Credit text

Heeeeey Eva :D

Here's the text sample~

I used an online gif creator so I could upload this on the blog as a moving image, but it's not as smooth looking or fast as it should be. I'm sure Ciselle will fix that in AE with the acutal images <3

Note to self: gotta work on bird soon. ~\(' V ')/~

Final Shot list for Etiqutte for the Becoming Lady

Suggested by Tope

www.videocopilot.net

Another useful website that has lots of tutorials for After Effects for novices like me start from 'After Effects 101' and work your way through...

Again hope this is useful

Happy Easter!

Useful link

Hi everyone!

Just thought I'd share this with you. Its a very useful file sharing website that I used in first year. Its much easier and quicker than sending zipped files via email

http://www.dropbox.com/

If you sign up with them we can send all work in progress to each other through it... as long as we all have the same programs (it doesn't even matter if we have different versions of the same program)

Hope its useful to you guys...

Eva

"Are You Okay?" Lip Sync

Hey girls,

Is this alright?
are

you

o

kay?

Will there be a voice for this bit of dialogue? Because if there isn't then maybe I could try to make the lip sync work better?

Sorry about not getting this done earlier because it really shouldn't have taken me so long. Let me know if there's anything you'd like changed in these or if there is any other work you need help with. c:

--Pema

for pema

'Are you Okay?'
the jaw will move a little, but you just need 4 mouth movements
You can do the 4 bits on photoshop- just making his little mouth shape change and his jaw move down a little
Then save the 4 drawings as jpegs
thank u!

Reference for drunken dance scene

Eva, these are some images to help you with the woman dancing. I like the top one. If you need to draw miss fanny from the side or back please do. or even her profile might be needed like the 3rd image

I need to send you some other eyes and mouth shapes but we can deal with that after youve got some body movement.

Captain Pugwash and THE FISH MEAL

I really like the cut-out style and how the characters move on the backgrounds. especially the captains hands. Hopefully we can create something similar

Our First year helper will be...

Pema Denzongpa
So we look forward to meeting her on Monday and working with her over the next few weeks!

Eva

Suggested by Alf

Alexandre Roslin
Swedish Painter

More Images to inspire

Hello, Danielle again!!

some more images. I choose the image above because of the nice checkered floor which Eva used in a collage test she did a few weeks ago. I really like the floor- we just need to balance it out with a simple background to avoid it being too busy. also we need to make sure focus is on the main characters and their action.

I love this font

very handcrafted, frilly yet easy to read

idea for whenthe man takes miss Fanny away at the end. Could be nice with him carrying her over his shoulders. he is quite small so it would be quite a struggle and could be comical.

I think we will stick to him dragging her away but this is another idea

satirical charactature- nice pastel colours and exaggerated expression

neck detailsimilar to that of Miss Fannys- this material is more stiff but still same shape

haaa!

I love 'my fair lady' and this is one of the sets for the 'horse racing' scene. I saw the producion at 'Drury Lane' several years back and loved the colours and style

an English streetsign- could be nice to include one or two to get a sense of being in London

Quite naughty image in saw on a boardgame in a shop in soho. I like the shocked expression and saucy bear behind. She is acting very coy and innocent- playful and teasing

I went to the Apollo theatre recently and took this photo of an old poster for the show 'Dont dress for dinner'.

looks very flat but beautiful- taken in baker street

miniture model of victorian shop I saw in the toy museum

Set Design that really interested me. The front and back and interior are all on one strip of paper which would be easy to transfer into aftereffects

Images for animatic

Hello. Its Danielle!

I wanted to include some images to convey what Im thinking of the sets in my head.

The Wallace collection (which is by far my favourite museum )captures that period feel and is a great reference for our etiquette film

These are some photos I took at theWallace collection. Because you cant use a flash they arn't the best quality.
The top photo- I really like the pastel blue. its very soft and works nicely with the gold frame and silver detail in the curtain. love how similar the curtains and wallpaper are but perhaps it wouldnt be so effective in animation.

the second photo is very inspiring to my vision of the opening scene where we move over variouspaintings before reaching the frame with Miss Fanny in. I love the embellished frames and rich wallpaper. I know we are using pastes throughout but maybe the opening scene can have some dark bold colours???

I should test that
The 3rd photo was another idea for the opening scene, similar to the previous but including the chair. it gives more of an idea of a homely setting. I love the painting of the boats at sea- wouldnt it be funny if miss fanny arrived on a boat??? Its probably a bit much (animating the wind blowing her hair and the waves ect) but nice idea.

The last photo is useful to picture the ballroom scene. a beautiful room to stand in the photo really doesnt do it any justice

and Ill include some more photos below for colour ideas -because this gallery is so rich in colour

Character's name is decided

Yesturday, we decided that out main character will be named Miss Fanny.
here is her colour pelette for the market square scene.

Cobbled floor

This is a cobbled floor test I did on photoshop. I drew the cobbles with my Wacom tablet on a hard edged brush setting. I then used the burn tool to add texture to it and applied it to the background.

The Muppet Show: At the Dance (Episode 1)

nice pastel colours

funny-looking characters and movements

Kind Hearts...

Kind Hearts and Coronets: a film recomended to us. Very witty, lovely period costumes and sets

El retrato Oval- Allan Poe

The parts that show the corridor of paintings is like our opening scene. Though it looks like live action in this film (I know its not) ours will look more illustrative.

The Gentleman's Guide to ... Villainy

I was shown this film and really like the 1920s silent movie style. Even though our film isn't this period I love the drama and humor. Similar to our film, this is an instructional film but guided to the male.

Sky background test

Victorian Building sketch

Cobbles

Further background tests

Title Boarder test

Hall way Background test

etiquette for the becoming lady test 3Da

Same 3D test we did, but changed the hue/ saturation. this might be the style we will be going for. However, both character and background are still too flat.
- need more experiment with the camera angle.

etiquette for the becoming lady test 3D

From all the previous tests we did - 2D cut out/ collages. We wanted to try something different with the 3D layers in After Effects, so we went to the Greenwich University and took photographs and tried to assemble everything together.

etiquette for the becoming lady test 3a

And fruther experiment with the hue/ saturation.

etiquette for the becoming lady test 3

And so we changed the background with the photographs we have taken at the V&A museum.
- Seems like both colours do fit in.

etiquette for the becoming lady test 2b

Both tests we did before (2 and 2a) were still too bright, so we lowered the saturation even more.
We noticed to make the background and the character match we need to either change the colour of the background or the colour of the character.
- need more research on the colour they used/have in the Victorian period.

etiquette for the becoming lady test 2a

From the previous test we did in collage, we noticed the colours were too bright, so we lower the saturation.

etiquette for the becoming lady test 2

And so we created the background in collage.

etiquette for the becoming lady test 1a

From the first test we did, we know the background and the character didn't match, so we changed the colour levels and tried to blend the 2 together.
- we noticed the dimension of the background wasn't right, so we decided to create the background in collage instead.

etiquette for the becoming lady test 1

In this test we were trying to see if the background and the character fit in.
- photograph was taken from the V&A museum.

Initial Character Designs