Design for Final Animation
Design for Final AnimationBy Samuel Kitchen
Product DesignWe were asked to create a 30+ second animation
about drug awareness. I had many different and interesting ideas
for how I was going to go about making it. First off was deciding
what type of animation I wanted to do, whether it was smooth
animation or not. I decided to go with a frame by frame, almost
stop motion style animation to give the sense of a sort of comic,
this was to help appeal to a young teen audience as they would be
interested in graphic novel comics.I then decided on a theme, as it
was associated with drugs, I decided to link it to crime and
detective route as that interests me. This got me thinking about
the style and setting, so I decided upon a 1940s noir inspired
setting but with a modern twist. I was going to revolve my plot
around a detective looking into a death of a young teen, who
overdosed on drugs and how he tracks down the people responsible
for the production of said drugs.
This is a brief storyboard for the animation, it includes all
the scenes that will appear in the actual one, the description
tells everything that will happen in that specific scene, some
parts, such as the police officer, have been cut from the final
animation as they weren't needed or didnt work with the animations
story all together.
Soundtrack of AnimationI am using Minor 9th from the L.A. Noire
soundtrack (Link- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_H-gpgL17F4) to
create my backing track. The reason for this is that my animation
is based off a noire style, detective movie, so I thought it was
fitting to add a soundtrack that reflects this style.
Design for CharacterThe design for the main character is based
on a clich 1940's, noir detective. This is because it fits in with
the theme and style of the overall animation. I also chose this
because detective are my favourite type of characters from TV
series and Ive always wanted to create an animation involving one,
so I saw this as a chance to combine the two.
Title CardAt the beginning of my animation, a title card will
appear showing the name of the feature. I took the inspiration for
this from Batman: The Animated Series, the show is based in the
1940s and starts each episode off with a card, so I thought it
would be a good idea to incorporate one into my project.
Style of AnimationThe style of my animation is inspired by the
game Ghost Trick. It is a detective game in which you solve crimes
by possessing objects and assessing the scene. The cutscenes
consist of a characters drawn portrait on one side of the screen
while text appears in a box below. I wanted to incorporate this
style into my animation as it would tailor towards the teenage
audience as using parts a lot like popular video games would entice
them into watching and paying attention to the animation.
FINAL ANIMATIONI uploaded my final animation piece onto Vimeo. I
chose Vimeo due to its ease of uploading and accessibility.Please
find final animation piece here - https://vimeo.com/197189229
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