Jocasta Chu – Animation 23/24

15/01/24 Anika and I start to cut out the mini versions of the funfair. Violet animates the final scene of the boy (as the horse) panicking, whilst Clara and Evelyn complete the 2D section. 17/01/24 I coloured the final details on the props, which we then used to shoot the credits shot. I worked on…

08/01/24 Whilst Violet animated the shot of the horses’ eyes moving, I worked with Clara on making the boy’s puppet. Clara drew the boy on scrap paper as how she imagined him to look. We wanted to have an additional joint at the neck so that we could move around his head. It was a…

During winter break, I needed to make a final animatic of the 2D sequence, now that our story was absolutely finalised. Violet drew a quick storyboard for me for reference. This animatic was going to be for Clara and Evelyn to then reference when starting the 2D animated section. I was aiming to have this…

04/12/23 (ABSENT) The rostrum had a new set-up with clamps, instead of rolled-up cardboard, to make it more secure/less wobbly. Clara started on making the bigger horses for the next shot, although I think they were too small under the rostrum. 06/12/23 (ABSENT) 08/12/23 Before the end of the workshop and beginning of winter break,…

27/11/23 The main priority was the carousel, as we decided it would take the longest and harder than other parts. We stuck with mainly a colourful palette as the film would happen during the night. We thought about having a more traditional colour scheme (i.e. navy blue, red, gold, etc), but we needed this to…

20.11.23 Ben suggested that we create a keyframe animatic of our whole story, as we didn’t have any updated storyboards or animatics. After creating another shorter version of Violet’s document to each keyframe we wanted to draw, we all collectively drew a storyboard, and assigned 2-3 frames to each person. 22.11.23 24.11.23 I started designing…

13/11/23 We spent today finalising parts of the overall film, although most of it was thinking about the ending. Individually, we all spent around 10-15 minutes writing down our own ideas. I unfortunately don’t have my list, although I did write down everyone’s ideas. 15/11/23 We figured out what ending we wanted to go for…

06/11/23 Following the rotations, Out of Your Head (OOYH) launched; I grouped with Clara, Evelyn (Cheng) and Violet-Finn (Violet, Blackstaffe) as Team 1. When choosing words from the word cloud provided, we went for awaken, burst, greed, huge, tiny and uncover. Our main one that we wanted to focus on initially was greed, as that…

One of our main tasks for this rotation was to create our own storyboard based off of the prompt Izzy gave us. I completed this over the course of the two weeks we had. Our other task was to create a 3-panel story from one of the drawings from Tate. I chose the first one…

We furthered our observational drawing by spending the workshop at Tate Modern. For around the next hour, we walked around the museum drawing faces. The second task for the rest of the day was to expand outside of faces and capture freeze frames of our surroundings.