Star fish mood board

Mother Crab mood board

The story of my first model baby crab

I started with a box and divided it up into 4 segments then it was all by eye from there on apart from my 2d cartoon drawing of a crab im basing the model off. Once i had made the finished model i then applyied a shellac red material to the crab and indivually added the colours for the eye and inner eyeball with the material menu. Im pleased with the finished model and may tweak or improve its looks if i have enough time but im really trying to consentrate on the animation and not the modelling.

first model of baby crab

Example Using path constraints

This is a quick example of how i used the path constraints tool. buy simply creating a object, then using he line tool to draw my path i wanted the object to follow. i then went into the paths menu and click apply to path this then snapped my object to the line and i further rotated the object using the time line to get the spinning affect with the key frame button.

Two crabs story board

Final fable mood board (The two crabs Fable)

Morpher modifier Animation

This is my first time using the morpher modifier, this is a great way of saving movments to use over and over again. we used richards pre made head and then went through the morpher tutorial in class. simply buy cloning the head five times and naming them different expressions. we then edited each head for the specific expressions and used the morpher modifyer to pre set them on to the original head to the animate buy using the key frames in the time line. this si something im gonna have to practice alot with.

Explain and Reflect on moodboards

The whole cartoon element of each mood board is a reflection of the direction i wanna take the animation in. id like to make the characters more child friendly and model them more on cartoon animation than the real representations. Thats why i did the mood boards in the style they are in, to give me more inspiration and ideas. so to sum it all up the style of the mood boards will be similar to the style of the animation i would like to do.

Mood boards

The Two crabs Fable: Final choice

After picking my intial three choices i soon realised that the one i wanted to do was the two crabs fable so just posting to show this is the fable im going to animate, partly coz i like the idea of animating crabs and ill be better at modelling them.

3 Aesop's Fables Story choices

1: The ant and the grass hopper

This was my first initial choice when looking through the storeys as i like the moral taught and think it would be the most straight forward to animate, because insects in my opinion are easier to model and animate than humans or animals.

2: The fox and the goat

i choose this as a possibility because i think the story would be a good one to animate coz of the moral taught, it made me laugh when first reading, but i did feel sorry for the stupid goat lol. i quite like the idea of animating a fox i think it could be made into a really nice character.

3: The wolf in sheep's clothing

This is probably one of the most famous fables, most people know of it and thats why i decided to pick it. it would be nice to put my own spin on this animation and could be a interesting one to do, which i think would be quite challenging at the same time.

Aesop's fables storys