This week we are to prepare our DPS report due on the 20th.
Wednesday 13th – Heartbreak
Today I once again helped animate a crumble for heartbreak.
Friday 15th – Heartbreak
After recieving feedback from Phyu I edited my draft. I was to make it so that the top pieces don’t crumble.
Saturday 16th – Heartbreak
Phyu instructed me to remove the small debris and to shorten it to 3 seconds. They loved it. However the problem was rendering it as a png sequence. Each time I’d try to render some problem would happen. Currently it is Sunday 17th 01:26 as of writing this and I have just spent nearly 6 hours trying to fix the problem. The problem was blender cache. I hate blender sometimes.
We showed off our first concept frames to Nicola where we were told to aim for at least 5 different eras. We were also told we could use different celebrities from each era to represent it. Afterwards we decided on 4 eras as 5 would be too fast paced and went searching for different images to use in the collage animation. We decided to search for eras of coca cola that stood out with weird or iconic packaging. After getting all the images Miguel turned some of them into cutouts while I animated them in after effects. However I did need to create more cut outs in photoshop.
The eras we chose we the victorian era, 1940’s, 1990’s and 2020’s with Will Smith representing the 90’s and streamer Ishowspeed representing the 2020’s, with that specific era trying to also reference coke’s share the love campaign.
Test 1
Tuesday 5th – Producer’s meeting
Our team producer Yujia had a meeting with the film students and she shared the feedback on our peice:
Replace celebrities that are controversial or just don’t have any relevance with CocaCola. (Suggestion: pick public domain pictures of random people as preference)
pick public domain backgrounds as well
No need to do the animation too rush, just make the concept design and the animatic sequence, to showcase the visual first.
PowerPoint slide 2, 5 no need to change, slide 4 change to public domain/commercial copyright free people.
Meeting call with Nicola tomorrow before seeing the clients
I changed the 90’s section to try and reflect Coca Cola’s advertising in that era, using their iconic polar bear and the 2020’s section now entirely focuses and leans heavily towards referencing the share the love ad campaign and what it sets out to do.
Test 2
Wednesday 6th – More feedback
We were told that the animation isn’t really necessary at the moment but to also lift the “muesum of brands” logo up a smidge, along with just adding the style frames and a beat board to the presentation. Miguel has offered to make the beat board so I sent him some of the still frames. Tomorrow, Yujia has a producer meeting around 10am and we plan on helping her from discord.
1899194219932020’s2020’s
Just after writing this Yujia has sent over the 90’s background collage to which I downloaded and added to the video, replacing the placeholder 90’s background.
Today we all had a meeting with Nicola and showed off our first drafts. We have a one to one team meeting with her on friday.
My Test 1My Test 2
Tuesday 28th – One teammate down
Our Teammate Daisy had to drop out of the project, leaving us four. We are scheduling a meeting for tomorrow
Wednesday 29th – Team meeting
On discord we held a team meeting around 4pm where we discussed our plan, created concepts and created a canva moodboard. I created an initial motion idea before we all settled on an idea of having a Victorian coke bottle evolve to how it is nowadays, with the background changing to reflect each era. By the end of the meeting we have mostly prepared our presentation for friday.
My initial idea. Having the logo start off small, transition onto a 90’s style with the big blue background before transitioning to a “modern” minimalist style to reflect how brands have changed from style to a lack of style.Group storyboard for our introMy background mock up
Friday 1st – Meeting and heartbreak
Nicola’s meeting
We had a meeting with Nicola.
Notes
can use any products (coca cola)
Test are nice
Low frame rate again
Background good
3-5 seconds
Title on screen for 3 seconds
The museum of brand title included
Not faded (animate the title?)
Use the font (allowed to font change)
Footage for the photo
But can use images as place holder
Have other collage images come in
7 slides
Slide 1 – brand evolution
5 design images (Victorian background)
First frame
Final frame (title + logo and whatever)
Then you have A-B-C (timeline)
Beat sheet (YouTube link)
Getting the timeline done -slide 6
Credits -slide 7
How do you bring person drinking to the background?
