May 15, 2013

Research and My Plan to complete Silver Arts Award



Research and My Plan to complete Silver Arts Award


  • What I would like to set myself as a challenge for my Silver Arts Award 

The challenge I set myself is to make a 10 minute story animation film with my own audio,  special effects, and voice over acting and starting by planning out this animation with a beginning, a middle and an end to the storyline on paper storyboarding to show process.



Now it is time to do a little research. 
Can you find some events to attend? 
And do some research on your prospective teacher. 
Make sure you summarise any research in a few paragraphs - just to prove you have read and considered the information; and add the website links of any research to the summary.  Send this work to me by email.
AND, Use this research to answer the question:
What are your plans? 


My Research:
To improve my storytelling abilities I would like to get a chance to meet a famous author or animator to learn from their experiences.
I think it would help me to understand how writing and storytelling can be turned into successful animations.
I have researched to see what events are available and found an exhibition on Rodney Peppé which I hope to attend. 
I also found some interesting workshops with professional animators at the Samsung Digital Studio of the British museum that I hope to be able to get to. They are run by professional animators and will give me a chance to peek at the workings of making animations commercially.

There is also lot to be learned from animation and storytelling of older times, and I want to research older forms of storytelling and animation to see if there are any useful tips that I could pick up that may have been forgotten. I think lots of information on the history of filmmaking and storytelling can be found in the following museums: The Cartoon Museum London, the Science Museum London and the Museum of Childhood London.

The highlight of my plan to complete my Arts Award Challenge will be a visit to the Animation Gallery of the National Media Museum in Bradford.
this would be the highlight of my arts award because this is an entire museum section dedicated to animation and i could learn a very large amount from everything in there also this is the only one of these it Britain.
There are also several online learning places I have researched that do workshops and have specific tutorials that will be useful to me. I have included links in my plan. 


Links to Research events

Rodney Peppe Exhibition

Samsung Digital Studio Workshops

The Cartoon Museum London
- interesting story boards and views into the work in progress stages of comics
http://www.cartoonmuseum.org

Science Museum London
- History of Filmmaking / Animation

National Media Museum Bradford



 My Plan: 

To help me complete my Arts Award I have researched the following events and workshops to attend as well as online learning resources that will help me complete my goal. 

EVENTS TO ATTEND


Learning from a successful cartoonist, author and storyteller 

  • I am hoping to attend an exhibition about Rodney Peppé
  • He is a cartoonist, author and automaton maker that had some of his stories turned into animations
  • I am hoping to get a chance to meet and interview him and learn about his methods of illustration and character design  inspiration to help me with my own storytelling and storyboarding.


Learning from a professional Animation Teacher
  • learning from professional animators at the Samsung Digital Studio at the British Museum London 
  • I am hoping to attend a workshop on stop motion animation using digital recording software. 
  • learning about storytelling , animation processes and digital design

Trip to National Media Museum 
http://www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk

  • The highlight of my plan to complete my Arts Award Challenge will be a visit to the Animation Gallery of the National Media Museum in Bradford 
  • http://www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk/PlanAVisit/ExploreOurGalleries/AnimationGallery.aspx
  • looking at some of the British Animators work and getting a change to study their story boarding methods  in the section where they outline the animation process from original idea to the final film, through script, storyboards, style sheets and bar breakdowns, and show you how animators create moving images using cel, model and computer animation. 
here a bit from the intro on the website " 
" The Animation Gallery explores the history of animation and animated images, with an emphasis on animation produced in Britain. One can see character design explore hands on activity sections, look back at animation through the ages and discover how animators bring drawings and objects to life." 

The Cartoon Museum London

  • I want to visit the cartoon museum to learn more about interesting story boards and views into the work in progress stages of comics. Also its full of cartoons done a long time ago so it would be interesting to study them and learn from older cartoonists work. 

http://www.cartoonmuseum.org

Science Museum London

  • I want to look into the history of animation and filmmaking.  Also to see older methods of animation and sound recording and to see if those methods can be adapted to be used today. 
  • History of Filmmaking / Animation


Museum of Childhood London


  • The museum of Childhood displays toys from a long time ago, i want to see if there are any toys that children used to use to view animations, i know there is one there a Victorian animation spinning wheel. Also how children from older time periods enjoyed plays and theatre, and some of the literature of the time.


