YiMing

• 2012-02-29

  SCREEN BASED COMMUNICATION1 EVALUATION

  This task asked us to create a piece of motion graphic, lasting between30-90 seconds. This animation would communication to a social problem which we chose from a box randomly.

  The information I chose was about Alcohol consumption in the UK. I couldn’t think anything about that at the beginning and I know nothing about alcohol. Then I started doing research about alcohol consumption, includes the reason why many people die? How many people drink alcohol every week…etc.

  

  Due to the shock statistic of the death of alcoholics. I decided to create a little black humorous story. I want my animation interesting but also rising the awareness. It is about a man died of drinking alcohol and then his soul went up to the heaven. However, the heaven was crowded with a large number of dead alcoholics. Then the god will said to the man:”Sorry about that, but heaven is overpopulated now.So you’d better go to hell!”

  I spent one-third of time to learn how to design and animate the characters by using adobe after effects, illustrator and flash. I didn’t enjoy learning independently, sometimes it makes me crazy when I got troubles. After practicing and practicing finally I felt more and more enjoyable about learning After Effects and also the tutorials. I desired to see my finished animation.

  In a nut shell, although I am scared and conflict to use softwares at the beginning of this project, I become more confident now that I finished my animation and love it. I enjoyed this unit and still want to learn more things. No pain, No gain. 

• 2012-02-28

  Character Animation Tutorials

  Learned how to animate and design your own characters in flash

  Found this really helpful:

  http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/design_character_pt1.html

  http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/design_character_pt2.html

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  Here is the final version of my animation. 

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  Upstream

  By Nomint

  Nomint is an award-winning animation production company that designs and produces commercial and non-commercial work.

  Upstream is a huge corporation, a world leader in mobile marketing solutions.

  Very warm lovely commercial animation. 

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  Pictoplasma is an organisation dedicated to the art of character design.

  Here is a cool video I found, animated by Gangpol & Mit. 

• 2012-02-27

  5th Test movie

  Finished animating the end of my movie.

• 2012-02-20

  This is the background music I chose for my animation.

  “The Crave” by Ennio Morricone in <The Legend of 1900>

  This Jazz music heard quite funny and humorous just the same as my animation. 

• 2012-02-10

  Adrian Johnson has developed a unique and strongly identifiable body of work. His trademark economical, highly crafted graphic work is constantly evolving whilst always maintaining a healthy distance from current and passing fashions.

  http://adrianjohnson.tumblr.com/

  Find this might be helpful for my character design.

  
  

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  Water by Tim Ruffle

  See more works here http://www.adrianjohnson.org.uk/home

  http://www.adrianjohnson.org.uk/animation

  Really inspired by the characters in the animation. 

• 2012-02-05

  STATEMENT OF INTENT

  

  For this project, I am going to learn AE and make an animation about alcohol consumption in the UK.

  My initial idea was inspired by “Thank you for smoking”, created by shadowplay studios.

  Using the packing of alcohols and animate the characters on the packing. However, after a range of research. I fond a lot of statistics about people died from drinking and alcohol- related diseases. That made me to decided to create a story between a dead man and the god.

  The story basically is about an alcoholic died and went up to the heaven. In the heaven, God is asking people about the reason why they dead. And god wrote down the number of how many of them die from drinking alcohol and how much do people drink. Then this dead man who just arrived the heaven was asked the same question. He answered that he drank too much. But he is the unlucky one because god said that heaven is overpopulated. Then the poor man fell down to the hell.

  During the process, The characters which were created by Nono Jin and Adrain Johnson inspired me a lot. Simple shape and colour. As the consequence of their warm lovely but also serious elements, I decided to make my characters look funny as well. 

  Lists some things to remind myself:

  -Illustrate my characters by using illustrator and photoshop. 

  -Think about the colour of each characters.

  -Try different typeface. But should be a serious form, in a Bold form.

  -Timing 

  -Background 

  -Keep making test movies to find the problem and figured it out.