Choosing an object.

The Decision and further research.

I decided to choose to do an animation on the display box of John Angus Potter.
This is because it shows a lot of potential and freedom to imagine and animate on, especially the diary which could lead to some unexpected journeys that we didn't know.

I also got in touch with the lady in charge of the John Angus Potter display.
diana.morton@edinburgh.gov.uk
01315296365

I contacted the lady in charge of this unit, I was able to get some detailed information about John Angus Potter and this display unit.

A picture of John Angus Potter himself.

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Formative Hand In

4th Year Final Animation Characters After discussing with my tutors, I have decided to go with an overall limited colour palette of old paper unless the characters are under certain lighting. This is achieved by having a base layer, then a layer of 3 colour range is added. Which is then set as overlay in post production. Production After the rigging of the characters I am ready to being production. I ahve already prepared most of the parts needed. The boat and paddle When setting up a scene, I extract the different components of my drawing and add depth to it in Maya Once of the main concern was the water aspect of the film. This is solved by applying a ramp shader with 2 colour on a ocean layer after converting it into polygons. As you can soo the ocean are too off with the style I am looking for. After applying the ramp shader it fits much better. Music I have been working with Ollie Yang on the soundtrack of my film. Password: rootandcur...

Story

The decided story line. The animation will be about the adventure of John Potter which he searches for treasures, and there are two options following that. 1) He goes on an Odyssey like action meeting different mystical creatures and finds the treasures (stuffs displayed in the box). 2) He goes on an adventure but wasn't able to find any treasure, however at the end he realized the diary he wrote on every was the treasure. I decided on going with the 1st option. Here are some character designs I did. As well as a breif plan that I did. Then I moved on to story board. And some background researches

4th Year Project

This is a very brief animatic of what I am aiming for. The musics are not mine, this is to simply show what I would be aiming for. Also for the real deal there will be no singing, only music instruments.

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