Tuesday, 20 March 2012

Revised sequence list. GO TEAM GO!



  1. The screen shows a dark brown background and a text in the center that shows the title of the animation.

More detailed description: A larger and bigger sentence in the center fades in and then a shorter and smaller sentence fades in. The second part of the smaller sentence fades out and is replaced with with other words:

xxxxx xxxx xx x x x x xx xxxxxx xxxxx xxxxxxx

xxxxx xxxx xx x x x x xx xxxxxx xxxxx

What we need: 3 sentences
  1. The text fades out and a drop of cream falls down into the dark background, which  is actually coffee. Coffee waves become apparent because of the drop falling down.
What we need: Simulate a liquid in a cup
  1. Camera rotates from top view to 3/4 view with pie chart about types of roasts/beans. Showing a watch on the mans wrist of what time coffee is consumed.
More detailed description: Blurry background
  1. The camera zoom out and shows a man who is holding a cup of coffee close to his mouth, from front view
What we need: A 3d model of man which is rigged to be able to drink a cup of coffee. Just the upper body has to be rigged. The model has to be animated to shows a drinking cycle with smooth facial gestures.
  1. The man is traced and changes from 3d to 2d mode
More detailed description: The 3d to 2d conversion of background has to comprise the feeling of drinking. The background could be like an old and crumpled paper. A cup of coffee is drawn on the background.
What we need: A lot of videos which show 3d to 2d conversion with different effects.
  1. Coffee starts to flow down through the esophagus to the stomach. A clock that is connected to the stomach extends to the right of the man’s body. A text is shown ( Coffee provides the body with antioxidants. It can reduce the risk of certain cancers by up to 24%)
More detailed description: The clock shows the time that takes for coffee to cause its effect
  1. Coffee enters the vessels and the connection line fades out.
  2. Coffee goes to the brain. The clock rings and shows the the start of coffee effect. The brain pulses one time.
More detailed description: The time of effect has to appear on top of the clock and then fade out. A sphere around the head is moving the sphere is a network from the caffeine formula
  1. Camera magnifies the brain, and the brain surface including the brain receptors is shown.
More detailed description: The effects are shown in the next person in line. An animation shows the effects of adenosine in the brain
  1. Camera zooms out and the screen changes from brain surface to the body (body is shown with the muscles instead of blood system)
  2. A magnification on the heart immediately and shows the heart pulse
  3. Magnification goes away and shows the next person in line hitting on a girl flexing his biceps. During this animation magnifies on the biceps muscle and shows the them growing showing 3 cups of coffee entering the background one by one. As each one enters, the muscles grow a little bit in volume   
  • The camera pans over to the next guy hunched over with a bunch of textbooks jittery with bloody shot cartoon eyes open which are magnified and information is shown ( drinking coffee before going to sleep or heavy usage, 6-8 cups of coffee, can cause trouble in sleeping). The clock on the side rotate to night time and the eyes become widened and the clock rotate all the way to the morning.
  • The information keeps coming with some related thumbnails from right and left side of the eyes and the eyes turn to the information when it is shown.

  • More detailed description: Information is:
        1. heavy usage, 6-8 cups of coffee, can cause abnormal heart activity (show a heart with stronger pulses
        2. heavy usage, 6-8 cups of coffee, can lead to muscle tremor/ Trembling and twitching
        3. heavy usage, 6-8 cups of coffee, can lead to muscle tremor/ Trembling and twitching
        4. heavy usage, 6-8 cups of coffee, can be unhealthy and cause restlessness

    1. The camera accelerates to the side and creates a motion blur which blurs into a coffee plantation. (audio track from coffee shop crowd to outside noises)
    2. A person is picking coffee beans off a coffee plant.
    3. A close up of the fruit is shown with some info about the fruit.

