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Current Edit

Here is the current edit for the project. Slowly we will put together all the animations, but for now what we have is an updated version of the animatic - in the modelled 3D environments. It will serve as both pre vis and basis to shoot from with the animation.

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Little Guy

Here is the model and rig for the Little Guy. I knew I needed a rig that would provide me with enough freedom to animate correctly the key poses and convey the emotions. The model itself and the shape of the little guy’s design limited me in the creation of the rig. The little guy is very small and needs to resemble a toddler.

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Big Guy

I was responsible with modelling the Big guy and the Little guy in the project. Here is a breakdown of the model and rig.

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Major Project - My animations

Here is the animations I made and contributed to the final result, these were hand-keyed, the model used is not my own.

Shot 10 - 40  (Pre-composition)

Shot 60    (Unused in final Animation)

Shot 80-90   (Pre-Composition)

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Major Project - Final Animatics

Final Animatics Used for reference.

Final Animatic v1

Final Animatic v2

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Majan Project - Reference and Animation Ideas.

Creating the toonshader.

We decided to shoot reference, realizing that the animatics we created did not reflect where we wanted the project to go - we needed reference for the 3d animations we wanted to have in the project. The decision to incorporate 3D was made in order to speed up workflow, as I am most confident in my 3D animation skills, yet we still wanted it to somewhat look 3D so I went ahead and found the character from the bodymechanics rigs that most resembled our designs, and decided to animate with that. I created a custom Shader in order for it to look flat toon shaded and not break away from the realism.

This is the link to the folder containing all the reference files.

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Major Project - Furthering the idea

We realized the creating the storytelling through metaphors could be too hard to achieve combining our 3 art styles, and therefore decided we might need a character to represent Josh and his struggles on screen, someone we could make stuff happen to and it be effectively telling the story. We wanted to create a character that was identifiable with the audience, but not too personalized as to indicate it was Josh all along. I wasn’t great part of the character concepts, yet when time allowed inbetween editing the sound I tried to come up with concepts too.

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Major Project - Early Concepts And Animatic

Initially we wanted to create an abstract animation which could be used by everyone to identify themselves in Josh’s story - so we started to design areas of the animatic through metaphors that would tell the story, avoiding being too literal and not just illustrating what the audio was describing. This is the part of the animatic I was assigned.

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Majan Project - Audio Editing and work

In the group I was in charge with making the audio edits and coming up with the best possible version of the story. Given the amount of audio we had, a lot of it had to be cut away and thrown off - from almost 3 hours worth of footage I had to condense the story into one minute thirty at most. Initially I tried to keep all the main aspects of the story, while cutting all the major speech “fluffs” out, as Josh liked to speak with a lot of fillers such as “like” or “youknow what I mean”; which meant that even the sentences that could have served perfectly, were sometimes not able to be used due to perhaps distractions happening in between. However for many, I managed to cut away the parts that were not needed and create flowing sentences nonetheless. Yet the audio remained too long, and trying to encompass the whole story in that short amount of time only resulted in incoherence and something too fast and bland. Therefore we decided to focus the story we would tell only on some parts of Josh’s story, the parts we felt had more impact and could create a greater emotional response for the audience, while remaining relevant and keeping the narrative flowing in the direction we wanted, displaying the struggle Josh had and his now happy resolution.

You can fnd the full audio and all the stages of edit on the submitted dvd.

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Major Project - Transcript.

From the questions we asked we resulted in a 3 hour long conversation, filled with emotional moments and indepth analysis of relationship with his parents, friends and Josh’s personal story on coming out and his internal struggle with himself. We divided the raw footage to transcript, in order to have a fast way to analyse and employ the text through edit. 

