Adaptation B - Art Of : A Skit Show

Art of : A Skit Show by Ian Garling on Scribd

Adaptation B - Reflective Statement

Overall I feel as if from the mid point of this project I worked very well. My main draw back was the first half was wasted on being over optimistic of what I could achieve in the time that we had. I wanted to create a full animation but unaware of all the little time consuming tasks I would have to do, i was being very naive. But from the interim crit and being told that this idea would not work to full completion I have found what I have managed to achieve within the time from that presentation to the hand in, is something I am proud of. I still feel as if there are aspects of my character that I could have improved on such as giving the character a facial rig. Another aspect in which I feel as if I let myself down a bit in is that I was rarely around university doing work. Although I was at home doing work this meant that I was unable to ask for help when needed, which then left me having to spend time trying to fix a problem, that would have been fixed fairly quickly if I had someone to ask for help. From the time that I started to model my character to finish date I feel as if I managed my time well, knowing how much effort I would have to put in to get the character finished to the extent that it is. I feel as if I learnt a lot this project as well and that it has prepared me well for third year as I now how some sort of idea of how much effort and time it will take to create a professional standard character for an animation.

Adaptation B - Crit Presentation

Adaptation B Crit Presentation by Ian Garling on Scribd

Adaptation B - Character Texture Experiment

Adaptation B - Character Body Skinned and Rigged

I still have a few minor issues I have to work on to get the skinning perfect but I am now ready to move on facial rigging the character and texturing him to give him his finishing touches.

Adaptation B - Sound Clip Skit Animatic Reworked

Adaptation B - Character Modelled with UV layout

Adaptation B - Storyboard developed

Adaptation B - Character Final Designs

Overall I am happy with my character. He has likeability to the viewers as he appears friendly and welcoming. I feel as if the front and side view resemble the same character well. I will now take these designs into Maya and start modelling my character in 3d.

Adaptation B - Character Side View Clean Up

Adaptation B - Character Side View

When working on a side view for my character I tried a few different styles to try and make it look as similar to the front view as possible. From these attempts I feel as if fig 1 has the most likeness to the character front view. My next step will be to draw this side view digitally and clean it up to be able to take the front and side view into Maya to start modelling.

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fig 2

fig 3

Adaptation B - Character Colour Tests

1                                                                            2

3                                                                               4

5                                                                        6

From doing these colour tests I have come to the conclusion that the frog needs to be a lighter shade for it to be more appealing. I feel as if the colours in images 1, 4 and 6 are the strongest of what I have tested.

Adaptation B - Character Clean Up

I am currently working on more cleaned up drawings of my frog character. I will try a few more colour compositions too to try and find the best fit. I feel as it this drawing will work well as a front orthograph for modelling in 3d as well.

@Alan - Adaptation B - Frog Designs continued and finalised

 After looking through different designs of frog characters and looking back through my sketches I decided to try to design the frog slightly differently (fig 1). I found that these didn't quite fit the character design I want to go for but it allowed me to develop further to get to what I like to think are my final designs in figures 4, 5, 6 and 7. I have received positive feedback from these designs from people i have asked that are within the target audience. I plan on taking these designs further digitally, creating pieces of concept art as well as orthographs so I am able to take the character into maya to start to model him.

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fig 4

fig 5

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fig 7

Adaptation B - Skit Storyboards

For my adaptation B I have 5 skits that all revolve around 3 main characters. Wilbur, Joan and Geoff. These characters are frogs and the skits follow their journey in the day. The skits have been made from sound clips from films and then taken out of context to be humours.

Skit 1 the frogs are in a tank and one, Wilbur, gets selected. Thinking he's going on a trip the other frogs want to go with him. After jumping in the net and getting about the wall of the tank they realise they are in a french restaurant about to be prepared. Sound clip 1 : http://www.moviesoundclips.net/sound-clip.php?id=3337

Skit 1

Skit 1

In skit 2 we see the chefs legs on the floor as he has died. Wilbur prods him to see if he's okay, then runs off. Two snails who have been watching comment on the situation. Sound clip 2: http://www.moviesoundclips.net/sound-clip.php?id=3909

Skit 2

In skit 3 Wilbur sees a chance to impress Joan. When he sees an oncoming car he runs across the road and jumps in front of the car making it look like he's been hit by it when it actually misses him. Geoff runs over to help Wilbur just to find out it was a scheme to get Joan's attention. Sound clip 3:  http://www.moviesoundclips.net/sound-clip.php?id=527

