Information Design - Final Project
24 January 2023 - 26 February 2023 / Week 3 - Week 7
Sim Jia Min 0349784
Information Design / Bachelor of Design (Hons) in Creative Media / Taylor's University
Final Project: Burnout Animation
INSTRUCTIONS (MIB)
FINAL PROJECT: BURNOUT ANIMATION
(*for some unknown reason I got copyright issue for posting vids on this blog, so I will be posting links instead of vids)
Before heading into the planning of burnout animation, our group did some research about burnout.
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| Figure 1.1: Burnout research |
We then distribute the tasks by parts in a spreadsheet, link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-kYNwpG3U4x4wWRSMVd0ekBJyk-AtjUgkQ5u5bOyw1g/edit?usp=sharing
We had a meeting to discuss the art direction of animation and listed down our ideas on miro board.
For art styles, we decided to go for something that is simple, which is minimalistic vector art, because we can easily access free assets with this kind of art style on the internet.
We had a meeting to discuss the art direction of animation and listed down our ideas on miro board.
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| Figure 1.2: Art styles & typeface |
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| Figure 1.3: Colours & format |
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| Figure 1.4: Character design |
Animatic
My assigned part is screen 5j-5o (factor 4: depression & factor 5: purposelessness), a total of 39 seconds.
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| Figure 1.5: Visual ideas & references for animation (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-kYNwpG3U4x4wWRSMVd0ekBJyk-AtjUgkQ5u5bOyw1g/edit?usp=sharing) |
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| Figure 1.6: Making animatic sketches on photoshop |
Screen 5j-5o animatic:
Illustration
After finishing the animatic and getting approval from Mr. Martin, our group starts proceeding into the digitalised illustration. For the character illustration, the character head is illustrated by Sarah. While for the character body, we are using the free assets from freepik, combining the head and body together.
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| Figure 1.7: Character's head illustration by Sarah |
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| Figure 1.8: Head+body combination by Jia En |
Figure 1.7 is the characters that we are going to use in our final animation, Sarah & Jia En uploaded the character assets on google drive for the rest of us to download.
After the character design is all finalised, we all start working on our own assigned part. I did the illustration by referring to my own animatic, following screen by screen.
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| Figure 1.9: Working space on Illustrator |
Animation (Screen 5j-5o)
First animation draft:
Mr. Martin has given feedback that the hand popping the balloon (0:17 part) should be wiggled a bit to make it looks more lively.
Updated animation draft:
SUBMISSION
FEEDBACK
Group feedback for the first animation draft:
Sheryl's part - Blanket no need animation, suggested alarm clock ringing. Zoom in the frame- scene of emotional, physical, mental
Sarah's part - Introduce them one by one and can see all of them in the final frame. Earth- Make it more people keep on coming
Jia Min's part - Wiggle the hand when pricking the balloon
REFLECTION
I am glad to have a bunch of groupmates who all did the assigned work responsibly, which makes the process smooth and easy. Throughout this project, I was lucky enough to receive some help from other groupmates, as I was off to Japan study trip for a week, while some of them were working on the character designs for making the characters in the whole video able to look united. When doing the animation on AE, I also discover some techniques from exploring by myself and watching some youtube tutorials. It is a great experience for me to be able to upgrade my skills in using AE, which helps me for my future projects, as AE is one of the most used designer software other than AI and PS.
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