Bernard The Bird Complete No Sound Draft 1!

Misfits Scene Complete Draft 1!

Misfit Birds!

Nerd Scene Complete Draft 1!

Nerd scene Draft 1!

Other Nerds!

These extra nerd birds are based on the same idea as the main nerd. They have all got the brown and white colour scheme with glasses, freckles, bowl hair cuts and been smaller then the other birds. I have made each one of these birds another form of stereotype of the nerd stereotype. I have decided to make one of the nerd birds fat and small as that is stereotypical how they are seen and the other one I have made tall and skinny because that is also how they are seen. 

Main Nerd!

What I have here is the main nerd for the nerds scene in my animation. From my knowledge from films and cartoons that I have seen in the past, I had a pretty good idea about what I wanted my nerds to look like. I new that my nerd bird had to have glass, a bowl hair cut, freckles and be a lot smaller then all of the other birds. From the drawing that I did of the nerd back in October time, I think I have got a very close to my initial idea. My favourite part about this bird is the colour scheme. I have gone for a brown and white colour scheme as nerds stereotypical do not go out into the sun light. So I have acted on that in an extreme way to get that point across to the audience. 

The nerds main movements that he will be doing is laughing, and thinking. This is made possible by the wing shapes that I have drawn for him. I have drawn a variety of different wing shapes so he is able and look correct no matter what I need him to do. 

Nerd Scene Backgrounds!

Everything that you see in the picture is all and drawn by me on Photoshop using my graphic tablet. This is the tree house background scene that will be used for the nerd scene. The reason that I have chosen to uses a tree house for this scene is because that is stereotypical a nerds place to be. After producing the reader profile for a nerd and from my knowledge from watching past cartoons, I came up with the idea of the nerds having a tree house with sums on the wall. 

The chalk board in the wall is the most important part out of the hole scene to reinforce to the audience that there birds are nerds. The reason the sums are so simple s because I had to think who would watching the animation. As my target audience is very young children I felt it was appropriate to have very basic simple sums as the children can try and work them out and become more engaged in the animation.The rocket on the screen is another extra feature and that will be moving in the animation. 

Stereotypes Of Nerds!

Magazine Film Review!

Magazine Film Review Analysis!

Final Film Poster For 'Bernard the Bird'!

I have chosen to use this as my final poster design. This is because i had a vote with a group of people to decide which one they preferred the most. The majority of votes went for this one. 

The reason that they chose this one is because they said they liked the fact that Bernard (the main character) was in the middle. This made the audience aware of who and what they are going to be seeing. They said that the background was good as it matched the backgrounds in the short film, instead of just making it up to make it look good. 

I personal thought that this one was the best to because i think the use of  space on the page was used well, for example there isn't to much sky as the titles fills most of it up, the Bernard fill most of the middle part of the poster and the release date is at the bottom. The background is very colourful and bright which make that animation seem very happy and will draw the younger ages to want to watch it. 

Film Poster Composed Ideas

Initial Film Poster Ideas!

Analysis Of Animated Film Posters!

Editing The Girls Scene In Adobe After Effects!

This is me doing all of the cinematography edits for the girls scene in After Effects sped up. When I was doing the edits, I set up a camera to show you what its like when I have to edit my animation. This video was actually two and a half hours long as the video has been sped up 64x. As you can tell from the video doing the edits is a very tedious job but the results from it are worth t as it improves the story because I get to tell the audience what things to watch. 

Bernard The Bird Opening Scene - Girls Scene Draft 1!

This is the first draft of my animation from the opening scene to the girls scene. As you can see I have got four fully animated scenes now with a wide range of camera shots I there to. This isn't the full animation as there is going to be a nerd scene and a misfits scene till come which I a in the process of animating now. Also as this is the first draft of these scenes there will be some changes to make for example I noticed the clouds and the sun not quite doing the right thing some times and these are the types of things I ill be getting sorted out for the next draft. 

Whats Its Like to Edit In Adobe After Effects!

I took this screen shot of what I was doing in Adobe After Effects. As you can see I have used duel screens so that I an get a full-screen shot of the animation and also enables me to see all the different layers on the there. Each little star you see on the left hand screen represents a key frame for a different layer. Those key frames are all the different camera shots as this software allows me to do all the cinematography such as the close ups, zooms, ect...