    4. The flesh of the fruit falls off to show the bean inside with more info. As it falls other beans fall with it and all fall into a bag.
    5. The bags go along a conveyor belt and fall into a box.
    6. The coffee packages are moving on a conveyor belt which falls and.
    7. Camera rotates and shows the roll in a front view, coffee packages move towards the camera and fall down

    8. The information keeps coming until the whole page gets filled with boxes. The main suppliers’ names in the world is shown on the boxes (Companies with more share in the supply will have their name on more boxes)
    9. the boxes roll up into the cargo area and the plane door starts to close as if the coffee packages are in the plane and the background goes white and the plane takes off.
    10. The world map appears in ¾ view and the largest manufacturers  of coffee start raise from the map. Numbers counts the percentage of the production on top of each of these countries. The color of countries changes from yellow to dark brown based on their production.
    11. The camera rotates from ¾ to top view and the map colors change to a single color. Some flags drop on the coffee consumer countries by order of their consumption
    12. The camera zooms on the map of Canada and the map starts to be colored with different colors upward. The colors shows the main coffeehouses that exist in Canada
    13. The colors divide the map so that the area of each color is equal the amount of each coffeehouse sales in Canada
    14. Canada map rotate vertically 360 degrees and an image of a cup of coffee is sketched. Some information about coffee consumption per Canadian is shown while the sketch of the cup is being colored. Some steam appears rising from the cup of coffee.
    15. A coffee shop appears and changes between all the main shops and shows statistics on each coffee shop.
    16. The camera zooms out and shows a man picking up the cup of coffee in a coffeehouse
    17. When the man starts to drink the camera zooms on the man face.
    18. The camera zoom out and shows the man in the farm coffee.
    19. The camera rotates from side view to front view and the man is traced and changes from 3d to 2d mode.
    20. Animate 2d man from sitting to standing and is talking to another coffee lover.
    21. The camera zooms and moves over the coffee cup the man is holding and goes back to the beginning.
    22. Roll the credits!

    Drinking cycle in Maya

    Storyboards


    They're rough, they look pretty terrible, the other one I was working on looked better but it's more HQ, so we can use it as a basic animatic....

    anyways here it is, Ill write a short description underneath.
    1. Coffee cup, title overtop
    2. Drop of cream falls in and swirls into the cup
    3. Camera tilts across the cup, quick pie graph using the top of the cup to describe the contents of the average cup of coffee (Caffeine, etc) and then another to describe the most common types of beans/roasts
    4. Pans over to the character's watch, to show what times most coffee is consumed at (in Canada)
    5. Character is shown holding coffee from the side
    6. Zooms out to background that is his house, then switches several backgrounds to show the places where the most coffee is consumed (home, work, coffee shop, etc)
    7. Character takes a swig of coffee, as he puts it to his lips, he becomes a cross section with organs/skeleton overlayed, camera pans down and points to the effects that coffee has on the body.
    8. Zooms out again and he is standing in a coffee plantation/
    9. He pulls down a coffee tree branch and begins to pick the fruit
    10. The branch detaches and is the sole focus on the screen, rotates with some facts about coffee trees (yield, fruiting season, etc)
    11. Fruit falls away and becomes coffee beans, some facts about coffee beans, the beans are falling in space
    12. Beans fall down into a burlap bag, which then begins to move along a convener belt, some scrolling info about coffee processing
    13. Continues
    14. Camera pans around to front of convener belt where there are multiple coffee bags which are rolling down the conveyor and into a large box on a palette to be shipped.
    15. The palette is loaded onto a plane.
    16. The plane takes off down a runway
    17. Zooms out to south America which is the coffee belt, highlights countries in colours depending on their production levels.
    18. Zooms out to the globe to further highlight coffee producing countries. Then the colours switch as the plane flies towards the USA. The colours now denote the countries which consume the most coffee.
    19. USA facts
    18. Finland Facts, then will scroll through a few other countries like Italy, France, Russia, etc.
    20. Canada facts
    21. Visualize most popular coffee chains in the country, building sign will change.
    22. Back inside the building, to two people drinking coffee together and talking.
    23. Zooms back into the cup. END.

