Drawings of final 

Final Animation Link and Evaluation 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayvWdjzv4Bw&feature=youtu.be

In my evaluation I feel it didn't go as well as I like because I was trying a concept art piece meaning I drew out the parts I would like to feature in the animation. As I drew out the sections I feel that it didn't flow as well through because I didn't draw the sections thoroughly and in detail so it feels that it jumps through giving that feeling of something missing. I thought I could of drew out the sections better and possibly using a different material rather than pen, I believe that I should of used paint so you wouldn't see the different lines in the drawing pieces. However with the drawings I feel that it did work with in the age bracket I was drawing for and it does have that cartoon, child effect drawing I was going for. 

When I placed the drawings into after effects and placed the type on drawings I found it was difficult to display the type with the speed of the drawings were going because I had to keep the them to look like a form of flip book. So I found a balance where you can read the type I've displayed with the speed of the drawings going through but I feel that its still going through to quickly meaning there isn't enough time to read the type. However I feel the title works well as a piece showing a handwritten style, I tried to portray an effect that it is hand written. 

Overall if I do this project again I believe I would keep the same concept as doing concept art because that is a part of motion graphic I'm mostly interested into. What I would do to make this animation better I would draw the parts in more detail and draw more of the sections to make it more flow better and so it wouldn't jump to different sections. 

Motion graphics Case Study

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neUGDUpVyCQ

In this piece of motion graphics I feel it don't flow well within the animation, but I believe this is because the animation is a showreel animation meaning showing parts of different work. The part that interested me was from 24 seconds, because it looked like a illustration made into a motion graphic with the black lines coming out of the drawing person giving that graphic look about it. I feel that part contrasts well with the strong black colour making it more dominant to look at with the background being a light tinge of brown and purple not excessive so it doesn't over power what is in the middle ground. As it progresses through you see the black lines from the illustration forming the logo "young channel." from the young channel logo it forms other motion graphics showing other ways of processing the logo. The part I liked the most was the second part with the logo formed in cubes then breaks apart and the cubes come out towards you in a 3d motion.  I found the typography side of the motion graphic interesting to watch because I believe that it stood out well in the graphic elements, more often than the other graphic elements in the piece of motion graphic. However as a piece in general I didn't enjoy the motion graphics because I found it boring to watch, there wasn't enough excitement and thrill to keep me to watch on, this is possibly because it is showing clips from different animations and that is why it didn't grab my attention. 

Storyboard

Target audience 

my target audience is aimed at children with the ages between 6-12 year olds. My motion graphics would be aimed at these ages because it is very childlike and would be easy to understand the aesthetic of the artwork. The motion graphics would be displayed as an introduction before entering the exhibition at the Maritime museum about the cannonball. 

Concept art 

http://www.buck.tv/work/facebook-friends/

i enjoy this motion graphic because it is a form of concept art, i like how you can see they are drawings with the pen material going out of the lines creating that feel of a drawing style. the drawings create a narrative throughout the animation but i feel the drawings are quite basic and doesn't show a lot of detail but detailed enough to create the narrative. in the end of the animation i like the part with the type jumping up and down giving an effect of someone has drawn out the type and the Facebook like.

http://www.buck.tv/work/hive/

i find that the drawings are simple but effective with the narrative running through the animation. i find that there isn't enough of colour to catch my eye. unlike the other animation above there is more detail in the drawings creating the narrative stronger throughout the narrative.

http://www.buck.tv/work/blackout/

in this piece i like how they used black and white continuously through the animation, it contrasts well with each other and showing a narrative through the drawings. the drawings were highly detailed in some areas of the drawings which caught my attention. the drawing style was simplistic which was good because it got over complicated you would of lost the detail in the drawings and the simplicity of them as well. 

http://www.buck.tv/work/a-taste-adventure/

i really enjoyed this short animation, i like the detail and the colours which has been used complements well with each other and also works well with the animal(grouse). i like the abstractness of the animation, meaning the colours and the way it was produced to be of the grouse swimming in the drink, in a minimalist but not noticeable fashion. 

http://www.buck.tv/work/goodbooks/

http://www.buck.tv/work/gud-happens/

as like the ginger grouse, they have used a lot of colour in the motion graphics and showing detail of a city, i like how the women is walking pass she is making the city come alive with colour. The colours are strong and vibrant which clearly stands out in the animation against the dark dull colours used as well.

http://www.buck.tv/work/history/

in this short animation you can see that it is mountain dew, and the way it has expressed the drink in a colourful way it has a feeling of a pop art movement through the animation which found interesting to watch. theres not a lot of colours been used in this animation but they seem like theres more been used because of the detail and the movement through the animation. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8ilPAEgkpA 

Cannonball types 

round shot: 

Round shot (or solid shot, or a cannonball, or simply ball) is a solid projectile without explosive charge, fired from a cannon. As the name implies, round shot is spherical; its diameter is slightly less than the bore of the gun from which it is fired.

