Colour Theory

Colour Theory
Hues: Colours that are not affected by black or white
Value: The Amount of Black or white added to that Hue
Chroma: The brightness of the colour, or know as saturation/desaturation




Standard Colour Wheels:



Monochromatic Colour Schemes: A hue that includes all levels of Chroma and Values

Tetradic Colour Scheme

Complimentary Colour Scheme

Analogous Colour Scheme

Triadic Colour Scheme

Split Complementary Colour Scheme

Warm and Cool Colour Schemes:



https://learn.toonboom.com/modules/colour-styling?c=10 - Site with colour pallet images

Animation Exploring, Writing

Today's lesson was a bit different from the rest, We had a man named Duncan Sarkies come in to help us explore writing. We had a limited time to write about everything so that you will see may seem to be incomplete, It is interesting to see what happens when them mind doesn't really have time to think.

Digital Healing, Liquefying and Sketching

Today in digital we were taught how to use all of the healing tools, Including:

With these tools, we were taught to repair spots on this photo of the sunset. Especially using the Spot healing brush tool. We were also taught how to increase the contrast of an image without permanently changing the brightness of the photo so I could get the spots hidden in the dark. using the Curve Tool.

Before

After

This example below is how to use the Patch tool to alter photos, the photo has also gone under heavy manipulation. Using the Liquify Tool and some of the Distort Tool, Including the Twirl tool and the Spherical tool. Fair to say the results were interesting.

Before

After

In the meantime, I was practicing drawing a face with the digital pen, I drew Obi-wan Kenobi, and my main goal was to work on the shading, and this sketchy art style I managed to create looks really cool. Behind the drawing I had duplicated my sketch and smudged it to get a more shaded effect. I even used the transform tool and the liquify tool to fix some of the proportions. I'm very Pleased with the result.
https://coub.com/view/vsina - Link for The Obi-wan Image

Obi-wan Kenobi, The Original and the Digital Sketch

Treatment and Step Outline

Shaping a Skeleton (and a classmate)

The first thing we were told to do in this lesson was to draw the torso of a skeleton which was placed in the center of the room in ten minutes, the result I got for this first drawing wasn't as good as  I hoped as I went too big and was focusing on getting the rib cage right. We were told to do it again but this time I had made it smaller so I could have more time to draw the whole thing. For the size that it was, it turned out pretty good.
Next we were told to make a 2D shape 3D with grid lines, So I experimented on a random shape first, then continued by drawing parts of the skeleton. The one i focused on the most was the Skull, which i am quite proud of. However I think I need to work on the proportions of the skull. Skeletons have always been a weakness of mine to draw. I Experimented with the pelvis and the ribs, but to me they don't look like much, Probably if I had added the spine to them, they would look more like their intended target,
Lastly we were told to draw one of our classmates and I was partnered with a man named Aaron, I believe I had an hour and a half to draw him and below was the result I made.
Another successful class.

Two Torsos, both took 10 minutes

Practicing with grid lines, left clockwise: Round Shape, Skull, Ribs and Pelvis 

Sketch of My classmate Aaron, as he was drawing me

The Oscars and The George

The Oscars

Who would I nominate:
Well I only watched a handful of films last year from 2018, but I would pick Avengers Infinity war for how popular the film was and how many memes came from it. It was also a box office hit (Fun fact, I haven't actually seen the film)

Do I watch it:
No, I don't watch the Oscars because the result are the only thing I would care about, I can't just wait to see who won, and if they had an interesting speech, id just watch it on YouTube. I don't really keep track of the times these types of events are on.

https://www.theonion.com/s/oscars-2019

George Melies

https://www.pinterest.nz/pin/28006828917816371

George was a a magician and owed his own theater in Paris, When he saw the Lumiere Cinematograph in 1895, He decided to add films to his programs. The Lumiere Cinematograph was a Camera, printer and projector made by August and Louis Lumiere which was first demonstrated in 1895.
The Lumiere brothers didn't want to sell their equipment so George had to get his equipment custom made.
Georges discovery of stop frame was accidentally discovered when he jammed and restarted the camera, he used it and exploited it to his advantaged to make Science fiction, Horror films and Fantasy films.
He was also a pioneer to:

