Sarah Cant, Robyn Liebschner & Rebecca Deakin.

A Team of three Animation Students at the University of the West of England.

Firefly, an insight into a made up forest, where there are great trees hosting all kinds of strange plants & creatures. This 2D Traditional Animation follows these creatures as they discover how to make fireflies by using splashes.

Tuesday, 4 January 2011

YAY!!

So I do believe its nearly time to celebrate! All of the colouring has been completed (as far as we know)!! And let me tell you, that is cause for celebration.
We are very nearly there, and I'm excited about it being complete.

GO TEAM!

One sheet designs





These are just the drawings, with no cropping/ proper layout.  They've also got much higher resolution than this really; I couldn't upload the proper ones, they're too big!

Tuesday, 21 December 2010

Timetable for Robyn

So I've set myself scenes to do each day and so far so good. I have completed scenes 3 and 10. I have also saved all the frames as PNG, pretty sure thats right.
Hope your both doing alright.

Production Bible

Making a list of all the things that need to be in the Production Bible:

Concept (synopsis)
Target Audience
Script
Moodboards
Colour Palette
Character Turnaround with description of characters
Action Poses
Flower Design
Storyboard with descriptions
Backgrounds
Budget
Production Schedule

It would be handy if you can look over the list and make comments. I'm pretty sure some things are missed out but I can't figure out what else needs to be in there :)

Let us know asap because its going to be put together rather soon!

Friday, 17 December 2010

Weebla-Gorgui Colour Schemes

Scene 3 [ Robyn ] - Brown Underbelly, White Tail with Brown ring, White Muzzle, Brown inner ear

Scene 4 [ Sarah ] - Brown Underbelly, White Ears

Scene 5 [ Sarah ] - Brown Underbelly x 3, 1 with white ears, 1 with white ears & muzzle, 1 with white ear tips and white muzzle

Scene 6, 7, 10 & 12 [ Robyn ] - Brown Underbelly, White Ears, White Muzzle, Brown inner ear, white tip of tail & 2 brown rings.

Scene 9 & 13 [ Sarah ] - Brown Underbelly & mix other elements -  make sure far right creature matches scene 13.

Tuesday, 14 December 2010

Christmas Break Colouring Rota

Sorry fellow Firefly workers, Christmas isn't going to be a break! The scenes are broken up as follows:

Robyn will take Scenes 3, 7, 10, 11, 12 and 6
Sarah will take Scenes 4, 5, 13, 8 and 9

Scanning should be completed by the end of tomorrow, and so individual hard drives will need to be brought in on Thursday & Friday to give out the PSD files ready for the colouring.

Saturday, 11 December 2010

Current Schedule 11/12/2010


[ Half coloured squares means some of the layers have been scanned but not all ]

On Monday/ Tuesday Cleanup is likely to end. At this point Beccy will be devoting her time to making the backgrounds. Robyn will have a short 'tutorial' with me on the scanning process. 

We've got until thursday to complete all the scanning, but I'm predicting it can be finished for Wednesday. Once Robyn has joined in on the scanning process, shifts will be taken between herself and Sarah. When not on scanning duty, the other member will be starting colouring.

Next week the Producer will be giving out the colouring scenes. 

Thursday, 9 December 2010

Tuesday, 7 December 2010

Here are the adjustments mentioned in the comment. I used one of the creatures I coloured & changed the colours to match for a better match to what the creatures line quality is (after cleanup & scanning)


Colour Pallette 1 - for use on long shots

Just double-checked the colour on this one, nevertheless, if something looks a bit odd or you've got other ideas, just comment on them here / send me an email. Sarah - If you want to change the font for the production bible, I can send the photoshop file to you :)

Thats not the final backround, by the way! I'm about halfway through it, I think, at the moment, I'll post the backgrounds as they get finished.