This was the transcript of the part assigned to me, the numbering refers to the time in the raw interview footage. In brackets are the questions asked during the interview, 

Documentary Transcript 20:17 (what about friendships after you came out.. how were they? A lot of those people I haven’t spoke to this day.. like I was close with them in school and stuff like that but -  like I said if they wanted to be that childish and not know me over something as silly it’s that.. so be it I couldn’t care less I haven’t lost anything in the long run… But then the friends I did make a lot of the people … like I said I turned to a lot of the people .. who were more background characters in my life rather than my main friends and like they became main friends through that .. if that makes sense? Like I said I think I was so struggling to bne accepted that I wanted to hang around with the people I thought were really cool and like … popular kids and stuff like that but then … people like that aren’t.. really.. friends.. but that’s another whole subject to go off on – but yeah a lot of the people I did start hanging around with then became friends for life… I still see them to this day.. and that so… 21:14 (what about now… do you feel its ever hard being friends with the same sex?) Noo not in the slightest, I don’t thing *chuckle* admittedly I don’t think im a difficult person to get on with .. I’m not like huge into .. gay culture and stuff like that so I don’t think I alienate people and stuff like that – like I know a lot of people I imagine could but… yeah no.. I’ve never had a problem with male friends, female friends.. straight, gay never bothered me… my best mate is like straight guys I don’t care in the slightest (I was gonna ask… when you told your best mate.. was it out of need ? did you feel like you had to?) Yeah.. that was just like.. I HAD to .. it was just killing me I just couldn’t keep that in any longer it was just too.. big of a deal and like I said I was beating myself up about it so much and like .. I just couldn’t .. I knew it was getting me down and just affecting my mood, affecting my life, affecting everything day to day and just.. idk everyday just felt like a challenge like it just felt like I had this huge massive weight on my shoulder[G1] s… I had to .. do something about it and idk, telling him was such a huge relief but .. ultimately the aftermath of that was.. something I wasn’t prepared for in the slightest… - but like I said, im glad in the end it happened because I probably would have let it eat me up alive forever otherwise….  I know there is some people that get to 60 years old and like .. married with  kids and stuff like that and let it become such a huge deal for them … 23:09 (Was there a moment were you would describe yourself as coming to terms with it all?) Yeah I think when I started to.. date boys and stuff like that it just changes then .. you start other people that are like it too and that makes you feel  really comfortable – you realize this isn’t ‘a thing’ it’s just nothing… (was there a moment before you told people? A moment you accepted yourself) there wasn’t one, like I didn’t – that’s the point… (you were still struggling) oh yeah, massively, even when I first people I still wasn’t sure.. it was a ‘thing’ – even when I told him I was like ‘look I THINK I might be .. like THIS, but like I don’t know’ its just so clouded and so it felt like my head was just everywhere … (well what did you think of after you told your best friend and that happened in college?how long did it take you then- were you scared maybe, because of what happened in school) Yeah like, it just became such a big deal to me that I never wanted to tell my family even when I was comfortable with friends and stuff like that it was still, friends… like I said that’s your family – it’s different, like they are the people you NEED to accept it more than anything… ehm yeah – I told my friends when I was like 15, I didn’t then tell my family until I was like 20… so that’s a good 5 years difference, for me to come to terms with it which finally I don’t think I ever did but… (what about your cousins you said you were quite close with?) Never told them .. now they know yeah but – never told them, like I said still closest proximity … like I said I grew up in wales and stuff like that it wasn’t until I moved down here and I was 17 again that I started to make friends and things down here and then friends knew cousins and things like that in the area and like kinda just eases itself in a little bit and when my cousins knew they didn’t care so I was like – shit, then the rest of my family won’t care and it just all kinda just fell into place nicely for me … it was never that difficult after school – that was just the ONE thing… 26:00(random shit … highschool is life after all) Yeah like it was .. it’s everything, if you are not accepted in school you probabably convince yourself you won’t get accepted in life *chuckle* (You did then get accepted in school – how was that like?) I don’t know it was better.. better than it was.. but then in some cases worse, because like I said I still wasn’t sure what was going on in my head and myself .. and for everyone else to know around it was like weird .. it’s weird to try and come to terms with something when everyone already knows about it … (Was there any help from teachers?) Noo, they didn’t know and didn’t need to know… (were you bullied?) Oh yeah I was massively bullied in school *chuckle* yeah no it’s not something I wanted to involve teachers like that never