Week 9B

In class, we showed each of our three separate styles and chose which ones we thought were the best. A lot of people had really interesting concepts and ideas and it was really interesting seeing how everyone went about this assignment in their own way. When asking which style worked the best for my particular animation, it was suggested that I go with the black and white color scheme of my first style, but choose the more 3-Dimensional style of the second and third. I agree'd with this, as the black, white, orange and red color scheme reflect the mood of Pulp Fiction very well, as they are the colors used within their logo.

Instead of having work time in class, we did something out of the norm and did an interesting exercise that helped improve our skills in After Effects. In this exercise, we were tasked to recreate the opening to "True Detectives" following a tutorial. While I had mine working, I thought it was more fun messing with the settings and trying new things to create something completely different and nonsensical. Overall, the exercise was really insightful and a pretty neat lesson.

Week 9A

In class I had worked on the final frames for my upcoming project. I came up with three different styles. The first style is a completely flat, black and white silhouette style. When I think of Pulp Fiction and listen to the theme itself (which i'm most likely going to use for the final animation), I think of a fast paced,  graphic and silhouette style. For the second style, I chose a more three-dimensional approach with more murky and dark colors. The reason for this is due to the fact that Pulp Fiction is a pretty graphic and dramatic film. The last option is the same as far as composition goes, but I had changed the color scheme to something brighter. I used the exact colors from the Pulp Fiction logo itself. Since the song is quite fast paced, I wanted to make an animation that reflects that, getting the viewer excited and keeping their attention due to the various effects i'd use. Personally, I do think the last one is my favorite, as it would be the most enjoyable to work on and reflects the tone of the theme the most.

Week 8 Outside of Class

Outside of class, I created four different versions of how I may do the animation for my animated Pulp Fiction intro. These are all 10 black and white rough sketches to show different approaches to it. In all of them, I enjoyed the idea of having a repeated element throughout, moving the viewer through the scenes. I tried replacing this with different things, such as a bullet or drops of blood (as the movie is pretty violent.) Overall i'm really satisfied with my ideas and already have a decent idea as to how i'm going to approach each of them graphically, even though I only need to choose one. So far i'm leaning more towards style 1 as I feel like it's a good balance of both text and graphical elements.  I plan to use all silhouettes for whichever I choose, and as far as soundtrack goes I was thinking of doing the official theme for Pulp Fiction.

Week 7B

Below is the final animation that I had created over a 5(ish) week period. Overall, i'm very proud with how it had turned out. I enjoyed working on the project and adding my own artistic spin on the script. In the future, I may revisit this project to add more detail to some scenes. It did stray quite a bit from my animatic, as certain scenes weren't working out too well when fully styled and animated, but many of the ideas are still there.

Week 6 Outside of Class

Over the weekend, I had created a few extra scenes and graphics to use for my animation. There is a short break in the animation, but that's because I was skipping around the audio clip to test whether or not a scene would work. I do plan to go back and improve other scenes, as the truck segment that I had created previously was a little too static. Compared to the beginning of my animation which flowed really well, it seems to get a little less dynamic as the video progresses. Below is what I had been working on. If I have extra time when the animation itself is done, I would like to add more detail to the scenes as well.

Week 6B

In class, I've used the assets I've been creating to animate much more of the project. Unfortunately, I've been encountering several problems with specific scenes, as the previous idea I had of showing characters around the globe has been pretty difficult to execute. Because of this, I may scrap the idea all together and create something that's much more effective. I had also went back and changed small details, such as my new main character turning into a pirate to better reflect the audio.