SMILE Storyboards 3

The storyboards needed some slight modifications in terms of content, but rather more dramatic change in terms of presentation. While the black background looked nice online, it was not practical for printing (printer repair technicians were called). And so a more minimal and predominantly white layout was designed.

3rd draft of the SMILE animation storyboards

The complete series of storyboards can be found here.

SMILE Storyboards 2

A second version of the SMILE storyboards was in order as the comic strip it is based on has been edited. A brief SMILE intro has also been included to highlight the SMILE mission statement. I thought it was important for the presentation of the storyboards to be as clear as possible, hence the typed instead of handwritten narration, and comments. 

SMILE Intro Storyboard

The complete series of storyboards can be found here.

Peaceful Fisherman

This is Mr Hopoe, I'm not yet exactly sure who, where or what he is other thanbeing a fisherman. I thought a character with human anatomy would be a good exercise and I am hoping to see Mr Hopoe from this 2D incarnation through to 3D animation.

 Mr Hopoe enjoying a peaceful day fishing

SketchBook OnThe Train

I've had SketchBook (a sketching app android & iOS) for a while now, but I've been really enjoying it lately, especially how quickly and relatively innoculosly you can draw people.

some sketches from my journey to London

If you have ever played DrawSomething you will know how tricky it is to draw with your finger, especially on public transport, but the ease of playing with colour and restraint on fidelity produces some really interesting sketches.

SMILE Storyboards

Here are the storyboards I created for the SMILE animation project. There are 6 of them, and this is what they look like:

Bereavement

Wedding Illustration

I am getting married this summer, and for the invitations, my fiance thought it would be nice to have a cartoony illustration of ourselves to put on the invitations in some form or other.

Our costumes are a nod to our respective nationalities with Serena wearing a Hanbok and has her hair up in a vaguely traditional style and whith myself wearing a bowler hat and bowtie.

Tracking Test

This was an exercise to help me understand tracking. I used MatchMover for the tracking, then put it into Maya to make the geometry, set up some lights and render it for very basic compositing in After Effects.

I was hoping I would be able to use this for my showreel, but sadly there are lots of mistakes. Even so, I did gain an understanding of the tracking pipeline.