what the plan was, on reflection we didn't actually like the idea, and didn't feel that it reflected our humor at all. We didn't find it funny so there was no way in  hell we were ever going to be able to put the energy into it to make other people find it funny.

 

Here was our original anamatic -  

 

 

We surrendered to this idea, and left it here, went away and had some thoughts. Elf came back to us with an interesting idea. It was nearly crossing a line but not really at all because this is animation and we can do anything we want and people don't care because its cartoons and no one takes cartoons seriously, anyways... right??

 

So, here is our new concept, its funnier i'll give him that, and i'm all for going with it!

 

I think its funny, anyway.

 

Pre Production - Idea Uno.

Lydia and I were given the phrase, "cut to the chase" and the theme Shopping Channel. Initially we were at a loss and then it came to us like rain in a drought. (Artistic imagery there..) We decided it would be amusing to do a teleshopping channel dedicated to criminals/terrorists/all things bad. We could play heavily and amusingly on stereotypes, although we did tame ourselves a bit as we didn't want to insult anyone...

Turned out however that Derek and Kathy thought if anything we should be more outrageous and have some sort of climax, which i think will be really really fun to think over! It's a really fun idea that i have spent a large amount of time laughing over.

Here is our rough anamatic thus so far, a lot, and i mean a lot of work needs to be done but i think its got the bare bones of something that could be quite witty.

Sea Project Anamatic 1.0 - The roughest of the rough. Except sandpaper, that's pretty rough.

Our first ever anamatic for the Sea Rescue Project, i understand that this is late but so is my Chinese food so i guess we all lose a little bit.

We admittedly did not leave enough time to put this anamatic together, having so many separate ideas we had not really got in complete order and put them together yet, therefore we drew this up in hope that it would show the story line we were trying to reach for, something serious and perhaps a bit dark.

These images were only drawn up in blue pencil and then the black i put on at the end on photoshop, with a mouse may i add.

Anyways, enjoy and i hope you are able to understand from this the sort of mood we are going to try and obtain. Cheers.

Well done for getting this far, here is your reward. Anamatic 1.0 - Rough

Pirate Anamatic!

Once we had story boarded out script (See below post) we had to make it into an anamatic which would better portray the mood and the rhythm of the animation. It gave a much better idea of timing and transfers from scene to scene. I really enjoyed creating this even if Premeire did give me a small heart attack. (Thank you auto save.) After a slighty flustered retrieval i finished it off with a little bit of over dramatic music, that i understand...