Indian Film- Data Visualization

http://vimeo.com/25565767

A good example of character based data visualization animated movie.

Voice Recording

Since last tutorial I have been searching for young teenage boy for movie's voice over.Since all these days  I have tried all means to search children who can  record their voice. I visited parks, malls and shops where children usually visit. But it didn't really work out as no one would agree to come to studio for recording and more over all this seemed to be little weird to them. Finally while talking to a friend I got to know that he has got a cousin who can do the recording.

Today early in the morning I went to the university to make all the arrangements for the recording. 

I did  recording with the help of ROBERT SQUIRRELL - the head of the sound department. 

For keeping more options in case if Ben's voice was not suited, i recorded both my and my friend jame's voice also.

Tomorrow in the tutorial I will have 3 varieties of voice in front of my supervisor and with his consultation i will pick up one and go ahead with it.

Thank God! I feel relieved...

Getting ready for recording

Ben narrating the script

Trying out Jame's voice

ME giving it a shot

ROBERT SQUIRRELL

Some motion

I have been learning flash software and taking help from friends for motion graphics. I showed few initial experiments i did with the animation.
Here is the small video:-

Tutors feedback:
Andy liked my initial start with animation. But asked me to resolve metaphors i.e. bicycle and try to avoid any other puns.He advised me to first create the whole story board and than select a section to animate.

Exploring the 5 situations for the 'future' part of my information

The five situations keeping in my young children for the future part are playing football, dancing in a club, typing, at railway station and character's body parts.

Playing football:-

I dressed the character in the football players uniform. the two teams with 2 different colors and the number coding.

Dancing:-
Making the character look more cool and at leisure time, i added few props like glares.

Typing:-
Adding the specs on the character can enhance this situation.

Railway station:-Character with thier luggage

Body Parts- Lungs:-
Showing body parts like lungs.

Final character

Today we had our work in progress presentation and i got more feedback on my character. I had two characters which I showed to everyone and got lot of feedback. they are:-

1

2

Got a lot of feedback and more people voted for the number-2.

Yay finally I could decide my character. Now i need to put my character int 5 situations i.e playing football, dancing, typing, at railway station and showing the characters body part.

CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT-part-3

I have had been experimenting more on the character, i need to really decide on it really soon. I have a variety of character and i am confused which one to go with.. So today i showed my work to friends around and asked for their feedback . 

These are few more experiments.

This time i started with the square and rectangle shape for my character.