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"You should probably always ask"

Do you want to make sure the thing you've spent the past couple hours of doing is even a thing needed for the assignment?

You should probably ask!

Today was my turn to be the team leader again and this time, I'm not out for one of the days (congrats! the bare minimum!)

It started out with us talking to one of our lectures, Yvonne about what we're doing and after that talk we realised we had made one Sort of Notable mistake in terms of the time management of our work.

See, we had been redoing the second scene of the storyboard to be a higher quality, but didn't realise it only had to be a cleaner sketch that shows what was going on in a more presentable way.

That's to say, the relining i was doing was probably unnecessary. entirely. The thing I've been happy with having done so far. Not needed!! My ego's in shambles.

Regardless we move on! With the more important things to do!

We had a few things to get done through the day which were

- Master Shots

- A Zine to help with our presentation

- Make our wall space have descriptive text

- Finish the cleaner storyboard

The master shot would require a touch up of our backgrounds to fit, a sketch and colouring after for the most efficiency!

It made the most sense to give those jobs to the people who've been doing the best with them, which meant Matilda was on sketch, Johnathon on colouring and Tyler on background cleanup... wait I don't have anything here.

Look, this wasn't an attempt at not doing something it was moreso the fact I had more confidence in them doing it a lot better than I have. I am not a digital art person yet really and I don't want that impacting quality, and the smaller tasks are things no one really wants to do!

Like the Zine! The way we planned on making it was from an image we had that was from the Zine workshop on during the week about how to make a Zine.... meta.

I spent the time to compile a file in photoshop to focus as a research visual aid in our pitch! Mainly because that'd be the section with the most "back and forward" slides, we can just cut out the middleman and produce a book!

The poster on the front cover in the top left was done by Johnathon and it, is, absurdly well done. I do not take any credit for that whatsoever here. All I done was put it in here, and make the back cover be a close in on the Eye. All the other work is a compilation of people's research and character sheets. So my section would mainly be the servant's original design!

After that we added text descriptions to parts of our wall. Just a small final touch up!

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I decided to do a bit more research into the clothing, hair and jewellery of the Halstatt culture era (500BC-450BC). I feel that while our beta designs were pretty and conveyed the characters well, the historical accuracy wasn’t there at all. We’ve been teetering on the medieval era aesthetics wise and I think we need to bring us back a bit so you can clearly tell where the characters are. I separated the research into clothing styles, material and textures, hairstyles, jewellery and decorative patterns used. Because halstatt culture often marries outside of their clan, I had an idea for the Queen’s design. The Queen could be a person from the trading countries near Halstatt, such as Ancient Rome. So I made an extra research sheet for her specifically from Ancient Rome. I shared this information with my team when it came to designing the characters.

We went back and forth about art styles as well. I think that something from Atlantis would be the best way to go, and Tyler suggested we try a studio Ghilbi style.

I think the Atlantis art style is equal parts cartoony and edgy, which is similar to the tone of the script. That being said, I think the flowing hair and shadowy form of the bird would clash with the sharp corners of the Atlantis art style. There should be a more whimsical and loose look to our work.

Tyler likes studio Ghibli for the painterly backgrounds. The soft colours and texture would fit in the idea of a nursery rhyme or story book, which is another element we want to include in our work. It’s almost a Brothers Grimm approach to telling a story, and a painterly would reflect that.

I think Tyler has a point, but studio ghibli feels too soft and comfortable for the story we’re trying to tell. We found a good medium between the two style - Hercules. It has bright in colours, a cartoony but sharp style that you can take seriously. The characters are expressive and theatrical, which matches the musical genre we have. I think this is our best option

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Revised Animatic

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animation: backgrounds

These are the 2 and a half backgrounds I did for the animation. I say 2 and a half because the forest day time one is just an expansion of Jonathan’s background. I feel I did a good jibe of expanding Jonathan’s original background although you can kind of see the outline of where his ends and mine begins. We expanded the background because we as a group wanted it bigger for one of the master shots. I’m pleased with my other 2 backgrounds over all with the forest nighttime colour pallet being based off of Jonathan’s and my favourite being the interior of the hut .

This is the mood board I made for the forest. I tried capturing the dark greens and blues I imagined for the forest scene. As well as the textures and shapes of the trees making it feel claustrophobic and like you’re being watched.

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Script:

At the edge of a forest. The Queen and Servant are standing together, clearly scheming 

Q: sing a song of sixpence… 

Q presses a golden torc/money into S’s hands. S stares at the torc and then at Q. 

Q: Pocket full of rye… 

Q ties a satchel of rye to S’s belt. She moves her hands up to S’s shoulders. S looks nervous. 

Q: 4 and 20 blackbirds… 

S puts a hand on the fabric net on their belt. Q twists S to face the forest 

Q: Baked into a pie 

Q lightly pushes S forward and begins to walk away. S stumbles forward and walks to the beat of the song. Instrumental. 