Trip to Harry Potter Studio Tour 
  • Learn about Special Effects and SFX Sound in creating of Harry Potter Movies for Ideas on how to apply sound effects to movies 
  • http://www.wbstudiotour.co.uk

Trip to British Film Institute Library 

  • if I get a chance I'd like to visit the BFI film library where one can view famous cartoon storyboards and all kinds of literature about past animation and animators that were turned into films for inspiration


 ONLINE LEARNING 
  • To help me complete my challenge  i need to learn more about storyboarding, sound recording and animation, i found the following places online to learn more about these subjects. 

  • LYNDA Online Digital Learning 
This course is an introduction to creating and animating cutout characters in Toon Boom Animate. Author Tony Ross shows how to use the Toon Boom toolset to create cutout characters, and explains how to leverage a few rules of traditional animation to help bring the characters to life. He shows how to create mouth shapes for dialogue, add realistic eye movement, and animate a full cycle. The final chapter shows how to create foreground and backgrounds for your character and export a simple, animated scene.


  • Youtube Teacher Jon Taylors Toonboom Animate Tutorials
this is a newer version of the software I am using that helps me to learn more about the features available to will help me complete my challenge


  • Computer Arts Tutorials
here are some general tutorials I will watch that help with converting longer story illustration into animation 
From Illustration to Animation

Character Design Tutorials
here I hope to learn more about successful character design that is easy to animate


  • Sound and Sound effects
I am hoping to find out more about soundeffects, recording  and copyright free music to use in my animations 
COMPARE VOICE RECORDING APPS




PEOPLE WHO INSPIRE ME 
 research on your prospective teacher. 

There are several people online who inspire me and my art. I hope to study more of their art work to learn variations in animation and more complex animation reels.  The anatomy that TheDetrah uses is outstanding and i could really learn a lot from her. SplashKittyArtist's lip sync style is amazing and i'd like to try out some of the techniques she uses for lip sync.  IcyKittinProductions' bouncy animation style inspires me because i love animations that use that kind of movement. 
I am hoping to learn by observing their methods, asking questions about their animation software, watching tutorials they have made and asking questions directly. 

Summery of Plan 

Once I have studied and gotten inspiration from these sources I'm hoping to know enough to make an interesting ten minute long animation with my own audio, sound effects and using my original cartoon characters.
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Apr 24, 2013

Arts Award Part D - Passing on My Art Skill


Arts Award Part D - Passing on My Art Skill 



  • what I have decided to teach and why

- As part of my arts award part D passing on my art skills I decided to make a step by step tutorial on how to draw a cartoon cat. 
- There are a lot of people who think they can't draw and I wanted to help them see that they could with a little help and instruction. 
- I thought I would demo a step by step cat tutorial both with a video so people could see and pause it at anytime to take it slow. I also made a step by step instruction sheet to hand out. 


  • where I am going to teach it 
- I put my tutorial online so that my friends could access it even though they don't live close by. 
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- I also made the instruction template downloadable so they could have more than one sheet of necessary.


  • how I am going to teach it 
- I recorded myself drawing the under-sketch and the line-art 
- the under-sketch helps with anatomical difficulties and shows the process of developing a design which plain line-art lacks
- I used a digital drawing software called Pain-tool SAI to draw the tutorial and recorded my drawing with a screen capturing software called Screen Virtuoso. 
- This allows people to get a good close up view.
- the line-art itself shows the finished product and neat lines




Here is the Video Tutorial 




Here is the Tutorial Template 







  • write a review of how the it went 

- I gave out the link to the tutorial video and the download of the instruction sheet to a few people who wanted to learn how to draw a cartoon cat.
- I made sure that the video was accessible in youtube because both macs and window PC can view it easily
- I also asked whether people would be able to take a photo of themselves doing the tutorial so that I could showcase it here.

What worked : 
- everybody seemed to really enjoy it and produced a good looking cartoon cat
- people were pleased with their results and even got quite excited at seeing their finished drawings and having them recognised as a cat. 

What did not work:
- one participant seems to misunderstand the term step by step instruction and drew each frame separately instead of all- together .
- I think I may need to specify that more in my next workshop tutorial.

What I enjoyed: 
- I enjoyed seeing people excited at their finished work.
- I enjoyed being able to help people to enhance their drawing skills and in some cases draw even though they don't usually like to. 
- I was quite pleased that I could teach someone how to draw a cartoon cat.








