After we had decided on our final and overall idea for our world, we were asked to create at least 12 thumbnails of areas that could possibly exist within our world. Some of the thumbnails needed to have one or two point perspective in them so I did my best to make that happen. Below Read More…
Design a World – Ideas
For our Design a World assignment, we were separated into groups of 5-6 people. The others in my group are Ben Hawthorne, Ben McCabe, Anna Graham and Leon Moody. Once we were separated into our groups, we used a whiteboard to write down all our possible ideas for our world that we could come up Read More…
Animation Studio – Week 2 Homework, Composition & Perspective
For our homework for our second week of class, we were asked to take three scenes from some of our favourite animations and trace over the one or two point perspective within that scene. The scenes I picked are from Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts and Spirited Away. Below are the trace overs I Read More…
Animation Studio – Week 1 Homework, Form & Shape
For our first homework we were asked to take three of our favourite animated characters and trace over them to find their underlying form. I chose three characters from three of my current favourite animated shows; The Owl House, Amphibia and Shera and the princesses of power. While doing this homework, I learned that breaking Read More…
Group Ice Breaker Activity
Today we began our Animation Studio class with an ice breaker activity – we were tasked, within our groups, with going into Belfast and taking photos of things related to prompts we were given. We worked together well, with everyone contributing clever ideas, and the tasks went smoothly; we found suitable photos for each prompt Read More…
Animation – Parts + Full Animation
As I am doing the different parts for my animation, I decided that I would upload some parts individually before everything is put together. Below are some finished parts of my animation. My full animation will also be added once it is finished. Part 3: This part, so far, took me the longest to make. Read More…
Contextual Research – Audience
For our tenth week of contextual research, we were asked to do some research into the topic of audience. According to Your Dictionary, audience means “An opportunity to be heard or to express one’s views” or “A group of persons assembled to hear and see a speaker, a play, a concert, etc” (1) (2) In Read More…
Contextual Research – Collaboration
For our ninth week of contextual research, we were asked to do some research into the topic of collaboration. According to Planview, collaboration means “to work with another person or group in order to achieve or do something”.(1) That sounds pretty simple but how simple or easy a collaboration is or would be depends on Read More…
Animation – Pre-Production
Once I had all the development aspects for my animation, I made a start on the pre-production for it, starting with deciding on character designs and drawing a more detailed and anatomically correct full bodies of each character. Character designs: Trans guy: Out of all the trans guy ideas I had initially drawn up for Read More…
Contextual Research – Aesthetics
For our eighth week of contextual research, we were asked to do some research into the topic of aesthetics. According to Philosophybasics, aesthetics is a actually a branch of philosophy that that is “concerned with the nature and appreciation of art, beauty and good taste.” Also, according to the same site, the word “aesthetics” is Read More…