Hayle Project

For this project i am working with Harriet, Jenny and Leki and we are working on the winnie's woolworths wedding sound clip. We chose this sound clip as we found it funny and also a little sad at the same time and we could all see how this clip could work as an animation. We assigned Harriet as the Director and me as the Producer and so far our group has worked well together and we have had no problems. We also assigned pre-production to jenny and leki, production to me and post production to harriet however everyone will be working on everything anyways.

Before we started working we went on a trip to Penzance to see what the woolworths there looked like and where it was in the area and also to see what the surrounding area looked like.
















Together we decided after seeing The Pearce Sisters in class we really liked their style of having 2d ontop of 3d and would like to recreate it with our own animation.

For the pitch that we showed to the rest of the class we got together and designed the concept work, storyboard, character, environments and some test animation. We all worked together to get the rough look of the storyboard. Leki then went and researched the fashion and how everything looked at that time period and then harriet designed the characters and made the final storyboard and animatic.














This is Leki's research. She looked for images of fashion in the 1940s and how cafes looked in this time period. She also looked for images that we were gunna use for props in our animation. This helped us to have an idea of the look of this animation.

These are Harriet's character designs.














I think she designed the characters very well as the whole group agreed that this was how we wanted the characters to look. The winnie character i think was designed really well as she looks like a very friendly old lady which is how i imagined her to be. We wanted the mother in law to be slightly more comical compared to the other characters which i think she pulled of with her design without making her look odd or unnatural. The younger winnie and the husband work well together as well as i can see them as a couple.

We also added a scratch track to the animatic which we recorded ourselves. I really enjoyed recording the sounds and found it really fun as it was the first time i tried recording with the equipment we are now allowed to hire out. Though as it was the first time i recorded the sounds when we put them on the computer they were very quiet, which i didn't realise when i was listening on the headphones. This is helpful for the next time i record sound as i will look out for this. However harriet was able to make the sounds louder and they sounded good with the animatic when finished.

Jenny was incharge of designing how the environments were going to look. And i was incharge of making some test animations of what style we wanted.














These are jenny's environment designs. The woolworths environment was based on the image we took in penzance but with the oldfashioned sign on the front of the building. The living room design i think works well as i think it looks like somewhere an old lady would live and it looks very welcoming which i think works for Winnie's character.

I also worked on some concept work. I experimented with drawing over photographs on photoshop to try and get the effect that we wanted for our animation and tried out different colours schemes and filters. I think the sepia tones work better than the black and white images. I like the effect the poster edges filter had on the photographs though think it is too realistic for the style we wanted. It was also the first time i had tried using a pen tablet which showed me that i need alot of practise as i find it very hard to make smooth round edges, i can do straight lines just not diagonal =/ but really want to improve. I think the bottom right images worked the best in the sepia tones as i like the block colour and it looks simple yet effective.















This is the concept work that Leki worked on. She focused on what the cafe would look like when they got inside and different arrangements of Winnie's living room. Also on what Winnie's chair would look like and what the stools in the cafe were going to be like.




























I made two tests one with a simple box revolving in the colour scheme that we wanted. I also wanted to experiment with the style on a moving character though we had no models completed at this point so i experimented with using it on my ident character for the time being though we will need to do tests on the actual characters when they are modeled. From doing these tests i discovered that it will be time consuming when we draw over the actual animation. However we all seem enthusiastic and prepared for this anyways so i don't think there will be any problems.

This is the box test as the other test doesn't want to upload for some reason =/.




I think the animatic has worked really well and shows what we want to create clearly. However i think the ending feels a bit chopped off which i think we need to improve.