Final Project Script and Concept Art

Below is my concept image. I want to have the main character animated and live in a live world. I changed the story up slightly to make more sense and less complicated as was said it was in class. Basically I have the main character start at home where he just had a party the night before. His friend then calls him up and notifies him of a party later that night. He heads out that night and a series of events happens to him. He eventually makes it to the party but unexpectedly.


ACT 1 -- Pharaoh MC Skel is seating at home after a wild party he just had.
             -  His Phone rings and he picks it up.
             -  His friend tells him to get ready because he has a wild party later that night, and that there will be a female artist he wouldn't want to miss there.
             -  He receives a text messages with the address and directions on how to get there.
             -  Since the party is way across town, he decides to drive there.
             - Later that night he gets into his car a nice spanking new grey mustang leaves.


ACT 2 -- All of the sudden he sees flashing lights behind him and notices its the police, so he pulls over unknowingly in front of a dog shelter.
             - The police officer tells him that he is in the wrong time period and is not registered nor has a license so is there for going to take his car from him and leave him with a warning.
             - Now he is left stranded with no car and no phone as it was left in the car. 
             - The dogs are all excited, and suddenly get loose, then start to chase after MC Skel.


ACT 3 -- Being chased he runs into a busy street and gets hit by a car that sends him and all his body parts flying all over.
             -  The dogs grab all his parts like they're free bones, then they all run through the streets causing people to swerve and wreck.
             - They finally decide play time is over, and put all of MC Skel and his parts down onto a porch ,and leave.
             - He starts to pull himself together, but before he was done somebody opens the door.
             - He looks and is his friend.
             - Friends says, "So you made it, but what happened to you?"
             - MC Skel says, "I don't feel like talking about it."
             - He goes in, ITS PARTY TIME!!!

Final Project Revision

"Elevator" Line -- A party animal Pharaoh gets an unexpected mode of transportation to a party. 

Theme. -- I want it to be funny and entertaining. I will be using some live action along with animations. Sometimes it doesn't matter how you get there as long as you got there.

Tone and Execution  -- I want the piece to be silly and have things more dramatic than what it should have been. I will draw up some backgrounds in Photoshop as well as the characters. I want to also incorporate some form of live footage. 

Objective -- The goal of this piece is to explore and learn more techniques on animating and telling a story.

Target Audience --- My target audience would be those who are interested in seeing a skeleton doing funny stuff and having a hard time. Mostly be for teens but may appeal to some younger.

Final Project Concept Ideas

For my final project I want to do some Rotoscoping. I plan on basically making a video of a couple of scenes and importing them into Photoshop. Then take my Photoshop files and take them into After Effects and animating pieces. I have a couple of scenes in mind and they are:

• A scene where I am just walking to my apartment while things come to life.
• Video the animals around my apartment, then animate their actions.
• A bird flying and lands and I animate everything.
• I'm walking and what ever I touch animates.
• Or video my car normal, then have a scene where I go to sleep, then wake up and look at my car and it is animated, so I go to car and touch it and animate, get inside and go pick up some people which also get animated.

The last idea I think I want to do the most. Rotoscoping is new to me and never done it before but looks very interesting and fun.

Assignment 9 - ADA Revision

With this revision I decided to take my drawing that I scanned into the computer and bring it into After Effects and do a little animation and effects. I wanted to try and make paint splatter onto my drawing and gradually change the picture as it was painted in Photoshop. I then wanted to make the feathers seem to sway in the wind along with parts of fabric and the strands of hair.

Painting Indian from Justin Taylor on Vimeo.

Assignment 9 - ADA Project

            For this project I decided to do analog digital analog. The concept was pretty interesting to me. I started off by taking one of my drawings I drew about a month ago, then I scanned it into the computer. After I scanned it I opened it in Photoshop and made a trace of it. The idea I had to do with my drawing was to digitally paint it. This is something that is new to me and I used a drawing pad to keep the consistency of a hand drawing. In Photoshop I selected a couple of colors to work with, then I started to paint in sections. I also added some feathers to the top of the drawing.

 Original Drawing

    Digitally scanned and painted and texturized

Added the feathers

Printed the image out then scanned it back in.

