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Animation Studio – Build A World (Week 12) Final Design Plans, References, Choices and Goals Before Animating

For this post, I’m gathering the materials.  I will include the Final Storyboard and Animatic, but not be showing the 8 Second Animation as it will come later (and will have the Storyboard and Animatic present there as well).  Instead I will be focusing on references and design choices, as well as some of the materialsContinue reading Animation Studio – Build A World (Week 12) Final Design Plans, References, Choices and Goals Before Animating

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Animation Studio – AniJam (Week 10) – Secondary Action Practice – Line Art & Colour

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

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Animation Studio – AniJam/Build A World (Week 11) – Paul McGrath guest lecture and Animating 2D effects

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

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Animation Studio – Build A World (Week 10)

Our Group work continued as we seeked to get everybody’s Animatics together and put into sequence. We were missing a few, and when we got the remaining pieces we realised that it didn’t flow quite as well as it could.  So, while we were still in the stages of getting it well-timed and coherent, weContinue reading Animation Studio – Build A World (Week 10)

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Animation Studio – AniJam/Build A World (Week 9) – Animatics and Secondary Actions

  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

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Animation Studio – AniJam/Build A World (Week 8) – Storyboarding & Animating With Forms

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

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Animation Studio – Build A World (Week 7)

Even though I technically joined the Disney Dystopians (Group Two) again last week (via message on Discord), it was only this week when I truly got to do some work with them.  In this case, it was me, Zoe and Andrea.  We decided to take some of the notes and references that had already beenContinue reading Animation Studio – Build A World (Week 7)

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Animation Studio – AniJam (Week 7) – Animation Introduction

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

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Animation Studio – Build A World (Week 6)

  I was brainstorming a little bit when I presented this – although I consider whether or not a story could be told in such a short period of time. It is also during this time that I consider the passing of the actor Robbie Coltrane – I brought up the idea that he somehowContinue reading Animation Studio – Build A World (Week 6)

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3D Literacy Assignment 2 – (Week 9) – Retopology

Today I was introduced to Retopology – the act of taking a 3D Model and bringing it’s Poly number down from millions to thousands.  We were given an Elephant’s head to work on, and after the lesson, we practiced… Not so you would notice, but I did struggle with this exercise. Then tried again, andContinue reading 3D Literacy Assignment 2 – (Week 9) – Retopology