Ideally, after leaving university I want to go into a 2D art or animation field that is creative and fulfilling for me. This includes illustration, character animation, background art and concept art and design. With this in mind, I have catered my portfolio, showreel and CV to these. In the future I will make separate…Continue Reading Creative Futures – 04 – Industry Research and Career Plan

In order to help market myself to potential employers, I wanted to expand my only presence. Before I had a carrd to host my portfolio, a YouTube channel, instagram, tumblr and Newgrounds accounts. While these all still work as a place to host and share my art I wanted to expand the platforms I was…Continue Reading Creative Futures – 03 – Online presence

When it came to design and brand thinking I already had a strong base to work from. Since 2022 I have used the same graphic design, colour scheme and branding for myself on social media, normally under the handle GameWarsStudios. The design of which includes the following: A character / avatar of myself in my…Continue Reading Creative Futures – 02 – Design Thinking

For the End of Year Show display Ellie and I had a lot of ideas to work with, as our Major Project film had a well defined tone and visuals. In our film there is a scene in Vincent’s office where we see a sort of “shrine”. His masterpiece painting is on the wall, illuminated…Continue Reading Creative Futures – 01 – End of Year Show Display

Having finished the Major Project for final year I want to reflect on the work this past academic year. Ellie Wilson and I had worked together to make a 6-minute animated horror short film. I am happy with the film. This was my first time working on an animated short film of this length with…Continue Reading Final Year Major Project – 16 – Reflection

Below is a video edited by Ellie showing footage from the film with subtitles indicating who did what in each shot. Below are examples of my character design and model sheet work for Vincent.   I designed all of the backgrounds for the film, below are some notable examples of backgrounds I designed. Below are…Continue Reading Final Year Major Project – 15 – Portfolio

After roughing out the film and cleaning some shots as we went along, Ellie and I went back and began clean up animation. The process was very straightforward, lining and colouring shots in sequence. As deadline approached however, Ellie and I thought it was best to focus on getting all of the film lined before…Continue Reading Final Year Major Project – 14 – Clean Animation

During the animation process one of our lecturers, Rachel had given Ellie and I feedback on the ending of our film and had suggested that we change it. We took this on board and Ellie has sketched an alternate sequence. Originally, the audience followed Valerie as she left her apartment and took a bus to…Continue Reading Final Year Major Project – 13 – Scene Changes

Before going fully into rough animation I did some practice drawing the characters and getting used to animation again. I did a quick test animation of Val. I realised quickly that while I was confident in my ability to get the bodies and their proportions drawn properly I was not as proficient drawing the faces…Continue Reading Final Year Major Project – 12 – Rough Animation

I was encouraged by some lecturers to go back and change Vincent’s design, as some felt it was too plain while also being too obvious that he is a vampire. I went back and attempted to add flair to the design we had, with some design aspects like a scarf or facial hair, but none…Continue Reading Final Year Major Project – 11 – Redesigning Vincent