2d animation

Some Storyboards for “The Night I appeared as Macbeth”

Here are storyboards for William Hargreaves’ song “the night I appeared as Macbeth”

The pictures are not absolutely in the intended order

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The band played the barber of seville quite a lot before I came on campaign 1548 campaign 1549 campaign 1550 campaign 1551

cos we cut quite a few pages whenever rehearsal went wrong campaign 1552 campaign 1553 campaign 1554 campaign 1555 campaign 1556 campaign 1557 campaign 1558 campaign 1559

oh the flowers, what a feast. they threw it in bagfulls self raising and yeast campaign 1593 campaign 1594 campaign 1595 campaign 1596 campaign 1597 campaign 1598 campaign 1599 campaign 1600 campaign 1601 campaign 1602 campaign 1603 campaign 1604 campaign 1605 campaign 1606

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Dance: campaign 1587 campaign 1586 campaign 1584 campaign 1585 campaign 1583 campaign 1580 campaign 1581

so I put in some lines from some popular rhymes, and some well-chosen words of my own campaign 1582 campaign 1578 campaign 1577

I improved the part with a dance
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They threw it self-raising and yeast!

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Here is a version of the song performed by Tim:

Yet more trial by jury storyboards

Here are some more storyboard illustrations from TRIAL BY JURY

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I’ll tell you how campaign 1820

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Above: for today in this arena

Below: the judge’s entrance: behold your judge campaign 1837

to your bright rays campaign 1835

we never grudge ecstatic praise campaign 1836

may each decree and statute rank campaign 1838

and never be reversed en blanc

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breathing hope and fear campaign 1824 campaign 1825 campaign 1826 campaign 1827

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for today

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for these kind words accept my thanks i pray

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For these kind words etc

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A breach of promise we’ve to try today

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but firstly if the time you’ll not begrudge, I’ll tell you how I came to be a judge

More storyboard illustrations from TRIAL BY JURY

Here are some more (the order is not correct)

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hark the hour of 10 is sounding

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hearts with anxious fears abounding campaign 1806 campaign 1805 campaign 1804 campaign 1803 campaign 1802

Upon the other side… campaign 1802 campaign 1801

What he may say you needn’t mind campaign 1800

from bias free of every kind campaign 1799 campaign 1793

oh listen to the Plaintiff’s case campaign 1792

the broken hearted bride campaign 1791 campaign 1790

Storyboarding for TRIAL By JURY

Here are some of the storyboard sketches for our TRIAL BY JURY project:

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prologue

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Trial by Jury, Judge’s song

Here is a post on progress on the Judge’s song from “Trial by Jury”.

This is a line test of the first verse. The Right arm and some of the body is still missing as well as the earlier frames of the pigtail and the pupils.

The animation was completed on the Harmony/toon boom system though I note the production of the brilliant and recently-screened “Ethel and Ernest” on BBC was done with TV Paint which seems to offer so much more opportunity in terms of textures and usability. Harmony was a wonderful tool when it was run by the Vogelesang family, particularly Lilly and Joan, but they were taken over by Corus entertainment in 2014 or so and it does not seem to have been the same ever since. I have been teaching in a school in Moscow that apparently promotes the software and it was a devil of a job to get it actually to work at all on the school machines. So much for Industry standard! I note the company also acquired Animo, Pegs’n’co and the Cambridge animation system, rival 2d animating software and has not made any effort to update any of these since, effectively smashing the opposition and leaving precious little choice.

Here is an earlier version:

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This is the finished “look”-

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First combined image of background and character…

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Trial by Jury- the rehearsal

Working on an animated version of this Gilbert and Sullivan classic. See older posts.

This is a piano version of the overture and probably will survive in some form in the final film but for now is a way to promote the idea I hope!

https://animate-tim.com/2016/09/19/trial-by-jury-backgrounds/

History of the Music halls part 2- progress

For the last year I have been grabbing time between lectures to make some progress on part 2 of the documentary talk about music hall. I have also been finishing some storyboarding for a couple of proposed films and some preparation for a BBC project, so it has been a full year! (That is by way of a preamble and an excuse for tardiness!)

Here is the full documentation on a piece I have just finished animating which is based on a song by Harry Champion:

First sketches:

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with jacket sleeves:

With coloured and shaded hat:

body sketched in:

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the tomato plant:

and adding the jacket design incrementally

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The finished product:

The Context:

The first part of the Music Hall documentary:

The Coburn scene developing:

Marie Lloyd scene:

The original song:

My animation:

The beginning of the film (Music Hall part 2)

Trial by Jury

courtroom design I have finally got round to some trial animation for my proposed film of “Trial by Jury”.

Here is the earliest design of the Judge:

Here are a few bars from the Judge’s song and a rough version of the animation. I will post an update in the next few days.

Here follow some Victorian judges as portrayed chiefly by spy

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and here is the famous picture of D’oyly Carte and Barrington as the judge

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