Advanced Character Animation Module session 2 Storyboard – Pose to Pose Presentation

 At the start of the advanced character animation process the first step is to sketch a spider diagram with all of the initial ideas for the project. Then decide which one of the ideas would be suitable for the advanced character animation module project. Once the idea has been confirmed it is important to start gathering as much references for the project as possible.

The second step will be the most important aspect of the production as it involves research and development of the idea. The research and development process applies to all disciplines. The research part of the advanced character animation module may have taken roughly a week.

Once all of the research elements have been gathered the next step of the process is to communicate the idea to the target audience in a visual way. Before creating a storyboard it was vitial to understand the difference between a successful storyboard and an unsuccessful storyboard. That is why the lecturer decided to gives us a presentation on what makes a great storyboard and an unsatisfactory storyboard. Taking all of the information into account the student began to sketch out three storyboards then analysed them to make sure that they were exactly what the student wanted to communicate to the target audience. Afterwards the storyboards were scanned into the computer where they were taken into Adobe Photoshop CS6 to be edited for the presentation as well as the online diary.




 The first storyboard is simply introducing the protagonist who is a teddy at the gym. The teddy bear had an aim which was to build it's body up. The storyboard goes onto show the excitement displayed by the teddy bear when it's eyes  have spotted the equipment. The storyboard goes on to show the pre workout that the teddy bear engages in before the real workout.

 The second storyboard began with the end of the pre workout as it stopped the push up exercise. The reason that the teddy bear had stopped it's exercise was due to the fact that it had spotted the pull up machine. The teddy bear slowly made it's way across the room towards the pull up machine.

The final storyboard displays the moment when the teddy prepares itself for the first intense moment. However the moment it began it's epic journey of building muscle it was the very same moment that journey ended .The reason that the exercise ended here was all because the pull up machine was old , even fragile so it was never going to last long. The storyboard was fairly easy enough to make but the difficult part was creating the facial expressions for each key frame.

        

Both of these films display the type of power, posture , pose, balance , weight and overall appearance that would increase the quality for the advance character animation project.All of these element would enable the teddy bear to have a omnipotent ambience about itself.