Storyboard

This is the storyboard which can present my idea and story clearly.

Synopsis

The two ostriches found a female ostrich singing under the tree and very interested her. One of male ostrich start to run and then the other ostrich stop him. They became angry and argue with each other. In the moment, the female ostrich was watching them. They decide do a completion and winner can get opportunity to aspire the female ostrich. Then they do exaggerated poses and ready to fighting each other. However, they change to dancing completion with music start. They do their best to attract the female ostrich, but she do not care about that. Then they start to fighting each other whose show their own’s power and try to attract the female ostrich.  But in the end, the female ostrich feel boring and leave.

Animatic -- Storyboard

Main Characters And Model Test

Reference Record

Before i do a animation, i would like record the real reference by camera. Therefore, i went to flamingo park to take some videos be the reference. Unfortunately, there were just two ostriches in the park and looked listless. This is a clip of ostriches, just edited the useful information and clip together be a reference.

Sketch 

If i do the ostrich animation, i need very know anout the ostrich's bone structure and muscle movement. So I draw some detail ostrich bones and its body.

Main Characters

• Femal Ostrich

         Age: Young  

         Feature：Elegant and Generous 

         Specialty：Sing

•  Male A

         Age: Young  

         Feature：Timid and Emaciated

         Specialty：Nothing

 

•  Male B

         Age: Young  

         Feature：Temper and Strong

         Specialty：Nothing

Model Test

This is the model test.

walk circle

wings test

Idea Develop And Moodboard

Idea Develop 

Based on research and exploration for dancing and fighting, i would like to do a half minute animation about animal with human personality. The ostrich is my first choice, because of appearance and character. When they stand up, their legs look like human standing posture. Thin and long legs are easy to make wonderful dance movements. And wings like human's arms, when they swing wings, beautiful feathers will followed jitter. It must be a brilliant picture.

  

Here are two 2D animated short films about ostriches.

The early Disney animated film about the ostrich. Prior to this, completely unable to imagine bulky ostrich can do ballet elegant movements. This creates a sharp contrast, make a contrast in visual and psycholog.

Donald's Ostrish 1937

Moodboard  

Here are two references vedioes from Youtube, which can presented the live of ostrich, such as walking, running, dancing,fighting...etc.

Animal style Gongfu

I want add some fighting plots in my story. So i searched some different Gongfu and want to find a suitable type adding to my story which it can be more exciting and intense.

There are some animal styles Gongfu presented the different features with different types Gongfu; for example, the Tiger Style Gongfu, Crane Style Gongfu and Snake Gongfu.

The Tiger Style Gongfu is a very poweful and violence.

Tiger Style Gongfu

Crane Style Gongfu

Snake Gongfu

This is the training vedio that teach people how to practise the different style Gongfu.

PROPOSAL FOR FINAL PROJECT IN THE PRE-PRODUCTION STAGE

Abstract

One of the most significant current discussions in the field of 3D animation is how to make the character have more personality, in order to make the audience love this character. The past 10 years have seen increasingly rapid advances in the field of 3D character animation; however, creating an appealing character is essential for the animation film. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to determine the direction of 3D character animation research in my final project.

Introduction

In the final project, I will focus on the action in 3D character animation, so I chose dancing and fighting as my main exploration direction. I think dancing can present the graceful movement, but fighting is the other intense action for the performance, if they both appear together, it will be interesting and with stark contrast; however, for the choice of character, I would like to use animals instead of human beings for the action scenes. In fact, looking at companies such as Pixar and DreamWorks animation, they have successfully created a lot of impressive character roles, for example Toy Story, Kung Fu Panda and Puss in Boots. Specifically the completion clips of dancing and fighting in Puss in Boots gave me a lot of interest. The director enabled the cat to become successful, to attract everyone’s eye, which has human personality and reflected most vividly. Thus, I decided to take the ostrich as my protagonist after my repeated exploration.

Methodology:

The research will be carried out in four phases (pre-production stage):

1.       Search the film or video resources, which are famous for dancing and fighting, analyze the specific movements of character (a week)

2.       Develop a short story and explore the different possible ending. There are contradictions and conflicts between the characters (a week).

3.       Search the relative reference, include dancing and fighting, which could use in story and shoot it (3 weeks).

4.       Design main characters and draw a storyboard (2 weeks).

Conclusion

About my final project, which is the sum of the past year I have learned, and I want present a professional level of work. So I will do a lot of research and make an adequate preparation in the pre-production stage.

 

Pre - Production Stage : Karate And Taekwondo

Street Fighter Legacy

Karate

Taekwondo 

The difference between taekwondo and karate
1 A historical difference
  Taekwondo is a Korean-based beginning handed down.
  Karate 200-year history of the foundation.

2 A hand mainly used Karate
  Taekwondo is mainly used in the process of adding fist leg.

3 Taekwondo and Karate sparring is also completely different
  Taekwondo sparring when not attack the lower, back, back of the head.
  Karate can attack the lower part.