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Individual Project 2010/2011

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The day that changed animation 2011

byAarron Gledhill

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Throughout this paper I am going to look at the different art styles used within computergames, and show how this affects the overall popularity. To back my answers up I am going toproduce a short 4 minute animation which will be looking at the economy and how this implementsthe different social systems in the world.

Economy

The Economy is divided three types in which a country or region is run. This is also referredto as a country s plan of its services, goods produced and the exact way in which the economy plan iscarried out. The market economy, this is the use of goods and products consumed and controlled insuch a way that the customer can be accurately predicted. This economy is highly governmental toeliminate any loss of control. The second is a planned economy, this is mainly how goods aredistributed throughout the world, and this is yet again highly government controlled. The final is amixed economy; this is a combination of resources from both of the above economy systems.

The main aim of the animation is to show the viewer what daily life would be likecurrency/financially free, politically free and a full environment free change to the world theanimation is set.

The Day That Changed

AnimationBy

Aarron Gledhill

The short animated movie will show a young man s typical daily life but with one day of hislife been Freegan run (environmental friendly and other advances towards making our planet abetter place to live). With this financially free run day playing through it will contrast everyday life towhat life would be like if the Freegan Movement got into world power.

The message that is being shown throughout my animation is the life of a man if everythingin the world was free. The animation will start with various actions throughout the typical life of thecharacter with everything been usual as it normally is, other extra characters act with the personalityof the general public of today. As this full but shortened animation of this man s day comes to anend, the next scene will be the same type of actions as it would in everyday life but this time thewhole day is going to be a little different for the character. With the new scene starting with thewaking up of the character from his nightly sleep. The character is unaware that there is a changewith this day. The day for the character starts and everything in the world is all free for examplewater, food.

The main character I have used is confused about all of this whereas the general publiccharacters have changed on how the act too. These other characters will also be acting with morethan usual kindness which also baffles the character. With the day coming to an end, the character is


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laying in his brand new bed that he got through his unusually free day. Slowly he drifts off to sleephaving a much happier, more successful, funnier and sufficient to everybody and anything. Heawakes to find everything has gone back to normal. Only he, himself can remember that day everhappening.

For the animation, I soon started looking into the art style I am going to portrait throughout.

I referred to the Japanese style Manga the comic art style. As soon as I set the style I soon set towork on the preparation towards my work. This includes any sketches for concept work, furtherideas for the project and any other work that I generate.

The way the animation is created is by a set of animated clips which will be illustrated usingframe by frame animation (stop motion animation). These clips will be set with a maximum durationof 20seconds determine on what I decided on storyboarding my video.

Once each clip is generated using a piece of animating software Macromedia Flash I willthen bring the rendered .avi imported into the video compositing software from Adobe,

PremiereProCS3 . I find this application the best way to edit the audio I am going to acquire that willenable me to synchronize accurately with my video files.

The media that influenced my animation was a documentary video hosted on the internet.It is hosted at http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com/ . On watching the documentary showing howgreat life should be, inspired me to direct an animation.

Freegan also known as freeganism is a lifestyle where a conventional economy and minimalconsumption of resources. This was a great movement to use has reference throughout the project.The term everything will be free comes from imagining the world that currency does not exist. Willthe population react good, and will people still have their jobs, answer, yes of course the populationwill act differently will a new economy and no some people who work on high pollution producingfactory s may have to look else were for work. I emphasised on the cleanliness of the scene and thechange in the landscape. One landscape was full of pollution and warehouses; the other was cleanstreets, solar-power stations and cleaner air. The characters have been created from random, using

the personas of thegeneral public.

The animation was open for any genre of audience, I used limited characters with correctaudio (no slang, no bad language) and the whole scene of the animation is based on 4 letters K.I.S.S( keep it simple stupid ), also using these influenced words, I was able to keep within a guideline towhat I am able to deliver.


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S tory

The main character awakes from his nightly sleep, he then goes down to his kitchen andmakes his breakfast to eat. After the morning actions have taken place he sets off on his journeytowards his work and daily chores. After returning back home from his daily routine the characternamed Kevin has a shower then goes to bed to get some sleep. After this has taken place thecharacter wakes up and the whole scene starts again from the wake up to the end of his dailyroutines. The story will get faster every time the character sleeps to emphasize typical routines forhim. A very good influence for this part of the animation is from the film showing the repeat of oneday Groundhog day (1993) directed by Harold Ramis.

