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…

Animation – Development

My 30 second animation is going to be about trans equality/discrimination. The animation will be about a trans guy being physically assaulted by strangers in black and white before a bystander in colour shouts ‘hey’ and scares the assailants off before helping the trans guy up. As the bystander helps the trans guy up, colour Read More…

Animation – Research

Topic research: For my animation for this workshop, I decided to base it around trans discrimination and trans equality because I feel it is a situation that need more awareness. Trans discrimination and hate is still a very prominent issue to this day and continues to be a serious problem worldwide. Galop is a LGBT Read More…

Animation workshop

For our 2 week animation workshop, we were asked to make a 15 second animated ident about the foundation course, the university or our uni experience. Below is my research, character concept, storyboards and animatic for my animation: Research: When looking into different short animations for inspiration, one that stood out to me was “Welcome Read More…

Animation – Character Design

Our overall assessment for animation was to create an original character along with a backstory. Below is my character design as well as a few sentences about him: My character Kade is based off of a Kelpie which is a Scottish mythical creature. The setting he would live in is a small town that’s nearby Read More…

Animation – Stop Motions

On the second day of our animation class we were shown then asked to do a traditional and digital stop motion based on pacing and another digital stop motion of a bouncing ball. Below are the three stop motions I created: Pace stop motions: Bouncing ball stop motion: I enjoyed creating these stop motions as Read More…

Animation – Warmups

On the first day of our animation class, we watched pre-recorded lessons in which we followed warmup exercises on brush strokes and form to do before we start any drawings. Below are my warmup brush strokes and forms: Brush strokes: Forms: I enjoyed doing these warmup exercises, especially the form ones, as I don’t typically Read More…