JOYCE LEE: Yr 1

Unfortunately I didn’t finish on time. This is what I have so far. Sorry…. 🙁

Background

These are some of the backgrounds I made in Maya. Whilst the production of making a 3D background is hard, it was helpful when using different angles in the room. I didn’t want to overcomplicate the background as it would’ve taken longer to do so I decided to make a simple room with a table and mirror. Unfortunately, whenever I would try to make it red (for a visual fire alarm) the colour came off too strong or there wasn’t enough light/ too much light in the scene.

Animatic

Rough animatic with background 🙂

Rough Storyboard:

I wanted to focus on the position of the characters here.

I also tried experimenting with different shots and angles. For example, the third panel shows Elias’s back and Sasha talking to him with the camera pointing off his shoulder to make Sasha look smaller. I wanted to create a sense of inferiority for Sasha as she panics whilst Elias remains calm in the situation.

X Sheets

Mouth sheet

Since Sasha is the only one to speak in my animation, I only made a mouth sheet for her as her dialogue is the main focus of the short animation.

Wrote a script woah. Now to make the storyboard of said script :0

Character design

For the character design, I wanted to be more inclusive to all types of people and body shapes. Sasha’s design was a little more difficult as I wanted to be as accurate as possible with drawing someone with a darker skin tone.

I wanted Elias to be slightly more taller and on the skinnier side which was a little hard to do without making the limbs proportion look too long.

Character turnaround:

Transcript: Magnus Archives: Episode 39 – Infestation

(Audio is a bit too long oops)

Instead of using one of the provided audios we were given, I wanted to use an audio of my own. In my chosen audio, the original scene has a dark and serious tone to it between two characters who have been separated from their colleagues/ friends during a ‘worm attack’.

Sketches listening to audio:

When first listening to the audio, my initial plan was to make it fit the horror and dark tone thus sketching something with more serious and dire facial expressions however, after some discussion, I wanted to try a different approach, looking at the audio from a new angle and thinking of what this scene could be a part of if it wasn’t already part of the podcast story.

Mood Board:

What to include in my animation:

• Illustrative lineart/ texture (Like pencil or watercolour???)
• Mainly mellow/ muted tones with vibrant colours for contrast maybe?? Red/ yellow alarms lights for the fire alarm?
• Simple shapes for characters (Nothing too complicated)

Afternote: Writing a script to see how the animation could play out and it’s extremely hard/ borderline impossible to turn this comedic so we scrapping that idea 🙁