My art students busy at work. It was funny to think that I was the teacher and they the learners. 





















Feedback for the Tutorial : 

Ben 
age 10 

I liked the way I could follow the steps from the beginning and then I ended up with a drawing that really looked like a cat. Great tutorial, I had fun thanks.


Chloe 
age 16 

Drawing cats has always been one of my favourite subjects but I never attempted a cartoon cat. Somehow I find it easier to draw realistic ones when looking at a model but making up my own is hard. I loved how easy the steps were set out and I could add details to make the design my own. Loved it, Thanks.

Daisy 
age 16 

I am not much for an artist but gave it a go anyway. I was surprised how easy and clear the instructions were and I actually drew a passable cat. Thanks for the tutorial, I will have a go at more drawing now. 


Prudence 
age 14 
I love cartoons and this kitty is just so cute. I loved how mine came out. Thanks for letting me try it out.


Ju
age 15
This is my first try at drawing cartoon cats.I really had good fun doing it and followed the step by step instructions. Can't wait for the next workshop


David
age 12
I tried drawing it with pencil so I could do some erasing to make all the parts fit. It was not so easy at first and I gave it a couple of goes before I got the hang. Enjoyed it though. 

Drawings by Chloe, Daisy , David, Prudence and Ben
( and a little guest artist age 3 in the top right hand corner  who got to use stickers on the template :3 ) 





Drawing by Ju 

( evidence of what did not work - step by step instruction missed) 




I hope you enjoyed reading about my experience of passing on my art skill. I hope to do it again at some point in the future.

Echo
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Jan 25, 2013

Arts Award (Part C) Celebrating the life of my Art Hero Dr.Seuss


Dr.Seuss has captured the imagination of kids and adults around the world and has influenced many artists including me.
He inspires me through his light hearted and imaginative style and his flowing poetry.



  Inspired by Dr Seuss - Arts Award Presentation on the Life of Dr Seuss






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Hi there i’m doing my Arts award arts hero on Dr.Seuss and i made a project board for it.

·        Dr.Seuss’s full name was Theodor Seuss Giesel, he was born 1904 Springfield MA on the second of March he died September fourth 1991. He lived in America all his life but his mother was German so he was German by origin. Dr.Seuss learned how he rhymed in his books from his mother singing him rhyming songs when he was younger. A bit later in life he managed to collect over 500 hats and if he ever invited people round for dinner he’d make the guests bring a hat or wear one of his.

·        For every job Dr.seuss ever had like advertising which was one of his jobs or making cartoons for the military which was also one of his jobs he always found a way to incorporate drawing into it, thats probably one of the ways he got his creativeness. He joined the Military and still managed to draw.

·        My favourite of his books is Green Eggs and Ham its just so funny.

·        His post famous books are Green Eggs and Ham and the Cat in the Hat.

·        The cat  in the hat was one of the things that made him very famous and one of his first books.
·        Dr.Seuss is one of the most iconic childrens writers and he helped me learning to read when i was younger.


·        Dr.Seuss is by far one of my favourite children’s authors, i still do actually read some of his books but not so much as i used too.
·        His Rhymes just seem to flow they’re not stiff.. They’re really interesting to read because they’re funny and really enjoyable.
·        I also absolutely love his art style, its just like he puts the pen on the paper draws a line and then makes something with it. He doesn’t set out to draw things thats how he designed most of his characters.
·        His colouring style is really really hard.. I actually wonder how he manages to colour with such precision, did he use a printing press or something to colour them?


·        He also made statues so he was an author a sculptor and an artist.

·        Dr.Seuss likes to stick to one colour scheme in his drawings. You know how to Grinch is green, Dr.Seuss’ friend who was working on the Grinch animation with him actually had to persuade Dr.Seuss to let the Grinch be green with yellow eyes because Dr.Seuss always stuck to a colour scheme. On my project board i used his colour schemes.

·        Dr.Seuss never wrote or drew anything dark or disturbing .
·        His art style is really hard to replicate, I tried with a few drawings on my project board and i’m pretty pleased with how it turned out.


~Echo



This is the sketch i drew for the Crandle. I wanted to see if i could try and re-create his art in my style.  








After that I used the base idea of the Crandle and tried to make a character based of it. I made some rough sketches the start off with. 