The next scene will start after the first scene plays through at least 4 times, as soon as thecharacter finishes eating his breakfast then heads to the door to set off on his journey. This scenestarts with the opening of the door and the walk down a very industrial environment. The society inwhich Kevin is said to live, is of an average society with flaws in its cleanliness of the streets, also anindustrial estate with factories occupy the majority of the town. Throughout his walk there is variouspositioning s of litter/rubbish. He encounters a homeless character on his journey. This character isscripted and named as giddy kipper which as a kind personality with a female persona. Duringinteraction with this character, Kevin flips a coin into her collecting tin and continues his trip to theshop; Kevin ends the conversation with Giddy Kipper and departs by saying Have a good day .

The main character continues his walk that will be animated in the style of a 2 dimensionalside scrolling animation, refer to influences such as: Streets of rage (Sega 1991) and Scott pilgrimVs the world (Ubisoft Chengdu & Montreal, 2010).

Towards the end of his journey Kevin passed by another character, scripted and named asFrank the grumpy guy. With Kevin having a normal face expression, Frank, has a less than happy

type of expression. Both characters pass each other quietly with Frank having his arms positioned inhis pockets. Towards the end of this scene you as the viewer will be able to see a standard lookingsun, positioned in the background behind the shop. The shop is a conversion of both a grocery shopand a typical high street retail shop. The shop is scripted and named The grocery shop withBarbera , Barbera being the shop owner that is also scripted in a role with Kevin.

The main character enters the standard cleanliness of a shop. There is a shop customerbrowsing on the magazine stand. Kevin reaches for a bottle of milk, so he has a drink for when he isat his work. He pays at the counter; here is where he is confronted by Barbera the shop keeper. She

serves Kevin with a smile on her face. He then leaves the shop to head towards his work. Exiting theshop will end with a fade as Kevin sets of for his day at work. When this scene is completed and thefade has taken place, it will then show Kevin arriving home after his day at work to have a showerand go to sleep.

After Kevin has risen once again after a night s sleep, he goes to brush his teeth unaware of the change to the environment through his bathroom window. He eats is breakfast as usual and setsoff to the local shop. Kevin slowly opens his door to set off on his journey.


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The whole street as from before has been cleaned of any litter, there are more trees thenusual and all the factories have changed into solar power stations. No pollution in the air will beshown throughout this day of the animation and all the other characters are acting with more of akind and generous personality. With this much happier and more energy sufficient day in theanimation taken place the music will be set with a more upbeat and happier tempo version of theselected music track.

Kevin continues his journey to the shop much aware of the change to the scene making himfeel enlightened to the whole new scene has he passes the new modified landscape. He once againpasses the homeless character and this time she does not require any money from Kevin, insteadshe is sat drawing a picture. She replies to Kevin with have a good day after telling him she is in noneed of money anymore. He continues to the shop newly name the fantastic grocery shop with theamazing Barbera, he once again walks past Frank before entering the shop, and Frank greets Kevinwith hey up, have a good day . Baffled and amazed by everyone being extra nice he enters theshop. This time the sun in the distance of the shop has a smile imprint on it.

On entering the cleaner, shiny and simpler layout of the old shop, Kevin gets a warmwelcome by one of the shop customers from before. This customer is cleaning as well as browsing.Everything in the shop has a no price tags but extra promotions such as Help yourself and

Everything is free . Kevin goes to the shop fridge to collect his usual carton of milk, after collectionhe goes up to Barbera to pay for his milk. As Kevin passes the milk over to the shop owner to scan,she says take it after she has a short discussion about not having to pay. Kevin is shocked andheads towards the exit, he places the carton into his bag while walking, here, he contemplates theday s situations so far, and why everyone seems to be happy and kind. Why everything is free, thechange in people s helpfulness and personas, and the thing most on his mind, the fact nobody

realises they have changed. Before he exits the customer that greeted him from before waves andsays have a good day, take care .

This scene is to reflect on how different his day has been with the change in the socialsystem in which all the characters live. When he finishes his work, he walks the same journey home.He has a peaceful and relaxing walk has he reminisces more about the changes day. Kevin arriveshome, brushes his teeth and goes to bed. Has this scene fades out; Kevin has a smile on his face.