Wednesday, 1 December 2010

Firefly Budget

Materials Cost Per Item No. Of Items Total Cost
Paper [500 sheets] £2.34 3 £7.02
Pencil £0.25 3 £0.75
Masking Tape £1.10 1 £1.10
Erasers £0.30 3 £0.90
Folders £0.50 4 £2.00
Hire Cost Per Week No of Weeks
Studio Space £50.00 5 £250.00
Meeting Room £25.00 15 £375.00
Line Tester £60.00 5 £300.00
Light Box £30.00 5 £150.00
Electric Pencil Sharpener £5.00 5 £25.00
Audio Room £70.00 1 £70.00
Energy Cost Per Week No of Weeks
Electricity £10.00 15 £150.00
Gas £15.00 15 £225.00
Job Salaries Contract Cost No.Employees
Script Writer £250.00 1 £250.00
Storyboard Artist £300.00 1 £300.00
Producer £500.00 1 £500.00
Director £400.00 1 £400.00
Character Designer £200.00 1 £200.00
Environment Designer £150.00 1 £150.00
Musician £100.00 1 £100.00
Foley Artist £70.00 1 £70.00
Animator £350.00 3 £1,050.00
Cleanup Artist £100.00 2 £200.00
Colouring Artist £100.00 1 £100.00
Effects £150.00 1 £150.00
Editing £70.00 1 £70.00
Other Cost per Hour No of Hours
Technical Support £12.00 2 £24.00
Allowances Per Week No of Weeks
Food & Drink £15.00 15 £225.00
Travel £10.00 15 £150.00
TOTAL £5,495.77

Monday, 29 November 2010

Some photoshop help

Some notes taken from Ian's workshop about Actions and other photoshop wonders.

To create an action --->
Action > folder > New Action (which is like the new layer button) > function key to F(something) > your actions will start being recorded so be economical with your actions > remember to stop recording when your done!
To repeat the action simply press the button you set, ie: F3

To seperate the drawing from the page --->
create Alpha > ctrl A > ctrl C > channels > new layer > ctrl V > ctrl I > ctrl click on Alpha > Back to Layers > create a new layer > paint bucket black > ctrl D > delete the background > duplicate the layer

A bit dry, but I hope it helps.

Wednesday, 24 November 2010

Schedule

Adding on from the tutorial with Rachel, here is exactly what needs to be done and when for.

Shot 6 (Beccy) - Rough Completed
Shot 3 (Robyn) - Rough Completed
Shot 7 (Robyn) - Rough to be Completed for Friday (3rd)
Shot 10 (Robyn) - Rough to be Completed for Friday (3rd)
Shot 12 (Beccy) - Rough to be Completed for Friday (3rd)
Shot 11 (Beccy) - Rough to be Completed for Friday (3rd)
Shot 5 (Sarah) - Rough to be Completed for Friday (3rd)
Shot 8 (Sarah) - Rough to be Completed for Friday (3rd)
Shot 9 (Sarah) - Rough Completed
Shot 4 (Sarah) - Rough Completed

I've extended the Animation by two days due to an overlap of Cleanup and Scanning being done at the same time.

Monday 6th will be the start of the Cleanup. We have until Wednesday 15th to complete the Cleanup. Cleanup will be done by Robyn & Beccy (Sarah will join in cleanup until there is sufficient to start scanning). Thats 8 days to do 10 scenes.

On Monday the scanning will also commence (once there is something to scan!) and this shall also give us an indication if cleanup is correct/needs changing.

There will be two days at least where there will be no Cleanup (more if it takes shorter time than what I have allowed for). In the time when there is no more cleanup and scanning is the only thing going on, Robyn will be finalising Colour and Beccy will be finalising the backgrounds.

Scanning will finish on Friday 17th. The scenes for Colouring will be given out accordingly on Friday PM.

Think thats everything for the immediate future... :)

Thursday, 18 November 2010

2nd Sound Recording

Recording for new foley noises has been booked for Wednesday 24th November from 1.30pm till 4.30pm.

This session will need to be attended by Sarah & Robyn.

The list of recordings will be as follows:

Startled Creature Noises x 2 (made by Robyn)
Branch Snapping/creaking (made with polystyrene cup?)

Tuesday, 16 November 2010

Character Colour Concept

After painting one picture I couldn't stop myself.... :)

Order of shots

How exciting guys, we are about to embark on actual animation!!! Ok so this is just for rough animation as cleanup is going to be shared out. Basically so we don't go crazy obsessive over 'our' scene and get to do something else. Also... that little thing called continuity. This is the order which our scenes need to be animated in :

Scene 6
Scene 3
Scene 7
Scene 10
Scene 12
Scene 11
Scene 5
Scene 8
Scene 9
Scene 4
Scene 13

Robyn
Sarah
Becky

For tomorrow (17th Novemeber) Robyn will be animating scene 3, Beccy will be animating scene 6 and Sarah will be animating scene 5.

Monday 22nd

Aim to have all scened roughed
small screening of line tests - Crit

Shot Breakdown

Heres what the members of team Firefly are going to be working on. Please refer to the previous post for a breakdown of action.

Beccy: Shots 6, 8, 11

Robyn: Shots 3, 7, 10, 12

Sarah: Shots 4, 5, 9, 13

Additional Animation will be handed out to the seperate members later on in the Production Schedule.

Creature Skeleton & Construction