Product and Pictorial Log - Madeleine Periut

(part 2)

Date & Time Activity Commentary Pictures with Captions

Monday During a workday, I I felt energetic to be
October 23rd, 2017 decided to work able to seize this
2:15-3:15 further on my opportunity at school to
1 hour animation in AP work overtime on my
Literature, as it animation. Because of
pertained to my my energy, I was
project. This was in actually able to get a lot
the middle of of the lineart finished in
creating the final the one hour, making it
line art for the bear very important to me
getting off the since I could make out
airplane. the flow of the final
movement.

In AP Literature, I was in the middle of the

turning once getting off the airplane scene. It
was a scene that took about a week to make,
and this was me caught in the moment. I was
mid-final-lineart for the scene, where the bear
is gazing up at the transforming buildings
depicting Prague. There is a light pink layer
underneath showing the previous frame.
Thursday Since I had been I continue to find
November 2nd, working so much at storyboarding very
2017 school, I didn’t tedious and boring, but
5:00 pm-10:00 pm really use my being able to clean up
5 hours desktop as much, the rough storyboard
but it is responsible and make a more
for two parts that I detailed one helped me
was working on, appreciate the work put
and one which I in and the scenes
focused on during depicted, as well as
November. It energized me to bring
depicts the them to life. Many of
complete ending the scenes I worked on
sequence, from during these 5 hours
conflict, to were action packed, and
resolution, to end being able to get a
screen. In the 5 beginning taste of the
hours, I was able to final product with the
make a rough bear’s lineart somewhat
storyboard, a more complete also helped
detailed animatic, energize me to keep
and begin portions going.
of the complete
animation without
color. I had to
illustrate the
breaking of bad
news, a scene with
the bear running
away, a
conversation scene
which I might need At home, I worked on the ending storyboard.
to find a voice actor While there are over 40 storyboard frames, I
for, a forgiveness picked these out because they showed what I
moment and a fade had of the final product and an emotional
to black. scene of the storyboard. In the first
screenshot, (which is also shown on my
computer screen when I was working on it), I
attempted to capture the surprised emotions
of the forlorn bear when her friend, the bunny,
glances at her from the stars. This ending
storyboard comes right after the one near the
end where the bunny and bear are sitting,
gazing over the city. In particular, the
screenshot caught the moment where I was
working on smoothing out the subtle
movement of a surprised person. I only fully
animated the first few moments of this scene,
 and this was one of them. As for the rest, it is
still in its cleaned up storyboard version. This is
clear in the second image. What is also clear
though is the emotion encapsulated in the
somber moment near the end after a
resolution has been made after the climax. It
shows the two staring at one another, before
hugging in the next frame as rain falls down.

Sunday In these 6 hours, I It had been frustrating

December 24, 2017 worked a lot on the to think for a large
5:00 pm-11:00 pm middle scene of the portion of the project
6 hours project that that something felt off
included a lot of about one of the
travelling. During characters. Because of
the making of it, I it, I went out of my way
made a character to try a variety of styles
design revision before landing on a new
with Sushi’s hair hairstyle for Sushi.
and worked Going back and fixing
backwards to revise the hair was actually
as much of it as I easier than expected.
could and made Besides this, it was just
one of the outfit another day of
changes include animating. At this point,
her new hairstyle it was starting to
so I didn’t have to become a bit difficult to
backtrack too far. work on this project
On this day I had because of its repetitive
just started the nature and I was
improved searching for something
storyboard for this to keep me engaged.
scene and was
working just on the
beginning, where
the first outfit
change was shown.
I also worked on
fully animating the
walking cycles Because it’s the beginning of winter break,
when they were most of the photos from this point on were in
shopping at the my room around my computer. I had
beginning of this transferred all my laptop programs to my
scene. desktop. In the pictures above, I was working
on a frame in the middle scene that was
dynamic with a lot of body movement. It was
right after Sugar used some of her magic to
poof Sushi’s dress up as well as fix her hair into
a more wavy and poofed hairstyle. In the
 bottom of the drawing was my animation
program, showing the 5+ frames needed for
the middle scene.

Friday On Friday, I wanted This was the first day in

December 26, 2017 to go all out in a long time during the
5:00 pm-11:30 pm designing the creation of the
6 hours 30 minutes scenery and animation that I felt
characters. In these really creative. I had
6 and a half hours, I found a book online
finished a ton of called Ready Player One
moments in the and started listening to
middle scene, the audiobook while
cleaning up the animating, which kept
previous sketch me fully engaged during
and making it clear the creation. It started
to my sound and to become fun to draw
music designers all the variety of scenes
what was going on the middle scene had to
and creating a offer.
cohesive story. I
checked my
Zootopia art book
for character
designs during a
scene in a college
for many different
animals. After
cleaning up about
half of the middle
scene, I went back
and made sure to
time the project
properly. I did not
want scenes to
In the pictures above, I was drawing a
drag on or be too
University scene where Sugar is raising Sushi’s
fast, especially for
my music designer hand. I took time to plan this scene out by
and voice actors. looking into the Zootopia art book for
cartoonized animal references to work on the
characters besides them, ranging from dogs
and cats to sheep. I wanted them all to be
different.

