What worked Well? If I was to say what worked during the pre-production process of the Animation Studio module, I would say the tone/value worked the best for me as it helped me understand lighting and values in 2D Art. Before I had issues with lighting in my art work, but thanks to studying the […]
Week 5 – Character Design
For the Character design portion of the pre-production workflow, I decided to look into the dragon character more than the human as I’m more used to working with Monster designs over humans, but I have created a version of the main human character for the animation which is a much older looking character, disgruntled and […]
Week 4 – Colour
Before I could begin adding colour into my artwork and create concept art for the animation short, I wanted to study some colour theory in which I investigated 3 separate animated films from 2 stills and 1 Concept Art. First, I began by studying what colour theory was and how I can implement it […]
Week 3 – Tone/Value
For the thumbnails I have chosen to expand on, I want to add some tone & value to the compositions, creating lighting for the thumbnails to get the feel for the tone of the scene which we decided to go for a mix of a dried desert tone for outside and a mystical style of […]
Week 2 – Composition & Perspective
Before I create the thumbnails that will be the depiction of what my group is developing for the final animation, I first did research and studies based on existing stills from various sources from Animation stills to Video Game Concept Art To understand Perspective, I had to first learn about how One Point […]
Week 1 – Shapes and Forms
Week 1 – We were tasked to find characters that we wanted to study the forms and shapes of to better understand how to design a character using basic shapes. I decided on two characters from the 2020 film by Cartoon Saloon, Wolfwalkers, because their forms contrast differently from each other and shows the differences […]