As we all know I went back to Suffolk over Christmas and new year. Whilst I was over there I recorded two hours of the Otley bell ringers ringing in the new year this is the basis of my animation. It started of well and I was really enthusiastic but as it is dawning on me about my responsibility for not making it shit and the time for getting it right slips away. I have been left with a rather uncomfortable ‘O shit’ feeling and I am enjoying the whole experience less and less.

I don’t particularly Like listening to the recording that I made because It puts me under pressure especially because I know these people and I have a duty of care to them to get this right. At the moment I am much more orientated towards the images. The suggestion was made that I should make the sound track in one go, this would get it out of the way for me. However the original idea was to to make sections of the film with sections of the sounds that I liked I think that this is the best rout forward.

Nobody will ever see this film

Colour pallet

This is the selection of colours that I will be working from. It has been produced from the characters that I have all ready designed. However this is not to say that there was no criteria for for picking colours that I used to make my characters. As you can see the colours that are on the pallet are only a few shades apart from each other and they are not pastels. This is because I wanted it to look like a child had made it so I wanted to use colours that looked like they had been made using a felt tip pens.  

The idea behind setting a colour pallet seems to be to give you’re work uniformity (something to pull it together) and to give the piece the appearance of production value. However it was pointed out to me that is you look at animations such as ‘Family Guy’ all of the colours that are used in that are all very similar. Limiting the colour pallet that you use also helps the animator to use colours so that they do not stand out from each unless that is the effect wanted.

So all in all limiting your colour pallet can:

• save you money
• make your work seem more expensive
• give your work its own theme
• make you look like you have thought deeply about the idea that you are trying to convey
• and all so like super ted give your work some conspicuously high production values