Run, Climb, Jump down, Pick up, Throw

[Second Year] Performance and Character

Week 4 - 14th Oct 19 (P.a.C.):

A.S.K. walk

• stop-motion character walks video

A.S.K. pick up chalk (p.66)

• step mode
• stop-motion character walks video
• people watching the desmond morris guide to body language
• No verbal conversation
• braking the fourth wall (theatrical)
• representative
• Graph in book (reality to dream)

Safety last - Harold lloyd

black and white silent movie (man climbing side of building)

How Jackie Chan gets over fences

Previous Examples of Student Work 

Georgia Steele

Oli barnacle

Ben Young

• Think animatic
• Thought to do javelin animation (Pickup & throw)

Hot fuzz fence jumping 

(Chris Video)

• weight lifter barbells
• My animation (Jump off the wall, fall, roll, hands up, take a breath, Javelin)

Wall climb parkour video

Research parkour videos 

Parkour Best Of Wall Climbing

Parkour Train Race

• Run jump over a dog (My animation)
• Animation spelt with a capital E for excitement

how to climb a wall video

For research (find how to climb a wall video)

• Need to Practice turning a character
• Practical of Run, Climb, Jump down, Pick up, Throw (Given time to do pre-production / Research)

Centre of gravity video

• Running forward image on phone
• How to get a character to turn around

Back to the Future Harold Lloyd

• Treadmill walk (hard)
• Drunk walk (hard)
• James started modelling a wall in maya (want to learn to do so)
• My animation (I was thinking about doing a run fall over a dog still, get up, keep running, climb up wall jump down roll, go over to javelin, pick up and throw.

Research (tom holland acrobats) 

Week 5 - 21st Oct 19 (P.a.C.):

• Iceberg 9% above, 91% below (Analysis videos)
• Strictly Come Dancing - Judges feedback (analysing movement for animation shapes)
• Reading List (Need to buy core books)
• Chapter 2 of Acting and Performance for Animation
• Incredibles (P33)
• Naturalism (P37)
• Epic Theatre (P46)
• Ducking the Work (ASK P52) Joke about how its done
• Short story planning process (ASK P58 - 65)
• Stop Motion Animator Daniel Alderson Academy Originals
• Joe worked with this guy
• Scheduling 0.50
• 43 frames a day on a feature film (stop-motion)
• Crogrove hall has to do 7 seconds a day
• Edit session 1.34
• Acting out the movement after being shown the animatic
• Reference video 2.25 - 2.35
• Bum rig
• Dob sheet (shows frame no.)
• Good animator is one who hits the emotion
• it's bring them to life
• External World Rigs
• Ed Hooks Interview 0.00 - 7.31

• "Acting is doing"
• Talking to animation idea for an animation
• Daffy duck pencil messing with him
• Ed Hooks BH6 Article
• Big Hero 6 (Baymax get drunk)
• Why was the drunk scene and baymax out of shopping cart
• Baymax in the shopping cart can't act
• Acting for animators (Different types of conflicts)
• Break to think about our animation (Planning) in book

Week 6 - 28th Oct 19 (P.a.C.):

Formative Feedback [Postponed a week]

Today wasn't the feedback review session of our Run, Climb, Jump, Pickup & Throw. As Johny told me that he’s going to postponed the formative feedback review for a week for those people who haven’t finished the animation giving them time to develop their animation. I’ve finished my animation so I’m still able to show it and get feedback on it. As I stayed up quite later to get the animation done for today so I'm showing it no matter what.

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Theory Johny Showed

• Sources for help (Blackboard)
• Student Handbook
• Core - Journal of Animation Studies, Animation Studies 2.0
• Got showed a previous student may animation character acrobatics (kick a duck)
• Stopmotion onion skin after effects spud video
• Piccadilly train station foot placement video live reference Johny filled
• Buckid Dance (Blocking)
• Need to make buckid dance on a stage (be good exercise to do)
• Maya filling in the gaps for the dance but going wrong
• Buckid dance with sound (dance fever)
• Need to think more about blocking
• 2D Animation - Draft drawing with colour under draft, black as clean up
• Digital Drawing (photoshop)
• Buster Keaton - art of the gag
• Silent comedian
• Had to actual do the gag (which it looks sooo dangerous)

• Need to watch more Buster Keaton films for reference
• New stopmotion lights rigs
• Gave Hasan some feedback on his animation saying it needed a foot hole or grip as all that's pushing him up is just the toe. which wouldn't happen on a wall twice as big as the character.
• https://idearocketanimation.com/13721-12-principles-of-animation-gifs/?utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F (Johny show Hasan this website and I thought it was interesting to look at)
• Chuck Jones - UNKNOWN (Talked about video but didn't tell me what it was)

Week 11 - 3rd Dec 19 (P.a.C.):

Tweaked the Jump to smoothen

• The guy from last week (Owen) give me feedback for my dialogue performance saying for the way the woman opens her arms make it more of a sharp movement in the graph editor.
• Annabeth said today was a studio day as Johny was off sick for the perform & character module.
• He looked at the graph editor for the jump in the graph editor.
• He showed us how to get buckid to pick up a ball.
• Parenting and visibility ball
• Locator ball
• Owen re-helped me with redoing the fall for the jump for the wall climb. We fixed it alot quicker as we knew what we did the first time.