The fade in-fade out affect: A traditional device consisting of a gradual change in the intestity of an image or sound,such as from a normally-lit scene to darkness (fade out, fade-to-black) or vice versa, from complete black to full exposure (fade in), or from silence to sound or vice versa; a 'fade in' is often at the beginning of a sequence, and a 'fade out' at the end of a sequence.

Dissolves: a transitional editing technique between two sequences, shots or scenes, in which the visible image of one shot or scene is gradually replaced, superimposed or blended (by an overlapping fade out or fade in and dissolve) with the image from another shot or scene; often used to suggest the passage of time and to transform one scene to the next.

Reverse motion: refers to a trick camera effect, created by running film backwards in the camera or during optical printing; aka reverse action

Cutting in the camera: to film each scene exactly in the order of the story line, such that little or no editing is necessary.

https://www.filmsite.org/filmterms.html

https://www.quora.com/What-does-it-mean-to-cut-in-camera

George Melies films were popular in France and were widely imitated, his films were also pirated and he received little financial benefit from his films. After 1905 his lack of income declined and his small studio struggled against all of the new films being made at that time. After 510 films, he stopped making films in 1912, and was deep in debt. He even grabbed the negatives of this films to melt them for their silver content. He died in 1938 working at his wifes candy and toy shop.

Many of his films survived today only through the illegal copies that bankrupted him.

https://www.pinterest.nz/pin/372743306635091585

His techniques would of changed how films were made. At the time most of the films used cuts as a main source of transition, and most layered film footage would have only been used for backgrounds, not for practical effects. Blending probably was hardly used as at the time the technology wasn't designed to blend.

I am confident to say that All of the films from my top 10 list have been affected in some way or another by George Melies, of course most to all the films would have been edited digitally to make the same affect, but much more smoother. I think the movie with the most practical and physical transitions would of been Star Wars: A New Hope.

The Library Visit

Today we learn the rules of the library and were given a tour of the facility.
We were given a descriptive account of how to retrieve books and and take out books, both physically and digitally. The information given will be useful when I need to go to the library to get resources.
Below are the important sites to get books and to look for APA references.
Including:

Library Catalogue

EBook Central

MySIT Library page

Rasper Croaker - Character Proposal

Toon Boom, My First Animation

The Bird Reference

My Bird Design

Background

Clouds

Final Look

So shown above is the first work I've done on the app Toon Boom, a Frame by frame 2D Animation program. The app is similar to that of Photoshop, so it was easy enough for me to get used to. There is always still more to learn from this app but I believe I have covered over the basics. Anyway are first task was to Animate a bird flying. We only had 7 frames to work with and when produced it would loop seamlessly. The first thing we needed to do was to draw over the reference (First image in this blog) This reference planned out the entire animation so it made things a lot easier. When I drawn my Bird I did have my bird character for my animation in mind, so I drawn his face to see if it was simple enough to make on Toon Boon. I did work out so I continued to play with the colour palette.

What my result was is the second image in the slide, I did have a bit of trouble with paint filling the entire image because of small gaps in the drawing lines, but with redraws and using one of the many fill tools I managed to Succeed. Then we were taught how to make a background and how to stretch one frame over multiple frames. (Third image) So I painted in a big rectangle shape a dark purple and dragged it out. But then I wanted to experiment. So on the Main background layer I roughly painted a darker purple circle behind the bird over every frame, and a lighter purple around the edges of every frame. Then to add more to the animation and I want to say, add more motion to the image, I proceeded to make moving clouds. (Fourth image) So what I did there was draw two or three sets of clouds on one frame, then paste them on the next frame, and shrink it, then I would draw two or three more clouds and continue till it loops around. I used the onion tool to make sure I wasn't going 'out of bounds'. After all of that I exported the movie to wmv and made what you see above. However we weren't taught how to adjust frame-rate in Toon Boon so everything is really fast. (25 FPS when it should be at least 13 FPS). So that is something to look forward to the next time.

