Expo Work: Mickey Mouse

For this picture I am not sure if the plan is to use the steamboat willy background or use the background featured in the distance behind Mickey



If it is decided that we will use the full steamboat willy foreground, i will finish the image off with the life ring and stearing wheel that is shown in the animation.

About the finished sting

Instead of uploading each part of the complete sting with their hands and heads updated to the animation, I decided to skip ahead and upload the finished sting which includes backgrounds and sound. unfortunately, due to the fact that I chose to composite the sting in a PC programme called 'Adobe Premiere Pro' a programme that I am unfamiliar with, instead of the Mac programme 'Final Cut Pro' there is a boarder that has appeared around the video, all attempts at removing this have resulted in a lower image quality in the sting. The revised ending to the sting also features more 'plank-like' pieces of wood appearing instead of the splinter of wood that appeared originally, this is due to limitations with 'Toon Boom'. Stan is also featured wearing cat-burglars mask due to the fact that it is less obvious he is a criminal with the lack of Dave (The police officer) in the sting. The backgrounds have gone through 3 different stages of creation since the project began, originally planned to be constructed in 3D 'Maya' I decided to use ‘Photoshop’ to edit scanned images due to my lack of knowledge on texturing and animating in the programme, this later proved more trouble than originally planned when my copy of 'Toon Boom' met constant errors when introduced to my scanned images. After finally managing to successfully import the first background without Toon Boom crashing, the time I had set out had elapsed leaving me with only one choice, to drawing in the backgrounds using Toon Boom, which I found I liked the finished effect more than the previous methods.

Sting

Sting Part 2 (finished without background)

This video shows what the second part of the sting would look like when it was finished (without backgrounds). This video has heads and hands updated to where they should be in the animation.

Full Sting (rough)

This is the full video showing the first half of the sting, it was at this point it was brought to my attention that the sting lasts over 10 seconds, 14 to be exact, which 3 seconds over the aloud limit, using rough calculations the second half would have added another 5 to 6 seconds to the sting, which is far too long for a sting so I made the decision to drop that half of the sting

Sting Part 5 (original rough)

This video is of the moment where Stan is made to look like the Lincoln University 'minerva' logo

Sting Part 4 (rough)

This video is the scene where Stan trips over while not looking where he's going