Three Week Brief: Hammer Animation

This animation I made using Anime Studio 9. I wanted to explore the genre of horror and so created this using bright colours to evoke a sense of reality - people wearing normal clothing as opposed to drab and dark clothing that is often seen within horror clips.

Three Week Brief: Hanging Animation in Colour

Made in Anime Studio 9

Using the free hand tool.

Three Week Brief: Hanging Bear Animation

Three Week Brief: Anime Studio Animation Practice

Three Week Brief: Reginald Storyboard

This is a storyboard that I made using pencil to show the bear character that I made for some of the three week brief animations.

Three Week Brief: Reginald Step Outline

Three Week Brief: Arm animation

Three Week Brief: Character test walk animation

Three Week Brief : Character Concept Art

Three Week Brief - Animation References

With reference to the work of three animators or animation studios, develop three characters,  themes or concepts. Your thinking should be presented using any or all of the following  formats; concept art, synopsis, script, storyboard or step outline.

Studio Pierrot



Pierrot is a Japanese animation studio, founded in 1979 by former employees of Tatsunoko Production and Mushi Production. Located in Mitaka, Tokyo best known for -

• Naruto
• Naruto Shippuden
• Bleach
• YuYu Hakusho
• Tokyo Ghoul

Studio Deen


Studio Deen is a Japanese company that produces anime. Three years after Sunrise was founded in 1972, Deen was established by Sunrise's members in 1975

• Vampire Knight
• Hell Girl

Tetsuro Araki
Tetsuro Araki is a anime director best known for his work on Death Note and Attack on Titan anime adaptations.

• Death Note
• Attack on Titan
• Highschool of the Dead
• Guilty Crown
• Black Lagoon
• Gungrave

Minako Shiba
Minako Shiba is a female animator and character designer known for -

• Black Butler
• D. Gray-man
• Noir
• Naruto the Movie 3
• Fullmetal Alchemist

FMP Dipity Timeline

http://www.dipity.com/jamesvlahos/

First Draft - Project Proposal

Test Pieces of work

•  Background design
• Short Dark Clip
• Digital animation

Section 1

• Reflection and review of progress - I feel I've progressed well through each part, learning how to make an animation and gaining skills.
• Why I chose the animation and film pathway - Animation caught my eye during the brief and I've always had an interest in wanting to be involved with making movies. As I've already studied films in media I took the opportunity of part 2 to learn a new skill.
• Long term aspirations - Directing or Producing movies. (Preferably Horror)
• Where have you come from and where are you going? - I have never made any animation before this course, and now feel comfortable in doing tasks revolving around cut-out animations and digital. So hopefully this can come in handy with making movies.

Section 2

• Concept and aims of project - Combining a film and animation together to make a scary/creepy atmosphere in the hope of making a horror.
• Early ideas, research and bibliography

Sources

1-28 Seen 18/01/2015

For Animation and Film

1.       http://vimeo.com/videoschool/lesson/147/scary-shooting-techniques

2.       http://vimeo.com/70673090

3.       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om-iANuBrR4

 

Horror Game Genre

 

4.       Resident Evil – First release - Resident Evil - March 22, 1996 , Latest release Resident Evil HD Nov 27 2014 – Developer Capcom – Creator Shinji Mikami

5.       Dead Island – Released 6^th September 2011 -  Developer Techland

 

6.       Silent Hill – First release Silent Hill January 31, 1999 – Latest Release Silent Hill: Book of Memories October 16,2012 – Developer: Konami Computer Entertainment, Publisher: Konami – Creators Keiichiro Toyama

7.       The Evil Within -  Released October 14^th, 2014 – Developer Tango Gameworks – Director Shinji Mikami

8.       Siren – First Release – November 6^th, 2003 – Latest Release – Siren: Blood Curse July 13^th, 2008 – Developer SCE Japan Studio – Creators Keiichiro Toyama

9.       Alone in the dark – First release 1992 – Latest Release June 20^th, 2008 – Developers Infogrames

10.   Dead Space – First Release Dead Space October 13^th,2008 – Latest Release: Dead Space 3 February 5^th, 2013 – Developers Visceral Games – Creator Glen Schofield

11.   Slender: The Eight Pages – Released June 26^th, 2012 – Developers Parsec Productions – Designer Mark J. Hadley

12.   The Last of Us – Released June 14^th, 2013 – Developer Naughty Dog – Designer Jacob Minkoff

13.   Left 4 Dead – Released October 17^th, 2008 – Developer Valve Corporation – Designer Mike Booth- Writer Chet Faliszek

 

Horror Trailers

14.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q72LWqCx3pc – Unfriended Trailer

15.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TT2HtIEUXuk – Untill Dawn (PS4 Game Trailer)

16.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNsgsQX686Q – Haunt (2013)

17.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBbi4NeebAk – Insidious Chapter 2 Trailer

18.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuYoEtEI_go – A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010 Trailer)

19.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHsbF4eh4X4 – Solstice Trailer

20.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWm_mkbdpCA – Scream (1996 Trailer)

21.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5ke9IPTIJQ – Halloween (1978 Trailer)

22.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZKQU0YYkNw – You’re Next (2013 Trailer)

23.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FCaLiZtu9s – The Conjuring  (2013 Trailer)

24.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fq358xHbzN4 – As Above As Below (2014 Trailer)

25.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgYxydrVlDk – Sinister Trailer

26.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RIIEjG4gBM – One Missed Call (2003 Japanese Trailer)

27.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11yBPx-ymZA – Smiley (2012 Trailer)

28.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKqFfkassgo -  Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2013 Trailer)

 

• What are you going to produce + what will you need -
• A film mixed with animation. I will need to use a graphics tablet and Photoshop as well as references and filming the scenes with a video camera and props.
• Storyboard so I can see how things turn out and have a plan.

• What are you interested in exploring and what will you learn from it - I'm interest in exploring different techniques of animation and how to make a horror/creepy movie using both. I will learn whether the techniques work.

Section Three

• How will you analyse - Questions and Peers
• How will you know it is successful - Asking a large amount of people from strangers to friends so  that the results are not based from a few.