S places the necklace around their neck and takes a deep breath. As theyre walking they take the net off their belt and the fabric flows behind them. S starts repeating the instructions to themselves  

S (quietly singing/whispering): sing my song of sixpence.. 

S stops as they hear the sound of chirping and scraping. They dip their hand into the pocket of rye on their hip. 

S: pocket full of rye… 

S scatters the rye onto the ground in front of them. They bend their knees and get into a fighting stance. 

S: four and twenty blackbirds… 

S reaches for the net and unfolds it. They hold it with two hands spread wide, readying to catch something. 

Instrumental bit. Several Big Birds start creeping out from the shadows and grazing at the rye. The Birds are so close together that they form a massive blob of shadows. 

S (nervously): four and twenty blackbirds… 

S begins creeping closer to the birds, arms still spread out and ready to catch them. 

The birds notice and 1 bird shrieks loudly. The other birds follow suit and start to aggressively flap their feathers. The birds form a giant massive bird. B sees the necklace and lunges at the shiny object  

S (surprised and scared): wait- 

S jumps out of the way and holds the net protectively in front of themselves. B recovers from its lunging attack and strains its neck to look behind it at S. The neck angle is unnatural and the body follows the pose a couple seconds late.  

Instrumental. The Bird keeps lunging at the Servant with its wings flared out behind it. S mimics these shapes with the net as they jump and shuffle back. It’s mostly poses and arm movements (Madame butterfly as a reference) 

B lunges again. S side jumps, plants their hands on the head of the Bird and ‘leap-frogs’ onto its back. S covers its head with the fabric net and the bird thrashes until it’s calmed down.  

The Bird begins to separate again into smaller birds. S scoops up the formless shadows into the net. 

S heaves true net over their shoulder and begins tiredly walking back. 

S: song of sixpence? I should’ve sung a ballad. Ahahahahahaha laugh track 

Now in the ‘kitchen’ 

S opens the door covered in feathers and grumpy. The bag is still slung over their shoulder. 

S (trying to sing, heaving with effort): 

four - and TWENTY. BLACKBIRDS.. 

S heaves the bag onto the table. It begins wriggling. S throws themselves onto the bag until the wriggling stops 

S (talking, contemplative): Baked into a pie. 

The music swells. There’s a montage. 

S grabs ingredients, mills some flour, kneads the dough, etc. setting an open fire and making a fulacht fidagh.  

S approaches the bag again, armed with a PERIOD TYPICAL WEAPON OR COOKING UTENSIL. S couches down, furrows their brow and leaps at the bag, tearing it open. The shadows flow out of the bag slowly. low viscosity. The shadows begin to split into smaller forms.  

S grabs the pie base and sprinkles rye into it. The shadows start lurching towards the pie base. S scraps the extras into the base and drapes the pastry on top, sealing the pie. It’s still moving. 

S drops the pie into the fullacht fiadgh. The water turns black and starts bubbling. S takes a couple steps back, clutching the torc on their neck. The birds cry out, and S turns away. 

S: Sing my song of sixpence 

Thought the shadows crow  

She’s promised me a luxury  

I through I’d never hold  

Swap my tattered tunic for  

A collar made of gold  

In gleaming light the guilt begins to dull 

New scene,  

The king is counting his jewellery pieces and humming a tune to himself. He’s carefully assessing each piece and putting them back in their places. He looks over his jewellery and notices some of its missing. He stops humming and looks puzzled.  

In the same room, the Queen continues humming her own tune. She’s dipping some bread into honey, looking very pleased with herself. She’s crumbling some bread to feed the weird ass birds next to her. 

The puzzled expression turns to a long stare. Q looks behind her and glares. 

Q: You look confused. Trouble counting all your gold? 

K: There’s fewer than before. 

Q: You’ve miscounted. 

K: I’ve double checked- 

Q: You call me a thief, then? 

K: Not at all. 

Q: then why ask me?  

(We either need a dialogue or music transition to get to this bit. Or just cut this out entirely) 

K (playfully) :Must you feed those wretched things? 

Q: soon enough you’ll hear them sing. 

Q (cooing at them): -a dainty dish fit for the king… (ahaha evil giggling to herself she’s crazay) 

  

K (happily): You and all your mutterings🥰 

He keeps looking at her with little hearts around his head. Q looks incredulously at him - is he that naive? 

Scene ends 

New scene 

Festival or ritual 

S watches through a crowd of dancers as they dress the other staff nearby. They’re still wearing the torc under their tunic. 

S starts mumbling under their breath. 

WIPPP 

S: sing my song of six pence. 

A waning enthral.  (Haha lunalae joke) 

Did the lustre of this gold 

Rust into a bronze? 