Skit 3

Skit 3

In skit 4 the frogs have stolen the car the hit Wilbur, after it pulled over from hitting him. The frogs, not knowing how to use the car, end up crashing it into the front of a shop. Sound clip 4: http://www.moviesoundclips.net/sound-clip.php?id=217

Skit 4

Skit 4

 In skit 5 the frogs are in the vets office after the crash in the previous skit. Joan has suffered an injury and is asking Wilbur if he cares if she is ugly. His answer is apparent. Sound clip 5: http://www.moviesoundclips.net/sound-clip.php?id=535

Skit 5

Skit 5

@Alan - Updated sound clips

I have been listening to more sound clips and trying to visualise the sounds in different settings with different characters and environments.  

http://goo.gl/3wsfC 

- Talking to a wizard

- Fox and a Dog having a conversation 

http://goo.gl/RDPI7

- Guy playing American football

- Animal Pretending to be hit by a car

http://goo.gl/kWcbq

- Guy not listening to his girlfriend 

- A girl is getting a bandage off after an accident 

http://goo.gl/g2xU7

- Frogs about to go on a trip to find a new pond

- A man about to set sail to Spain

http://goo.gl/9DQFR 

- Penguins working in an office

- Someone turning all the furniture away from someone in an office

http://goo.gl/A31tW

- A man talking to his dog about giving him a tracking collar

http://goo.gl/Ul5SF

- A new charms been added to a charm bracelet, and being briefed by an existing charm

http://goo.gl/jdVpf 

- Bees in a hive with wasps trying to get their honey

- Chickens in a coup with foxes trying to get their eggs 

http://goo.gl/aXQ2U

- Alien that doesn't know he's an alien in a doctors office 

- Normal sheep talking to a shaved sheep

http://goo.gl/V3CTh

- Two spiders talking, one his killed a man by scaring him 

http://goo.gl/VkUNL 

- Conversation between two sex dolls 

http://goo.gl/y97rY

- Punching bag talking to boxing gloves

http://goo.gl/faKtU

- Two vulture's finding a dead animal

http://goo.gl/5EPCU

- Two dogs about to steal a car

http://goo.gl/yCuYr

- Pieces of play dough 

- Bubbles talking

@Alan - Adaptation B Updated Idea

For my adaptation B I have been unable to find a joke of a phrase that works well with what I want to do so I have come to change my idea to having it as more of a skit show. I want to take audio from films and television an adapt this to have it work in a different, comedic way. My main idea is the have an 'Animal Skit Show', so instead of adapting audio from actors into human characters I want to completely change the context to make it work with animals in a humorous way.

One of the ideas for a skit was to use this audio clip from 'The Men Who Stare at Goats' and flip it to have two ducks in their house which is surrounded by foxes that want to get inside and eat them. One of the ducks, who will take the voice of Lyn, will be trying to convince the other duck, who is very afraid, that they will be able to take on the foxes. As the duck is saying the story of how they will fight the foxes it will cut to his imagination of the actions taking place, e.g pulling out the foxes eye. As this will allow room for comedic effect. http://goo.gl/apQlK 

My idea for the second skit is to use an audio clip from 'The Big Lebowski'. My idea is to have a pig being interrogated by another, higher up pig, in their world that is inside the slaughter house. The other pigs are unaware that they are in a slaughter house and have blamed the disappearing pigs on the one being interrogated. The pig being interrogated will be trying to tell the other pigs that things aren't right and that they are in a slaughter house, with the other pigs ignoring his warning. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMuFYnvSsZg (0:04-0:33)

The idea for the third skit will be to use a sound clip from Gordon Ramsey's "Hell's Kitchen". To adapt this sound clip my idea is to have it as though a few animals are living in a student house together and one of them is having a go at all of the others because of the mess in the house. Where it is a university house I would like to use a few different animals from different parts of the world to represent the different people you meet at university. I believe this would be rather comedic as it will be a real life reference as most people living in a student house have to deal with mess. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gjy_FKODsTM&t=43s (0:55-1:15)

Adaptation B - Ideas of jokes

For adaptation part B I will be adapting a joke into an animation. I have not yet fully decided on what joke I would like to do but here is a list of ones that I am considering and why:

The hardest part about making skimmed milk must be throwing the cows across the lake. - For this jokes I could have a literal interpretation. Have a farmer with a milking factory and then a separate section for the skimmed milk on which the barn is next to a lake and has a machine to launch the cows across the water.