On Wednesday, I I felt very accomplished

finished the last of on this day. It marked
the middle scene. I the completion of
spent a lot of time nearly the entire
making outdoorsy storyboard and most of
scenery with a lot the time editing in the
 of nature during project. These last
this time, as well as number of hours on the
key poses for the animation also marked
characters, which the finish of the
are both time audiobook I had been
consuming in their reading that kept me
own right. Once I running through these
completed that, I hours as well. This was a
went back over the sad moment because
entire middle scene not a lot of books or
and made sure to podcasts keep me
time it well and engaged while
Wednesday make revisions to animating and I get
December 27 and any inconsistencies distracted easily. Luckily
28, 2017 in timing. I also this was one of the last
10:00 pm-4:00 am went back to clean hard moments in my
6 hours 30 minutes up or add anything revised goals of the
I missed. Senior Project, which
was to bring a fully
cohesive, storyboarding
and slightly animated
story that evoked
emotion. I had a lot of
fun here because of all
of the fun I had creating
the characters and their
clothes.
 In these images I showed two things. One of
my favorite scenes in the animation as well as
concept art for Sushi. The characters are
constantly changing clothes throughout the
film, and so I worked tantalizingly to make
different outfits for the different places they
would go in the drawing. In the digital scene,
the two are having tea in a garden on the
outskirts of France, and I wanted their stylish
clothes to reflect France’s admiration of the
fashion world but also the summer or spring
weather that changes depending on the
location and time of the year during the
animation.

Tuesday While in the In the end, I made a

January 2, 2018 brainstorming split second decision to
10:00 pm-12:00 am process I had include a prequel to the
2 hours already thought of animation that
including a prequel, explained the
I was finally acting relationship between
on it on the last leg Sugar and Sushi. I didn’t
of the race. The feel satisfied with the
prequel is meant to animation without a
make a connection clear explanation. I felt
between the two a lot of viewers would
characters and be confused with why a
make it clear to the stranger shows up at a
viewer that the two girl’s house and takes
 are friends. Along her away. This way, I
with this, I finalized felt confident the
the storyboard for viewer would make a
the airport scene, clear connection that
where they are the characters are the
shown tackling same, just grown up.
either their first When I needed to finally
adventure, or use camera in these
getting ready for storyboards, I felt quite
one. It was silly for avoiding them In these pictures I was hard at work creating
interesting because because it made it very the final scenes of the film with quick
I was forced to easy for many to references by my side on the ground and even
learn the use of understand what one behind me hung up on a wall (not in view).
camera movement exactly was going on in This made it easy to make sure I never missed
on this day because the animation and I a beat and focused more energy on telling the
of the amount of wished I had discovered story instead of worrying about character
zooming and it sooner. design. In the digital photo, Sugar and Sushi
vertical scenes.
are running through an airport, a scene that is
Because of my lack
important for its vertical dynamic not seen
of time and the
ease of expressing much elsewhere that expands on the airports
these scenes just outside through the windows. While it is not
with camera very clear in the picture, when shown in the
movement, I left animation in relation to the animation before
these scenes in and after, it is quite clear where they headed
their early from and where they are heading to, which
storyboard stages. would be a plane.

