Category: Animation Studio

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

During week three, we covered tone and value. (Source: https://www.zhillustrator.com/projects/YOZ03)   Tone and value refer to the use of contrast between light and dark colours within a painting, drawing, or photograph. In terms of animation, learning about tone and value is extremely important as it allows us to effectively add light to our scenes andContinue reading Week 3 – Tone & Value

In week two, we studied composition and perspective, what they are, and how to effectively utilize them in our works. This week also began the ongoing Design-A-World project in which we were grouped up to create and flesh out a world concept. (Source: https://goodmorningaomori.wordpress.com/2020/07/15/peeling-thumbnails/)   Composition and perspective are fundamental to both art and animation.Continue reading Week 2 – Composition & Perspective

During week one, we focused on learning about form and shape. One of the twelve principles laid out by Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnson in The Illusion of Life is solid drawing, using form & shape to create the illusion of 3D space on a 2D plane. Arguably one of the most important of theContinue reading Week 1 – Form and Shape