Kevin wakes up from his sleep and goes through his morning routines for one final scene inthe animation. He opens his house door and sets off on his journey down the street. He meets withGiddy Kipper and the homeless character asks for some spare change just like the beginning of the

story. Kevin reaches for his pockets to get some money that he flips into her collecting tin. Thewhole animation slowly fades out revealing both characters having a smile on their face. Here iswhere the title of the animation appears and the credits for all voice actors and musicians rolethrough from the bottom of the screen to the top.


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Reference List

Ubisoft Chengdu & Montreal (2010). http/gamespot.com/ ,[Nov2010]

http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com/ , Groundhog day (1993) directed by Harold Ramis

Saga, Streets of rage (Sega 1991)

Appendix script

The day that changed

By Aarron Gledhill

Script and dialogue

The main character that is name and manifested as Kevin , plays through all the frames inscene#1. After it has finished running, the scene repeats. The soundtrack will slowly be

building up for the background music.Scene#1KEVIN

Time to wake up, got to getmotivated for the day ahead. Eat breakfast,

And head of to work. Come home from the day, shower then bed.

Eyes closed and sleep. (*4)

Scene#2 KEVIN

I set of for my day ahead through my local home town.It as got a pretty standard society, could do with the

Street getting cleaned once in a while.

GIDDY KIPPER

Hey up!

KEVIN

Hello!

GIDDY KIPPER

Have you got any spare change please?


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KEVIN

Let me just check . (money rattles in his pocket)Yep, there you go.

Kevin flips a coin into the collecting tin of the homeless character.

GIDDY KIPPER

Thank you sir,Have a good day!

Kevin continues his journey down the street, passing separate piles of rubbish throughouthis journey.

KEVIN

An industrial estate occupiesThe majority of this town.

Kevin is passing a grumpy character called frank. Nothing is said as they both pass eachother on there individual roles.

KEVIN

(under his breath)Jeez the weeze, that guy did-

Not look happy.

KEVINLike always, I will be getting my daily

Carton of milk to drink later on in the day.

Scene#3 Kevin enters the shop, a door bell rings to signify him as entering the casual high street

shop. One shop cus tomer browsing on the magazine isle and the shop owner behind thecounter.

KEVIN

A refreshment for work is needed,As always.

Kevin walks up to the refrigerator and collects a carton of milk.The shop customer picks up a magazine and speaks with the shop owner.


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BORON

What do you think of this magazine love?

BARBERA

I have never read it love, not my taste.

Kevin walks up to the counter with his item and pays at the counter.

BARBERA

Is that it love?

KEVINYes thank you.

Kevin leaves the shop and the scene fades out as he talks about his day ahead for him.

KEVIN

Time to get a move on I do notWant to be late for my work.

Scene#4KEVIN

Time to wake up, got to getmotivated for the day ahead.

(gasp for air)I feel weird today,Cannot explain it.

Kevin opens his door to set of on his journey to the shop.

KEVIN

Wow, it looks ..Much greener then usual!

Eh.The factories we had look completely different .

Kevin walks past the homeless character once again as she is sat on the pavement.

GIDDY KIPPER

Hello


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KEVIN

Oh sorry,I do not have any change for you today.

GIDDY KIPPER

Its ok love,Have a good day.

Startled, Kevin continues his journey. Kevin looks around at the new modified scenery as heis walking.

KEVIN

These old streets look really tidy,I have not seen any pieces

Of litter.

Has Kevin is almost at his shop destination he once again passes Frank ( this time Frankseems happy not grumpy).

FRANK

Hey up,Have a good day mate.

KEVIN

Hi,You too.

KEVIN(Under his breath)

I do not know why,But that felt weird.

KEVIN

Ahh, the local shop.What!

The fantastic groceryShop with the amazing

Barbera.How can it be


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Kevin walks to enter the local shop un -noticing the change with the sun.

Scene#5 Kevin enters the shop, there is no entrance bell to notify others and the layout to the shop is

different in a way.

BORON

Good morning sir!

KEVIN

Eh yeahGood morning matey.

(talking to himself)Why is everyone been so nice today

It is kind of weirdBut its all great don t get me wrong.

