Carrying on with the Cowboy theme I decided that my final animation would be a western building a set and doing a stop motion animation.
I looked and drew a variation of cowboys, looked at their clothes, how they move and walk using Clint Eastwood as prime example as he is one of Hollywoods greatest cowboy's.
Cowboys are not a regular appearance anymore there hasn't been a distinguishable film in about two decades so I thought doing a western because it's rare to see now.
Perhaps the icon of macho movie stars, and a living legend, Clint Eastwood has become a standard in international cinema.
Clint started trying out for bit parts in B-movies, and was signed as a contract player for Universal.
But Eastwood found even bigger and better things with A Fist Full Of Dollas (1964), and For A Few Dollas More (1965). But it was the second sequel where he found one of his trademark roles: The Good, The Bad And The Ugly (1966). The movie was a big hit and he became an instant international star. Eastwood got some excellent roles thereafter. He starred in Coogan's Bluff (1968), the western Hang Um High (1968) and the musical Paint Your Wagon (1969). Eastwood went in an experimental direction again with Kelly's Heroes (1970)
Clint Eastwood is one of the most recognised figures to put on a cowboy hat and shoot up some bad guys he is influential to how I want my animation to come across the victor being all meancing like how Clint Eastwood portrays his characters.
I like this vidoe for it is a prime example of a quality western film but also for the animation at the beginning it is a animation of just silhouettes and works well with the colour scheme.
I am really pleased with how my animation looks it's simple and was a practice go it is also the first time I have ever done a animation myself. It is rough and could have been a bit longer but other than that I think it works. I put it together using after effects and put audio with it seeing as our final animations have to have audio with them.
I decided that as a practice I would try out cell animation for a number of reasons one being that if my stop motion idea wasn't good enough then I would consider doing a cell animation. I decided to use Woody from Toy Story because I had looked at Pixar and Im looking to do a western and it seemed an obvious choice.
The process was long and it takes a lot of patience. I started looking at Woody pictures and different angles and how best to make a animation with him looking at what would be best to move him.
I decided on this one and thought with his facial expression that he would be laughing and pointing at something so i moved his arm up and down but looked at moving his legs too. When people laugh sometimes their legs get week and lose control. I integrated that into the animation aswel.
I drew him over and over again slightly moving him each time and repeated this eleven times.
I am pleased with how I managed to make it look like a sequence Cell animation is alot more complex and time consuming than I first thought but quietly enjoyable.
Research of different angles, body shots and facial expressions for broad range to choose from to use for a practice Woody animation.
I looked at imagery off the internet and drew a few to get a better understanding of how I would go about looking to move and animate Woody.
Having got a perspective of Woody I am inclined to go with the drawing below because i could move his arm up and down and crouch his legs from a standing position into what it is now.
Robot Chicken is Seth Green's Emmy Award-winning rapid-fire satire on pop culture that skewers TV, movies, music and celebrity. The show brings action figures and toys to life in three-dimensional worlds through the old-school magic of “stop-motion” animation.
Robot Chicken is exactly the sort of animation Im looking to do It uses toys and actual hand crafted sets which is where Im looking to go with my stop motion animation of a western shootout.
The idea of Robot Chicken has inspired me because they have created something that's funny inventive and a little contraversial. I plan on creating a set from scratch and using cowboy toys as the main characters in a intense shootout.
