Storyboard

P.S.A. Storyboard

This week we are working on creating an animation with the purpose of delivering a Public Service Announcement. The animation will consist of an animated title with sound and a character giving the announcement with moving facial features. It will be done using adobe animate for the animation with the help of adobe audition for the voice over.

This is the storyboard with the layout of what I plan to do for my P.S.A.

I wan't my character to be very hipster but serious with a monotone voice.

Storyboard

Storyboard

My characters are finally going to begin interacting in the environment I created for them!

Since they are children, I wanted to do something childish and funny like a scene from a kid's cartoon. Chirtle is a poor, orphan boy who had no choice but to stay in neighborhood while the rest of the world expanded and evolved into the future. He has a robot friend named Leeve, who honestly feels she was created in the wrong era. She wears a bunny eared hat that she found in a "vintage" shop and loves being mischievous. Pogi is his only other friend from the city who still wanders back to the ancient parts of the town, he has a silver spoon in his mouth but is as dumb as a rock.

1. The scene starts with the normally empty, calm environment since it is an abandoned neighborhood. 

2. Then comes out the only inhabitant, Chirtle, looking for some new adventure to start off the day.

3. Then Leeve, the mischievous robot with a pink bunny ear hat, flies in to see who's day she can ruin for her entertainment.

4. Pogi comes in from the city to show off his super cool, red balloon to his friends. 

5. Levee finds her victim when she sees the balloon in Pogi's hand and swoops down, sneakily behind him.

6. POP! She pops his balloons and laughs with her robotic, digitized laughter.

7. She realizes she has to make a run for it before Pogi sees her. He's not the brightest crayon in the box but he can pack punch! 

8. Chirtle sees the whole thing go down and laughs but doesn't realize when Pogi turns around and sees only him. 

9. Pogi didn't even get a chance to show off his beloved balloon! He charges at Chirtle with his balloon-less hand and hits him as hard as he can.

10. Chirtle doesn't even get a chance to go inside his shell and Pogi's punch sends him rolling back to where he came from.

Here is the final GIF animation I created in Photoshop. Enjoy!

Environment

Environment

For my environment I've mashed and old, run down, abandoned neighborhood and a futuristic setting in the back ground. The neighborhood is where my main character, Chirtle, lives by himself since he is an orphan and the futuristic city is where his friends, Leeve and Pogi, come from to have adventures with him.

These are the original images I used before combining them to make the scene.

This is how I combined them to create the environment.

I layered them on top of each other to get the look that I wanted for my characters to interact in. I wanted them to have entrances so I made sure to keep that in mind as i arranged them. The towering sky scrapers where kept in the back but close enough to notice the contrast in the type of buildings.

Once I was satisfied I began drawing over it to create my environment.

This was the outcome:

I made sure to keep the flying cars so viewers could tell it was a future setting and added cracks in the buildings to show the neighborhood is old.

Mixed Character Animation

Mixed Character Animation

We started our characters by using existing animations that fit into the rectangle, triangle and circle characteristics. I chose characters that I believe fit into those and started my drawings.

I then drew over them in Photoshop to show the basic shapes of the characters.

This shows you which characters are in which category. I then added color and emotion to each character with Photoshop.

Once the characters where done, I combined the like characters to create my own. 

My circle character is a mix between Squirtle and Flounder.

My rectangle character is a mix between Perry and Yogi.

My triangle character is a mix between Louise and Eve.