Character Designs

Character Designs

Portuguese Fisherman

Today I finalised my character deigns - over the past week I have made a number of changes. I've been using different skin tones and facial expressions. 

At last I think I've captured the fisherman's personality  

Crab

Tram

I am now going to use the Portugal "logo" as my main character in my tram ident.

The tram character's design is shown in the post above.

Animation Backgrounds

Here are my backgrounds for my ident animations. I have now chosen my three favourite storyboard ideas and I will make them 10 seconds long instead of 5 seconds.

Crab

I am quite pleased with this background but not as much as the next two. I plan to have the sea moving about in my animation and I would also like the clouds to move to one side.

Fisherman

I really like the boat and its background for the ident. I am again going to make the clouds and the sea move in Flash.

Tram

I am pleased with this ident's background and I am now thinking that a video that was recorded whilst on a tram in Lisbon may be better to use for outside of the tram than a photo of a street in Lisbon. As well as the character of this ident, there are some things that I want to add into the tram when I am working in Flash. They are: some metal poles at the side, some handrails, users of the tram and chairs that they are sitting on.

Include Logo in Animations

I am now including the Turismo de Portugal logo's character (see bottom picture) in the animations of my idents. For example in my Portuguese tram idea I will use the logo as the main character in my animation. Some of the reasons for using this character are:

The logo will be recognised more
The character will stand out more in the animation (as the others will be humans)
It will create a link as he will be used in them all
It will draw attention to Portugal more with the logo character and the flag and website colours

included.

Formative

Opinions passed across to me in my formative by Steve and the group also being assessed 

• change character 

Steve and the rest of the group thought that I should change the character of my tram ident idea to the Turismo de Portugal logo character. I do agree with this. A suggestion was also made though to do the same in all of the idents that I use. I am not sure about this because, after hearing people's verdicts on which ident ideas were the best, I am going to use the crab idea (which wouldn't work using the logo)

• In fisherman ident, do not include dark weather at start

I was not sure that I wanted to take this out at first because the dark weather start, changing to sunny when Portugal picture appears, seemed a good idea to me. On reflection I decided that the dark sky could show Portugal in a bad light (tee he he :) ) So I took it out

• do not use dancer idea in my final three idents as it would take too long 

I thought that this was good advice and it wasn't my favourite ident anyway!

I found the formative advice really helpful (what a creep I am lol)

Final three chosen ident ideas

Tram

Fisherman

Crab

Photos of Portugal and Its Culture

Below I have tried to choose a photograph of Portugal to illustrate each attraction that Portugal offers.

Most of these photographs that I have loaded are ones that I have taken on my holidays in Portugal over the years (I go on holiday there with my family at least once a year).

A couple are from the Internet though, as I felt that there were important attractions left out eg dancing and Porto.

Portuguese Ramparts in Obidos

(not far from Lisbon)

Beach in Sesimbra

(not far from Lisbon)

Beach in the Algarve

Beach and Beach Bar in the Algarve

Portuguese Ramparts near Penna Palace.

Traditional Portuguese Street

Porto

A Tram in Lisbon (Capital of Portugal)

Lisbon

Portuguese Folk Dancing

Chosen Idents

Chosen Idents



The three idents that I have chosen to use are:

The Portuguese Tram Ident

Portuguese Fisherman Ident

Crab on a Beach Ident

Storyboards and Notes

Storyboards and Ideas

Here I have included my spider diagrams and the storyboards that I made. I did storyboards for my five best ideas and then I chose my three favourite of those to use for the assignment as I am doing three ten-second idents. I wanted my idents to be ten seconds so I could tell a short story as well as showing Portugal. I will animate them all in 2D on Flash. I would also like to include photos in all the animations because I feel that as it is an ident for a company that is attracting tourists to go to Portugal, the country has to be shown.

In this page I have included spider diagrams of ideas that I have had that I would think about using for my Portugal ident.

The other diagram that I have included on the page is for traditional and historic items and places as I believe that will be helpful when designing my idents.

In this ident I have chosen for a man to be in a tram in Lisbon and I am using a video of the famous route No.28 in the background behind the window. The tram will be going over bumps (the characters and items in the tram will be moving around) When the tram stops the character will walk out to the exit and then the famous landmark "Torre de Belem" will be in the background and the character will take a breath of fresh air as he is pleased to see a beautiful site in Portugal. As he makes the breath he will lift his arms up and then morph into the logo for Turismo de Portugal as the logo is in the same position.

In this ident's animation there is a Portuguese fisherman who is asleep in his boat holding his fishing rod. Then there is some pulling on the end of the rod which wakes the fisherman up .

He then starts reeling the line and pulls it back to discover that a picture of Portugal is on the end (the picture inside the frame keeps changing). The picture then heads towards you. A character shown in the photo then morphs into the logo.

This ident is set on a beach and a crab wa,nders across from off the screen on the left. He then waves and turns around and digs a framed picture (that changes) with each claw and he throws them backwards towards the viewer. The last picture that is shown, I want to morph into the Turismo de Portugal's logo character.

In this ident there is a golfer, as the Algarve in Portugal is well known as a golfing holiday destination. He is bending down ready to take his shot and then he hits the ball across and the viewers are shown the golf ball heading towards the hole. The ball then unexpectedly hits into a sheet of glass (which shows the golf course through it) and the glass shatters to show lots of pictures of Portugal behind it. NB It is not obvious that it is glass until it breaks. The pictures then all turn around in a circle to show the Turismo de Portugal logo.

This ident shows Portuguese folk dancers, dancing in lots of their traditional ways (written on side of storyboard). Photos of the area of Portugal that the traditional dance is from will show in the background of the animation. A dance would be used from each of the most popular places in Portugal e.g. Porto, Lisbon and the Algarve. (as shown on the storyboard). Then at the end, a male dancer would be shown with his arms up in the often-used position for Portuguese dances and then that would morph into the Turismo de Portugal logo as that charcter's arms are shown in the same place.