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University of Ulster Animation Portfolio
Week Zero, the first week of university. What an exciting time! For our first week, to help everyone get to know each other as we began this year working from home, Alec asked us to create an introduction video about ourselves. This was a really fun exercise and I really enjoyed polishing off myContinue reading Week 0 – Introduction Project & Portfolio
The Cartoons That Time Forgot – The Life, Works and Death of Van Beuren Studios [Cathair Kerrigan, History of Animation Essay]
Week 1 – Form & Shape Week 2 – Composition & Perspective Week 3 – Tone & Value Week 4 – Colour Week 5 – Character Week 7 – Animation Introduction (Ball Bounce) Week 8 – Storyboarding and Animating Forms Week 9 – Animatic Week 12Continue reading Portfolio
The final week of the semester, what a time it has been. I’ve learned a lot over the past 12 weeks. It hasn’t been an easy semester but I’m glad that I stuck with it. I’ve absolutely loved the course so far and can’t wait to get stuck back in for semester two, but first,Continue reading Week 12 – Final Animation
This week, we were tasked with producing an animatic. Animatics are essentially moving storyboards that animators use to work out the timing of their shots and scenes. Different studios and animators have different ways of approaching animatics, whether it be to simply cut from storyboard frame to storyboard frame, or to add in key poses,Continue reading Week 9 – Animatic
This week we looked at creating a storyboard for our Design-A-World Project as well as animating with forms. (Source: https://www.deviantart.com/adventuresofp2/art/LILO-and-STITCH-2-STORYBOARDS-534200426) The best way to describe what a storyboard is would likely be that it’s a visual script. The goal of a storyboard is to show the layouts of a scene, the position of the charactersContinue reading Week 8 – Storyboarding & Animating With Forms
This week we looked at the bouncing ball animation exercise. (Source: https://www.angryanimator.com/word/2010/11/26/animation-tutorial-1-bouncing-ball/) The bouncing ball is a classic animation exercise that is still useful and practiced today. The bouncing ball is arguably the core animation exercise. It covers many of the 12 principles of animation such as timing, spacing, squash and stretch, arcs, slow inContinue reading Week 7 – Animation Introduction (Ball Bounce)
This week, we began looking at character design. (Source: https://characterdesignreferences.com/art-of-animation-6/art-of-monsters-inc) Characters are one of the most important aspects of animation. The characters are who the audience connects to and sees the story through the eyes of and so their designs must be as good as they can be. Last week, we discussed how colours canContinue reading Week 5 – Character
This week, we covered colour. Colour in animation, similarly to tone and value, can bring a scene to life in a variety of different ways. From enchanting backgrounds drawing you into the world to portraying the mood of a scene, a colour palette choice can completely change how your audience views your scene or character.Continue reading Week 4 – Colour