It's coming along...

Hey everyone!!!

I made my model!! She looks so cool (if i do say so myself!) Im really proud of her. As u know Al (the animator) came to talk to us today. He was so kool! He gave us a lot of helpful hints and tricks to use and bcoz i want to get into the animation field as a career i was hanging on to his every word. I read an article a while back which depicted animators as being "obsessive control freaks" haha... thats me down to a tea! But its soo true u gotta have a lot of patience for it and the ability to mentally break down an action into frame by frame. But anyway, the point of my story... i came to school today all excited to show my film teacher my model and see what she thought about her and she and Al both said that she's too small!!
:( So after scrutinizing every little detail down to the earrings in her head, i need to make a new, slightly bigger version of "Penny". Which i wasn't too rapt about! (as u can imagine) But hey, they're the experts...

I've been watching a fair few of Peter Lord's animations, to get some ideas, they've really helped with inspiration.. can i just say he is an absolute legend at animation!! Soo talented...

Attention: Em, Morgana, Natasha & Nicole.. Thanx heaps for ur ideas guys!! They'll be really helpful. It was so weird bcoz i had thought of some of the same kind of props, like the candles, witchcraft books even the rug! ( I love the ideas of the "scattered pictures she'd drawn" & "the black bean bag with moons and stars on it" I'll definitely incorporate them in somewhere) I hadnt thought of things like the art stuff! Dont know how that slipped my mind.. her being an art student and all!! But ow well..

that's about all i've got to say for today...

till next time.. Be good!

Elle :)

The Idea

hey guys!!
Back again for another week. I've come further with my film entry for Pop Fiction and thought of an idea!! :) As i said last time i really want to work with Penny. The book 'To Love Veronica Bee' is told from Veronicas point of view, so i've decided to create a monologue for Penny and let her express her thoughts and feelings on the situation. I think it would be important to see how she interprets the whole thing.

I've come up with clay model character designs, which i think really suit her character. As you know she has blue hair, wears black clothes and is very much 'me against the world'. I want to make the model out of clay and perhaps make her clothes using material. I've written the script and let me tell u its very much Penny.

Im really excited because next week Al (an animator) is coming down to give us any handy hints and tips to make our animation more interesting or more "unamateurish." So hopefully we'll all learn a bit from him.

This week im going to come up with a set design, create the actual model and create a story board.

Should be fun!!
Til next time...

elle :)

Pop Fiction...

hey, im danielle a.k.a elle, this is my first entry. Pop Fiction 2005 had its first launch in November 2004. I was fortunate enough to go along and have a look at what it's all about. Pop fiction has been inspired by the author of 'To Love Veronica Bee' Sarah Boland. When I was there I got to see all the artwork that had already been created by enthusiastic students of Princes Secondary. I also met the artist Chris he was really cool, who made an animation about singing and dancing rocks! Who'd have thought you could make an interesting visual out of rocks!? At the Launch there was a viewing of all the yr 7 students' artwork, I also got to see other animations that had been done specially for Pop Fiction.

Im not a big reader, it takes me a while to get into a book without having to read the first page at least 5 times!! However it only took me three days to read 'To Love Veronica Bee'! I literally couldnt put it down.. I loved it. My favourite character is Penny maybe because im close to her age and can relate to her and know what she is going through.. though i assure u im not that violent!!

I just started today coming up with ideas for my project to enter into the pop festival .. so far ive come up with clay as my medium and penny as my character, as you can see ive thought a lot about it!! By the next time i make an entry i should know where im heading in more depth.
Until then .... be good!! :)