My Dog used to chase people on a bike a lot. It got so bad that finally I had to take his bike away. - I feel as if this joke could work by mostly camera shots. Show the top half of the dog chasing people until the revel that it is the dogs bike that is being taken away in which you revel a full body show to show he was riding the bike all a long.

A horse and a chicken are playing in a field. The horse falls into a mud hole and starts to sink in. He calls for the chicken to get the farmer and help pull him out to safety. The chicken runs to the farmer but the farmer cant be found. So the chicken, worried about his friend, steals the farmers BMW and drives it to the mud hole. He ties a piece of rope to his bumper and gives the other end to the horse and then drives the car pulling the horse to safety. A few days later the horse and the chicken where playing in the field again, this time the chicken fell into the mud and again started sinking. The chicken yelled at the horse to go and get the farmer to help. The horse said "I think I can stand over the hole!" So he stretched over the width of the hole and said grab my penis and pull yourself out. The chicken, looking shocked, does so to get to safety. The morel of the story is, if you're hung like a horse, you don't need a BMW to pick up chicks. - Again I feel as if this joke would work best as a literal interpretation but having cartoon animals. Instead of having the joke narrated as well I would use the actions from the animals to convey the story and most likely have the punch line delivered by the horse after he saves the chicken.

An Irish man walks into a bar in Dublin, orders three pints of Guinness and then sits in the back of the room. The man drinks the three pints taking a sip at a time from each glass. When finished he walks back over to the bar and orders three more. The bartender says to him "You know, a pint goes flat after I draw it, it would taste better if you bought one at a time." The Irishman replies "Well, you see, I have two brothers. One in America, the other in Australia. When we all left home we promised that we would all drink like this to remember the days we used to drink together." The bartender admits that this is a nice custom and leaves it there. The Irishman becomes a regular at the pub always ordering three drinks at a time and drinking them a sip out of each glass at a time. One day he come in and orders only two pints. The whole pub falls silent. When he comes back to the bar for his second round the bartender says "I don't want to intrude but I'm sorry for your loss." The Irishman looks confused for a moment, then realises what the bartender is talking about, he starts to laugh and say "Oh no, everyone is just fine! I've Just quit drinking!" - I feel as if this joke could work as an adaptation as having the characters as different animals, for example the Australian brother would be a kangaroo, the american a bald eagle and the Irishman a sheep dog. I feel a joke like this would work quite well as the long story can easily be adapted into a script and an animation.

A farmer was sitting in the local pub getting drunk when a man came up to him and asked "Hey, what are you doing in here on such as nice day?" The farmer just shook his head and said "some things you just cant explain." "So what happened that's so horrible" asked the man as he sat down next to the farmer. "Well," the farmer said, "Today I was sitting miking my cow. Just as I got the bucket full she lifted her left leg and kicked it over." "Okay" said the man "That's not too bad, could have been worse." "Some things you just can't explain" said the farmer. "So what happened next then? There must have been something that happened to get you inside on such a nice day" "Well" said the farmer, " I took her left leg and tied it to the post next to it." "And then?" asked the man. "Well I sat back down and started to milk her again, and just as I got the bucket full, she decided to kick the bucket over with her right leg." The man laughed and said "Again?" to which the farmer replied "Some things you just can't explain." "So what did you do next then?" Asked the man. "I tied up her right legs just as the left and started to milk her one last time. This time, just as the bucket got full the stupid cow knocked over the bucket with her tail." "Hmmm" said the man nodding his head trying to hold in laughter. "Some things you just cant explain" said the farmer.  "So what did you do" asked the man. "Well..." said the farmer, "I didn't have any more rope, so I took off my belt and tied her tail to the rafter. When I did that my trousers fell down and my wife walked in...Some things you just can't explain" - I feel as if this joke could work quite well as it allows for jumping back and forth between the farmer telling the story and the actual actions taking place. I also feel as if it would work well with the characters switched around. So really the cow is the farmer for humans, and is milking a human rather then the other, normal way around.

