After coming up with our idea for our project we laid out the narrative into story beats for a visual representation of our story. 

Here we began drafting out what we want the rooms to look like. We wanted to get an idea of where things should go and what kind of props and assets we will need to source in order to create our rooms. 

After establishing what our story would look like we further established our narrative into a storyboard. We needed to do this so we could figure out where our animations go and what our characters are doing as well so we could see how the walkthrough plays out. This was done by Anu. 

All of our 3D assets were sourced online but props like the posters were illustrated by Max and can be seen in the bedroom area in the beginning.

Once the rooms were complete we added in the Animations which were done by Karsen. We kept the Animations choppy to break from reality and reflect how fractured memories can be. 

Character Design project: Warrid Ouwarrah

Name: Warrid Ouwarrah

Gender: Male

Age: In his 50s

Occupation: Drifter. 

Warrid Ouwarrah is seen as a local legend in the Australian outback. Always eager to behold the unpredictability and the strong communities of Australia, Warrid wanders around looking for things of interest, be it animal or anomalous object. 

Warrid's getup is a black coat with orange highlights topped with a rugged hat. "It's the same color as the night sky and allows me to blend in with the stars and lights" he usually remarks, although this doesn't explain why Warrid wears it during the day when it's far more warmer. Warrid hasn't been seen wearing anything else, so ongoers label him as an eccentric with a strange choice in fashion.

Nobody knows where Warrid came from or who his parents are. Some have drawn connections with a television personality on channel 10, but there has never been enough evidence to prove any deep relation aside from surface level visual similarities. Warrid goes from place to place and never takes time to settle at one place. He rarely thinks ahead and always lets the wind carry him. He hates anything that would otherwise be too big of a burden on him, such as doing anything stressful or something that has little for him to gain. 

Warrid isn't strong, but he makes up for it with his apparent wit and slyness. He claims to be a master of stealth and can "slip through rocks without a problem". He's also remarked to have a great connection with wildlife and can bring a raging water buffalo to peace and even tame and ride a dromedary camel.

Pose studies

Portrait studies

Silhouette studies.

Fakemon design project.

Assorted Character Designs

Cross unit collaboration. 

What Am I Even Doing?:

During this trimester I was working on 3D character animation, looking to improve at the expressions and actions of characters through using references of my own making so I can step into the shoes of the characters and understand the character better when animating them. Throughou the trimester I ran into many delays but was able to design my own references for use when animating a character and create a complete animation for the evironmental projectal with 6 other more basic animations made of poses for the memories, for the spec piece I have made an animation that I feel does well with expressing the characters actions.

Results Of This Trimester:

How Did I Get Here?:

References I Made For The ES That I Was Happy With And The Product Of The References:

For my Specialisation work I have decided to work towards being a Story Artist and produce storyboards and Animatics. 

Over the course of the Trimester weeks I did research into storyboarding, illustration, the industry and film. Along with my study I explored various exercises and tutorials to further my illustration and visual storytelling skills before I working to create a final project. 

Here are a few examples of my work over the weeks: 

This week I worked on Expressions.  

Expressions are a big part in creating storyboards as it helps with adding clarity and emotion to a scene. I wanted to use this week to practice creating clear, exaggerated facial expressions as well as learning what features make up each expression and how it can be manipulated. To do this I followed the exercises from the video Drawing Genuine Facial Expressions (Part 2) Getting Specific!  by Toniko Pantoja.

Script to storyboard exercise - In this exercise I was tasked with turning a short script into a storyboard. 

Later in the tri I worked to go through the process of creating storyboards and an animatic as a final project. I've decide to base my story and animatic around the tv show Infinity train and will be working to achieve my various goals from the start of the Tri. 

Goals 

• I want my animatic to include both low and high intensity moments.

• I want my animatic based on a film or show and study/reflect there way of creating animatics.

• Try new techniques: camera movement, editing, etc 

• I want the visuals to speak for itself (clarity)

• I want to aim to make one decently long animatic for 2D animation that is done within my time frame  

• I want to explore different versions and gain/utilise feedback

Thumbnailing- In the Thumbnailing process I worked to draft out how the scenes would play out and what kind of shots and angles I plan to use. 

Storyboarding- After various thumbnailing drafts I worked to add detail and descriptions to create a storyboard.

Animatic- Here I took the storyboard panels and edited/Timed them out to the dialogue from the script. This also took many trials and adaptations before my final.