Assignment 8 - DAD or ADA Project Brainstorming

        For this project we had a choice of doing an Analog to digital then back to analog, or doing a digital to analog then back to digital. I am thinking of making an analog to digital then analog. I want to select a few of my drawings and scan them into the computer, then draw and paint them in photoshop. I want them to still show the drawing marks slightly. I am very interested in this art style and want to experiment with the different ways to make digital art. After I render them in photoshop I would like to add some sort of effects to them using After Effects. Drawings I am thinking about using:

• The other drawing would be about the same but with feathers on the head.
• Another drawing I was thinking was of a Pharaoh head.

Assignment 7 - After Effects Tutorial

Ancient Title Tutorial extended from Justin Taylor on Vimeo.
          For this assignment we were to learn some new effects in After Effects. I went to Video Copilot and found a very interesting tutorial on how to make an Ancient Title effect. So I watched and learned how to make this effect. I had to learn various effects such as the Particle World effect, the tint effect, mesh warp, the fractal noise, linear wipe and the radial blur effect. All were very useful. I also used the 3D option and learned the uses of the t-matte modes and the different modes for the layers.

Tutorial Link:  http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/ancient_titles/

Ancient Title Effects Tutorial:

• ·         Create new comp
• ·         Import 2 different images of textures.
• ·         Bring first texture into comp and scale it evenly to comp.
• ·         Toggle Transfer Modes
• ·         Create text layer, put anything
• ·         Then pre-compose text layer
• ·         Select texture image – go to effect-color correction-curves.
• ·         Take most the contrast out
• ·         Go to Layer-new-adjustment layer, then add curves adjustment.
• ·         Make darker.
• ·         Select ellipse tool, double click it, set mask to subtract.
• ·         Turn feather up as desired.
• ·         Create new solid layer, name it particle waves.
• ·         Effect-simulation-particle world-turn grid off.
•       -Physics – velocity 0, gravity 0, -particle – faded sphere, -producer – radius xyz turn up to spread     around. –birth size – up to haze, as well as birth death. Gravity – 0.220, longevity – 2, size variation – 33%.
• ·         Drag mesh warp to particle waves layer. 3 rows, 3 columns.
• ·         Make mesh move inward or outward to make unusual flow.
• ·         Change transfer mode to screen.
• ·         Layer-new-solid, name small particle and change tag color.
• ·         Repeat making the Particle World effect as above, but make them smaller, and increase birth rate to about 10.
• ·         Layer-new-solid, name it light, then go to effect-noise and grain-fractal noise.
•       Transform- uncheck uniform scaling. –scale height to about 3300. –contrast up and brightness down.
• ·         Effect-transition-linear wipe, transition completion 23%, -wipe angle 0, and feather as much as needed.
• ·         Now set “light” layer to screen mode, then set the layer to 3D.
• ·         Use Z-axis and rotate tool to bring light forward.
• ·         Then ALT Click on the Evolution watch, type – time*100 to add movement.
• ·         Now duplicate “light” layer and name lightB, on the top one put “+500” in the evolution after “time*100”
• ·         Make title and texture layers 3D.
• ·         Layer-new-camera, hit “P” and hit stopwatch, then move forward in the timeline and move camera position closer.
• ·         Now highlight both light layers and pre-compose them, name it Light Comp.
• ·         Duplicate “light comp” and toggle switches to show the track matte options.
• ·         Select the small particles layer and set the track matte to luma matte “light comp”
• ·         Select the light comp above the layer and add curves, bring the curves up to see the particles more.
• ·         Make other light comp opacity to 70%.
•              Duplicate title layer, name it title shadow
• ·         Select title, layer-layer styles- bevel and emboss, -depth 300%, -size 1, -altitude 56%, -angle about 93%, layer styles- drop shadow, -distance 0, -size 14, -opacity 40%.
• ·         Select title shadow layer, effect-blur-radial blur. Change type to straight zoom.
• ·         Effect-generate-fill, any color, then go to radial blur and move center all the way above the comp, bring the amount to 7, quality 50.
• Now drag second texture image to comp, switch mode to overlay, make 3D, opacity 50%, and add adjustment layer, then effect-color correction-tint and curves. Tint to 23%, and mess with curves till text pops more.