    Monday, 19 March 2012

    Coffe Plan (extended version)


    1. The screen shows a dark brown background and a text in the center that shows the title of the animation.
    More detailed description: A larger and bigger sentence in the center fades in and then a shorter and smaller sentence fades in. The second part of the smaller sentence fades out and is replaced with with other words:

    xxxxx xxxx xx x x x x xx xxxxxx xxxxx xxxxxxx

    xxxxx xxxx xx x x x x xx xxxxxx xxxxx

    What we need: 3 sentences
    1. The text fades out and a drop of cream falls down into the dark background, which  is actually coffee. Coffee waves become apparent because of the drop falling down.
    What we need: Simulate a liquid in a cup
    1. Camera rotates from top view to the side view
    More detailed description: Blurry background
    1. The camera zoom out and shows a man who is holding a cup of coffee close to his mouth, from front view
    What we need: A 3d model of man which is rigged to be able to drink a cup of coffee. Just the upper body has to be rigged. The model has to be animated to shows a drinking cycle with smooth facial gestures.
    1. The man is traced and changes from 3d to 2d mode
    More detailed description: The 3d to 2d conversion of background has to comprise the feeling of drinking. The background could be like an old and crumpled paper. A cup of coffee is drawn on the background.
    What we need: A lot of videos which show 3d to 2d conversion with different effects.
    1. Coffee starts to flow down through the esophagus to the stomach. A clock that is connected to the stomach extends to the right of the man’s body. A text is shown ( Coffee provides the body with antioxidants. It can reduce the risk of certain cancers by up to 24%)
    More detailed description: The clock shows the time that takes for coffee to cause its effect
    1. Coffee enters the vessels and the connection line fades out.
    2. Coffee goes to the brain. The clock rings and shows the the start of coffee effect. The brain pulses one time.
    More detailed description: The time of effect has to appear on top of the clock and then fade out. A sphere around the head is moving the sphere is a network from the caffeine formula
    1. Camera zooms in the brain, and the brain surface including the brain receptors is shown.
    More detailed description: An animation shows the effects of adenosine in the brain
    1. Camera zooms out and the screen changes from brain surface to the body (body is shown with the muscles instead of blood system)
    2. Camera zooms in on the head immediately and shows the heart pulse
    3. Camera zooms out and the body starts to animate and its pose is changed to focus in the biceps. During this animation camera zooms on the biceps muscle and shows the them growing in volume
    4. Camera zooms out again and shows 3 cups of coffee entering the background one by one. As each one enters, the muscles grow a little bit in volume  
    5. The scene becomes dark.
    6. two bloody cartoon eyes open from close shot and information is shown ( drinking coffee before going to sleep or heavy usage, 6-8 cups of coffee, can cause trouble in sleeping)
    7. The information keeps coming with some related thumbnails from right and left side of the eyes and the eyes turn to the information when it is shown.
    More detailed description: Information is:
        1. heavy usage, 6-8 cups of coffee, can cause abnormal heart activity (show a heart with stronger pulses
        2. heavy usage, 6-8 cups of coffee, can lead to muscle tremor/ Trembling and twitching
        3. heavy usage, 6-8 cups of coffee, can lead to muscle tremor/ Trembling and twitching
        4. heavy usage, 6-8 cups of coffee, can be unhealthy and cause restlessness
    1. The camera zooms in on the left eye and the reflect of a cup of coffee with an animated cartoon smoke  on top of it. The eye will be a little shaky as an indication of the stress in the eye
    2. The camera zooms more and shows just the cup of coffee and the black background which is actually the eye.
    3. Camera zooms out and shows a lot of cups of coffee in the scene
    4. Camera keeps zooming out and all of the cups are changed to the seeds of coffe
    5. The 2d seeds change to 3d and all fall down
    6. The camera comes down and the seeds drop on a white ground where a stem of coffee is being shown
    7. The coffee stem is traced and is shown in a white background and some information about coffee plant pops up
    8. A seed of coffee falls down from the stem to the ground
    9. The seed of coffee falls down on many other seeds
    10. The camera zooms out and shows the first machine in a coffee production plant
