Screen Arts: Pandemic

Corona Virus, How is it effecting the Industry

Due to the pandemic, most countries Including New Zealand have been in lock down, 

This has had an effect on many industries including the Film, Animation and Gaming Industry.

Cinema chains are making collections of films for cheep, to encourage people to stay at home, gaming companies have also made some game available for free or have lowered the price by a lot, 

Articles (What I gathered from them):

Many new Zealand film companies were unable to film during Alert level 4, Many Live action films and project had to be put on hold, to keep people safe, examples are shows such as Short-land street had to be put on hold, however, during Level 3 some filming has started back up.

The lack of filming during level 4 had a blow onto the job availability and money of the film industry, it has also made quite a blow on cinema's as they are not able to stream movies for public viewing, while online streaming has replaced this for the public it continues to have a negative effect on cinemas.

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Silver Linings:

A lot of things are streaming and being release to encourage people to stay home.

Film:

- Visual Effects teams can still work on footage already shot

Animation:

- Able to adapt to working from home

- Streaming Services to release their content to

Gaming:

- Able to adapt to working from home

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Disney: (Class Swat Analysis) 

Pros:

- streaming platform

- digital working

- recognition 

- VFX Team

- Because of the pandemic they are going to gain more subscribers for Disney+

Cons:

- quite Pigeon hole with their content

- not adult overattentive

- They make everything 'Perfect'

- So big they risk being broken up and or collapsing 

- Piracy levels up 

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48 Hour film festival (Under Lock-down)

How have creators coped with the pandemic and how has is effected their work.

Strengths:

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Weaknesses:

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Opportunities:

- Able to stream an hours worth of short films on national TV

- More people are joining in on the competition

Threats:  

- People may break quarantine to film

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Animation Swat Analysis 

Nintendo

Strengths:
- Strong presence in the gaming industry

- Online Shopping for Games is available on their most popular console

Weaknesses:
-  Pandemic is slowing switch production (Limiting the amount that can be sold)

Opportunities:

- Releasing titles are more likely to be bought

- They have online shopping for their games (More people Buying games)

- Nintendo Switch in high demand (Most sold console during March)

Threats:  

- Currently a hacker is gaining personal information from hundreds of accounts 

The huge gain In Nintendo customers mean more personal information is at risk of being hacked.

- Due to the Hack Nintendo is halting people being able to log to their switch on using their Nintendo ID meaning people might not be able to buy games
(No credit card Info was hacked, just info such as, name age, email)

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https://fortune.com/2020/04/24/nintendo-hack-switch-data-accounts/

https://www.mbtmag.com/home/video/21130050/pandemic-gives-nintendo-a-big-win

https://www.fool.com/investing/2020/04/01/forget-toilet-paper-nintendos-switch-is-facing-sho.aspx

Animation Project: ConceptArt things

Okay so I have got the animated version, which needs some editing to Tone down the file size,
I might also be editing the entrance to the cave, I will just Draw Over what I have already done, Layering it on, this way I wont have to go back on what I have already done on the artwork.



(Hypothetically, as if the Plague never happened) 
I am planning on having the animated Artwork on a T.V Screen, I am also going to, surrounding the T.V Other works consisting of
- Character Art (Ezaru, Martha)
- Environment Art (Setting)
- Furniture and Items that will be in the Home

Research

 Hey guess what I failed.....

Animation Project: Absolute no progress due to dumb

So the only thing I have managed to do is Finnish off this piece of concept art, I should be doing more, but I'm just having trouble functioning  (excuse probably idk)

I have worked on my treatments, second Pass which I will attach my progress later on in this blog.

An idea I had for how Martha is telling her past to Ezaru is this:
In Cross Destiny, Fire dragons can learn light magic, part of light magic is Illusions,
I am thinking the visuals accompanying that nariration, is Martha using her magic to make them, to show us and Ezaru what happened

‘How we Met’

Ezaru swops in and flops down in the doorway sobbing. Inside Ezaru’s mother, Martha, hears a sound coming from outside and opens the door. She sees her daughter in clear distress and nuzzles into her to comfort her. Ezaru’s tears flow freely as she tells her mother of her fight with Ace, her best friend. She Borrowed his old book, ‘Traitors of the Forsaken’ without telling him, and thought she would return before he came back,, when she came back ace was franticly searching for his Book, found out she took it and blew up. She then fled back home.

