LIAF PROJECT- ABSTRACT

SYMBOLS – the work with COCO and CLO

During the last three months of the spring term, all the character animation students were involved in a teamwork project, which was to draw a trailer of 45-60 seconds for 8 categories of the London International Animation Festival. To do this, each of us had to choose a category we were interested in and then make a pitch, explaining the setting, content outline, background music preference, and production format might be used (2d/3d/stop-motion) to the LIAF team members. They will select suitable pitches, and the one who proposes the pitch will be the director, while the rest of us will volunteer to work on the content we are interested in.

I chose INTO THE DARK category and I would like to show you my pitch. Even tho my stuff didn’t be choose, I still believe it could be a wonderful story and maybe someday I will make it as a short animation.

PITCH – INTO THE DARK – WAKE UP

My friend coco is a very talented girl and the first moment I saw her pitch concept I had the idea to join. I decided right away that if my pitch didn’t make the cut, I would join coco’s team and I was confident that she would defo be chosen.
We are a three-people-team: Coco, Clo and me. We will make the film for abstract animation category.
The first stage was Ideation of transition, where we brainstormed a number of transitions and then arranged them in a number of columns and picked out the ones that stood out.

Then we move to Storyboarding & Animatic stage, it’s very rough, we still aim to catch some nice ideas.

After we make sure what ideas we gonna use, we started to make some draft short cut.

After draft animation stage, we made the composition by using photoshop. To do this, we sorted out all the symbols that might be used, then cut and pasted them onto the PS canvas to standardize the style of the drawing.

Process.

Animating stage. Here are my parts.

I learnt a lot from my teammates during this teamwork, becoming more proficient with the software and gaining a deeper understanding of pacing and composition skills during the process of the animation clips.

I had never tried abstract animation before, but when I saw Coco’s pitch, I was so impressed that I immediately chose to join her team. It is literally a very correct choice, she always set tasks for us properly at each stage, very sweet and responsible, and I was lucky to work with her.

Clo, Coco and I put our own styles into the animation and formed it as a unity, which was a wonderful feeling.

I’m looking forward to making more animations like this.