Animation Bible

Animatic

Storyboard Sketches

Davids storyboard sketches

Page 1 - Rowing Scene

Page 2 - Football Scene

The text and effects hadn't been decided on at the time

So they weren't written in

Environment Design #02 - River Scene - James

Final River Painting

Process Shots

• The same process was used as before, see Environment Design #01 for more details.

Louis----Character

Final Stroyboard and sketches - Haiman Zhang

These is the final Storyboard.
Havn't add some text effects on some panels, needs more time to think about it. :)

Also here is my part of storyboard sketches.

Landscape Design #01 - Stadium - James

Final Stadium Painting

 Process Shots

1. A basic model was produced in Maya to create a perspective for the piece that was correct. it was rendered in an 'Ambient Occlusion' pass.

2. The basic scene was sketched on top of the render.

3. Shadows and highlights were roughed in.

4-5. Colour and detail was then added and built up to produce the final outcome.

6. Due to team feedback the scene was colour corrected to give more of a warm atmosphere.

new character style---- Louis

Jack's Character Design Idea and Moodboard

 

 This is how I picture the character looking when I see the animation.

Character

Davids Mood board

Heres my mood board for the kind of art style I think the character should have

Animation Inspiration

Character reference:

Final Animation Idea

We spent time looking over our different ideas for the animation and found a way of integrating them into one plausible animation.

A Team Called AAA – Animation Pitch

Start with establishing shot of stadium, the athlete starts the scene, a gunshot blasts through stadium, he begins the race. Camera moves from his face down around his body where a text flies around saying ‘revolutionise the way you interact with sports’ Cut to show ‘S’ Cuts back to another athlete rowing, as the oars comes out the water the water splashes and turns to text saying, ‘Get more enjoyment out of your favourite sport’ Cuts to ‘P’ Cuts back to another sport football, ball flying through air into the as it hits the net the net text flies out ‘Interact over your favourite social media social media’ with Facebook, twitter etc logo circling Camera cuts to a ‘1’ appearing on screen. Cut back to the race from the beginning of the animation, just as the athlete is crossing finish line, the finish line ribbon breaks, Text flies out saying ‘All powered by SP13’ finally and 3 appear the finish with the SP13 logo
What we need for final animation

·        Character Model

o   Rig

o   Textures

o   Logo design in 3D

·        Tracking on the animation for placement of wording

·        Prop modelling

·        Football post and net

o   Net cloth dynamics

·        Ribbon for end of the race

o   Cloth dynamics

·        Mattes and models of environment

o   Stadium

o   River scene

o   Football pitch

Software 
3D – Autodesk Maya
Compositing – Adobe After Effects, The Foundry Nuke
Tracking – Nuke or Mocha for 2D, Boujou for 3D
Editing – Adobe Premiere Pro
Sound – Adobe Audition/Fl Studio
Art – Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator

Haiman Zhang - Animation Treatment

Hurdles

Animation Pre-Production Initial Concept

“A Team Called AAA” Productions

Haiman Zhang  K0292235

3 Line Premise

Start with two young boys make a competition in the school, with the jump over the hurdles the background also changing. They into many world competition scenes. Finally they into the Olympic Games track and field venues.

Detail Idea

At first, there are two boy about 15 years-old on the running track, they looking at each other and warming up. Then they are ready to wait start. A hand holding a flat wave down and whistle sounded. They quickly start to run. When they crossing the second hurdles they suddenly change the clothes they wearing and the background change to the IAAF World Youth Championships venues. When they crossing the third hurdles, they growing up to 18 year-old and the background change to IAAF World Junior Championships venues. When they crossing the fourth hurdles, the background change to Golden League venues. After this they crossed the hurdles in the same way and the background change to IAAF World Athletics Final, World Athletics Championship, World Cup in Athletics venues. Finally they crossing the eighth hurdles, the background is change to the The Olympic Games track and field venues. They are exciting and intensely run and jump over the last two hurdles. Then camera tracking one boy which win this competition and shorting around him when he stop running. The boy hands up and open, the light in this venues are to light and make it to seems as twinkle frames. The end is the logo SP 13.

The background no need too much changes, just change few lights color and slogans makes them venues different. The cheers of the crowd as the background music louder and louder.

Software and Style I want to use

I want to work with Autodesk Maya, Adobe Photoshop, After Effect. A 3D animation and character design.

