Adobe Animate Life Drawing WIP

Like-to-like Storyboard WIP

Kubo Storyboard WIP from noah greenhalgh on Vimeo.

Life Drawing Term 2 Week 3

5-minute poses - Ink

Adobe Audition - NASA Video

NASA Multitrack Mixdown from noah greenhalgh on Vimeo.

Networks: Rim Light Shader

Networks: Rim Light Shader

Networks: X-ray Shader

Networks: Double Sided Shader

From Script to Screen: Storytelling and Commission OGR

From Script To Screen OGR by Noah Greenhalgh on Scribd

Life Drawing Term 2 Week 2

4 Minute Poses- Ink and Water

20 Minute Pose - Ink, Water, Graphite, Pastel

1 Minute Poses - Ink and Water

 

Like to Like Story Board - Kubo and The Two Strings

This is what my like-to-like storyboard looks like so far, I would like to carry on storyboarding this scene as it has some interesting camera shots. 

Adobe Animate - Pulling Animation W.I.P

This is how my animation exploring the theme; Gravity, looks so far. I used a video of my classmate pulling a chair along the floor with a rope as a reference. 

Tokyo Godfathers - Adobe Story Script Writing.

Tokyo Godfathers Script by Noah Greenhalgh on Scribd

Character Design Workshop Week 1

Page 1

Page 2

Our first character design workshop was based around the theme of Style, and how different drawing styles can greatly change how a character is perceived. We also looked at the fundamentals of creating a character, questions to ask when creatign a character, as well as the common types of characters. For example, Heroes, Villians, Mentors, Sidekicks, and Tricksters.

 I was given a drawing of Batman and I tried to draw the same character in many different styles. I'm a lot happier with the simpler designs, like the design on the top left of Page 1, but it was interesting experimenting with different drawing styles, especially the more realistic style that I don't feel extremely comfortable using.

Adobe Audition - Animal Sounds

Animal Sound Sample from noah greenhalgh on Vimeo.

This was my first time using Adobe Audition. I created an animal sound for a fictional animal by layering different sound files on top of each other and changing the pitch and volume of the clips. I used the frog, and cat sound files.

Screenshot of Multitrack in Adobe Audition.

Script To Screen - Blue Box

For my Script To Screen project, I'll need to write a script/story based off of the 3 random components I picked out of random envelopes. These components are; Character, Environment, and an Object. 

These are the random components I chose: 

Character: Astronaut

Environment: Art Gallery

Object: Vacuum Cleaner

A couple of ideas I have at the moment are:

The main character of the story is a child. They are being dragged along to an art exhibition by their mother, The child is carrying an astronaut or space toy around with them and find this toy exceedingly more interesting than their surroundings. Out of boredom, the child starts subtly taking different parts of art pieces from the gallery to construct their own astronaut suit. They see a group of people surrounding a piece of modern art that is basically just a vacuum on a stand. The child decides that they must take part of that piece of art to complete their outfit. By this time, a security guard has just noticed the child has been touching the exhibits, and see's the child start to run towards the vacuum cleaner piece, he tries the stop them but he's too late, and the child runs straight into the piece, knocking it over. The child looks innocent, finally happy with their finished suit, whilst the people and their mother look horrified. 

my other idea is that the main character is a cleaner at the art exhibition. They are lazily wandering through an empty gallery late at night, using the vacuum to clean the floor. They find themselves getting lost in space like paintings, inserting themselves into the pieces of art, fantasizing about being an astronaut, then get brought back harshly to reality by another person working at the gallery telling them to get back to work. 

Art Gallery in space- fantasy themes

These are just rough ideas that I wrote down as soon as I got the three words, so I'll probably come up with a few different ideas or develop these ones.

Soundscape - Blue Box Images

These are the images I randomly chose for my latest project: Soundscape.

I will need to make a 30-second soundscape for each of these images, so I wrote down words that I thought described the picture, to help me figure out what direction I want to go in in regards to sound recordings.

Image 1

Word stack (the first words I can think of that describe this picture): Acidic, electric, disease, evil, energetic, busy, aggressive, toxic, wild, dangerous, jungle, green, red, anger, jealousy, eyes, vicious.

