Week 10 – Rough Animation / Backgrounds

Space Zoo: Dylan Short, Tim Vogan, Odhran McManus, Lauren Maxwell, Aveen Fitzpatrick, Finn Mc Loughlin Tools Used: Clip Studio Paint Backgrounds: As of writing this, I haven’t made a start on my rough animation. But I have made progress in creating backgrounds for almost every shot. The first background I completed was for shot 1. WhenContinue reading Week 10 – Rough Animation / Backgrounds

Week 9 – Animatics & Secondary Actions

Space Zoo: Dylan Short, Tim Vogan, Odhran McManus, Lauren Maxwell, Aveen Fitzpatrick, Finn Mc Loughlin Assignment: We’d like you to discuss and take on advice and feedback on your storyboards from yesterday’s class – Make necessary changes if needed to your storyboards. Your reasons on design / edit choices and response to feedback should beContinue reading Week 9 – Animatics & Secondary Actions

Week 8 – Storyboarding & Animating with forms

Space Zoo (Final Team): Dylan Short, Tim Vogan, Odhran McManus, Lauren Maxwell, Aveen Fitzpatrick, Finn Mc Loughlin Assignment: Create storyboards for your chain / linked animation with your teams and work on final designs for characters / creatures to help with design consistency. Animate a flour sack character – Plan out an action, for example, jumping / falling / emotion – whatever takesContinue reading Week 8 – Storyboarding & Animating with forms

Week 7 – Animation Introduction

Space Zoo (Final Team): Dylan Short, Tim Vogan, Odhran McManus, Lauren Maxwell, Aveen Fitzpatrick, Finn Mc Loughlin Design a world – Animation task In your new groups – discuss and plan out a linking / chain animation based on your world theme. In your groups, each student is asked to animate between 5 – 8 secondsContinue reading Week 7 – Animation Introduction

Week 5 – Character Design

Group 5 (Space Olympics): Dylan Short, Leon Moody, Lel Vaisla, Eimear Doherty, Charlotte Dorans Assignment: Character descriptions – Consider the factors in your world, character back stories / descriptions, personality traits, or other practical elements about your characters that impact your design choices. See the character design template document below that can help give prompts to someContinue reading Week 5 – Character Design

Animation Studio – Week 4 – Colour

Group 5 (Space Olympics): Dylan Short, Leon Moody, Lel Vaisla, Eimear Doherty, Charlotte Dorans Assignments: Complete Exercise 1 : Colour Schemes Complete Exercise 2 : Colour and Emotions Consider looking into different artists styles of how they work with colour – pick images or stills from films/ animations that you like and create a basicContinue reading Animation Studio – Week 4 – Colour

Animation Studio – Week 4 – Colour – In class exercise 1 & 2

Group 5 (Space Olympics): Dylan Short, Leon Moody, Lel Vaisla, Eimear Doherty, Charlotte Dorans Tools Used: Adobe Colour Microsoft Snipping Tool EXERCISE 1: Colour based on my world theme of ‘Space Olympics’ created using Adobe Colour. Earth Jupiter    Mars Mars Snowboarding    Moon EXERCISE 2: I was tasked to go out an take photosContinue reading Animation Studio – Week 4 – Colour – In class exercise 1 & 2

Animation Studio – Week 3 – Tone & Value

Group 5 (Space Olympics): Dylan Short, William Dolan, Meaghan McGuire, Leon Moody, Lel Vaisla Assignments: Create 6 thumbnail value studies for your world – Make use of value range. Pick your one thumbnail to  illustrate a larger/longer focus study combining composition & tonality – either a full sketchbook page or HD digital page.   ToolsContinue reading Animation Studio – Week 3 – Tone & Value