BA3b Collaborative Project Proposal Corey Macdonald and Sam Cybichowski Third Year Animation Norwich University of the Arts Overview and Inspiration When first considering an animated piece to pitch for the purposes of collaboration, we remembered an idea that had popped into our heads one day back in our first year, when we briefly visited an Argos store. Warehouse stores such as these are designed differently from other superstores, in which everything you may plan to buy is behind closed doors and all you have is a catalogue with pictures showing you the products. What interested us about this concept was that neither of us had seen behind these doors before to see how everything was organized and structured, and as a result neither of us really knew what actually happens behind those doors when someone orders an item for purchase and we would let our imaginations run wild in deciding for ourselves what we thought it could be. This lead to the fasc...
This week I experimented with bear building animation loops and contributed to the presentation for next week. My idea at this point was to create the TV ad in Flash/TVPaint animation and the factory sequence in After Effects digital animation that more closely replicates the look and texture of the stop motion puppets. Since we came up with the idea to have the stop motion puppets moustache move instead of giving him a mouth, Corey wanted me to redesign the moustache a little (I also took this opportunity to test out several different eyes). I had some fun with the first approach, decided I liked the second top one best, and created several more grounded variations of it for the second batch of designs. I also began storyboarding the advert sequence. One thing we struggled with was how to plan out the stuffed bears 'origin story' that the ad would tell. Upon switching our setting to the 1950's, it no longer made any sense to have the ad be about a colourful ...
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