Dusty the Donkey-Group Project

For this project I was in Team Donkey Derby with Eamonn O'Connor and Ross Murphy-Cooke. We have created a visual piece for the narrative Dusty the Donkey by Pauline Ryan. 

Our concept for Dusty the Donkey is to create an animated TV Series for Children.

Dusty the Donkey entertains and educates children. The character and narrative guide the audience through situations that enable and help them to learn. 

The demographic for this animated series is 3-8.

Demo Reel:

Storyboard: 

Animatic:

https://vimeo.com/143874280

 more on Behance:

https://www.behance.net/gallery/30741891/Dusty-the-Donkey

Dusty The Donkey Maquette

I decided to try and make a 3D model of a Donkey for Research and experimentation purposes. 

Donkey The Dusty Research

For the next project we have to pitch visual ideas for the stories written by Pauline Ryan about Dusty the Donkey. For this project the class was split in groups of three. I have Eamonn O' Connor and Ross Murphy-Cooke in my group.

We researched children's books and movies to get ideas. At the moment we are still at the experimenting with different materials stage.

Here is a watercolour picture I painted over the weekend for the background. I just wanted to see if it would be suitable to use or not. The original image is much brighter this is just  quick photo of it.

This is from Eamonn's sketch book. I decided to quickly try and combine my background and one of his Donkey's too see would it work well together visually, and I like the outcome. 

Infographic Brief

For this college project we were required to design, visualise and animate an infographic animation to accompany and compliment a film monologue of our choice. The monologue I picked is from the first Lord of the Rings movie where Aragorn introduces the Nazgul.

Infographic Animation:

Animatic- Infographic Animation:

Storyboard:

I created the Images in Illustrator which I then imported and animated in After Effects. The audio was then added in Premier pro and I added one last effect in After Effects after that. 

There was a few changes, such as the background for the word 'blinded' but overall I sticked to the storyboard. It was difficult to animate the parts where Aragorn speaks faster. I had to show what I wanted to in the amount of time I had. I also ran into some technical difficulties when exporting in after effects with the intro but I found a way to work around my problem in the end.