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Thursday 7 March 2013
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Remediation - Audio Plan
For my audio I have researched a
variety of materials and sources. For the majority of the SFX I will
be using www.freesfx.com and
the BBC SFX archive at the college. I have identified a variety of
sounds that each of the characters will need during the animation.
For the bird I have a series of comic squacks and chirps. He also
needs to jump and fly so I have a springy bouncing sound and a
flapping sound. The robot requires a slightly larger range of sounds
to make the mechanics sound believable. I have steam pistons
releasing pressure for when the robot is activating and then a
variety of mechanical sounds for when it moves. Environmental sounds
consist of junkyard ambience in which you can hear motors and
clanking sounds. There is also an industrial magnet in my animation
which I have used the sound of an electrical current for.
I am also going to be using the
track “golden oldies,” for the musical score. It was taken from
the Ren and Stimpy production music. I feel that this track is
particularly fitting not just because of the time but because of the
old timey piano and the atmosphere that it creates for the overall
animation. The feeling is upbeat and high paced which goes well with
the atmosphere I am trying to create. Other sounds I have identified
are squeaking wheels for the robots cart, a few comic sounds to
highlight some of the comedy moments and a series of more subtle
robotic sounds for when the robots arm is isolated at the beginning
of the cartoon.
Remediation - Project Plan
Research
Report – 3D Animation
Kenneth
Brown
In
this report I will be outlining and explaining my research so far
into the animation industry between 1930 up until the 1960’s. The
main focus will be the most prolific and iconic companies and
animators of the era. These were the men that set the stage for what
animation has become today and without their influence we would not
have any of our most loved cartoon celebrities.
Two
years after the creation of Walt Disney Studios and the first use of
music and sound in cartoons came the first appearance of yet another
industry giant. This was Warner Brothers, whose most notable
achievement of the time is Bugs Bunny and his various companions in
humour. Bug’s was not the first however. Porky Pig came onto the
scene in 1935 and was the first of the WB’s characters to hit
stardom. It was also around this time that Tex Avery became the
animation director for WB and proceeded to revitalise the studio.
Above all Avery’s most important goal was to drive the company away
from Disney and create a unique corporate identity for Warner
Brothers, which is seen in most animation from the time.
In
1938 Chuck Jones’s first animation, “The Night Watchman,” was
released. Chuck was an American animator, cartoon artist,
screenwriter, producer, and director of animated films, most
memorably of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts for WB. He
directed many of the cartoons that starred Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck,
Wyle Coyote and Sylvester and Tweety Pie.
This
period of time is referred to now as America’s Golden Age of
Animation and the reasoning for this could not be clearer. By the
1960’s we had feature length animations, Snow White being the first
and debatably still the most famous. Even today the characters that
were created remain iconic to us. Cartoons of the Golden Age are
frequently seen in modern day advertising for the reason that they
are immediately recognisable.
Two
contrasting series worth looking closely at are the Bugs Bunny
cartoons, which began running in 1942 and Hanna Barbera’s Flint
Stones, first seen in 1960. These are good examples because they both
approach the task of entertaining people in very different ways. Bugs
Bunny’s strengths lie mainly in his character. The use of animals
in animation is something that was coined very early on. Rabbits are
timid and scared creatures in real life so for an audience to be
shown a rabbit with a cheeky, mischievous demeanour was love at first
sight, so to speak. Bugs had as much charm and likeability as any
human character if not more. And when we look at the shows style of
comedy, we frequently see Bugs portrayed as being smarter and
inherently more likeable than humans. It is this juxtaposition I
believe that set him in such high regards with his audiences.
The
Flintstones however, approached the task of entertainment in an
entirely different way. The first thought that occurs when trying to
identify the shows main attraction is that it must be the time
period. Setting the show in prehistoric times was arguably the main
point of the cartoon, once again personifying elements of nature for
entertainment. Upon closer scrutiny though, I believe that the main
appeal lay in the situational, family based comedy that the
Flintstones provided. Where, on one hand, we have Bugs Bunny locked
usually in one on one face offs with the likes of Elmur Fudd, the
Flintstones would usually presents us with an everyday family
situation such as Fred losing his job or buying a new car. This
allowed audiences to connect on a different more personal level. This
is the shows main strength because even though it is set in an almost
alien world, it still manages to relate to its audiences through
everyday means.
So what do I hope to take away from
this research?
Hopefully I can incoorperate the
atmoshere, or at least create something similar, to the Bugs Bunny
method of doing things. My main character is to be a robot, so my
main aim here is to create a personality for him that really makes
him likeable. Bugs Bunny had full use of his voice which is a
limitation my character has. This presents the challene of animating
him in such a way that makes his feelings fully understood. In that
respect the Flintstones way of doing things is helpful as quite often
the dinosaurs in their cartoons were voiceless, yet remained charming
in a very human way through both facial and bodily expression and
exaguration.
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