Wednesday Because of my I was very excited and

January 3, 2018 drive to continue nervous to ask Dotsa for
4:00 am-6:00 pm working on this his help in the project.
2 hours animation even At this point in the
after Senior project, it felt as if the
Projects are animation had become
complete, I made bigger than me. There
sure to continue were so many helping
making hands that it really felt
connections. On like a tiny studio In the image above, I never managed to take a
Wednesday, I working to attain one picture of myself alongside the screenshot.
chatted and called goal. I respected Dotsa Even so, I wanted to have this wonderful
with an artist and saw him as an artist milestone with the rest of my pictorial log. On
named Dotsa, a that was at the very the left, I was explaining what sort of
talented least as good if not backgrounds I was seeking for the animation
background artist, better than me, so as well as samples of the animation in
on the matter of when he agreed, it did progress. On the right I had created a simple
helping make feel as if my animation rubric for what I was looking for in the house
backgrounds for was entering a more
that Dotsa could base his background on. I
the film. While professional scene. Him
made a very simple school design in the image
none of their work joining the project only
would be ready at made me gain more that was plastered in windows, but I was more
 the end of this hope for this project concerned on the bulletpoints I put by it
project, they will and it no longer is a because those were what powered the
continue to be a small project that only I creation of it. I was looking for a design of an
very important part worked on, which is elementary school in the middle of nowhere in
of the finished probably what I America that probably held 100 students
work. consider one of the maximum.
biggest changes
between this animation
and all of my previous
ones.
Thursday On Thursday, I I was very happy and
January 4, 2018 planned to bring relieved to know that
2:00pm-4:00pm two of my friends Kate and Maria were
2 hours over to help voice going to help me bring
the characters in the characters to life
my project. Kate with their voices. I was
Chupp plays Sugar confident in both of
and Maria Carola them for what they did
plays Sushi. They in this project. I was a
are both seniors in little worried that Maria
Etowah. Kate works would struggle because
on the high school of her lack of
theater experience in the acting
productions and field, but she did
she is an amazing surprisingly well and
actor that was well their voice acting
suited for the role, sounded very real and
and Maria is a good genuine.
friend of hers and
me, therefore
making the
friendship and
heartbreak
between the
characters in the
animation more
believable. I gave
both of them the
script and we
practiced taking
multiple takes of
the different
scenes they were
needed for.
Because the
microphone didn’t
sound isolated, we
ended up using a
blanket as a
makeshift isolate to
make their voices
come out clearly.

For this part of the project, I brought Maria

and Kate to my home so they could record the
lines for my project. They would speak into the
mic and it would record to a program on my
computer called audacity. I had my laptop in
front of them because it had the script for the
film. While we originally had them sitting in
front of the mic at my chair, there were too
many errors that came with it (i.e. echo, chair
squeaking) and after the pictures, we decided
to put them under a blanket so there would be
less outside noise. It worked out pretty well.
Thursday and Friday After Maria and Though I tend to think
January 4th and Kate went home, I of animating as tedious
5th, 2018 jumped straight because of its repetitive
8 pm-6 am into editing. At this nature, editing was
10 hours point, I had finished another level above
all of the scenes that. It was extremely
necessary to edit time consuming to
the animation in a render all the files and
dedicated editing edit them as needed
program. I first had before stringing them
to export any and together and rendering
all files used in the the entire project once
making of the more. Even after
animation and put completing the project, I
them into an would have to keep
editing program coming back because
called Sony Vegas. something was always
Next to this main off, whether it be the
file that I arranged audio was out of sync or
to hold the video a part of the project was
files in order, I also missing. The most
had to create a grievance I had was with
second one in the different audio files
which I could take which had to sync with
the voice actors’ the video and each
audio files and edit other, which was
together the best difficult because of the
portions of three inclusion of voice acting,
different scenes music, and sound
that had three to effects. Sometimes I
five takes. Once I would have to send one
was complete with back because they
this and the voice included voice acting or
acting was something similar that In these last few images, I was actually in Sony
rendered into made it impossible to Vegas and not an animation program because
audio files, I moved edit without seeming of the editing work I had to do. I took this
it into the main file chopped when picture just around the time I was finishing,
and worked on any extending or shortening
with 5+ layers of art and audio shown in the
last minute timing exposure.I did finally
program. The picture displayed is the very last
changes to fit the finish the entirety and
voice actor’s lines. once I drew the credits, image in the film, which displays the credits to
This was also the I was proud to say the all of the people that helped make my dream a
time that I project was complete. reality, as well as Sugar and Sushi drying off in
imported any the credits after leaving the rain that they
sound effects and were previously drenching in.
music and synced it
up. After the
process was over, I
made a final credit
 roll for the end of
the video of all of
the amazing people
that helped create
the animation.
Saturday Nicole, my I felt a little nervous
January 6, 2018 facilitator, had before talking to Nicole.
6:00 pm-7:00 pm been very busy I felt under some
1 hour with work and pressure with the
finally had some required second
time on Saturday to meeting with my
talk with me about facilitator. Because of a
everything I had vacation I was unaware
been working on of, it was hard to reach
thus far. We talked her although I
about the finished attempted to set up a Because Nicole and I live states apart, we use
state of the date to chat a few Skype to call. This was our final call for the
animation, the weeks prior. When she project and I did it in side-by-side view because
continuation of it finally did come back in it is a new feature Skype offers and it showed
after Senior the final week, she had both Nicole and me equally well, which is
Projects were over, an hour in her schedule always a great plus for the pictorial. In her
and last minute and I felt so relieved to picture, she was at her workplace in one of the
facilitator assisted be able to talk to her. meeting rooms and has a whiteboard behind
help that I needed. She was a source of her with all of the plans at her work. Behind
confirmation that I did me was the reference drawing to Sugar and
well on my project even Sushi previously mentioned. With it, I officially
when I criticize myself
marked the completion of my animation, along
for not having more
with my V for victory!
done.