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Rotoscope animation -

Rotoscope animation is a style of animating in which scenes and movement is filmed on real sets and then animated on top of, to create realistic movement, like tracing over the image.

There are lots of examples of rotoscope animation in film and games such as Betty Boop, Cuphead and also Disney. Disney often used rotoscoping in early animations to use as reference for the characters so that it could be easier to animate.

Personally, I really like the style of cuphead and how rotoscope is used during the game, but with the use of rotoscope in film, I like the style a bit less. In my opinion it works better in a more characterised style.

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There are images of my summer work, to make a pirate map and the process of trying out different buildings, biomes and features of the map before i got to the final piece. I changed a lot of different things throughout this project and changed my mind a lot.

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Recently i went to Moyses Hall museum, where they had Quentin blake illustrations and models, and a variety of other things that i took pictures of to use for inspiration. I really enjoyed the trip and i think that these pictures will help me with my project.

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This first picture is of my trophy designs, people throughout history often took human parts as trophies such as noses, ears and teeth. The first ear trophy design is on the left, the ear of an English aristocrat that that attempted to overthrow my pirates ship and capture the crew, he was unsuccessful and my pirate took his ear as a trophy after battle. On the right is the design of another trophy, of a Spanish pirate, that used to be part of the crew but planned a mutiny, and was also unsuccessful.

My key designs in this image were inspired by an artefact I saw in the Sainsbury’s centre in Norwich. I went there with my family recently and saw, what I think might’ve been a South American artefact, unfortunately I didn’t take a picture and I can’t find it online anywhere, but it had the same wavelike spikes on the side of it, and had a kind of oxidised copper colour to it. My other inspiration for this key was a bit more nautical, I wanted to have the key sort of resemble a fish skeleton and for the key head to be more arrow-like, the same as a spear that would be used for fishing.

I wanted the lost treasure chest to link to the kind of gothic feel of the key, and since I want them both to be made out of metal, I’m going to research Hector Guimard and Antoni Gaudi.

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Calico Jack ^

call jack was a notorious pirate during the golden age of piracy and he was mainly known for working with the other famous pirates, Anne Bonny and Mary Read. I have researched him and found that him and his crew sailed under the flag of the Jolly Roger (the skull and two overlapping swords) that is also very famous. I going to use him as inspiration for my own pirate character.

Edward Teach/ Blackbeard ^

I was already aware of Edward Teach and I didn't need to do much research on him however I think that his story is really interesting and definitely worth looking into. The mystery of his background and childhood in my opinion adds to the frightening effect that he had on other pirates and traders during the golden age of piracy.

Henry Avery ^

This is concept art made for the game uncharted, I really like this design and I thin the costume and colours link together very well and I think they enhance the character overall. Henry Avery was well known for being ruthless, cruel and because the riches that he acquired from pirating have never been found and Avery disappeared from all records after 1696.

Anne Bonny ^

Anne Bonny was a famous female pirate (among few) that was very successful in her plunders. Calico jack and Mary Read were captured and sentenced to death. Mary and Anne claimed to be pregnant and avoided the execution. After that, Bonny was said to have escaped, and then disappeared completely.

Zheng Yi Sao ^

Zheng Yi Sao is one of the most successful and powerful pirates of all time. She took over her husbands pirate confederation when he died in 1807. Her fleet had around 60,000 pirates and 400 ships. At the time she would've been the most powerful person at sea. She escaped prosecution and lived a very prosperous life after retiring from pirating.

Thomas Tew ^

Thomas Tew was famous for being the man that founded the colony of Libertalia, a place for pirates to live in Madagascar. Despite there being no concrete evidence that libertalia even existed, i'd like to think that my pirate character would've been a part of the colony.

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My analysis of the first pirates of the caribbean movie, and what i liked and what i thought it could improve on.

My analysis of Treasure planet and my character design sheet of a personified island (personified - giving human emotions to something that lacked them) (image on the right), and an anthropomorphic island (on the left) (anthropomorphic- looking like a human and having human characteristics such as face and body)

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The first draft of character design for my pirate that will go on the trading card- inspired by the Sundance kid, reworked into my own pirate character. This is the step by step process of creating this final image. I drew this using photoshop.

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pixel art pirate island

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Artist research - Norman Saunders, Amanda Visell and Junko Mizuno

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Junko Mizuno - I really like the more characterised style that she surrounds her art with, and I really like the colour palettes she uses

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Art by Norman Saunders - used for inspiration in colour, composition and poses

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work by Amanda Visell - I really like her art style and it reminds me of traditional folk art. I also really like the colour palette she uses in this piece and the way she creates the light in this image.