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…

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…

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…