Image 2

Word Stack: Structured, organized, pattern, neat, medical, smooth, calm, dots, curved, scales, sleek, neon, snake scales, slither, cool, blue, yellow, pink, relaxed.

Image 3

Word Stack: Soft, bubbly, spikes, pastel, textured, fluffy, calm, gentle, water, aqua, sea creature, airy, floating.

Pre-Viz Crane Shot

Crane Shot from noah greenhalgh on Vimeo.

The crane shot allows you to move on a fixed axis, like the dolly shot, however, the crane shot can move vertically as well. This scene showing a woman on a balcony and then panning down to a man on the ground is a fitting example to show how the crane shot can be used to show characters at different heights.

Pre-Viz Dolly Rig Shot

Dolly Rig Shot from noah greenhalgh on Vimeo.


By using a dolly rig, I could move the camera along a fixed axis. I found that the dolly shot was slightly similar to the pan shot, however, the dolly allows more dramatic shots to be created.

Pre-Viz Pitch Shot

Pitch Shot from noah greenhalgh on Vimeo.

Using a Pitch shot allows you to move the camera vertically, so the animated character in this video shows off the pitch shot well. Whilst setting my keyframes, I kept having to check the graph editor to make sure my animation was smooth, otherwise, the animation was a little jumpy.

Pre-Viz Roll Shots

These are a series of roll shots I made using the scenes files provided to me, Each time I playblasted the shots, I increased the roll of the camera. For the first video I changed the roll coordinates to 180, for the second film, I changed them to 360, and for the third film, I changed them to 540. By increasing the number of times the camera rolled, I created a more intense, dramatic mood to the shot.

staircase roll 180 from noah greenhalgh on Vimeo.

180 Degree Roll Shot

Because the camera rotated quite slowly, the atmosphere of the shot is rather mysterious, rather than intense.

Roll Shot 360 from noah greenhalgh on Vimeo.

360 Degree Roll Shot

I only increased the roll coordinates a little for this shot, however the mood has become more dramatic.

Roll Shot 360 from noah greenhalgh on Vimeo.

540 Degree Roll Shot

This shot has the largest sense of drama. The camera moves faster because it has to rotate more, resulting in a rather unsettling shot.

Life Drawing - Term 2 Week 1

Forty minute study  - black paper, charcoal, chalk.

For this study I focused on the shadows the model cast onto the wall behind her, there was an image projected onto the wall so I tried drawing that as well as I wanted to try creating a proper composition, rather than just drawing figures with no background.

Four five minute poses and three 30 second poses - charcoal.

Whilst drawing the five minutes poses, I tried to use more animated, fluid lines with charcoal. This helped me break out of my realistic drawing style. For the three thirty-second poses, I didn't raise the charcoal from page whilst drawing, which I found difficult, but I wanted to try it out.

20 Minute Study - Graphite

I feel that I could have been more adventurous with this drawing. In the future, I would like to start using colour a lot more, rather than just sticking to using graphite, charcoal, and chalk. 

Pre-Viz Pan Shot

Pre- Viz Pan Shot from noah greenhalgh on Vimeo.

The scene files I used for this tutorial had already supplied me with the character and door animation. I created this pan shot by selecting the camera group in the Outliner, and the selecting "Camera Ctrl" then in the channels box I changed the pan settings to follow the characters through the scene, creating a key frame every time I moved the coordinates. 

By using the camera control and pan options this created a smooth and precise pan shot and was quick and simple to create. 

Camera Rig Test

Camera Rig Test from noah greenhalgh on Vimeo.

My next project: Storytelling and Commission, will involve creating shots such as Pan, roll, pitch, dolly, crane, distance shots. I'll also be looking at the fundamentals of camera controls; Focal length, coverage, and camera shake.

I've started the project by downloading a camera rig to create a short animation. I created a few basic polygon shapes, an ambient light, and a directional light and then moved the camera around the scene, selecting the camera's X, Y, and Z coordinates and selecting "Key Selected" to create a Keyframe and then did a quick playblast render. This animation was fairly simple to make, and I'm looking forward to experimenting with different kinds of shots and making more complex scenes to experiment with.