Casablanca

https://www.amazon.com/Casablanca-Poster-Regular-POSTER-ONLINE/dp/B0016D6T3C

For my first Assignment in Screen Arts, I watched 'Casablanca', which was filmed in November 26th 1942. Starring Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine, Ingrid Bergman as Iisa Lund and Paul Henard as Victor Laszlo.

Watching Casablanca made me realize why this movie was rated 3rd on the 2007's top 100 American movies of all time.
This movie is very dialogue heavy and requires you to pay attention, as almost every minute there is something being said. but luckily the dialogue is very relevant to the story and isn't boring to listen to.
There are many creative camera shots in this film as well, and scenes transition smoothly between each other.
This plot focuses around 3 characters, one being Rick Blaine, a Saloon manager in Casablanca. At the start of the film he is a very neutral guy, and "doesn't stick his neck out for anybody" but is revealed to have some backstory on picking sides, which comes into play in the later part of the movie. During the story Rick bumps into Iisa Lund and Victor Laszlo. Isia is shown that she has some prior backstory with Rick which sets Rick off and throws him into the deep end. Iisa is infact a previous lover of Rick that left him heartbroken when he decided to leave to Casablanca to escape the Germans. This complication makes things interesting and set the tension of the movie as the main plot of the film comes to play. ESCAPE CASABLANCA.
because people get arrested A LOT in Casablanca, and the Germans are coming for pretty much all the main characters.
It was a very good film, especially for its time. It does show that a movie doesn't have to be in full colour and have tonnes of CGI to be effective. This film just used stock footage and i'm assuming 5 sets to tell their story. I would like to watch it again someday. 

Digital Play Around

The Apple

The Kelpies

Story Structure of Revenge of the Sith

Beats can show the most important moments in the story, they can show what is happening in a film in its simplistic form.
Here is an example with one my favorite films, Star Wars Episode 3: The Revenge of the Sith in a Story spine format. I've colourised the spine to identify the acts:

1. Once upon a time in a galaxy far, far away there was a Jedi knight named Anakin Skywalker.
2. Every day he would serve under the Jedi order under the guidance of his master Obi Wan Kenobi. He would also seek guidance from his Friend, Senator Palpatine and live with his wife, Padme Amadala.
3. Until one day, after the battle of Coruscant, He was scared that his now pregnant wife was going to die after a vision/nightmare. He was also granted a seat on the Jedi council but not the rank of Jedi Master, which hasn't been done in the history of the Jedi. And he had to spy on Palpatine for Treason.
4. Because of that Anakin was angry against the Jedi, he found it insulting that he was not on the council and that he had to spy on his friend for them.
5. Because of that Anakin didn't ask the Jedi for help when he needed it most because of his inner conflictions and the fear that he would lose his wife in the near future. And ended up talking to Palpatine more (who was secretly a Sith lord)
6. Because of that (And many other things) He was manipulated and he turned to the Sith, became Darth Vader and slaughtered the Jedi Order in Order 66.
7. Until finally he was met on Mustafar by his former master, Obi Wan, who was trying to convince him that he was meant to destroy the dark side, not join them. He failed, and had to stop Anakin by force. Anakin also loses Padme, essentially killing her by heartbreak
8. The Moral of the Story is...... either don't be a Jedi, or talk to the right people for your problems. Character wise however I can say that Anakin needed to overcome his fear of losing Padme and control his anger of everything the Jedi had done to him, but in the end it got to him, turned him evil and killed the woman he loved.

