Thursday, November 19, 2009
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Monday, March 23, 2009
My Treatment....
For my final project, I will create a one-minute animation project. I will plan to make a video of a live lady sitting on a couch watching television with a live dog sleeping nearby. The lady and the dog will be ‘sucked into’ the television and the scene will morph into an animated fantasy land featuring live action. I will work mostly in Photoshop on rotoscoping the lady and the dog, while they are in a fantasy land and back to live action as well. I will try to draw the characters and the background by hand if I feel like to, while they are in a fantasy land. And at the end, hopefully, I will put all the frames into After Effects or Final Pro Cut. I will try to add some words from the person and some music/sound effects. I will also try to add some mind thinking with texts.
First off, the project begins showing a live lady sitting on the couch and watching television in a long shot. There is a live dog sleeping nearby also. The view will cut into a different angle behind her so we see her watching the TV. Then the view zooms onto a close-up of the TV. The scene there is animated and all of a sudden, an animated figure turns to look straight at the camera, staring at the live lady on the couch. The animated figure is smiling and waving.
The next shot is cut to the lady on the couch. She is confused and uses a remote to try to change the channel, but it wouldn’t change. The live lady walks up to the TV and touches the screen. Somehow, her finger points right through the screen and when she pulls her finger out and it is not real, it has become animated. And it begins to spread all over her body...she is changing into an animated girl. Then something pulls her into the TV and she falls down through a Vertigo-like swirl like a whirlpool with a black background.
The lady arrives in the fantasy land and everything has become animated. It’s a beautiful sunny day in fantasyland and she runs along calling, “Hello? Is anybody here?” with cueing. Then suddenly, a dog, her dog, approaches and it’s also animated. She calls the dog, “Pepo!” with again, cueing. Then she happily starts playing ball with the dog. Next, she and the dog go on some adventures. But eventually, she decides she has had enough of fantasy land. She becomes a little worried and she wants to leave fantasy-land and return to her real-live world.
She begins to search for the way to return and eventually finds a special door. And walks up to the door and opens it. When the door opens, it starts to brighten up like heaven. She reaches through the doorway as the camera cuts to show her arm sticking out of the live TV. She struggles through and reaches back to pull the dog out of the TV also. They are in the real-live living room but the lady and the dog are both still animated. But she is still relieved and happy to be home. She gives the dog a bone and sits back down on the couch and then she turns back to normal. She is a real-live person again and she is smiling.
I am thinking that I may have to make some changes during the story later on, but I am hoping it will turn out to be the way I want it to be at the end.
Production Schedule:
Week 1: shoot a video, rotoscope the characters/background, maybe draw the background by hand in Photoshop
Week 2: still rotoscope frames/draw them
Week 3: Frames in PS,
Week 4: frames in PS
Week 5: animate them all together, sounds in Final Pro Cut, print to video, post to blog
First off, the project begins showing a live lady sitting on the couch and watching television in a long shot. There is a live dog sleeping nearby also. The view will cut into a different angle behind her so we see her watching the TV. Then the view zooms onto a close-up of the TV. The scene there is animated and all of a sudden, an animated figure turns to look straight at the camera, staring at the live lady on the couch. The animated figure is smiling and waving.
The next shot is cut to the lady on the couch. She is confused and uses a remote to try to change the channel, but it wouldn’t change. The live lady walks up to the TV and touches the screen. Somehow, her finger points right through the screen and when she pulls her finger out and it is not real, it has become animated. And it begins to spread all over her body...she is changing into an animated girl. Then something pulls her into the TV and she falls down through a Vertigo-like swirl like a whirlpool with a black background.
The lady arrives in the fantasy land and everything has become animated. It’s a beautiful sunny day in fantasyland and she runs along calling, “Hello? Is anybody here?” with cueing. Then suddenly, a dog, her dog, approaches and it’s also animated. She calls the dog, “Pepo!” with again, cueing. Then she happily starts playing ball with the dog. Next, she and the dog go on some adventures. But eventually, she decides she has had enough of fantasy land. She becomes a little worried and she wants to leave fantasy-land and return to her real-live world.
She begins to search for the way to return and eventually finds a special door. And walks up to the door and opens it. When the door opens, it starts to brighten up like heaven. She reaches through the doorway as the camera cuts to show her arm sticking out of the live TV. She struggles through and reaches back to pull the dog out of the TV also. They are in the real-live living room but the lady and the dog are both still animated. But she is still relieved and happy to be home. She gives the dog a bone and sits back down on the couch and then she turns back to normal. She is a real-live person again and she is smiling.
I am thinking that I may have to make some changes during the story later on, but I am hoping it will turn out to be the way I want it to be at the end.
Production Schedule:
Week 1: shoot a video, rotoscope the characters/background, maybe draw the background by hand in Photoshop
Week 2: still rotoscope frames/draw them
Week 3: Frames in PS,
Week 4: frames in PS
Week 5: animate them all together, sounds in Final Pro Cut, print to video, post to blog
Monday, March 16, 2009
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Sunday, February 8, 2009
Rotoscope Design Plan
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