For this week’s practical assignment, I was asked to animate a flour sack. I was given the freedom to animate it doing whatever I wanted, and initially I decided to animate it falling onto the ground. I made the sack sag and become lumpy as it settled, to show the flour moving inside. I also […]

This week I was asked t0 animate three balls of different weights bouncing on the ground, to practice timing, spacing, and physics. I animated a rubber bouncy ball, a tennis ball, and a bowling ball. I used videos of balls being dropped onto the floor from YouTube as reference. The bowling ball animation turned out […]

This week I studied value and how it’s used to create depth in images. Value is the scale of light to dark in a piece, represented in greyscale. It’s often considered to be one of the most important aspects of art, as it can make or break some works. It’s important that pieces have clear […]

For practical skills, this week we studied shape and form. I drew several basic shapes and then thought of the ways I could add onto them to make them 3D. I then took the 3D shapes and tried to rotate and twist them to make new shapes. I also tried adding two 3D shapes together […]