Round shot was made in early times from dressed stone, referred to as gunstone  but by the 17th century, from iron. In land battles, round shot would often plough through many ranks of troops, causing multiple casualties. Unlike the fake gunpowder explosions representing roundshot in movies, real roundshot was more like a bouncing bowling ball, which would not stop after the initial impact, but continue and tear through anything in its path. It could bounce when it hit the ground, striking men at each bounce. The casualties from round shot were extremely gory; when fired directly into an advancing column, a cannon was capable of passing straight through up to forty men. Even when most of its kinetic energy is expended, a round shot still has enough momentum to knock men over and cause gruesome injury. This round shot smashed into the victory at the battle of Trafalgar and is still mounted on a piece of the timber in which it lodged. Even when warships were locked together, their gun crews continued to fire at point- black range.

chain shot:

In artillery, chain-shot is an obsolete type of naval ammunition formed of two sub-calibre balls, or half-balls, chained together. Bar shot is similar, but joined by a solid bar. They were used in naval warfare in the age of sailing ships and black powder cannons to shoot masts, or to cut the shrouds and any other rigging of a target ship. When fired, after leaving the muzzle, the shot's components tumble in the air, and the connecting chain fully extends. In past use, as much as six feet of chain would sweep through the target. However, the tumbling made both bar and chain shot less accurate, so they were used at shorter ranges. 

chain shot was normally not used as an anti-personnel load; this role was fulfilled more effectively and at lower cost by canister shot or grapeshot. The military usefulness of chain shot died out as wooden sail-powered ships were replaced with armored steam ships—first among navies, and then among commercial fleets—which do not have rigging to serve as proper targets for chain-shot. Additionally, the conversion of naval armament from smoothbore, muzzle loaded, black powdercannons to rifled, breech loaded guns further slowed the production of new chain shot ammunition; the chain would damage barrels (degrading maximum range, and further degrading effective range by degrading accuracy), and the new breech loading guns and their ammunition were meant to be effective against armored vessels as well as wooden sailing vessels.

canister shot:

Canister shot (or case-shot) is a kind of anti-personnel ammunition used in cannons. It was similar to the naval grapeshot, but fired smaller and more numerous balls, which did not have to punch through the wooden hull of a ship. Canister shot has been used since the advent of gunpowder-firing artillery in Western armies; however, canister (or case) shot saw particularly frequent use on land and at sea in the various wars of the 18th and 19th century. Canister shot consists of a closed metal cylinder typically filled with round lead or iron balls, normally packed with sawdust to add more solidity and cohesion to the mass and to prevent the balls from crowding each other when the round was fired. At times when the supply of balls was limited, nails, scrap iron or lead, wire, and other similar metal objects were included. The canister itself was usually made of tin, often dipped in a lacquer of beeswax diluted with turpentine to prevent corrosion of the metal. Iron was substituted for tin for larger-calibre guns. The ends of the canister were closed with wooden or metal disks. Attached to the back of the metal canister was a cloth cartridge bag, which contained the round's gunpowder charge which was used to fire the canister from the gun barrel. A sabot of wood, metal, or similar material was used to help guide the round during firing from the cannon. The canister round is also known as a case (hence the alternative name of case shot sometimes used for canister shot) and is still used today in modern artillery, particularly in the main armament of tanks with smoothbore cannons. 

Shrapnel or spherical case shot:

Shrapnel shells were anti-personnel artillery munitions which carried a large number of individual bullets close to the target and then ejected them to allow them to continue along the shell's trajectory and strike the target individually. They relied almost entirely on the shell's velocity for their lethality. The functioning and principles behind Shrapnel shells are fundamentally different from high-explosive shell fragmentation. Shrapnel is named after Major-General Henry Shrapnel (1761–1842), a British artillery officer, whose experiments, initially conducted in his own time and at his own expense, culminated in the design and development of a new type of artillery shell.

Shell:

A shell is a payload-carrying projectile which, as opposed to shot, contains an explosive or other filling, though modern usage sometimes includes large solid projectiles properly termed shot (AP, APCR, APCNR, APDS, APFSDS and proof shot). Solid shot may contain a pyrotechnic compound if a tracer or spotting charge is used. Originally it was called a "bombshell", but "shell" has come to be unambiguous in a military context. "Bombshell" is still used figuratively to refer to an extremely sexually attractive woman and a shockingly unexpected happening or revelation.

