GiacomoFilippo Fracanzani

Work experience
This year I worked in two external project of animation, one was a project of a MA student in
animation called "Hermit", and I worked in post production. The second one was the RAM project,
an external project usually proposed for the third year students with a collaboration of the Royal
Academy of Music. In the post production of Hermit, I had to do different passages of composition
in After Effect. First putting the backgrounds, matching them with the time of each animation shot.
Later adding the animation of the characters for different scenes. This had been really useful for me,
because until now I have used After Effect only one time during my first year of UWE, and now I
know a bit how to compose different files and adding some effects, thanks to the help and
instructions of other people who were also working in the post production for other different shots
of the animation.

Working in After Effect

This experience gave me a basic knowledge of After FX for compositing, but it has been useful for
my group project when we did our short animation the first semester, where we had to use After FX
in a passage of compositing. This basic knowledge was also useful for the RAM project for the
final editing of the credits and the passage from one animation sequence to another one, because my
other partner did not have the time at the end of the project. I'm thinking to use this skill to create
animatics from my storyboards to present them for my possible future showreels.

Project's Calendar

Another part of this work experience was

that I had to work for someone else,
receiving a production calendar with
deadlines and keeping in touch with the
director in case of changing deadlines and if
I needed some help or explanations about
possible problems with the files. That gave
me another experience of working in a
group, with the responsibility to respect the
deadlines and keeping in touch with each
other.

Exchange of mails
The other second work experience I did was the RAM project, in this one I collaborated from the
beginning of the pre-production to the end of the post-production. This project was similar to the
one I had in the first semester, because from a word chosen randomly from others we had to
develop an idea and animate it in a CG animation short. We had to do an abstract animation with
music composed by students of the Royal Academy of Music, who worked together with us,
developing ideas together. I found this project really interesting and useful because the primary
destination of the show was in the planetarium of Birmingham, so I had to consider a different
format of animation, not 25 fps but 30 fps, and because it was shown in a planetarium I could not
use a standard camera but a so called dome camera, so that all the animation is around the viewer.
All these elements to use were new for me and I found some difficulties in the developing process,
but I was happy with the final result, and that I did a short animation different from the usual using
a different technique of animation.

First animation test with the Dome

Camera

Final animation with the Dome Camera