Character and Narrative - Week 8

This week I made no progress on the project, but I am confident of having it completed on time.

Character and Narrative - Week 7

Most of the drawn parts of my animation are now completed, scanned in, touched up on Photoshop, and I have begun putting things together in After Effects. I also spent the evening scanning in old maps from a reference book in the library in order to create the content of the SatNav screen before it goes haywire. Essentially all the work for the project is done and all I have to do now is compiling and ordering the individual scenes and finding suitable audio. I want to have ambient road sounds, which build up into a mess of white noise, alongside looping and glitching SatNav sounds.

Character and Narrative - Week 6

This week I drew frames for around 10-15 seconds of the animation. I have had to cut even more scenes from my storyboards in order to fit into the 30ish seconds time limit.

Character and Narrative - Week 5

This week I painted lots of road signs. Some are exact replicas of real life signs, and some look like real signs but have unusual imagery on them, for example; alarm clocks, mushroom clouds and dinosaurs. These made up signs will be mixed in subtley amongst the replica signs during the montage sections, and as they will only appear for a second or two I want to create a "Was that a picture of a dinosaur?" moment for the viewer.

Annoyingly my Mac decided it doesn't want to turn on anymore (1 week after warranty ended - coincidence?? I think not. Fuck you Apple). This means I have lost the neat storyboards I drew on Photoshop, as well as the animatic that I made from those storyboards. I still have my rough thumbnails on post-it notes, which are enough for me to outline the story with.