Essay

The final brief for the second semester was to choose a script and create an animatic for it. Carys, Karolina and I have formed a group to work on our friend’s script “Nullibicity”. I have to admit that our teamwork has a lot of room for improvement.  We didn’t communicate nearly enough and as a result sometimes there was confusion about what should who be doing.

The first obstacle in this project was to justify why this script should be animated instead of live action, which it was originally written for. As the story itself is not necessarily meant for animation we had to really think about what changes could be made. After a discussion with the author of the script, we’ve agreed that the best solution would be to give the story a certain aesthetic. Our style of choice was cyber-punk.

When we started working on character designs we’ve decided to all make designs for whichever character and we would then make the final designs based on those. I worked on Allison and Dr. Mansfield, though some parts of my initial design for Ben ended up being used, too. When designing both the characters and the set I was really trying to limit my colour palette because too many colours would clash and it wouldn’t communicate the atmosphere of the story. We’ve used mostly shades of grey and the only bright colours are the lights on characters’ skin, some details on clothing and lights in general. We’ve given each character a colour, which represents their position in society. 
We’ve decided that the higher the wavelength of the character’s markings, the higher their social status. So the main character, being homeless, is purple. The only exception is Ben’s friend, Simon, whose lights are yellow, therefore contrasting to Ben’ lights

Besides characters, we also had to design sets. Our script had only three sets: the warehouse, the police station and the holding cell. I took on designing the warehouse. I am not entirely satisfied with my designs because they’re a lot simpler than what I had in mind, but I think that they still set the scene quite well. I’ve also made a quick sketch of the space outside of the warehouse that was also used in the animatic as an establishing shot.  I was trying to keep a certain colour palette in all the sketches. We’ve decided right in the beginning that the main colours would be, besides grey, blue and purple and so I tried to kind of capture the environment in which the story would take place. As an addition to this, I helped Carys with her police station design because her original drawing didn’t have enough cyber-punk elements.

When it came to animatic we decided to divide it up by sets. I worked on the scene in the warehouse, Karolina worked on the cell and Carys on the police station. Because our film included dialogue which was necessary for the story we’ve added subtitles to the animatic. For a full animation, I thought maybe 3D animation would be a good choice, mostly because of how many glowing elements there are that would be easier to keep consistent if they were part of 3D models rather than drawing them on each frame. Also, the overall look and theme of the film would, in my opinion, look good in 3D.


In conclusion, I think the results are relatively good. I can see in my own work that it was rushed, though and I know that if we had organised work on this project better, the outcome could’ve been better. 

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