would have even crossed my mind like … it’s .. I don’t know its none of their business it MY thing.. I don’t need to go to teachers about it .. but that’s going down a whole different road completely again … but yeah, no like I said it was MY problem I wanted to deal with it myself.. and that’s why I isolated myself so much… 27:20 (Don’t you feel like you could have used the help?) I probably could of.. realisticly…but I didn’t (!) *Chuckle* I don’t know like – I don’t know how I would have done things differently – like I said I don’t think I ever considered it as an option to go to like teachers and stuff like that … I didn’t really want like, adults to know *chuckle* (Why?) I don’t know, I don’t know .. I just wanted to separate myself (from like all of it?) Everyone  I don’t know – I would just like lock myself in my room and like every day and that would be my life … 28:04 (You said you were bullied, about this or other things too?) Everything, it didn’t help that I was like huge growing up aswell and like - yeah I was never like the cool kid in school and so like being fat, being gay being all of that just it was like .. felt like one thing after the other .. couldn’t escape it and like it wasn’t the nicest of schools I went to *chuckle* so (was there a moment were you finally felt you fit in?) 28:34 Yeah when I was not in school *chuckle* yeah it wasn’t until… it wasn’t until the first college I went to like,  I went to 3 different colleges and, the first one just everyone from school went to so it was just like an extension of school basically – and that was when I started to get really bad and started cutting myself and stuff like that but that was just because it was just too much for me, it felt like I was just trapped no matter where I went it was the same thing(?) And then I moved to a different college and like more of the people that I was close to went there and I just met some really decent people and like that was when I was like, everything started to feel normal for me… 29:14 (Why did you feel trapped in college? Because it was just like, it was just the same thing… same thing, didn’t stop (But you came out – like in a way right?) Yeah I was already out by that point yeah… it didn’t change anything I was still so messed up about it in my head, I was still trying so hard to try and fit in with people I just didn’t fit in with like – that really hurt you know.. like wanting to be accepted and feeling like you don’t get that from people you’ve grown up with… (so did you ever kind of wish that you weren’t gay) Oh yeah, definitely, it is all I ever wished when I was younger… so I don’t care now but… yeah man .. that was like my one thing I used to… I don’t know I used to try and force the idea into my head that I could be… straight(?) but like… you’re not *chuckle* you can’t fight that you cant force yourself to be straight it just doesn’t happen... it didn’t happen *chuckle* (Even after you moved you still felt trapped..?) yeah but like I said it was only because it was the same people from like school and that …. Like I said it was just an extension from school in a different place that wasn’t school 30:47(so it was THEM who didn’t accept you) like I said yeah .. the people I grew up with are all straight lads and stuff like that I was originally friends with and I was still like desperately trying to be part of that friendship group and I knew I wasn’t gonna be and I never was gonna be again… and like I said that was probably one of the hardest things… loosing so many friends over it in hindsight I am glad I lost so many friends because I realized they are not friends but.. at the time it was difficult you know(?)…like people you’re close with suddenly .. don’t really wanna know you? but you’re still desperately trying to be friends with these people but it doesn’t really happen .. 31:24(What made you think like harming yourself would what did it mean to you?) Because there was no other way for me to deal with it … it was just… too much – I don’t know how I ever let myself get that bad but it happens… you just don’t think there is any other way out like – its like a release you know – I hate myself that much that I  felt that was the only way to deal with things … (did anyone close to you notice you were harming yourself?) I don’t know I tried to keep it very well hidden … hoodies and long sleeved stuff that – I don’t know when people did notice they went absolutely crazy about it – I used to just .. lie and be like – I cant remember what lies I used to tell… but it was obvious what was really going on 32:27(when did you stop doing that?) 2 years maybe?... It was just when things got too badly I remember the last time I ever did it … like – I locked myself in my room and I was just crying my eyes out to something stupied and I snapped a pair of scissors in half and I just did thay straight across my arm and it was pissing out with blood everywhere – and I remember just screaming and the thought I was gonna die and then ‘you can’t do this anymnore’ and I would be at drunk parties with friends and I would lock myself in a room and cut myself with like a shard of glass and think ‘what are you doing with yourself?’ its fucked man – but like I just don’t know what was going on in my head at that time it was just such a messed up period of my life .. (why? Explain why?) I don’t know – I cant remember how I used to feel back then I cant imagine the thought process that would possibly lead me to that anymore… I don’t know I think It was just too much for me too much self-loathing and too much just ‘teen-age angst’ and tied with all these things like…39:19 Josh - Imagine being an ambassador for being straight? It would be weird wouldn’t it?39:38 Josh – Don’t get me wrong like, I think it’s cool people like go to gay pride and stuff like that obviously I think it’s an important message to like spread and obviously there is a lot more acceptance that gay people can get but, I don’t know I am not that sort of person that cares about stuff like that – like I said I believe in it I think it’s cool that people do it but it’s not the sort of thing I would be the front man of like, waiving a yellow flag (chuckle) come at me, I’m gay(!)40:00-40:36 Josh - Oh hell yeah it was fucked up man, like proper fucked like proper fucked 40:50 Josh – No she moved back like uhm she got married to a man down here in Southampton ,they divorced and she moved back there she’s had a house up there since I was a kid, never got rid of it so she’s stuck up there 41:15 Josh – God yeah house prices were like 5k for like a 4 bedroom massive house up there like I said  you don’t get that up there or down here even these days it’s just she saw an option …. 42:15 (Was any of your family religious?) No, nothing like that, they were just common English people… (You never felt any religious..?) No like I said I’m not a religious person, I don’t believe in any of that, I think there is something, but not an old man in the clouds (Do you believe in a god?) Yeah but like I said, not like god as like, traditionally perceived by people, like I said I don’t believe in anything like the bible… that’s like, just a story and like I think the morals are just outdated and war and all that just comes from religions and stuff like that and that is so stupid; I think the world I so stupid for being like that… But yeah, No I am not religious in a traditional sense, I believe there is something(!) Oh god the world is so beautifully crafted I don’t think there is any possible way that could happen by accident, but I don’t believe in .. god (So yeah you don’t believe in Christianity, or Islam, because that’s what .. you’re agnostic?) Oh yeah, I believe religion it he most complete.., its like the most obviously fake thing ever as well like, come on, how can anyone take that so seriously? – and just all the shit that comes with it like the world is fucked because of religion… ( random fuff about bullshit) 45:24 (did you ever help someone that was like in the same situation?) Yeah and  I am probably not allowed to tell this story because I am still talking to this boy no but I don’t care ill tell it anyway.. ah this exhausts me – it really exhausts me I have been talking to this boy for about a year now and like …. Its so difficult for me …  because he catfished me on like a gay dating app – he sent photos of a fake person.., It was just so nice to get on with and me being naïve and stupid truly believed it was this person right – we were talking for two months and I remember showing him to my friends and being like ‘oh he is so fit’ and she is like ‘you’re being catfished’ and I was like ‘ how can you say that?’ .. ‘ do a reverse google image seaerch of those photos and youll find him’ it totally was, I was being catfished it was just some Instagram guy and I called him out on it and was like ‘wtf how can you do this to me we’ve been talking for two months how can you think its ok to do that to people?’ and hes like “I am so sorry I am so sorry I never wanted you to find out , but ive backed myself into a corner.. ive never really spoken to a boy before and I didn’t want to show a real photo and I was just seeing who he was about I didn’t ewxpect to start talking to someone and liking someone like I do you’ and yeah so hes like ‘look please please can you give me this one chance I promise you ill show myself rather than later’ and no one else would do this this is how stupid I am I was like fine ill give you the benefit of the doubt this ONE time and… over the course of the last year I’ve got to know this boy… 47:18 and now I see him in the gym every single day and I know who he is right – I had to do some serious digging to find this boy, he gave me a fake name afterwards even after I found out he was catfishing me he still gave me a fake name  fake everything, and like everything he told me is true apart from his identity – and he is a really nice guy, and like I said I see him everyday in the gym but he’s just so insecure… I remember when I find out who he was he would ring me with a withheld number –he is THAT paranoid, and I am like – ok fair enough be discrete but you can’t talk to me for as long as you have and me not know who you are, and he’s like ‘no you don’t understand you don’t understand…..’ and this one time he forgot to withheld his number and I was like this is gold for me , and I found him really quickly and the day before – a guy from the gym came up to pick up a wagamama takeaway and I was gonna mention ‘oh I see you in the gym’ but as I hand it to him he bolted out of the door so I was like’oh what a freak’ so I went on my phone messaged the boy on my phone and said ‘oh some weirdo from the gym just came picked up a wagamama takeaway – oh I just see him in there with some girl and all he does is walk on the treadmill for hours’ ‘oh stop looking at other boys in the gym then’ so I am like ‘trust me he is nothing to look at he’s barely got any hair left’ the next day was when I had his number and as I found out who he was .. I found out it was him(?!) so I was like oh my god how can I say thatso I was like look, I know