I outlined the cats and tried using the style of shading that he used. It was harder for me to do this because i was using a computer drawing program as opposed to pen and ink as Dr.Seuss used. 






These are the cats that i drew in the end. The bottom one has candles on his head because he's a fire Kumi wanna be.  A Kumi is a species i made up, they are fox like and each Kumi has some sort of element on the tips of their tails and ears (ex. Water, Fire, Earth ect)





This was the final result. I tried to incorporate his style into these, taking ideas that he had and enhancing my style with it. Also taking things i liked and using them.  





Here are some coloured drawings of the cats that i did.

Here we go, neither of them have names yet.
I experimented a bit more with the shading technique and found a way to erase the black lines
partially. 

I drew a side view and a front view for this. This one is fullbody this time.



I really enoyed finding out more about one of my favorite artists and hope to do more things like this.
Echo

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Jan 22, 2013

Art Portfolio Diary- Trip to London Pre raphaelites Exhibition Tate Britain

Art Portfolio Diary- Trip to London Pre Raphaelites Exhibition Tate Britain -PART A - Take Part,


What: Pre Raphaelites exhibition





















Where: Tate Britain- London- England
When: Saturday 1st if December
Why: For learning about the Pre raphaelite art and inspiration.








" Ophelia"
 Ophelia is a painting by British artist Sir John Everett Millais



REVIEW of my Day:

It was awesome because the Pre raphaelites were amazingly realistic in their art also they went completely off what people thought was art in those days. Also the anatomy was amazing it made me want to draw humans more. The whole experience was extremely inspiring and I plan to study them more.

My favourite artist was William Holman Hunt and my favourite piece was by him and called "The Scapegoat". It had a religious meaning to it, in one culture people used to send out one goat with all the sins of the village into a bleak place where it would die. Before they sent it out they would tie a piece of red cloth to its head so it would turn white in the sun which would mean the sins of the village were forgiven. I loved this painting because of its bleak and hopeless feeling and it was one if the only paintings which had an animal as its main subject.



One of my other favourites was a series of three paintings by Edward Burns Jones they were called "The Rock of Doom", " The Doom Fulfilled" and "The Baleful Head".
These paintings were telling the story of Perseus ,a Greek hero , who saved andromeda ,a Greek princess , from a sea monster. I haven't read that story but I'd like too.

I loved these paintings because I love Greek mythology and I've been listening to " Percy Jackson : the lighting thief" and Perseus is Percy's full name the Greek Perseus is his namesake so I was interested to see what the Greek Perseus had done. Also in "The Doom Fulfilled" you got to see Perseus fighting the sea monster which was awesome because I love dragons and sea serpents.The serpent in the painting

                                                                     The Rock of Doom

                         
 
                                                                     The Doom Fulfilled

The Baleful Head 




My other favourite is "The Woodsmans's Daughter" by John Everett Milais.
This painting is funny and cute it has a nervous air. The interactions between the boy and girl remind me of some role plays I did with some of my online friends. I also like the subject matter and where tits set because I love the forest and nature. The whole thing captivates the emotion nd is very well done with the father of the little girl chopping some shrubs behind them.

Why do I think the artist painted this ?

The woodsmans daughter: For me the message here is " Watch out for your crushes father".]





Echo



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Art Portfolio Diary British museum London - Mesopotamia Gallery

Art Portfolio Diary - Trip to the British museum London - Mesopotamia Gallery
What: Mesopotamian gallery.

 Where: Mesopotamian gallery-British museum-London-England

 When:4th of December 2012



REVIEW Of My Day
I was studying Mesopotamia and wondered what I could learn from the British museum.We went to the Museum to study up on the area because we read a book called "Treasure of the Tigris"set in Mesopotamia and wondered if we could find out anything else about the place.










What I liked/found interesting:
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It was interesting to get an overall view on the culture and art.



What I learned:
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I liked the way they stylised their anatomy like the Egyptians did.



My Fave's and how  I applied what inspired me today 
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My favourites were the copper lions that hung in a case near the entrance of the gallery.
There were two adults and two cubs. 




The cubs faces were amazing because they looked lifelike without looking overly detailed and the eyes had no pupils which gave them a hopeless feeling, because of this i based a character of the cubs and named it Crackle. I still need to finalise the design though.




Echo
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