Product and Pictorial Log - Madeleine Periut

Date & Time Activity Commentary Pictures with Captions

Saturday, On this day, I talked Nicole took some time
July 5th, to my facilitator at her office to call with
2017 about exactly what me. We started off
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm I wanted to do and unsure of what we
1 hour we cleared up would be doing, but I
some funks on how was glad that she
I would be setting guided me to which
up my story and animation would be
which to do. better to do out of the
ideas I suggested to her.

In this picture me and Nicole, my facilitator,

are shown calling on Skype. Because Nicole
lives out of state, this is the best method of
calling for us. It was our first voice call and in it
we’re posing for the camera after we had
discussed some of how my Senior Project
would work.
Sunday, I started working I’ve had the idea of
July 9th, on the project, making this little story
2017 working specifically for a good amount of
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm on storyboarding time and was happy to
30 minutes the third scene and finally begin working on
a little bit of lineart. it.While storyboarding
I had decided on can be equated to
making a story jotting down ideas, it is
between a bunny the most crucial part of
and bear who go the process because it
on a trip around sets up the whole
the world. I scene. I did this
storyboarded throughout the project.
through the third
scene, depicting
someone coming to
the doorbell and
grabbing the bear
to take them on an
adventure.
 This is a picture of me with some reference art
for my characters in my lap and the art
program on my screen. In it I am working on
the doorbell scene, where I also did some
lineart. It isn’t close to finished yet.
Monday, I began I tend to work
July 10th, storyboarding the backwards, and so after
2017 prologue scene as creating the third scene,
2:30 pm - 6:45 pm well as designing I skip back to explain
(with 1 hour break) the home using how I got into that
3.25 hours different pictures situation. The room
on the internet as design itself was very
well as inspiration time consuming, taking
from my one hour to just design,
Grandma’s home. but it came out very
Alongside this, I got nicely. While I was
in contact with a working on that, I was
friend who could very happy and relieved
help make the to find someone to
score for the video. create the music. I’ve
never made non-music
video related
animations, and so I’ve
never directed my own
animation completely in
my own will and it is
going to be a step
forward.

In the first picture, I am situated at my

computer screen. On screen, I have the
background of the prologue scene I was
working on. It was only sketched out, and in
the third picture I am discussing music for the
 animation. It made me glad to get so much
done. In the second image, I am talking to
Rupes, my music scorer, who I am informing of
what I want my music to sound like.
Thursday, I finished the Making the leaves move
July 13, lineart for the at the window was a lot
2017 prologue (1 hour). I of fun to animate and so
12:00 am - 9:00 pm took the rest of the was the girl getting up.
(3 hour break in- time to refine all The hardest thing in
between) animations in that animation has to be
6 hours specific scene and constantly correcting
worked on the yourself, which is what I
background for the did. It consumes a lot of
window portion of time, but it makes the
the scene. I started art come out very well. I
linearting the really loved having so
animation and many details in the
windows. Many of background and I finally
the six hours went finished them this day
into animating the and finally got to
person standing up animating my first
and the window portion of the
leaves moving. The animation with lineart.
rest of the six hours
went into lineart
for the animation.

Here I am standing in front of my room art. My

then, I have finally lined the entirety of the
room and am just working on animation and
cleanup. The second photo is of the sketch of
the window scene against the lineart, and the
last picture is of the bear getting out of bed.
The background has been changed to blue so I
 could tell what I was animating, which was the
girl. This made it a lot easier on me to animate
the scene.
Saturday and I had to fully finish It made me feel
Sunday, the first scene satisfactory to have so
July 22-23, animation, I was much done in such a
2017 working with 3 short period of time.
9:00 pm - 1:00 am seperate scenes The scene itself looked
3 hours within it. One beautiful. I
depicted the bear contemplated adding
sleeping, one color early on, but
exhibitioned a decided against it
window, and the because I didn’t know
final one was of the how much time I’d have
bear getting out of left to color the entire
bed. I took this day animation.
to complete any
missing parts as
well as lineart any
sketch animations
that were not
clean.

In this picture I am shown holding my stylus

that draws on a drawing tablet. In the photo,
there is both the window frame and the
background shown because of an onion skin. I
was able to see how much was in the scene
and the contrast to one another through it.
Friday, I used ikea I was curious to see
August 4th, furniture as a basis what ideas I could pull
2017 for creating a from the Ikea catalogue
2:00pm-3:00pm kitchen in my that ended up in our
1 hour animation. I spent house, I originally
an hour searching wanted to use
for the perfect magazines for reference
interior design and because we had many
created a hybrid of with good architecture.
Ikea and my own Ikea has stylish interior
design. design and so I was also
excited to see what
could work.