Martha comforts her, ensuring that one fight will not break a good friendship,

Martha mutters (Despite your choice of a human friend) as she ushers her daughter inside and out of the cold. Martha leads Ezaru into the living room sitting her down on a low resting couch.

Martha sits down next to her, folding a wing over her daughter. Martha consoles her daughter saying she had her own share of fights with Nova when they were traveling.

Ezaru chuckles, mentioning when they had squabbled over the last vanilla pudding, she always loves hearing about her mothers own adventures.

Martha, askes if she told of how she and Nova met,

Ezaru’s ears perk as she replies that she hadn’t now begging her to tell the story.

Martha looks at Ezaru and smirks, she will on one condition, that she would, the next day, fix things with Ace. Ezaru sighs before agreeing

FB1:

Martha begins narrating her tale.
Martha is searching for four leaf clovers on a grassy hill, a sound from behind alerts her to an approaching presence, she turns to find another dragon. Curious, Martha askes who the mysterious dragon is. The dragon introduces himself as Nova, trotting over to the tree centered on the peak of the hill. He jumps up against the trunk shoving his head into the hollow, much to Martha’s confusion and continues the conversation. Nova brings up he hadn’t seen her around here, being one of his usual hang outs with his friends,
Martha brings up she is looking for clovers, she hadn’t had much luck in other clover patches, so she was searching in new locations. Nova pulls out a small wooden box out of the trunk with a “ah-hah” Before either can speak a distant shout is heard.
Nova curses and fly’s off with a quick good-bye thrown into his departure.

(Back to Present)

Conversation

Did you ever find out what was in that box?

FB2:

Martha continues the story, she had returned the next day to continue her search. Nova sneaks up behind her as she unknowingly brushes through the clover patch, Nova grins and Pounces upon her. Martha screeches pushing a laughing Nova off her. She askes why he is back at the hill, Nova responds that he forgot something in the hollow, besides it was a usual hang out for him and he should be the one asking why she was back.

Ezaru interrupt her mother’s Narration,

“Oh he defiantly came back to see you” – Ezaru

“Defiantly, though he still wont admit it” - Martha

Both dragons burst out giggling, Martha says she didn’t blame him, there weren’t many young dragons in their home dimension, and given that his family were high status in that world they didn’t like their family spending time with others that they would consider ‘a bad influence’ which apparently Martha’s family had fallen into, didn’t make it easier to find a good friend.

FB2a:

Its why they continued to meet,

Voice over visuals:
Nova doing a funny impression of his father, mocking his strict Nature.

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FB 3

They both come to the tree for another catch up, after having been busy on both sides.
They meet under the tree and start chatting only to hear screams in the distance, they give each other a look and fly over to see what the commotion is.

Other dragons rush past as they fly towards and they stop in their tracks looking at what befalls them. Human are infesting their home, striking down dragons and destroying their homes.

The young dragons are snapped out of their shock at a human charges at them throwing a net, it catches Nova and he plummets to the ground, Martha shreeks and dives after him clawing away the net, managing to shake it off before they hit the ground, flying away as fast as they can with a firebreath to the human.

As they fly away martha shouts she needs to find her family, so that she can leave with them, they are cut off by a large dragon halting them, Nova recognizes him as his father and asks about his other family, his father doesn’t know and ushers them to leave with him, that they will find the others at a later time.

Martha protests at this, saying she needs to find them only to be cut off by Nova’s Father.
They did not have the time and it was too dangerous, He turns his head to see approaching humans, He shouts for them to move running himself while making sure they follow.

Nova’s Father sets of a large fire blast and the three fly into it, Nova’s father’s foot however is snagged by a hunter, he snapped off and turns to hold them off getting the other two to flee into another dimension. (more drama please, push it a bit more so we as the audience feel panic)

    

Animation Project: Treatment

Treatment: First Draft
How we Met

Ezaru is flying through the sky, crying, bound for her childhood home, she reaches her house, and flops down at the doorway sobbing.From further in the House Martha Notices the unexpected presence, and approaches, calling her daughter's name carefully.
Noticing her current state Marthe nuzzles her daughter fussing over her, and plopping down next to her, on the ledge leading into their home.
Ezaru through tears explains that she had had a fight with her best friend ace, they hadn’t fought before, definitely not this bad, After thinking Ezaru thinks she might be the one at fault and thinks she won’t be able to be friends again, not after the fight.

