Final Story Board

Color Ideas

Cupcake animation

So after having a long talk with Julie. My final project has changed.

My two words are Gigantic and Minuscule. Or something like that, one means really big and the other means really small. Since I have a strange passion for everything cupcake I have decided to finally incorporate my obsession into my artwork.

For this project I am going to do an animation of a cupcake and a sprinkle. The cupcake of course being the Gigantic aspect of my piece and the sprinkle being the Minuscule aspect. It will be an epic story of a group of sprinkles' journey to the top of a cupcake. But there is conflict, the cupcake does not want these sprinkles on top of its do. The cupcake tries to escape the mass of sprinkles but the sprinkles out smart the cupcake and figure some surprising elaborate way of getting on top of the cupcake.

The animation of this piece is going to be very primitive, much like the animation of south park. I want it to look like a stop motion collage piece but it will be put together in after effects. I chose this style because it will allow me to use a variety of papers, patterns and textures.

Works that inspire:

Animation:
South Park http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0bZJrDJ1Ho

Angela Anaconda http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLJvWzzTTcU






Textures:




Galbraith&Paul
This company started in 1986 specializing in handmade paper lampshade and have since branched out into fabric design and printing studio concentrating on lighting with hand block printed shades and fabrics. I think these textile designs are absolutely beautiful and plan on sneaking them into my piece.

Other stuff Ive been looking at
Marc Johns, he does funny drawings on post it notes, I am a fan.









So here is a rough color test and cupcake design. I want to stick to a limited palette and build variation through pattern and texture. I went with orange, yellow, and yellow green, I needed a cool color so i jumped across a picked out a purple but I'm not sure if that's the right solution or not.

I think I am going to change from the style I was initially going for. I want it to be more stylized. I think having the video footage more stylized with compliment my method of animation better then my original idea. I'm going to reshoot using more controlled lighting and the color correct in Final Cut. 

Here are some examples of styles. 

http://motionographer.com/theater/teatro-melies/

http://www.partizan.com/partizan/v.php/ace_norton_the_virgins_teen_lovers/clip.mov

http://www.qbodp.net/

Update

The first box of texts says: when the elephant pops up to the right size the camera will pause for a moment then zoom and then pop to the next scene.
The second text box says: I was thinking that for this scene I would have the camera zoom into the black on her sweatshirt and zoom out from the black on her sweatshirt in the next scene.
This box of text says: Water fills the frame and then falls aways to reveal the next scene.

I am open to suggestions

I am currently working on shooting and editing the video footage. I am also finishing up my puppet to animate. The next few weeks I will be used soley for animation.

My storyboards with transistion suggestions are having trouble uploading. Im

Update

My story is pretty much going to depict a day in the life of my friend Alyx and how she interacts with this itty bitty elephant. There will be about 6 different scenes showing just cute little things that this elephant does. Like walk on her face while she is sleeping, step through her pallete while she is painting, playing in water as she brushes her teeth.

I recently discovered that hand animating this is not a realistic way of going about it. So I am creating the elephant in Illustrator and animating him in After Effects using the puppet tool.