Today we learnt about Chinese Animation. Chinese School of Animation To start this off we learnt about the system related to our main Studio. A group of animator’s working during the late 1950s to late 1980s, under the leadership of Te Wei was referred to as the Chinese School of Animation, (a school being a […]
Month: March 2023
Intro to Rigging Part 3
Today we learnt about setting up a basic facial rig by using shape keys and drivers. Shape Keys The first thing was to sort out getting a model, for this we used Suzanne, and applied one Subdivision modifier and added another to get vertices and smooth it out. Then we were taken through how […]
Asian Animation
Reading Once again I start my week off my reading some Animation Studies Posts. Sakuma Drops: An Essay on the Spillover Effect (Part I) Sakuma Drops: An Essay on the Spillover Effect (Part II) Anime’s Identity Crisis: Closed Borders, Global Networks, and the Neoliberal Self Laugh, Cheer, or Recoil? The Depiction of Physical violence […]
Creating Fidget – Modelling and Unwrapping
So I wanted to have my model sculpted as soon as I could, since I knew that this and retopology would take a lot of time. Originally I had thought that I would use my Previs model as a base, to sculpt on top of and fix, however since I made it so long ago […]
Animated Documentary
The subject of Animated Documentary isn’t something I had ever considered or seen before, but it was interesting to learn about the controversies and how to effectively use a creative medium for a medium based on facts and truths. Why is there controversy in combining Animation and Documentary? The main issue with the documentary style […]
Animated Horror
Today we were introduced to the use of Horror and animation. What is Horror? Before Looking at Animated Horror, we first had to look at what Horror is. Horror is our relationship with fear and invoking negative stimuli. Sometimes, it challenges moral sensibilities and usually reflects feelings of disgust, anxiety, distress, sadness and evokes our natural […]
Intro to Rigging Part 2
This week we covered rigging with using Armatures, as well as a bit of weight painting. Rigging with Armatures So for learning about this we were given a Robot and we had to set up its skeleton in a similar fashion to how we did it last module, with some little changes that let […]
Previs Corrections and Audio
Before Production we wanted to go ahead and take on any of the timing issues. EDITED PREVIS Using the previs video that we already had, I went and chopped up the video and slowed down shots. I got rid of one of the first shots since we were told there was a lot of just […]
Practice Rigging
I am very thankful that Mike knew exactly the way to set up how we wanted our characters to move, since he had worked out a way to do this in one of his previous work projects. He had went and put up a tutorial for this on BlackBoard and this post just covers me […]
Reading and Canadian Short Films
Reading Starting off I have to get my Animation Studies blog articles in, and I chose the following based on my own interest of the film and how they can be broken down. Both of these are very insightful for different reasons, one as a commentary on if ‘pure’ genres exist and […]