Outline - Revised

Anita Rani
9/15/2007
Research Outline (view in html)

After attending the last session of our class, I thought a lot about how to edit my outlines. I guess, I was not the only one who had done the outline, in their own perspective. So, here’s the recent one that I did.

2D animations entertain audience since long before:

1. Importance of 2D animation
2D cartoon animations leave a lot of effect on viewers
Even today, a lot of animations are done in 2D
References: Alice in the Wonderland

Artistic Style:

1. Overall look of Little Girl
Little Girl are painted digitally
Naturalistic look that makes it look like painted
Show painting styles
Show Little Girls’ body movement while maintaining the 2D look
- Hands movement
- Cartoon Style
- Highly Produced

Reference: Alice in Wonderland, Disney’s Little Mermaid, Disney’s Aladin

2. Overall look of Environment
Environment painted digitally, while making sure that Little girl look like she actually belongs there.
Naturalistic look that makes it look like painted
Show painting styles
Show movement in the environment
- Movement of the leaves on the tree
- Maintaining cartoon Style
- Movement of flowers blooming on tree
- Leaves falling from the trees
- A little bit of grass movement

Reference: Alice in Wonderland, Disney’s Little Mermaid, Disney’s Aladin

2. Overall look of Butterfly
painted digitally
Show painting styles
Show movement of the Butterfly
- Wings flap
- Eyes wink
- A little bit of mustache movement
- flying
Reference: Alice in Wonderland

Technical Point of View:

Digitally paint the environment, and Little Girl, and butterfly
cut out each element in Photoshop in order to separate various parts
separate each layer in After Effect, to make 3D Environment
Lights
Camera
Animation
Composite
Render

I think I might still end up changing a lot of stuff in it. But for now, I think it’s getting closer. As I’m doing more research, I’ll add on more of my resources, and reference materials to this.