Watch desire turn to  

An indented call 

Something something 

1234 alll 

S watches on and makes eye contact with K. S panics and ducks behind someone. K looks suspiciously at S’s torc. Q notices and taps him on the shoulder. K looks away. 

Q: gaslighting there is no servant  

K: okay 

Someone placed a pie in front of K. K looks expectantly at the waiter. The waiter hands him the knife to cut the pie.  

birds. He cuts the pie open and shadows pour out.  

bird theme 

The shadows begin to form a dozen small shadows, but quickly form back into a large bird. B begins creeping towards K, cawing aggressively. K looks scared but concentrated.  

K takes several steps back and the light shines on his jewellery. B’s eyes sparkle and lung for the jewellery. K realises and steps back.  

K takes off his jewellery and tosses it to the crowd. S scrambles out from the crowd and makes a grab for the jewellery. 

B sees the torc from before and gets angry and vengeful. B attacks and mauls S. 

K watches in horror. K looks at Q and points a finger at her. Q makes a run for it. 

Q runs into the woods with gold in her hands. B sees the gold and follows her. Q is cornered. 

Q (nervous): S - Sing your song of sixpence- 

B: CAWWWWW (is a bird) 

Q throws gold at the bird. B is unaffected and creeps further forward. 

B kills Q. K watches from the outskirts, turns away and walks back home.  

K walks towards the crumpled form of S. S has their face cradled in their hands 

K looks at the torc and the bloody hands of S. He extends a hand to S and they look up. S reaches forward to grab the hand. 

✨🌸🌸✨🌸✨The End 🌸✨💅🌸🌸 

Musical Motifs for Q and S

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animation: bird designs

these are a few bid designs I did for the animation I tried to make them appear harmless individually but in groups they are dangerous. I tried t on capture the birds likeness in the Hercules design. I did this by basing their design off the Greek pottery that inspired the designs in Hercules. For the birds in their group form I used the anchovies from SpongeBob as inspiration because the capture the kind of design I wanted for the birds gathered as a group.

These are the final designs for the bird on its own as well as the birds in a group specifically when the birds are being baked into the pie

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animation: style research

today we were tasked with deciding on a style that we would adhere to for the rest of the project. I suggested a gibli style mainly for the painterly backgrounds as well as their soft colour pallets. Matilda suggested a 90s Disney style particularly Atlantis she liked the sharp edges, defined shapes and it’s mixture of cartoonyness and edginess. I agree that Matilda had some good points and in the end we compromised and decided on the style of disneys Hercules it mixes the simple shapes and expressive characters of Atlantis as well as the painterly backgrounds of the gibli style.

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animation: song of sixpence

These are some of the storyboards I did for the first scene. Where the servant is walking through the woods and encounters the birds

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animation: sing a song of sixpence

today was spent researching. I was researching backgrounds. These backgrounds consisted of interiors and exteriors of huts as well as foliage. I also did a few concept sketches to help understand the structures

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animation: sing a song of sixpence

today Paul split us into groups my group consisted of Matilda, Jonathan and Siri. After we were put into our group we were given our brief. The brief consists of a nursery rhyme, a genre and a setting. Our brief was sing a song of six pence, musical and dance, and bronze/Iron Age. The purpose of the brief is to practice pitching. The rest of the day was spent brainstorming as well as researching the meaning of the poem as well as the setting of the piece. We researched civilisations of the time as well as possible ways we could approach the script.

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animation: photo island

These are sketches and photos I took while in phota island the goal was to draw from life on living creatures similar to what we did with backgrounds in the world building brief

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animation: sing a song of sixpence

today we received our brief as well as our groups for the 3 weeks. My group consists of Siri , Jonathan,” and Matilda. The focus of this project is pitching. Over the course of the next three weeks we will be creating all the necessary elements to pitch a animation the animation will be based on a nursery rhyme Paul gave us as well as a genre and setting . The nursery rhyme we got was sing a song of sixpence our genre was a musical and our setting was the iron and Bronze Age. The rest of the day was spent researching the setting as well as musicals and the meaning of the poem.

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animation: world building

this is the final animation for the world building project. I was unable to come in to record the audio on the Friday and so I recorded it in the bathroom at school so the audio turned out a bit echoey. Although apart from that I am happy with the overall outcome

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animation: world building

Today we took pictures of our mouths and mini mes which we will upload and animate digitally.

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animation: world building

today we did more background drawing however we did more outside of Limerick as well as the mouths for our mini me doing all the different mouth shapes needed for the different letters and sounds needed

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animation: world building

Today we started building our mini mes I tried emulating the look of the characters in the holiday. I feel like I succeeded to an extent however without a mouth he looks very eery.

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animation:world building

Today we went out and practiced background drawing in people’s park we did this to gain a better understanding of drawing in 3d. We also decided on how large our mini me will be as well as their placement on the background of the piece.