This week were tasked with continuing work on our Group Animation, working towards the final product and completing them. We also would have a One on One with a tutor to review our progress so far, and to see if there’s anything that could be added/ tweaked to improve what we’re doing   Feedback Tutorial…Continue Reading Week 11 – One-to-One feedback & Animation Progress

This week we were tasked with reviewing (and being reviewed by) our peers in class regarding the blogs we’ve made over the last few weeks. The feedback I received mainly focused around addressing my layout and spacing of the blogs, particularly in the earlier weeks. So I will have to go through my blogs and…Continue Reading Week 10 – Peer Review

This week we were tasked with making an animatic for our 30sec animation in our world.   Animatic Mine starts with a fade-in to a chimera’s lair with the camera focusing on a magical orb that the main character will ultimately have to obtain. As the camera pans out to showcase the environmental scene, the…Continue Reading Week 9 – Animatic

This week we were tasked with creating storyboard for our World Animation and then also animating a flour sack character animation.     Storyboards Our group idea was to make an animation in the style of a trailer, but have it loop. Our idea was to start with an eye opening, then zoom-in into the…Continue Reading Week 8 – Storyboard and Flour Sack Animation

This week were tasked with making three (or more) animations of balls bouncing (with different weights). My personal goal was to keep the size of the ball the same throughout all animations, and try to convey the weight/hardness solely through the movement arc.     Bouncing Balls Ball 1: For the first animation, I wanted…Continue Reading Week 7 – Animation Introduction

This week we had one-on-one tutorials to review how we were progressing on the course. We also had to decide what world we wanted to continue working in, I decided that I wanted to continue to work in the constellation world for the rest of the semester.     Constellation World   I thought it…Continue Reading Week 6 – One on One Tutorials

This week we were tasked with making some character designs. This isn’t something I usually do or have much experience in, but I was eager to step-out of my comfort-zone and have a go. (Due to technical problems i had to do it via pencil and paper)     Characters 1) “Moonlight”: Since the humans…Continue Reading Week 5 – Character Design

This week we were tasked with using Colour in our work (and utilising moods), firstly colouring a line-art piece in two different ways, then adding colour to one of our existing art pieces. We then had to look at existing pieces of art and identifying their colours/ colour palettes, and also to continue working on…Continue Reading Week 4 – Colour

This week we were tasking with making thumbnails using tone and value, incorporating lighting and shading. We were also tasked with expanding on one of our thumbnails and creating a full-sized version with an increased attention to detail.     Thumbnails: Although we were tasked with turning one thumbnail into a full-sized image with detail,…Continue Reading Week 3 – Tone and Value

This week we were tasked with creating thumbnails based on our world using perspective-orientated shots, and continue developing our world and characters.     Thumbnails of Our World   For this exercise I tried to push myself and make my shots as different as possible, I tried not to rely on the same style/ techniques…Continue Reading Week 2 – Composition & Perspective