Monday I had my first tutorial with out new tutor, Sam Morrison.
He has worked on various programs such as modern Toss and Pepper Pig, which he
wrote for Brian Blessed. In our tutorial dated we discussed how I worked, my style,
and what my intentions were for this year.
We talked about what I have done so far in terms of animation. I said about how I liked animation to be crude and not slick and clean. To me having things looking a little rubbish gives it more of an honest and natural feeling. Although, now I have experienced doing it for myself, I do appreciate the time and care that goes into CGI animation, I still prefer stop motion as CGI looks too clean and smooth. We seemed to both agree on this, and talked the way I would be doing my animation for this year like this.
Sam said about trying to get the balance with my gags so that I don’t have to keep explaining them but also people would get them. We also talked bout the script and you asked me to send a copy of the rough first draft. Hopefully he’ll be able to help me out with it putting in stage directions as that is a thing that I am not very good at.
The tutorial was very useful in creating more ideas, looking at what else I have to think about in terms of plotline, and us both getting to know how the other works so we can both help each other out, not just me I hope. I'm very much looking forward to the rest of this year and do hope Sam will be able to help out a lot in making my film to a standard I am happy with. We seem to have a very similar view on animation and
humour but are also able to appreciate other ways of doing things.
his notes to me were:
We talked about what I have done so far in terms of animation. I said about how I liked animation to be crude and not slick and clean. To me having things looking a little rubbish gives it more of an honest and natural feeling. Although, now I have experienced doing it for myself, I do appreciate the time and care that goes into CGI animation, I still prefer stop motion as CGI looks too clean and smooth. We seemed to both agree on this, and talked the way I would be doing my animation for this year like this.
Sam said about trying to get the balance with my gags so that I don’t have to keep explaining them but also people would get them. We also talked bout the script and you asked me to send a copy of the rough first draft. Hopefully he’ll be able to help me out with it putting in stage directions as that is a thing that I am not very good at.
The tutorial was very useful in creating more ideas, looking at what else I have to think about in terms of plotline, and us both getting to know how the other works so we can both help each other out, not just me I hope. I'm very much looking forward to the rest of this year and do hope Sam will be able to help out a lot in making my film to a standard I am happy with. We seem to have a very similar view on animation and
humour but are also able to appreciate other ways of doing things.
his notes to me were:
Whilst I do agree
that any type of animation is valid I also think they need to be justified. How
basic do you want it to look? I think there's a balance to be struck between a
carefree approach and a careless one, and you have to be careful that it
doesn't look like you're not bothered. From your work-rate and multiple writing
projects I can see you are. So - having looked at some of your work on youtube
- I think you CAN push the animation more without sacrificing the comedy
inherent in your writing. There was some lovely animation on there, so my
thinking is you can look a bit more 'slick' without compromising your ideals.
But this is for further discussion after I have read the script.
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