"Ecole de musique de St Genies de Fotnedit"

I need to create a logo and a short  animation for a musical school in france, they need a new one for personal reasons.

They have suggested i keep the character cute and colourful, and it must appeal to kids and contain instruments.

My first ideas:

I showed them this, they thought it was good but they said i needed to make it a lot more cute, and give it a happy expression. I can see this so i think i need to make a mood board then create a new one.

They gave me this photo to look at for inspiration. The frogs in this photo are small and cute, they are also green like the old logo, i need to think about this when creating a new character.

I was going to finish this idea, but the mayor of the village caused some issues with the musical school, resulting in them not needing me to do it anymore, witch i found quite anoying.

Character insperation

Nightmare Before Christmas

I have loved and adored this film since I was a little kid, the simplistic yet amazing characters  definitely help set the mood for this tale.( simple is better ? ) Another thing, I noticed each character has its own colour pallet, this is something i need to research into thoroughly, as I believe it gives the character another level of depth.

 Fairly Odd Parents

The thing I noticed about the 3 main characters in this show are, they all use the same shapes for the bodies, all they do is change the features. This is good for many reasons, for example, if you created a series of characters using the same shapes, a viewer can immediately identify what show it's from.

This helps later on when you start making products to sell and it also helps with it's likeability (everyone knows a familiar face is always comforting)

 Adventure time

The colours are very vibrant, this gives off a friendly atmosphere. The characters are also all very simplistic yet very unique, I can also tell they are all part of the same show by the colours and the line work, for example all the arms look very skinny, wiggly  and have a lot of motion.

 In conclusion to this blog i need to create characters with a theme  and maybe i will make them simplistic (depending on how many characters I want to create)

First ideas for plot

Rough Plot

The quest for the kings gem

The moral of the story is that you should look out for others and you will be rewarded.

3 challengers have been put on a quest to retrieve the gem of the kings The one to retrieve  the gem will be given a mystery prize.

Start

A wizard tells the 3 challengers that "to whom shall retrieve the kings gem with the quickest speed  will be rewarded with a marvellous  prize"."A note of warning to you 3, the journey will be tough and dangerous and plagued with many obstacles and dangers".(they will also be given a list of 2 more items that they must collect on their quest)

They are all given a map  with 3 different routes to go.

You then see them set off on their journey to  battle with monsters,obstacles,jumping over things like spikes, fast rivers to cross and big mountains to climb.

All the routes lead to the same point at the end

.You then see what seems to be a bright red gem in the distance.The 3 challengers see it and make a run for it they get about half way when a scream is heard someone is yelling for help.You see someones fingers dangling over a cliff. They all turn their heads around looking at the guy dangling over the cliff, two of them decide to just carry on running and not to help out.They both reach the end where the red light is glowing when all they find is a baboons ass the baboon turns around and starts to attack them and they run off. The animation then goes back to the guy helping out the guy on the cliff, he pulls him up and to his surprise its the wizard from the start.

The wizard congratulates the challenger and says you have passed the final task and you will now become king that is your reward  the end.

Walk Cycle Tutorial by Jazza




I need to improve my skills in flash, I thought it best if i learn how to create an animated walk cycle in flash.

1st Attempt


My 1st attempt did not work very well because I did not know that much about motion twinning/ i was not that focused on it.
2nd Attempt

This attempt went surprisingly well, I stopped watching the tutorial and just tried to use motion twinning alongside keyframe animation, I am very pleased with how it turned out.  Furthermore i made the background move the opposite way to the character, to give the test more depth.

creating characters in flash

     
First draft of the characters faces












First idea for the first scene, I am going to animate this  scene so it looks like your zooming into the cauldron.  I got my inspiration for the colours from the game Trails fusion( an earlier blog that i posted)

Cliff scene ( from the kings gem ) Inspiration and colour

The Lion King




In this scene Simba watches his dad fall to his death as scar pushes him off the cliff.
At the end of my story there is a guy hanging off a cliff, I looked at this video for inspiration, for example i love the way the mountains are drawn in this scene, I also want to try to add a mist effect, it will add more depth to my animation, it also could be a tone setter for a scene that was meant to be fighting.

Mustang Wanted

  

A guy from russia who has no fear, he hangs off high buildings and structures for a living. When i watched this some of the shots made my heart skip a beat, maybe i could try to replicate these shots for example, when the camera is pointing at his feet as he walks across the structure that is high up in the sky.

Trails Fusion



I really like the colours in this video, I love the the light to dark oranges of the sun and background. In my animation I want to have obstacles for the characters to climb over, I could possible create them like this in 2nd using flash, photoshop and after effects.

Initial ideas for an animation

sharing is caring There are a group of penguins that live in the north pole. The penguins are taught at a very young age to fend for them selfs and to shun out the penguins that are smaller and weaker for example in big huddles at night to keep warm and to catch food for themselves and their own families. There are two brother penguins that think they are the best as they catch the most fish, they are the biggest and strongest of the bunch.One day on a routine fishing trip they run into a clan of orcas.They swim as fast as they can to get away when they see a floating piece of ice, the brothers jump on it but to their surprise the orcas don't give up as they start to make waves to push them off in a team. For no apparent reason the smallest penguin of them all decides he will try and help them. The small penguin jumps into the water to try and create a diversion by splashing the orcas turn around and chase the little penguin. The small penguin has a plan to jump up onto the land behind him as soon as the brothers get away but as he tries to jump up he slips and gets caught. The brothers never think the same again and become mentors in the land of penguins and start to teach everyone that you should look out for your fellow penguin no matter how fast tall or strong. The odd one out A farmer goes to an auction to buy some new animals for his farm he needs some sheep so he buys a herd of sheep. They get back to the farm,a few months pass when the farmer finds out one of the sheep is pregnant.The sheep is born but the sheep is black , life starts to go wrong for the black sheep and his mum. …………….lot of stuff happens then one night a fox sneaks into the farm and tries to attack one of his bullies but the black sheep risks his life to help him.The white sheep on the farm suddenly realise he is one of them and views on the farm change that day.
Below are a few designs of the penguins.