who you are…. I’m really sorry for saying that, that was aweful, I genuinely didn’t think that was you – and like I still talk to him to this day, I know who he is, he will never come out, he is just so insecure about it and like I’ve explained to him my situation like ‘I’ve been through it, I know its not that big of a deal’ and I was like I would never force him to and like I don’t know like… 49:30 it’s exhausting for me like – I want to help him but hes not even willing to help himself like I get nothing from him, like when I told him I knew who he was he told me ‘ I understand why people commit suicide over stuff l0ike this like it’s that scary that even you know who I am’ yeah but I am not gonna tell anyone.. even though I told everyone chuckle … yeah like I said it’s hard – its weird just messaging him in the gym when he’s like there and im like ‘I could go up there and talk yto him’ but I know that he would just scatter and go crazy .. and like I did it the other day he was like on the treadmill right in front of me so I just stood next to him and was like ‘you alright?’ and he was just like ‘ who are you, what are you doing’ and I was like ‘ are you joking me just like .. talk to me?’ and he was like ‘nah mate I don’t know who you are…’ so I was like ‘get a grip get a grip!’ and I was just like ‘fuck you’ and walked off.. he was like ‘I was only joking I was only joking’ and io was like’ you weren’t joking you just couldn’t deal with me talking to you in real life…it’s a joke50:28 and like I said I feel like I am stuck in this predicament, because I don’t want to stop talking to him because I … I don’t want to be that twat that he can talk to comfortably for this long and like..  not .. just be like ‘oh by the way I am not talking to you anymore but I also don’t want anything relationship wise with him (?) it would be  too difficult for me now.. all of the hiding around and stuff like that and like I said I have been talking to him for the best part of a yeah and he still  won’t even meet me..(?) its so like … I feel trapped in this situation – I don’t want anything from him but I just feel obliged to continue talking to him (?) .. (Yeah because I guess he kinda came out to you) And that’s what I mean I can’t just now drop him and be like see you later… (random shit …) he’s only 26.. like decent guy like a nice guy to talk to, I get on with him  but … idk the whole discretion thing I find it reaaally difficult to deal with.. even today I said to him why don’t you just meet me tonight we can go for a drink and he was like.. ‘no I can’t do that’ and I was like why? – I ask him on a weekly basis like ‘let’s go out let’s do something’ and hes like ‘no I cant do that’ and I’m like ‘why can’t you, who cares?’ ‘ what if one of my mates sees me?’ ‘they won’t and even if they did you can just be like I am one of the blokes you know from work’ 52:00 so im like how can you be THAT insecure about it… but like.. I get it obviously I was like it as a kid but like…he’s 26, must be a WHOLE other situation for him .. I geuss where he is past the whole coming out at a young age thing, now he’s parents have got expectations for him to get a girlfriend..all of his mates are straight.. he says he would bring out tinder in front of them to make it look like he is straight.. and im like fuck me I cant image going to that level of fakeness… its kinda sad to see someone who can’t be themselves that much.. I know I struggle with it growing up but like I didn’t try and lead a whole double life at the same time .. like when I was done with it I was done with it… you know? I was better of for it…52:41 (then I guess you its good that you came out when you did) Yeah I was so thankful … (you could have been him) yeah and that’s (hopefully not, hopefully you would have been stronger and just  said fuck it let me just do it) That’s what I say to him so many times .. you’ll be better for it – and he’s like ‘nonono its just too much too much’.. and I am just like… (I guess it begins with yourself) Yeah like I said it’s such a self battle youknow.. its different for everyone, some people hate it other people are fine with it.. like I said someone like Harry around you you can imagine they would have come out of the womb like ‘Im gaaaaay” everyone else has their own .. idk it just comes from family upbringing and backroung and stuff I guess..thats a massive part of it… 53:37(yeah – but its weird I don’t feel like your mother and father didn’t put pressure on you?) No like I said I can talk to my mum about .. sex, boyfriends.. she doesn’t care she’s like a mate about it – she ;literally doesn’t care as long as I am happy.. I think she loves having a gay son in a way .. not that I am like going clothes shopping and stuff like that with her but I think she just doesn’t.. she kinda loves it .. while my dad .. I don’t think he is bothered by it like.. he’s still got another son.. its not like I’ve just ended the whole family line there.. 54:23(Growing up you were struggling with yourself more than in relation to your family) I was never scared of them not liking me – it just came across as a huge massive part of who I was that I was more scared .. for them to know you know.. like I cant really remember what was such a big deal to me about when it came to family.. like I said I told them last .. all friends knew way before family did .. I don’t know .. it’s real when your family  know.. you cant go back on that like.. yeah when  you put that out in the world and your family knows… 55:04 [G1]Basically – we can MUST have most of this.. 

