Author: long-a8

This week I completed more storyboard drafts and used after effects for the first time to begin my animatic. After receiving feedback on my storyboards, I took away 2 unnecessary panels to make my animation a few seconds shorter and flipped panels 3-7 so the shots flowed better with the rest of the animation, keeping […]

This week, our homework was to create a storyboard for our animation and animate a flour sack character by using a pose-to-pose method. My 10-15 seconds of the animation is at the very end when Fern has realised what the headmistress has done to the headmaster. As karma, she is then touched by the mushroom […]

This week, our lecture was on the basics of animation and our homework was to animate 3 bouncing balls using Adobe Animate and to read chapter 4 of ‘The Animators Survival Kit’ by Richard Williams. I have used Adobe Animate before, so I found this exercise quite easy and very enjoyable. Through our lecture and […]

This week our homework was to fill 2 or more pages of different character design ideas, whilst considering the fundamentals covered over the past several weeks (shape, from, colour…). Along with our lecture this week covering this topic, I also found reading up on character design and looking for examples from different artist helped me […]

This week we were tasked to use either a monochromatic, analogous, complementary or triadic colour scheme on one of our previous thumbnails to create a simple environment. I chose to use a monochromatic colour scheme as my worlds for the past few weeks have both had a magical, supernatural element to them, therefore, I chose […]

This week we were tasked go outside and take photos of three different colour groups – Analogous, Complementary and Monochromatic. We then had extract the colour palettes from these images. Image 1 makes us feel happy and calm as the bright warm colours in the flowers are naturally relaxing. Image 2 has very striking colours […]

This week my group consisted of me, Lydia, Milo, Joe and Jorja, and we were given the task to complete 6 more thumbnails focusing on perspective, tone and value for our 1920s supernatural world. We then had to choose one of these thumbnails to create a more detailed drawing. I decided to do three cross […]

This week we were split into groups of 10 to come up with 100 world ideas. Some of our ideas included a world with half human-bugs, an arctic world, a lava world and a ghost world where the world gradually withers away. We were then split into smaller groups to narrow those ideas down to […]

This week I studied the underlying form of my 3 favourite animated characters. I traced over them to find their construction forms. I chose Miguel from the Pixar movie Coco, Shaggy from the Scooby-Doo cartoons and Clementine from the Walking Dead video games. I chose these characters as they are three of my favourite animated […]