What worked well and why? I enjoyed rebuilding the foundation of my craft by focusing on Art and Animation fundamentals and what tells a story rather than on expressing myself. The lectures were great and I enjoyed the Group Work, especially in my initial (and eventually Final) Group. I loved putting ideas out there, andContinue reading Animation Studio – Personal Reflection
So today we continued with our little Flour Sack as practice. In this case, we focused on secondary movement, such as how hair, loose clothing or jewellery would have its own weight, and therefore it could have its own timing and frame rate when compared to the primary action. Rather than my own Flour Sack,Continue reading Animation Studio – AniJam (Week 10) – Secondary Action Practice – Line Art & Colour
I’m combining both AniJam and Build A World in this post, as I think it would be important. Today was an opportunity to be introduced to the softwares known as CelAction and Duik (A plug-in for after effects) through a guest lecturer who shows us how to use the programs within a professional setting. AlthoughContinue reading Animation Studio – AniJam/Build A World (Week 11) – Paul McGrath guest lecture and Animating 2D effects
I created my original storyboard, based on what was written in my part of the story layout that was decided upon when I returned to the group. But this was revised to fit into 8 seconds, rather than the original 15 seconds that I thought was available to me. I will no longer byContinue reading Animation Studio – AniJam/Build A World (Week 9) – Animatics and Secondary Actions
We started the day with Alec showing us how to animate a flour sack jumping from one side to the other. We take what we learned about the 12 Principles so far from the Bouncing Ball (such as changing form while retaining volume. Squash and Stretch) So this exercise was for us to learn howContinue reading Animation Studio – AniJam/Build A World (Week 8) – Storyboarding & Animating With Forms
Today we practiced animating in Krita, starting with the most basic of animations – the bouncing ball. A bouncing ball was part of the portfolio I presented when applying for this course, so it was good to revisit it again. It was an opportunity to approach it a little differently to before. IContinue reading Animation Studio – AniJam (Week 7) – Animation Introduction
This morning we studied character design, which included an exercise were we were given unusual shapes to work from. Here are the results I got from them. It was a great way to flex the mind and create some interesting faces. We also looked at how shapes can be used dis-proportionately to create all kindsContinue reading Animation Studio – AniJam (Week 5) – Character Design
The study of colour. I went through the videos provided as recommended study, including Echo Gillette’s ‘This is not BLUE (a Lesson in color theory), in which she discussed how 2 out of 3 of the primary colours that we learned from a young age, are in fact secondary colours that can be created theContinue reading Animation Studio – AniJam (Week 4) – Colour
The strongest lights and darkest shadows…and a lot of greys in between. Without colour, we’re still left with awesome imagery when it is presented well. I practiced this exercise within the context of my Build A World project by focusing on Disney-related stuff. I may still have 2 separate blog posts with these images –Continue reading Animation Studio – AniJam (Week 3) – Tone
After investigating the shapes and forms of characters, we now move onto the shapes and forms of backgrounds, which come in the form of Composition and Perspective, and rely much more on the position of a horizon than whether produce creates the form. Among the non-disney and non-anime animated films I adore is April andContinue reading Animation Studio – AniJam (Week 2) – Composition and Perspective
