unit 3 ideas and concepts

Saul Bass inspired film posters.

Y Diagram 

                                          

                                                                     Digital Moodboards                                  

                                            

Mood Boards (drawn)

                                                                    Font development

                                         Idea Development and silhouette development

Initial Storyboard

Final Storyboard

final storyboard screencaps

 

Evaluation

What I did was take lots of different iconic images from pulp fiction and developed on them in a way inspired by Saul Bass until they were ready to be animated.  I looked into Saul Bass’s work thouroghly and studied his iconic and simplistic style In this assignment I learnt how to use flash for animation for the first time and about Saul Bass’s work. If I could go back and improve something I would make the drawings on my animation slightly more detailed and smooth looking and perhaps try out some different techniques instead of just frame-by-frame animation and tweening. The thing that interests me the most about Saul Bass’s style is the interesting colour combinations he uses as his logic with colour is very similar to my own in which I try to limit myself to 3 or 4 colours that slightly clash but not entirely e.g., Green and Red.

I found making a decent amount of animation easy as I work quickly at drawing and most of it was frame by frame. I also feel I am good at coming up with abstract transitions for my animation to keep it interesting. However I found a lot of the technical side of this unit challenging as I have never been required to use macs before over PC. It has been a steep learning curve for me as it takes me a lot longer to learn logical things than other people and I have a very short attention span.

I think that my work ethic for this project has been very good, this is the most motivated I have been for almost 3 years and I enjoy most of the tasks given. However, I often end up doing assigned work at home in the middle of the night before it is required to be handed in so I need to work on being more punctual with my work and sleep better so I can focus more in the day. Overall I would grade myself a 6 out of 10 as I feel I have made a lot of improvement in many of my skills but still have a long way to go.