Top 10

I have decided to put a list together of things that i find interesting and would like to do for the 'Top 10' project. My ideas are listed below:

Westerns - As in cowboys, the music, the fonts etc

Pirates - (I have an unhealthy obsession for all things pirate!) - Famous pirates, stories, characters, books, films, music etc.

Ugliest Creatures - For example in the deep deep sea, and other animals that people don't know about.

Beautiful Flowers - Most exotic and beautiful flowers in the world.

Dire straits songs - I am a huge fan of dire straits, so picking some of my favorite songs of theirs to animate would be good. A lot of them tell stories so that would be interesting.

Dylan Thomas - Poet and quite a strange man, but it would be interesting to animate and produce some work that relates to the story's he tells.

Gormenghast, By Mervyn Peake - Series of books, the storys are fantasy but not in the usual sence. The man who wrote them was slightly insane, and the books depict that. Characters, stories, tv series.

Japanese Stories - The old stories. Writing, type, stories, characters, culture.

American Food - Reeses cupcakes, nerds, etc. Just the extent america go to for luxury food, can look at type, info, promotion etc.

Murder Stories - Serial killers, mass murders, famous killers etc

Silent movie PDFS

here are my PDFs for my silent movie brief. taken from the 4 videos i am really happy with:

Open publication - Free publishing - More silent

Click Background

Click background from Robyn Russell on Vimeo.

As before I have used the same animation for the Click that i liked and created a very simple background for it. It's nothing special by any means but it was more for me to know that i could create a layer in illustrator and import it over for the background (Show below).  Once I had added the same sequence to the background I had to change the opacity of the layer because you couldn't see the type all that clearly, and if i'm honest you still cant see it as clearly as you could. But as i said before this was more of an experimentation to see how easily it could be done. I have also realised that splitting the background into different layers so they could be animated separately would actually be very visually interesting, so this is something I am defiantly going to be investigating further after Christmas and when we get back to start the title sequence brief.

Below just shows a simple key frame sequence to show you what is happening within the animation and how the background works. With stills like this you can clearly see the type still isn't 100% visible  but it does give you an idea of the potential for future animations. 

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Click - experimentation

Click from Robyn Russell on Vimeo.


Adding a background.

Using the click animation I had already created and liked, i decided to play around with it a bit more just changing simple things such as the background and colour of the type. All my animations so far have been black on white with the odd splash of colour here and there. So with this i completely changed how it looked originally. I think it works quite well, but I wanted to do more with the background because i think it looks a little bland. I researched how to created backgrounds on after effects and after a while decided the best thing to do would be to create my own in illustrator and import it in.

Disperse

This is another animation for disperse. Its fairly simple compared to the other one i did. I wanted to create the word in a sort of split second frame so it would come together briefly and you would see if before it 'dispersed' of the screen again. I actually found this quite hard because the paths kept getting mixed up so  I had to keep going back to the beginning to get it right, so it wasn't as simple to do as i thought it would be. I also think that the word should have appeared earlier on in the animation instead of near the end because it didn't leave much room for the words to move out of the frame, which left me with a fast exist, which isn't as effective as it is in the first part of the animation.


Disperses from Robyn Russell on Vimeo.

As with the other animations i have done, i have created a set of key frames that show the sequence and how it breaks down. You can see from it that the word does come together too late, and that there is a lot more animation within the first few seconds compared to the last. What i would like to do in the future is put the word together again so that it keeps forming and then dispersing, i think this would be a lot more visually pleasing.

Click

This is another animation I have done for click. I really like this animation, visually i think its fun and interesting. I wanted the frame to be quite full with this animation as my other animations apart from disperse are really only centered which isn't very interesting. So i decided to change it up. Personally i think the whole sequence works, i decided to use a more obvious collection of kinetic type and sharp image frames, i.e if you look at the sequence between 00.01 and 00.02 its very sharp animation with the word click compared to 00.03 and onwards. I think its a good contrast because it speeds up and slows the pace of the animation. By creating short sharp bursts of animation with color really helps it stick out compared to the rest of the animation. I really enjoyed creating this piece, and i now realise there is a lot more potential for it. Every time i watch it i come up with another idea to do to it, just to give it a bit more. I realise the not the whole thing illustrates the word click but generally the whole animation does.


Click 2 from Robyn Russell on Vimeo.

I created some storyboard pictures for the sequence that show how everything falls together. I think this helps break the animation up showing each key frame for what's happening and how everything flows. I have found that the less complicated the action is but the more of them the easier and more streamlined the animation will be and think thats the case with this piece.

Click

This is another piece i created for Click. This animation idea is based more on playing with the word Click opposed to getting a short sharp sequence that represented the word click. I wanted it to be similar to the original work i did with one of my words i used in the after effects workshops (here). I still used sharp movements in order to slightly illustrate the word but as i said is was more about playing with the word and the surrounding space within the screen. I had a lot of fun creating this piece, and i defiantly enjoy creating type that interacts with one another. By looking at it you can see that there is a lot more potential for development in the future, but as it is i am happy because it does what i want it to do and has helped my practice more with creating kinetic type.



Click from Robyn Russell on Vimeo.

I have screen shotted the storyboard to help give more of an idea of where i was coming from, and how I have pretty much stuck with the original storyboard i created.