I felt my animation of the shark cracking its knuckles worked well as I felt my use of arcs and timing helped to make the animation seem more fluid and natural. I am pleased with my first shot of the crab struggling to get out of the chair as I felt I had good useContinue reading Animation Studio – Final animation reflection
We started off this week with a lecture on how to use the bezier curve tool and the brush stabiliser in krita to get cleaner lines for our animations. I found the bezier curve a lot easier to use than the brush stabiliser but I think a lot of that comes down to I amContinue reading Week 10 – Animation Studio – Line Clean up and Colouring
For this week we had to start creating an animatic based on our pre existing world and storyboard. We started off with a lecture from Aodhan on how to use After Effects and Krita to create animatics. I again had the issue of no computer but I watched along someone else’s computer so i couldContinue reading Week 9 – Animation Studio – Animatic
A storyboard is a collection of panels arranged consecutively to show the planned action of a scene. This week we learnt about the different techniques used in storyboarding and what we should and shouldn’t do to make our storyboards easy to understand and visually appealing. We looked at the basics of staging such as aContinue reading Week 8 – Animation Studio – Storyboarding
We started off this week with a presentation on the basics of animation such as timing, spacing, and the twelve principles of animation. We then learnt about one of my favourite techniques in animation, Squash and Stretch. I like this technique as I feel it adds a lot of life and personality to any movement.Continue reading Week 7 – Animation Studio – Animation Fundamentals
We started off this week by learning the basics of character designs before jumping into creating our own. We learnt about taking inspiration from real life and always using reference. We then learnt of shape design in characters. We learnt that square characters tend to be safe, reliable and strong. Circle characters are childlike, friendlyContinue reading Week 5 – Animation Studio – Character and Concept Design
We started to learn about different colour schemes this week such as complementary, monochromatic, and triadic. Complementary colour schemes work with two colours opposite each other on the colour wheel ,monochromatic colour schemes work with one colour, and triadic colour schemes work with three colours equally spaced on the colour wheel. We also learned aboutContinue reading Week 4 – Animation Studio – Colour
For this week we started to look at tonal drawings which are a way to show how light or dark an area is. Our first exercise was to pick a prop from our world and sketch it out using tone and value to shade it. I chose a guitar as I felt it would fitContinue reading Week 3 – Animation Studio – Tone And Value
For this week we were focusing on the different methods of how to design intriguing compositions. As I did my A levels in Moving Image Art and a foundation year in art, these terms were all very familiar to me. We started off looking at the rule of thirds which focuses on positioning a subjectContinue reading Week 2 – Animation Studio – Composition and Perspective
Our first homework task for the animation studio module was to pick three animated characters before breaking them down into basic form and shape. For my three characters I picked Grim from The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, Fry from Futurama, and Alucard from Castlevania. I chose Grim as my first character as IContinue reading Week 1 Shape and Form Exercise