Characters that we care about

Anakin Skywalker and Obi Wan Kenobi

We care about these characters because they are the first characters we see when we go into this movie. and if you have seen the Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones, you would also been very familiar with the character already. The mission there on is also pretty heroic because they are trying to save the life of Senator Palpatine, and we see them succeed in this first act. Then we see Anakin get the news of him becoming a potential father and we feel happy for him. Then we witness him get the bad news from the council and we feel bad for him. Then we see Anakin fall and it is a tragedy. Obi wan then be come the Protagonist and Anakin becomes the Antagonist. And we see both sides of the Jedi/Sith conflict. the battle of heroes (Battle on Mustafar) becomes the tragic end for both characters. The person that was Anakin dies on Mustafar and what remains has turned into Darth Vader, and the person that was Obi wan also dies because of the loss of Anakin, and walks away as Ben Kenobi.

Where and when does the story take place?

In an Galaxy far, far away, at the end of the clone wars.

How do we learn what type of movie it is?

We can get a taste of what its about in the beginning of the film where Anakin has defeated Count Dooku, Obi wan is Unconscious and Papatine is impressed with Anakin's skill and presides to taunt Anakin to kill him, in which he does, even though he states himself that it not the Jedi way.

What is the Inciting Incident?

When Obi Wan is seperated from Anakin at the end of the Battle of Coruscant in act one. As soon as this happens the build up to Act 2 begins.

Who are the Antagonists?

There are multiple antagonists in Revenge of the Sith, with a new antagonists every act.

In act 1, The antagonist is Count Dooku and General Grevious

In act 2, the antagonists are General Grevious and Palpatine

In act 3, Its Palpatine and Anakin Skywalker

What are the wants in Act 2?

Anakin wants to protect Padme from her determined fate

Obi wan wants to defeat General Grevious as he is one of the last major threats of the CIS

What was the no turning back point?

When Anakin chops of Mace Windus Hand

What was the low point?

When Order 66 is executed, and the clones start firing.

What did the characters learn at the end of the second act?

Anakin learned that the only way to save his wife was "joining the Dark Side"

Obi Wan learned of the attack on the Jedi temple and learned that Anakin was involved.

In Act 3, what is the crisis

Obi Wan needs to Stop Anakin Knowing that he might have to kill him.

How is it resolved?

Anakin is left for dead on the surface of Mustafar with no legs, burning alive, by Obi Wan. Obi Wan could not kill him, took his lightsaber and left.

Was the Character arc emotionally satisfying?

I believe that they were, Anakin's was definitely tragic, and Obi Wan's character arc was even sad, everything he had lived by basically turning on him at the blink of any eye. I believe if it was a happy ending, the character arcs wouldn't have gone anywhere.

Basic Shortcuts for Photoshop

Basic Shortcuts for Photoshop

• ctrl 0 Fill
• ctrl + Zoom in
• ctrl - Zoom out
• ctrl 1 Fill space
• Alt middle mouse Zoom in/out
• ctrl middle mouse Move left to right
• z Zoom tool
• b Brush
• shift b Change brush tool
• [ Shrink brush size
• ] Grow brush size
• number keys Change flow/opacity when selected
• ctrl alt z Step Backwards
• ctrl j Duplicate
• l Lasso
• Shift l Change lasso tool
• i Eyedropper tool
• Alt (while in the brush tool) Eyedropper tool
• shift i Change Eyedropper tool
• p Pen tool
• shift p Change pen tool
• ctrl t Transform
• ctrl d Deselect
• alt right click Change hardness of brush
• x cycle Foreground and background colours
• f Windowless mode
• f x2 Fullscreen mode
• f5 Brush settings
• ctrl n New page

Drawing in Digital, The Rock and Plant Formations

Today's Drawing lesson was an introduction to Digital Art, Using Photoshop and the Drawing tablets specifically. I have used Photoshop and the pads before but it was a nice warm up to drawing. We were told to draw a rock formation and a plant. Above is the results. All images were drawn by eye.

Both images were found in Google Images