    11. Coffee production process in 2D...
    12. Coffee packages are moving on a transport roll
    13. Camera rotates and shows the roll in a front view, coffee packages move towards the camera and fall down
    14. The camera zooms out more and shows the man standing in a coffee farm
    15. Camera comes down and shows a stem of a coffee plant and its seeds
    16. The coffee stem is traced and is shown in a white background and some information about coffee plant pops up
    17. A seed of coffee falls down from the stem to the ground
    18. The seed of coffee falls down on many other seeds
    19. The camera zooms out and shows the first machine in a coffee production plant
    20. Coffee production process in 2D...
    21. Coffee packages are moving on a transport roll
    22. Camera rotates and shows the roll in a front view, coffee packages move towards the camera and fall down
    23. The background is white, some information about the production and supply of coffee is shown in text. Also, coffee packages continue to fall down
    24. The information keeps coming and coffee packages continue to fall down
    25. The information keeps coming until the whole page gets filled with boxes. The main suppliers’ names in the world is shown on the boxes (Companies with more share in the supply will have their name on more boxes)
    26. The cabinet door starts to close as if the coffee packages are in the cabinet and the background goes white
    27. The world map appears in ¾ view and the largest manufacturers  of coffee start raise from the map. Numbers counts the percentage of the production on top of each of these countries. The color of countries changes from yellow to dark brown based on their production.
    28. The camera rotates from ¾ to top view and the map colors change to a single color. Some flags drop on the coffee consumer countries by order of their consumption
    29. The camera zooms on the map of Canada and the map starts to be colored with different colors upward. The colors shows the main coffeehouses that exist in Canada
    30. The colors divide the map so that the area of each color is equal the amount of each coffeehouse sales in Canada
    31. Canada map rotate vertically 360 degrees and an image of a cup of coffee is sketched. Some information about coffee consumption per Canadian is shown while the sketch of the cup is being colored. Some steam appears rising from the cup of coffee.
    32. The cup of coffee is traced against a white background and it changes to a 3d one which is placed on a white table in a coffeehouse.
    33. The camera zooms out and shows a man picking up the cup of coffee in a coffeehouse
    34. When the man starts to drink the camera zooms on the man face.
    35. The camera zoom out and shows the man in the farm coffee.
    36. The camera rotates from side view to front view and the man is traced and changes from 3d to 2d mode.
    37. Coffee starts to come down and the effects of coffee on the man body is shown.
    38. Effects of coffee in the stomach with some text information
    39. Effects of coffee in the blood with some text information
    40. Effects of coffee in the brain with some text information
    41. Effects of coffee in the muscles with some text information
    42. Short term effect of coffee on health
    43. Long term effect of coffee on health
    44. Coffee diseases
    45. Animate 2d man from standing to sitting
    46. draw all background
    47. change the 2d man and 2d background to 3d
    48. The man put the cup of coffee on the white table and says the conclusion
    49. Camera rotate to top view and zoom in the coffee
    50. some text about the producers,... is shown on the dark background
    51. The text fades out and a drop of cream falls down into the dark background, which  is actually coffee. Coffee waves become apparent because of the drop falling down
    52. Black background - Finish!

    Tuesday, 13 March 2012

    Color palette!



    if you guys have any colors you want/need please let me know i will add them!! :)

    Drinking sequence sample


    What we have to do


    We are trying to fix our animation plan. I post our current plan in Coffee Blog so please shoot your comment to change it if it needs.
    Maja will starts to draw a story board on Friday (Thumbnails)
    Shane will gather all of our coffee researches (Art Direction)
    Andrew will try to rig a 3d model. The model grabs a cup of coffee and drinks coffee ( One step further!)
    Farzad will post what information we need for each sequence exactly (Flow of data)

    Please leave a comment if you need more explanation