Martha stops her in her tracks, saying that one bad fight will not break a good friendship, despite not being fond of Ace, she has learned that their friendship, so far, has had a positive impact on her daughter, making her more independent and giving her more opportunities to learn.

Martha ushers her daughter inside and out of the cold. Martha leads Ezaru into the living room sitting her down on a couch like piece of furniture.
Martha sits down next to her. She explains friendships are not easy, she had her own share of fights and arguments with Nova when they were traveling.

Ezaru chuckles, and says she always loved hearing about her own mother's adventures.

Ezaru states that, Martha had told her about adventures when she was young, but never how they had met, 

Martha thinks for a second before responding that she hadn’t, Ezaru silently begs her to tell her, Martha looks at her daughter and smirks telling her she will on one condition, that the next day she would find and make up with her friend, that it wasn’t good to leave things too long.

Ezaru with a pouty face agrees to her demands and looks up at her mother awaiting the story of how they met.

Martha reminisces before beginning her story, of how she met her partner, Nova

FB1:

“Martha Narating”

Martha is looking through a clover patch, searching for four leaf clovers for her collection, She hears shifting behind her and turns to find another dragon, one of her species.
She asks who he is and he introduces himself as Nova, he trots over to the nearby tree jumping up to a hollow dug into its side, He continues, saying he hadn’t seen her there before.

Nova pulls out a small box from the trunk, plopping it onto the ground as he looks to Martha for her reply.
Martha turned her nose, telling him she was looking for four leaf clovers and the patches near her house did not have any, so she was looking in clover patches further from home, she wasn’t new he, just wasn’t observant.

A shout from the distance startels the two.

Nova curses saying his dad is calling before bounding away leaving Martha at the clover patch.

FB2:

Martha goes on, explaining she came back as she didn’t find any clovers the first time, Nova sneaks up behind her surprising her with a hello, She askes why he is back and Nova stutters out the excuse of forgetting something in the hollow on the tree, Martha gives him a doubtful look and he giggles

Small montage of them talking and playing
Narrated by martha explaining that they continued to meet up and talk

FB 3 

They both come to the tree for another catch up, after having been busy on both sides.
They meet under the tree and start chatting only to hear screams in the distance, they give each other a look and fly over to see what the commotion is.

Other dragons rush past as they fly towards and they stop in their tracks looking at what befalls them. Human are infesting their home, striking down dragons and destroying their homes.

The young dragons are snapped out of their shock at a human charges at them throwing a net, it catches Nova and he plummets to the ground, Martha shreeks and dives after him clawing away the net, managing to shake it off before they hit the ground, flying away as fast as they can with a firebreath to the human.

As they fly away martha shouts she needs to find her family, so that she can leave with them, they are cut off by a large dragon halting them, Nova recognizes him as his father and asks about his other family, his father doesn’t know and ushers them to leave with him, that they will find the others at a later time.
Martha protests at this, saying she needs to find them only to be cut off by Nova’s Father.
They did not have the time and it was too dangerous, He turns his head to see approaching humans, He shouts for them to move running himself while making sure they follow.

Nova’s Father sets of a large fire blast and the three fly into it, Nova’s father’s foot however is snagged by a hunter, he snapped off and turns to hold them off getting the other two to flee into another dimension.

Martha and Ezaru talking,  Ezaru being sympathetic

(then you went on your own adventure)

We had no where else to go., 

Knew they were killed by hunters, but thats just sad why im so scared that you go near the hunters, you are so much braver then i, doing more then I could have, you and that human, so make up okay, this will not be the end, your journey is just beginning. 

Animation Project/Screen Arts: Ice age

2D Style

In the clips below from the animated film  'Ice Age' they have used both 2D and 3D within the film, while the majority of the film is 3D animated, Manny's (the mammoth) backstory is shown through a 2D animation with a caveman drawing esque art style, the animation itself is not smooth and fuild but more hazy and rough.

It helps show the era at the time, building into the world smoothly while effectively showing the characters backstory. It also shows the backstory in a more unique way then just having the flashback be the same type of style and animation.

Animation Project/Research: Critique