Year: 2021

During animation studio, I was put in one of several groups that had to produce their own animation. I started off with a group that came up with the concept of the space Olympics, but I later switched to a group that came up with the idea of a magic academy. There were changes to…Continue Reading Animation Studio – Reflection

Genndy Tartakovsky is a Russian-American animator, born in 1970 who got into the animation industry in 1991, working an assistant animator on Tiny Toons Adventures. He did animation on several more projects before creating his first television series for Cartoon Network in 1996, Dexter’s Laboratory, and would go on to create more series for the…Continue Reading Who Influenced Genndy Tartakovsky?

The groups coming up with the world for their animations had to switch up members every week and on week 5, I had to switch groups. I was originally with the Space Olympics group, but on week 5, I switched to a group that came up with the idea of a magical academia. The conflict…Continue Reading Animation Studio – Magical Academia Animation

INTRO Satoshi Kon was a Japanese animator, director and manga artist born in 1963. He started off his artistic career doing manga, with his first manga being a short story called Toriko published in Young Magazine. He would later become an assistant to manga artist and Akira creator, Katsuhiro Otomo and collaborate with him on…Continue Reading World of Animation – Group Presentation (Satoshi Kon)

The group I started off with was group 5. We all came up with a bunch of ideas for what the subject of our animation would be and we ultimately decided on Space Olympics, where humans and a number of various alien races compete in Olympic sports. I started off doing character designs for various…Continue Reading Animation Studio – Group 5 work (Space Olympics)

Madhouse is a Japanese animation studio started in 1972. The studio came around when several animators from the now defunct anime studio, Mushi Productions. The studio was headed by manga artist Osamu Tezuka (creator of Astro Boy, Princess Knight, Dororo and a number of other series)  and was known for adapting several of his works…Continue Reading World of Animation – Japanese Animation (Studio Madhouse)

Here are the characters that I designed for the group 6 project.   Here is one of the witches that I designed. Since the world the animation is set in has mushroom people, I designed a few. and here is a few incidental characters….Continue Reading Animation Studio – Character Designs

My favorite animation/director’s use of color is Yoshiaki Kawajiri. The examples I will use are from Ninja Scroll, Cyber City Odeo 808 and Demon City Shunjuku. Kawajiri’s works, especially his early work, is known for their use of a limited color palette. His earliest work had a blue overlay over the screen which became iconic…Continue Reading Animation Studio – Color analysis

This is concept art for my animation idea. A mountain location. I rendered it in analogous color.   A panel from my storyboard rendered in secondary color These were color tests for my animation. Since it was a sci-fi setting, I wanted to experiment with the color to create a sense of a bizarre alien…Continue Reading Animation Studio – Color

Chinese animation (also known as Donghua) is animation created in China.   A common theme within Chinese animation is adapting famous stories that originated in China. An example would be the story “Journey to the West”, a story about the adventures of Sun Wukong, the monkey king. The story is one of the most well…Continue Reading World of Animation – Chinese Animation