Animation Project






Final Animation

Animation: Urban Legend
                                                By: Charles Boswell and Leticia DeGiulio


Concept Statement:

            Our animation is based around Horror. Horror is displayed through the concept of Urban Legends. It displays skepticism, drama, and shock value to represent this history of story telling. This animation revolves around the speculation of a young character whose pride leads to his death.
            Our animation starts with a downwards pull of the screen, filled with lightning and dark, purple skies. The title hangs above a blazing fire and rotten trees, surrounded by teenagers and the narrator, Leticia. The story begins with Leticia explaining the history of the Urban Legend; Priest Elias Frisk kidnapped children within the town years ago, and murdered them in the same woods the teens are standing in at that moment. After the parents of the children discovered this horrific news, they hung Elias by the bridge down the river. During this story telling, the viewer is brought back in time to see the horrific events take place, with Elias, the townspeople, and the children. The screen is filled with sepia tone to signify a change in time.
            As the story progresses, a speculative friend chimes in, saying that it cannot be real and it is all kid stuff. Leticia doesnt take that as an answer, and challenges fellow teen to a walk on the bridge where Elias was hung. Fast forward into the story, and the speculative teen is standing by the bridge on a cold, windy night. He slips and crashes into the river, crying and screaming for help because something has got a hold of him. His friends see this happen, and run to safety for they believe the ghost of Elias and the children are pulling him to his death. In reality, the teenager had his foot stuck between two rocks on the bottom of the river.
            Some technical aspects involved in the making of this animation was drawing and use of Adobe Animate CC. We created characters made to look realistic, with face lines and moving mouths/hands. We used old-fashioned clothing on characters in the past, and sepia tones. For the present day characters, we created teenagers in present-day clothing with dark, vibrant backgrounds. The backgrounds were made with color pencil and hues were adjusted in photo shop. Some backgrounds also were fixed with the blue tool to give depth. We decided to create the backgrounds with colored pencil to signify an organic feel behind the new-age cartoons. We believed that the drawn backgrounds would compliment the idea of urban legends; an old and organic feel.

Reflection:
            As a group we believe we worked well together, using class time to the best of our abilities. We had to re-do a few things a couple of times (the backgrounds) so that it matched well with the mood of the scenes (such as darkening the sky for a more eerie feeling, changing a background to a sepia tone for a old, rustic mood). Another thing we struggled with was some of the transitions, for instance, the newspaper twirling into the screen; it was very difficult to match up the correct size of the paper to the image of the priest.

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   Depiction: We decided to depict a scary story, so we chose an Urban Legend to display this idea. We wanted to depict people our age in a situation that was horrifying yet believable.

   Reformatting: We made the ending more realistic verses a typical scary story that revolved around monsters. We used a real cause of the, the foot getting stuck in the river.

   Projection/extension: Charles used this concept within each slide; he knew what his target goal was, and then by adding small movements (hand movements, mouth movements) he considered all possible outcomes of his ideas.

   Mimicry: We went through many trial and errors when creating the animations/backgrounds. For the backgrounds, Leticia recreated them 3 times to get the exact look that was suitable. She considered mood of the scene, timeline setting of the scene, and day/night setting of the scene.

   Metaphor: We used the concept of an Urban Legend to create a new type of scary story that resulted in a more realistic ending.


Example 2
In this example, we created an animation using the bone tool.




Example 1

My first attempt using Animate CC.  In class, we took images and outlined them using basic tools for creating lines and filling in colors. Each key frame was individually edited to create motion.



1 comment:

  1. The concept of this was great. I liked that this had voice overs and acting to tell the story, it sets yours apart. The hand drawn elements were great and blended really well with the characters.I really loved this.

    5/5

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