I am shown reading through the Ikea magazine

during one of my classes when we went to the
lab and had free time. I got stuck between
some kitchen setups, but mostly could not find
one specific thing.
Friday to Saturday, Just completed my This was a very hard
August 11th - 12th, background for the scene to portray. The
2017 second scene! The entire background has
4:00 pm - 1:00 am background I to allure the eye to both
8 hours created for the 2nd the character but also
scene took around the life behind them.
3 hours to sketch. The setup of the kitchen
After that, it took a was very difficult to
couple hours to align to make sense, but
paint. I also had I eventually got it down,
some time to go putting the exterior
into animating it. It slightly to the left of
is a scene where where the subject
the main character would be standing and
is making coffee or making coffee. Starting
tea while the world animation for this scene
is looming behind was hard because it was
her through the a lot of slight
window. movements you’d never
realize in real life with
the coffee interacting
with people.
 This is a picture of me in front of my complete
background picture for the tea/coffee scene. It
is still in the painting program in the image
with me in it. Promptly after, I put it into my
animation program, where I started animating
over it, hence the cup in the middle.

Mondays through I started bringing It was such a relief to

Fridays my laptop to school realize my new
October 9th- and animating animation program was
November 15th, because I realized I compatible on a Mac
2017 could utilize the and that I had a smaller
7:15 am-9:15 am first two hours of tablet I could bring to
2 hours per day each school day school. It made my life a
74 hours animating in my lot easier to be able to
teacher, Mrs. use any free time I had
Dean’s room at school to animate.
because I have
online classes in The time I have to
place of physical complete this animation
classes during is very nerve wracking,
those periods. I especially since I am not
bring a smaller doing anything in order
tablet to school and have different parts
along with my at different stages of
laptop. Between the process, but it also
August and helps me stay in the
November, the zone because I try my
previous program I best to work on the
was using to project level by level,
animate, TVPaint, from storyboarding the
was corrupted so I whole project,
also started using a animating it, and
new animation coloring it, or
program called attempting to, all at
ToonBoom. During once. An alternative
this time, I’ve method is to finish each
started shifting scene in detail, but then
gears and working I wouldn’t know how
on a lot more much more I had to do
scenes, out of or how I would cut back
order. I began in if I ran out of time.
October by
finishing some fully The near-end scene
animated portions shown in the first
of the final scene, screenshot of October
as well as coloring 9th was really tedious to
it (as seen in the do but well worth it. I
October 9th had to go frame by
pictures). frame and make sure
that when coming to sit
Near the end of down, the bunny’s body
October and did not clip into the October 9
beginning of furniture nor bended In the first three images, I am shown working
November, I the wrong way. The
on an ending scene in art class. In it, the bunny
storyboarded, hardest part had to be
is attempting to sit down next to the bear as
roughly animated, making sure the hair
then fully animated flowed well. The they both look over a city from a hill, as shown
as well as coloured funnest part was in the last photo. The image of the bunny
most of a scene probably creating the attempting to sit down has her fully lined, but
that occurs near background for the the bear and chairs were not. The blue
the beginning of scene. drawing was the sketch made previously in
the animation after The scene where the preparation for the animation. It’s a very
the bunny and bear bear steps off the plane somber scene that was well animated.
get off an airplane. (as shown in images
labeled October 24th
Progressing into and November 9th) was
the middle of actually very fun to
November, I create. It was very
realized I had to action packed, showing
completely a turn with flowing hair
storyboard the and constantly moving
animation if I eyes. I used a mixture of
wanted my music pose-to-pose and
scorer to make the straight ahead
music in time. The animation to imitate
picture labeled realistic movement that
November 13th is still flows well.
only one of the
instances where I Finally, the storyboard
make over 80 was hard to start
storyboard frames working on because I
in the middle and had not completely
at the end of the cracked what I wanted
animation. to do for the middle
scene and had to
In all, this was a brainstorm what I will
time period of be adding to the
taking what free animation. It consists of
time I had to work a lot of travelling scenes
on my animation and they are still being
and fleshing out developed at the end of October 24th
the whole story. November 15th. On the On another day in class, I worked on the
other hand, they’re very turning scene right after the bear got off of a
essential, especially to plane. The reason there is a city background is
my music scorer. because I was working on quickly transforming
the scene from an airport to a bustling city.
The background was based off of a picture I
took in Prague, in hopes to put myself into the
shoes of the character and how I would react.
Here, I also colored the character’s hair and
clothing. All of these things are separated on
different layers.
November 9th

This is a continuation of the previous picture,

and I was basically working on cleaning up the
animation, in-betweening it, making more
frames, and making it smoother. I did this
using the onion skin shown in red and green
underneath.

November 13th

On another day in art class, I was working on

my middle storyboard. The image i was
working on is a scene of the bear and bunny
enjoying tea in a garden. I wrote different
places and themes for the storyboard and this
was one of the ideas. There is a “B” shown on
the left because I jotted down and created
different scenes out of logical order and I was
working on a path for them to take that made
the most sense in terms of travel and season.