animatic half

Ranga's Meat Shop Half from Rohini Metharam on Vimeo.
This week I went in a re-worked the shots and camera angles. Going forward and revising, I will be adding more meat to the shop, and lowering the roof of the shot to make it feel a little more closteraphobic as a meat shop does. For the shots, I will add in a shot in the begining of Ranga where he has a Sweeny Todd moment while cutting the meat so that the viewer really gets a sense of his character (the big ferocious butcher tiger). For the knife swinging out of Pappu's hands, I will refine the gag by removing the scene where Ranga is ducking the knife and just have the knife barely miss him but already gone into the wall.

Key Poses for the first part of Ranga's Meat Shop

Key Poses for Ranga's Meat Shop from Rohini Metharam on Vimeo.

3D Animatic

3D Animatic from Rohini Metharam on Vimeo.

Ranga's Meat Shop: Second Animatic

Ranga's Meat Shop: Second Animatic from Rohini Metharam on Vimeo.

In this version of the animatic, I worked more with the timing. Although looking at it many more times, I realize the ending is still too fast and needs to be fixed. At this point I have tested both versions of my story with my audience and have received the following feedback:

The visual style of the black and white flashback reads better as it is bigger and the audience is able to tell the difference between the younger version of the dad in the earlier version. The smiley face was more appealing to the younger audience. The story definitely does strike a conversation as the parents were explaining the story with their kids and discussing the moral with them. When children were asked what they wanted to be when they grew up and parents were asked what they expected of them, I noticed the attitudes of normally controlling parents move towards the aspect of "They can do whatever they want if they are able to do it." This made me hopeful. :)

Ranga's Meat Shop: First Animatic

Ranga's Meat Shop: First Animatic from Rohini Metharam on Vimeo.

This version of the animatic had to be revised as there were several key moments that had be slowed down in order to get the message accross. Therefore timing had to be fixed. Another critique that I recieved for this version was that I needed to keep the same visual language for the thought sequence-- I will have to choose between the thought bubble and the black and white flash back styles.

Legend of the Drum Beats: Video Animatic

video animatic from Rohini Metharam on Vimeo.

For the final animatic of Legend of the Drum Beats, I used actors to get the timing of the movements.

Revised Animatic: 9/17

I revised the previous animatic because it was too rough. I redrew all the images and added more sequences so the actions would be more clear. 

Revised Animatic from Rohini Metharam on Vimeo.

When I presented it class, I realized that the ending was still unclear and people were not able to understand the relationship between the raindance and the rain falling to put out the fire. Also the father's character looks too similar to the son so I have to make more of a distinction. Therfore I will first need to redesign the father's character.

I will also need to simplify the story as it needs to be understandable by my audience, Indian children between the ages of 8-12 yrs.

These were some possible changes that the class suggested to me that I might help clarify the story and simplify it:

- It needs to be clear that the rain falls when the father does his rain dance, so I will get rid of the thought bubble which shows him putting out the fire in the initial scenes.

- The ending will probably make more sense and be more enjoyable if the father's rhythm changes when the boy plays the drum and then it rains heavily. This would be good for animation because I can make his movements look really funny and make it all about the animation.

I will use these suggestions and integrate them in my original story as it was much clearer and the kids liked it. 

More modifications to my story

This is the story board with modifications made. Here the brother has been removed from the story.

This is the animatic for the board.

Thesis story animatic from Rohini Metharam on Vimeo.

This was a very rough animatic that goes with this storyboard. It  was too rough so I  had to redo the animatic so that there is more detail and the story is easier to follow.