LAUAN504: Weekly update for week of 26/3/18

Further research was done during this week, with my focus specifically on the ins and outs of the Catherine Eddowes case and the people who are involved with it. Thanks to the Casebook website , which contains such a amazing amount of information. I managed to created a very detailed timelines of the events that happened before, during, and after the murder. These information aren't just for the meat of documentary either but serves as valuable information on how the environments look, the scenes/characters etc. such as the information on the lighting of Mitre square the location where the body was found were extremely useful when drawing the concept out , as well as the autopsy reports being useful when it comes to drawing the body as accurately as possible. Moreover, the research also helps identified more theme that we can add in to our doc, such as the press's role in making JTR a legend. Finally , I managed to put out several concept arts to determined the style and look for our illustration, which at the end of it, we were all pretty happy with it and would only need more refinement when it comes down to doing the final thing. Also as, a positive note to close off the week, I managed to get in contact and set up a talk with Richard Jones , head of the JTR tour in London for our primary research.

LAUAN504: Weekly update for week of 19/3/18

First week of for our Documentary brief on :"Jack the Ripper" began with some initial secondary research including watching existing documentaries available online. After 4-5 of them , Myself and the members are now confident in our knowledge of all the major events and theories of the case. Out of all of those information we then decided to focused the attention of our doc on the murder of the 4th victim : Catherine Eddowes, as well as looking at it from police point of view. Our director Alex is currently now working out the concept for the animation itself. The general idea is that it will be done in format that is similar to 1800s newspaper , but with the images and text animated ( similar to that of the poster in the Harry Potter universe. My role now, then, is to start conducting further research as well as making contact with leading Ripperologists for our primary source (and possible voice over).

The list includes:

Paul Begg
Richard Jones
Philip Hutchinson
John Bennet
Lindsay Siviter

     

Style our documentary is emulating 

LAUAN504 : Weekly update for week of 12/3/18

As of today, our animation is fully completed and submitted to DnaD. The sound design was quite straight forward, as much of the sounds from the animatic was kept intact, with the only exception being the soundtrack in the later half of the animation. For that we really looked for something that would convey a sense of action but not suspend say like Batman, but more towards the more upbeat and cool type, which fits the feel of the animation better. Luckily, we managed to found a good punk rock track online that more or less achieve the style that we want, and only required some small editing to make it fit to the animation. Overall, I'm very proud of what we have achieved for this project. Given the short amount of time we had, the efficiency of the production the quality of our final piece wasn't affected thanks to the fantastic cooperation between all members. It has garnered me more needed experience in terms of my own technical skills , as well as my management capabilities

LAUAN504 : Weekly post for week of 5/3/2018

With our combined efforts , the final animation was fully completed within this week and I am very happy with it. The most challenging part was working out the pan out of the character in scene 2 and how to sync it with the background, but after a couple of tries, I managed to got it lined up nicely. The colours are great on both the character and the background, and all the timing works out really well. Major praise also for the team's take on the logo. With all this done, the only thing left is sound editing which shouldn't take that long as most of the sounds in the animatic worked really well already. Other than that , we just need to start putting everything in a nice format for submission to the competition and we can end this project on a high note .

LAUAN504: Weekly Blog for week 26/2/18

The main focus of this week was finishing the line animation and at the end of the week , that goal was met with all main line animation finished for all scenes. Only some small VFX animation is left to finish it off. The next stage for the following week would be the colouring , which some scenes have already underwent. Looking to complete the final animation by the end of next week. The process of doing the line went very smoothly as the storyboard really helped with positioning characters and lines. However, the most challenging part about this that some scenes deal with complex actions + tricky perspective which made it quite difficult to work out at first. That said, it has enabled to gain much more experience in solving problems like this , as well as further streamline my workflow on TV paint. The back grounds are also coming along nicely.