David Lloyd - Animation Treatment

Animation Treatment                                   Planned Release Date: April 2013

Sports Platform 13                                                  

Client - 13 Strides

David Lloyd - L1061243

The group has been asked to create a 30 second animation to promote the company known as ‘13 Strides’ and their Content Management System app ‘Sports Platform Thir13en’.

The Concept

The idea is to use the logo as the main feature of the animation. What will happen in the beginning is that music starts and the video fades into the logo (Music choice pending). The camera will then zoom into multiple individual pixel/squares of the ‘8’scoreboard type logo. For the first square it show football footage where a ball will go into the back of a net and an effect will come off the impact with text that says about how great the CMS User Interface is and how easy it is to use. The camera will zoom out of the box and zoom into another. This time showing athletes running with text following there leg movement saying that the CMS can analyse tweets and be used for any sport. The camera will repeat another zoom out and zoom in. The next sport will then be either swimming or rowing. As the characters go past in pool the camera will zoom out showing the footage on a laptop. The laptop will then switch into a tablet and finally a phone. With the text saying something along the lines of ‘the app works across different types of devices. The phone then turns into the company logo with a tag line appearing ‘Understanding the sporting audience’. The music and the logo then fade to black.

Some main points to be explained

Football, Athletes and many different sporting types can use this

Explains it’s a CMS & how firms will benefit [Great U.I]

How it can analyse i.e Tweets

App on mobiles tablets Desktop/Laptop

Fantasy Sport League

Style & Method

This project will be done in using 3D and 2D

The music will more than likely be pre existing music instead of the group making it

The dynamic text that will appear in the animation will be done in after effects

Final compositing: Adobe After Effects or maybe Nuke

3D Package – Autodesk Maya will be the primary software choice for the modeling and rigging etc. as the whole group has experience using it

File Format. .Mov – H.264 /1280 x 720 /

Animation Treatment - Jack Wallace

Jack Wallace Animation Synopsis

The camera goes around to different sports being played, tracked alongside the fields of play will be cubes which all follow each other passing though each scene (people playing football, basket ball, rugby etc.) Ending up on a billboard until it makes the Sp13 logo, spelling out the S then the P then finally the 3 individually until it joins into the SP13 logo.
Techniques used:

•  Tracking - Boujou
• 3D Modelling - Maya
• 3D Animation - Maya
• Compositing/ VFX – After effects/ Nuke
• Music - Fl Studio/Audition
• Editing – Premiere Pro
• Footage acquisition – University Camera - JVC

Animation Treatment - Louis Hua

A Team Called AAA

Team member: Jack Wallace, James Robertson, David Lloyd, Haiman Zhang, Mengyi Hua.

The screen flashed a grid-like number 8, which keeps flashing and changing. At the beginning, number 8 changes to the capital letter S and letter P. After that, it becomes 1 and 3. Finally it changes back to the sign of sp13, the number 8.

At the next part, the grid-like number 8 is transformed into a modern mobile phone with large amount of mobile applications. After that the lens moves to the screen of the phone, which is playing a marathon running race. The picture appears a vigorous athlete Ben, who is sweating heavily, running ahead of the others. When the camera moves to the spectator area, his coach who looks seriously was standing there. He gives Ben the water and so on and waits him to run through.

When Ben is running to his coach, he gets a bottle of water and a modern mobile phone from his coach. Ben picks up the phone and relish watching it, which is playing an unusually exciting football game. The game is so intense therefore Ben does not want to miss a single match.

Goal! Scored a goal! The team, which Ben supports, wins the match. Ben is excited when he is looking at the screen, and cheers with them. At last, Ben puts the phone into his pocket, and keeps on the race. Eventually, Ben wins the marathon victory.

BEN is waving the phone to show the team that he supported and himself of victory on the podium. The last shots had move back to the phone screen. The Number 8 appears again.

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Mengyi Hua

Animation Treatment - James Robertson

Animation Treatment - First Draft - 05/11/12
(Embedded PDF)

Logo & Banner Design

~James

Pre-production team roles

Louis Hua
Layouts
3D Modeller
Audio Recording

James Robertson
Art Director
Concept Art - Characters, props & environments
3D Rigger/Modeller
2D Artist
Animatic

David Lloyd
Storyboard
Concept Art - Characters, props & environments
Layouts
2D Artist
Pre-Production Manager

Haiman Zhang
Concept Art - Characters, props & environments
Sound Designer
Pre-Production Manager
Storyboard Artist

Jack Wallace
3D Modeller
3D Rigger
Sound Designer
Pre-Visualization