process and equipment - project 3 - shady bunch

Animation Example

 http://youtu.be/vaVSTCnlcBU

This is the layout of our Adobe Flash document for one of the most complicated scenes for our animation. This scene shows the 3 characters as inflatable waving men which required us to draw frame by frame to give the illusion of swaying.
On top of this, we needed to move the mouths using keyframes to follow the movement of the balloons as well as the actual pronunciation of each syllable.

On this scene, almost everything consisted on frame by frame animation using keyframes which is why it took so long. Firstly moving the balloons by using the onion skins and drawing each individual frame gave the swaying, flipping look.
 Then we drew the main features to make identifying each character possible. For example, Kovsky's moustache and tall hat, Bois' Beard and Beanie, and Paul's scratched fish bowl. After drawing them, once again we went frame by frame moving and rotating so they travelled with the balloon. This was quicker that drawing it frame by frame with the balloon.
 After we made sure that the 1st frame and the last frame where very similar so they where loop-able.

On the video, we tried to show the massive amount of individual, complex keyframes within this short scene as the picture didn't express and show it enough.

Our set up and equipment consists of a Intuos or Wacom drawing tablet plugged it to a MacBook Pro laptop with software installed such as Adobe Flash and Adobe Photoshop, which both came into our project massively. 

Assets and Motion cycles

Assets.
Moving
- Some trees
- Fire
- Long grass
- Paul, Kovsky and Bois
- Fire people.
- inflatable arm men
- Melting heads
- Mouth movement

Not moving
- Most of the trees
- Rocks
- Logs
- Backdrop
- Berries

Motion cycles.
- Fire people cycle (walking)
- Inflatable arm men (waving)
- Kovsky walk cycle.
- Eating cycles

Animation Planning project 3 - the shady bunch

Location.
- Campfire/base: Grassy opening, Trees behind, Grass ground, Camp fire, Log seats, Sticks and stones.
- Woodlands: Trees, Long grass, Bushes, Dirt ground Rabbit holes, Stones, Sticks.

Props.
-Torches, Sticks, Berries, Fish bowl, Wooden weapons.
Our story idea is about the three stranded outcasts eat some wild hallucinative berries which Kovsky pulls out of his pocket whilst standing around the campfire at dusk. The trio are very hungry and reluctantly eat them. Suddenly they lose all sense of reality and strange occurrences begin to unravel before their eyes. The episode follows the group as strange things happen and we see how they react.

Event Idea's.
- Paul's head changes to a posh cat and he drinks out of his fishbowl head.
- An old man (Wizard) in fuzzy slippers and a bath robe runs insanely through the distance.
- The three become wacky inflatable arm men in the fire whilst three giant campfires are sitting around the "fire".
- Kovsky's head turns into a ice-cream which quickly melts (Bois' point of view) then you see bois' eyes which has hypnotic swirls as well as burning cities and pure madness.
- Lot's of weird hand actions by kovsky.
- Bois' beard hair does strange things.
- Kovsky's eyebrows crawl like a caterpillar down his face to reform his missing moustache.

project 3 shady bunch script

documentation sheets

Assets Sheets

Logging Sheet

Call Sheets

Project 3 - story board - shady bunch animation

1. Silence around the campfire except from the cracking of the fire and the noises form the wilderness. A tree behind the duo ruffles And both look.

2. Close up of a scared and anxious looking Bois. His eyes go on to shrink into his skull.

3. Suspense builds over the shoulders of Bois and Paul as both stare into the trees. Suddenly Kovsky's head pokes up in the foreground and covers most of the screen.

4. Kovsky is behind Paul with something in his hands. His arm shoots up out of shot and back down, dropping berries into Pauls fish-bowl head.

5. kovsky can't believe he's got away with it and his gross hands come up from out of screen and covers his mouth as he begins to laugh.

6. The screen shows the duo as Kovsky marches in through the woods where the ruffle had occurred. He shouts, "Friends!".

7. A close shot of the three and kovsky continues to whisper, "I've got food". Paul bubbles in joy loudly.

8. Kovsky opens and reveals the berries in the palm of his hands.

9. Close up of Bois begining to chew.

10. Close up of Kovsky beginning to chew.

11. Close up of Paul with the berries still floating in his bowl.

12. Closer up of Bois chewing.

13. Closer up of Kovsky chewing.

14. Closer up of the berries continuing to float in Pauls bowl.

15. Extreme close up of a concerned looking Bois chewing.

16. Bois looks at Kovsky and see's Kovsky has taken the form of an ice-cream slowly melting. Kovky  said, "Are you ok friend".

17. A quick zoom out to reveal Paul has now taken the form of a army general cat, swirling a bowl (which was once his bowl head). Paul says "Yes, you're looking quite under the weather friend! Are you feeling ok?".

18.  Close up of Bois replying looking calm and relaxed saying "Yeah, i think i'm fine!". His voice is very deep nd slowed.

19. A medium shot of Kovsky saying "Are you sure?". In this shot he has no moustache, His eyebrows slide down his face and form a new moustache.

20. The screen shoots through Bois' beard, into his mouth, and down his throat into blackness whilst he is saying "Yes".

21. Goes down Bois' throat until blackness.

22. Screen zooms in, through the parting tree's towards a light in the distance.

23. Once the camp is re-revealed through the trees, the trio are now wacky wavy inflatable arm men with 2 giant fires sitting around.

24. The two fire people walk up to each other.

25. A close up as two hands appear out of the fire people and they link hands

26. A shot of the two fire people declaring there love for each other before kissing.

27. A full sized shot of the trio, still in their inflatable arm men state. Kovksy says "I think we shouldn't of eaten those berries!"

28. Kovsky quickely wakes up, breathing heavily and sweating, looking left to right.

29. Long shot of Kovsky sitting up with the other two still asleep. They are now in day light.

30. Kovsky sighs in relief and says, "It was just a dream!" until he then stops and stares almost in fear.

31. In the distance the two fire people are lying on top of each other in the field plains.

32. Kovsky looks in horror as he reacts to the realisation of the truth. He then slips some berries into his mouth to escape reality.

33. Fades to black, Fancy "Fin" appears.

treatment of the shady bunch show - project 3

project 3 - risks. health and safety

project 3 intial planning

Our animation is a short story episode of The Shady Bunch. I chose to do this type of animation because I'm a fan of these story style of animation on channels like Cartoon Network and liked the idea of creating my own one. The chance to create strange and creative characters, storylines and locations was by far the most appealing as well as the chance to use inspiration throughout but to change it to my own personal style.
 The animation type is hand-draw, frame by frame Adobe Flash. This style was most appropriate for the genre of animation I wanted to do. Flash gives the possibility for smooth lines, block colours and flowing movement which the alternatives don't offer.
 I would best describe my animation as a dark humoured comedy for teens. Although the visuals looks more like it belongs on Cartoon Network for young children and teens, the content and subject matter perhaps belongs on a more 'mature' network like Comedy Central or Adult Swim. 
 It's also possibly 'abstract' due to some of the content.

The overall 'The Shady Bunch' animation story is 3 completely different characters find themselves stranded of a mysterious, dark and confusing island which is completely un-inhabited and there day to day processes.
 The specific episode story is that, the native Kovsky brings back berries to the starving camp and the 'adventures' which go on after the realisation the berries are hallucinative.