(Patrick Coll GU2)

Duration: aim is 35 to 45 seconds

Target Audience: children, young people, parents and those interested in the subject.

Aims: to create a short enjoyable narrative animation to improve my abilities and showcase my skills.

Synopsis: a short 3d animation to showcase my character animation skills and my abilities to create a world as I create an animation set in a back garden as a young child plays.

Techniques: digital drawing in Photoshop and illustrator, creating assets and characters and then animating the assets in Autodesk 3ds Max, editing audio for the animation in Addison and applying music and sound effects in Premiere Pro.

Summary: I will be building objects and environments in 3ds Max, and texturing the environment with textures I made in 3ds Max

Hardware Requirements:

PC

Computer Case Black ATX Tower Case

CPU AMD Ryzen 5 1400 (4 x 3.2 GHZ - Turbo 4 x 3.4 GHZ)

CPU Cooling AMD Heatsink & Fan

Graphics Card None or Motherboard Integrated Graphics

Motherboard Asus PRIME A320M-K (AMD B320) - 4xUSB3/2xUSB2

Sound Card Motherboard Integrated HD Sound

Wired Networking Motherboard Integrated 10/100/1000 Ethernet Lan (Broadband Ready)

CPU Compound Standard CPU Compound Supplied With Heatsink

Extra Case Fans Standard Fans Included With Case

Product Specifications/Product Photos Hard Drive #1 1 TB Seagate (1000 GB) SATA-III HDD 7200 RPM 64MB Cache

Operating System Microsoft Windows 10 Home 64 BIT (Genuine DVD & COA Included)

Office Software Microsoft Office 365 Personal (1 PC License - 1 Year Subscription)

Monitor #1 21.5" Acer (R221) IPS HD LED Professional Widescreen Monitor - 4ms - 1920x1080 - VGA/HDMI/DVI

Keyboards Standard Slim Keyboard & Mouse (USB)

Operating System Tuning - Windows 10

Notepad / panels

Wacom Intuos CTH Graphics Tablet

Sony Wireless Stereo Headset 2.0

Total: £797.17

Software Requirements: subscriptions

Subscriptions

Virgin Internet (wireless broadband) £40.00 per month

Adobe Creative Cloud student account £25.99 per month

Other software packages included with hardware

Action Plan:

GU2 BRIEF

The Graded Unit 2 brief gives me the chance to create my own animation to a high standard using industry practices and procedures. The project will require thorough research, design and development, from scripting and storyboard, to creating models, textures, environments and other assets which must be evidenced in my design logs and which will track my development and communicate the animation process.

The animation will be post-produced, after the rendering, effects will be added to it. In post-production for an animation, that would be where audio and special effects are added. Each week the process will be evaluated via a website that has been designed.

As part of this project, the narrative will also be pitched during a presentation.

The structure of the work and the quality of environments, characterisations and narrative are the most important details and will remain the main focus.