Little April was not always the best student in Sunday School. Usually she slept through her class. One day the teacher called on her while she was napping, "Tel me, April, who created the universe?" When April didn't respond, Johnny, a boy seated behind her, took a pin and jabbed her in the rear. "GOD ALMIGHTY" Shouted April. The teacher looked at her and said "Very good." and April fell back asleep. A while later the teacher asked April, "Who is out Lord and Saviour?" But April, being asleep, didn't respond. Again Johnny took a pin and poked it in April's rear. "JESUS CHRIST!" She shouted, with the teacher replying"Very good." Once again April fell back asleep. Shortly after the teacher asked April a third question. "What did Eve say to Adam after she had her twenty-third child?" And again, April being asleep, Johnny poked a pin in her rear. This time April jumped up and shouted, "IF YOU STICK THAT FUCKING THING IN ME ONE MORE TIME, I'LL BREAK IT IN HALF AND STICK IT UP YOUR ARSE!" The teacher fainted. - I particularly like this joke as I feel it would work really well as an adaptation. I think having the characters as animals, such as Johnny being a porcupine, with the spikes on his back being used as a pin. April being a cat as she is always falling asleep. And the teacher as a dove as dove are seen to be religious symbols. This would allow a lot of freedom on my part as to what the characters look like and just need to follow the simple narrative of the joke to effectively portray the punchline and make it funny.

A Scottish man calls his son in Australia the day before Christmas Eve and says "I hate to ruin your day son, but I have to tell you that your mother and I are divorcing; forty five years of misery is enough." "Dad, what are you talking about?!" The son screams. "We can't stand the sight of each other any longer." The father says "We're sick of each other and I'm sick of talking about this, so you can call your sister in China and tell her." Frantically, the son calls his sister who explodes on the phone. "Like hell they're getting divorced!" She shouts, "I'll take care of this!" So she calls her dad in Scotland immediately, and screams at her father "You are NOT getting divorced. Don't do a single thing until I get there. I'm calling my brother back, and we'll both be there tomorrow. Until then, don't do a thing, DO YOU HEAR ME?" and hangs up the phone. The Dad hangs up the phone and turns to his wife. "Sorted! They're both coming for Christmas - and they're paying their own way." - I can see this joke working very well adapting the characters into animals that are from the region in which they are talking, such as a kangaroo in Australia and a panda bear in China. I think having the phone calls would work best as split screens showing the different characters in completely different locations talking to each other.

A man walks into a bar with an ostrich and a cat and they all sit at the bar. The bartender walks over to them and says, "What can I get you?" The man says "I'll have a beer please", The ostrich says "I'll have a beer" and the cat replies "I'll have half a beer and I'm not buying." "Okay" says the bartender "That'll be £6.87." The man reaches into his pocket and brings out the exact change and pays him. 
About an hour later the bartender goes back over to the group and says, "What'll it be this time." Again, the man says "I'll have a beer." The ostrich says "I'll have a beer." and the cat says "I'll have half a beer, and I'm not buying." "Okay" says the bartender, "That'll be £6.87 again please." So the man reaches into his pocket, pulls out the exact change and pays for the drinks. A couple of days later the group come back into the bar and sit at the same place. "How you guys doing? What'll it be today." The bartender said. The man says "I'll have a scotch please" The ostrich says "I'll have a white Russian please" and the cat says "I'll have half a beer and I'm not buying." So the bartender says "Okay, that'll be £11.37 please." So the man reaches into his pocket and pays with exact change. The bartenders curiosity gets the betters of him and he asks, "Why is it that every time I tel you the amount you owe you always have the exact change in your pocket?" The man said, "Well I found a bottle with a genie in it and she granted me three wishes. My first wish was to always have the exact change in my pocket for anything I buy." The bartender replies "That's a great idea! Better then asking for a million pounds, that would run out, but your wish never will! What were your other 2 wishes?" He asked. "Well, you see, that's where I screwed up...I asked for a chick with long legs and a tight pussy." - I feel as if this could work well as an adaptation as the punch line would get a lot of laughs. I also feel as if it would be something that is visually easy to represent, allowing the actions to speak the animation rather then having a narrator tell the joke over the top.

Art of - How To Survive A Game Of Monopoly

Art of Tropeopoly by Ian Garling on Scribd

Adaptation A - Infomercial - How to Survive a Game of Monopoly