Kevin walks over to the fridge to obtain his usual carton of milk.

KEVIN

Oh, the packaging of everythingIs looking very groovy,

I am liking it.

Kevin walks over to the shop counter for a conversation with the shop owner.

KEVIN

Hi, loveThe usual for me thanks.

BARBERA

Hello, please take it

Sir.

KEVIN

OhDon t pay!

BARBERA


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Not today love.

KEVIN

(in a shocked tone of voice)Eh

Thanks, see ya.

BARBERA

Take care.

Kevin heads towards the exit to leave for his work.

KEVIN

(Speaks to himself in his head)Everyone seems so friendlyIts really good, I thought IWas the friendliest person

around here.

BORON

(interrupting Kevin s train of thought)Good bye!

KEVIN

Yeah, take care mate.

Kevin walks out of the shop.

Scene#6Kevin is contemplating to himself.

KEVIN

Today as been brilliant, I have met so many nice peopleAnd the people I already know have been extra friendly.

Today has been amazing/epic, everything as gone fantastically great.

(Kevin starts to brush his teeth and looks in the mirror)I think the factory s and the industrial


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Warehouses have all been convertedInto solar power stations. That s

Why the air felt so fresh to breath in.

Kevin lays in bed at this point.

KEVIN

I cannot wait to see what tomorrow brings.(Kevin goes to sleep)

Zzzzzzzzz

Scene#7The day starts with Kevin opening is front door, walking his usual journey to the shop and

whistling to himself.

Kevin approaches the homeless character yet again.

GIDDY KIPPER

Have you got any spareChange please?

Kevin looks surprised and flips a coin into the homeless characters collecting tin.

The animation will be fading out. My logo will appear and the credits will role to end theanimation.

The image above represents me animating the character from the beginning. I used 9x5frames, with the frame rate (fps) is 24 that gives me approx. 5 frames before I would have to changethe image to another to simulate motion. I also animated inside another movie clip so that gave me2 timelines to play with. This enabled me to add a bump motion to his walk cycle.


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This image is adobe Premier , this was the suit I was using to composite the animation files.The max layers I used was 6 with 3 audio layers. I produced nearly 2 minutes worth of vide footagethat s half of the full animation. I used layers from 3d studio max and adobe flash , with eachscenes as clips I was able to position them as storyboarded and synchronise the sound in.

This is a screenshot from flash. On the next scene to the one shown above the flash file wasimported into 3ds max, but making sure I left the background clear so I could import a 3d plane torepresent the new background image.


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Aniboom.com is the website where the final animation will be uploaded onto. This site is great forpromoting animations in 2d of 3d. Other uploaded content is also available such as film.

Deviantart.com was used to store still images of mine.


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The 4 previous images represent my online uploaded media s. I kept the project online

showing the users potential updates and I was also able to pick up statistics about the project.Deviant art was mainly used to show project drawings but interactive content was also uploaded.

Youtube.com was a site I used to promote the animation aspect of the project.


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Has a whol e th e pro ject ha s gon e e ce ptionall y good. 10 month s wa s use d to con cept,illustrat e and g et m y idea a cro ss pro cee ding with th e final d eliverabl es se t from th e out se t. I think Ispent too mu ch tim e creating chara cter manif es t shee ts to animat e, rath er than adding digital sprit e shee ts (whi ch I should ha ve don e from th e start).

The audio for th e mu sic should ha ve bee n r ecord ed b e for e I start ed produ ction. Becau se Iha ve left it to th e last a ction to b e tak en, I ha ve found it hard to find som eon e to creat e th e mu sic and r ecord voice actor s tog eth er.

Rath er than u sing a traditional wa y to animat e (stop fram e) I can now think about u sing full y digitali se d chara cters and eve n g etting into som e compl e cod e. Not onl y th e chara cters but th e whol e environm ent and int erior of th e shop could b e a comput er generat ed imag e.

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links to upload s-

aniboom. com - http://www.aniboom. com/animation -video/ 473302 /Th e-da y-that -chang ed/ youtub e.com -http://www. youtub e.com/u se r/ Bang erBishop deviantart. com -http://bang erbi shop.d eviantart. com/gall ery/ 27001456website-http://m ybam 2u.com/

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