Nick Park Nick Park is a British animator, director and writer best known as the creator of Wallace and Gromit, Creature Comforts and Shaun the Sheep. Park has been nominated for an Academy Award a total of six times, as well as receiving five BAFTA Awards including the BAFTA for Best Short Animation. His interest…Continue Reading Animation: Research
Guy Martin Guy Martin is a photographer who graduated with a BA(HONS) in Documentary Photography from the University of Wales. Since then, he has been a member of Panos Pictures and initially began to document the revolutions sweeping through the Middle East and North Africa. From 2012 onwards, he has travelled the world capturing powerful…Continue Reading Photography: Research
We were given the brief of creating an app that encourages people to go outside. I decided to design an app that not only does this, but also boosts the users mental health. I began by brainstorming ideas for my app. I decided to make the target audience people aged 16+, as I felt that…Continue Reading Interaction Design: App Design
I had a lot of fun using Krita, and although it was confusing at the start, I quickly got the hang of it. Before the lesson, I had researched the 12 principles of animation, and found this to be really helpful when creating the bouncing ball piece. I decided to add colour to the bouncing…Continue Reading Animation: Krita
I really enjoyed creating these clips, and tried to include character and make them enjoyable to watch IMG_9415 IMG_9416 IMG_9417 IMG_9418 IMG_9419…Continue Reading Animation: StopMotion
For this brief, we were assigned the task of modifying the well loved game ‘Battleship.’ After being taught about decision making in games, I wanted to try and focus on the aspect of blind decisions. I didn’t want to divert too much from the original game and so didn’t remove any of the original rules….Continue Reading Game Design: Battleship
“Distorted Dreams” For this task, we were given the brief to create a photobook exploring objects that are often overlooked, and find the beauty in them. We were told to cerate a “poetic vision like a dream” and convey similes and metaphors within our images. I really enjoyed this task and the creativity it…Continue Reading Photography: photobook
I decided to create a character called “fat flop,” who is a cat that just can’t stop eating. I wanted my target audience to be young children, and for Fat Flop to be a funny character. His backstory begins when he was a kitten, he was abandoned in a bin outside of a restaurant. He…Continue Reading Animation: Character design
Upon beginning the animation task, we were told to do some research on the 12 principles of animation. These principles are important for understanding motion work and form the basis of all animation work. Squash and Stretch: This principle is considered the most important of the 12 principles. When applied, it gives the animated characters…Continue Reading 12 Principles of Animation Research
Finished drawings For these 12 paper drawings, I decided to move away from the monochrome approach of my initial 26 drawings, and instead developed a colour palette to work from. The colours were pink, blue and turquoise, as I believed that these would compliment each other whilst still providing enough contrast. I measured each frame…Continue Reading Graphic Design: 12 Paper Drawings