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Major Project Questionnaire

We set out to produce a set of questions that would result in the best possible answer, that would reveal a ton about his past and himself, without being too much in the way and creating simple “yes or no” answers.

Eventually we prepared these following questions.

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Major Project - Animated Documentary

Initially, as given the brief and free reign to come up with something to base the documentary on, the topic which stuck with me at the time was coming out as a young gay or lesbian, and the reception, hardship or support received by both family and friends, to explore stories and give some insight into how hard it can be in even this day and age, to own up to who you are and who you want to be for some people. We hoped to create a story which could help people in the LGBT community through giving them a narrative as a voice.

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Final Movie

This is the final movie me and Isobel have achieved.I am very happy with Isobel’s editing of the animations, and the animations seem to fluidly bind together.I would have allowed more time for each animation to play completely therefore lengthening the picture slightly - but perhaps I say this because the animations were my work.I enjoy the final outcome, and I feel the short clip conveys what we were going for initially - a sense of confusion and rush inside a student’s head, that as he looks at his watch - time continuously flows by him almost missing his beat.

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Theese are pictures we took of the corridor, we then have edited and put together as a means of creating one long shot where the character could run and act out the scene.

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Theese are the videos we shot and used for the project. Credit to Joel for helping us out.

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Animatic

This is the animatic me and isobel made for the project. My parts begin at 0:30 seconds in.

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I  do not own the character models, they are taken from a character pack. Isobel created the clock model - I finalized all the number’s models as well as the clock - I was also responsible for all the animations in these scenes.