All explosive- and incendiary-filled projectiles, particularly for mortars, were originally called grenades, derived from the pomegranate, whose seeds are similar to grains of powder. Words cognate with grenade are still used for an artillery or mortar projectile in some European languages. Shells are usually large-calibre projectiles fired by artillery and combat vehicles (including tanks), and warships.Shells usually have the shape of a cylinder topped by an ogive-shaped nose for good aerodynamic performance, possibly with a tapering base; but some specialized types are quite different.

Grapeshot:

In artillery, a grapeshot is a type of shot that is not one solid element, but a mass of small metal balls or slugs packed tightly into a canvas bag. 

It was used both in land and naval warfare. When assembled, the balls resembled a cluster of grapes, hence the name. On firing, the balls spread out from the muzzle, giving an effect similar to a giant shotgun.

Grapeshot was devastatingly effective against massed infantry at short range. It was used to savage massed infantry chargesquickly. Cannons would fire solid shot to attack enemy artillery and troops at longer range and switch to grape when they or nearby troops were charged. When used in naval warfare grapeshot served a dual purpose. First it continued its role as an anti-personnel projectile. However, the effect was diminished due to a large portion of the crew being below decks and the addition of hammock netting in iron brackets intended to slow or stop smaller shot. Second, the balls were cast large enough to cut rigging, destroy spars, blocks, and puncture multiple sails.

Carcass:

A carcass was an early form of incendiary bomb or shell, intended to set targets on fire. It comprised an external casing, usually of cast iron, filled with a highly flammable mixture, and having three to five holes through which the burning filling could blaze outward. 

Carcasses were shot from howitzers, mortars, and other cannons to set fire to buildings and defenses; on impact, the shell shattered, spreading its incendiary filling around the target. Congreve rockets were also sometimes fitted with carcass heads.

They were named carcass because the circles which pass from one ring, or plate, to the other, were thought to resemble the ribs of a human carcass.

Battle of Trafalgar

The Battle of Trafalgar was fought on the 21st of October 1805 off Cape Trafalgar on the Spanish coast, between the combined fleets of Spain and France and the Royal Navy. It was the last great sea action of the period and its significance to the outcome of the war in Europe is still debated by historians.

The battle itself was the culmination of a long campaign. After the Treaty of Amiens Europe was at peace for 14 months. Many ships in the Royal Navy were paid off and the British returned to their peace time activities. But across the Channel in France Napoleon was planning the next stage of his domination of Europe. He realised that if war broke out again then the Royal Navy would blockade French and continental ports as they had done before and French overseas trade would be crippled. So he planned to invade England and free the seas for French trade. He ordered the building of a fleet of invasion barges and the Grand Army was moved to the Pas de Calais area.
But to get the army across safely the French fleet would need to control the English Channel. To this end he tried to engineer a meeting of his fleets so they could control the sealanes, and protect his invasion barges. He gave orders for the fleets in Toulon, Brest and Ferrol to break out of their blockaded ports.

The battle was the most decisive naval victory of the war. Twenty-seven British ships of the line led by Admiral Lord Nelson aboard HMS victory defeated thirty-three French and Spanish ships of the line under French Admiral Pierre-Charles Villenueve off the southwest coast of Spain, just west of Cape Trafalgar, in Caños de Meca. The Franco-Spanish fleet lost twenty-two ships, without a single British vessel being lost. The Royal Navy annihilated the greatest threat to British security for 200 years.

Nelson discovered that Villeneuve had sailed out of the Med and resumed the chase on the 10th May across the Atlantic to the West Indies. Eventually following the French and Spanish fleet back again to Europe. Villeneuve waited for Ganteaume to join him. But Ganteaume failed to break the British blockade, so Villeneuve sailed back for Ferrol.
He encountered Calders squadron of 15 battleships off Cape Finisterre on 22nd of July. They fought an abortive action in poor visabilty. Calder captured two French ships, and several of the British ships were damaged. Calder failed to press home the action, for which he was severely criticized.
(After Calder joined up with Nelsons fleet he was allowed to sail back to England on the Prince of Wales in an attempt to clear his name at a court martial. The Prince of Wales was a powerful 98 gun ship, and Nelson could ill afford to lose it.)

The British frigate made the signal 370, 'Enemy's ships are coming out of port', which was repeated along the chain of ships until it reached the main fleet. Nelson then signaled the fleet for 'general chase south-east', his plan was to steer for the Straits of Gibraltar and prevent the Combined Fleet from sailing into the Mediterranean.