[Animation Practice] 16/10/12 - Showing Shorts

During today's lesson, we all sat down and talked about budgeting animations. Because most of the class got a budget after the Royal Armories pitch we all had to sit down and learn how to properly budget in animation, though budgeting in animation isn't much different than budgeting a live action film. Most of the stuff we learn't was common sense; Budget for every little thing, make sure you give yourself a little extra so you don't run out of money and such, however we did learn that we can't budget for outside help, such as we can't pay for actors, musicians and voice actors, as it is encouraging us to use people in the uni.

After talking about budgeting, we all sat down and watched a few shorts that people had; Sarah showed us the opening from Creepshow's Fathers day, and we talked about how it's rotoscoped to make it look like the comic book the short originated from. After, Huw showed a short CGI animation called Burp, we discussed how this film is really good in CGI as most of the shots would be difficult or wouldn't have the same feel if it was in 2D. Below is the short:

Soon after, I wanted to show a short animation called Little Quentin by Paco Vink, I have been interested by this animator and I wanted to show this as I think the animation is brilliant because it's smoothly done and could be compared to something Quentin Tarantino would make, if he did animations. Why you ask? Well its a type of animation that makes you think twice after watching it. After showing it, it was received well and people enjoyed it. Rossie our tutor, said it was a good example as it shows that the animation takes inspiration from films and the noir genre. Below is the animation:

Today was a fun lesson and we got to see a few great films, next week we will watch a few that other people want to show, so look for that next week.

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After lesson we all went to our Animation Theory lesson with the Film Course where we discussed about animation's from Japan. Including this we also received our first assignment, so that will be something I will start working on shortly!