Week 2 - 99 Problems and a Pitch is One

over the past 2 employability weeks, I have quietly been chipping away at the design and the aesthetic of the backgrounds. We decided to go with a lineless look to contrast with the lined characters. Because of the lineless look, the shapes and colours have to be distinct because there is no line to clearly define them. it's because of this that I decided to greyscale them first before adding colour. This lets me establish values. I tried to incorporate shape language as well. In the begging when Audry is waling into the KFC, the lines are straight and clinical, unnatural feeling. When she gets inside the spa everything is curved and wavey giving more of a natural feel.

Putting together the pitch. We all just talked about our individual contributions. There wasn't much initial feedback from Dotty or the rest of my classmates. other than we needed to speak up.

Everyone seemed to like our idea and everyone thought it was funny, which was our intention.

Week 1 - Lets Get Cracking

When Dotty was going through the briefs with us in the presentations. The KFC instantly stuck out to me as something I'd be interested in doing as it had a lot of potential for exploring a more comedic side of animation. However, I still wanted to give the other briefs a fair chance so after we formed our groups we went through each brief from both D&AD and YCN and generated ideas and concepts for all of them. However, we all felt the KFC had the strongest potential.

We divided up the roles in the group. As I had enjoyed developing the backgrounds in the last group project and I had success organizing and collaborating with music students from the music college, I was put in background and music. In addition to that, I also agreed to do the animatic as that was something that I didn't do in the last group project. As Petra hadn't had a chance to direct in the last group project it was decided that to make things fair she would direct, white the script and create a storyboard while Cameron would do the character design and turn arounds for the 3 characters.  We are all going to animate