Year: 2021

Overall I’m pleased with my work and with my progress through this module and with my final animation. Throughout the module I found my work improving significantly because my sustained interest in our weekly topics really spurred me to involve myself in the set work. Comparing my first attempt at animation during the induction week…Continue Reading 500 Word Reflection

I have my segment of our animation complete! It’s been very fun to work on and to explore the medium more fully. It runs over the 10 second guideline by quite a bit, but I felt it necessary to let certain parts play out to make the narrative clearer. I ended up scrapping the pan…Continue Reading Final Animation!

Since I have the first part of our story, I wanted to have an introductory screen to our world because as a child I would always look forward to the painted episode titles in my favourite cartoons like Ed, Edd n’ Eddy or The Powerpuff Girls- and more recently as I’ve been watching Batman: The…Continue Reading Title Cards

For the shots containing smell SFX in my sequence looked to classic cartoons like Tom and Jerry where Jerry is tempted by the scent of cheese to see how it’s been done and how it could be done. Finding this reference was immensely helpful to me as I had no idea how to create this…Continue Reading Planning effects and expressions

So far I have a few shots planned out. For the moment I’m working on getting all the line art/pencils done because I have so many shots and want to make sure I can get them all completed before I get to colouring them. In the shot below, I’ve been struggling to think of how…Continue Reading So far…

To finalise my storyboards, I applied Sarah’s suggestion of re-using shot 8 for the first two. In the end, I might end up leaving out shot 3, as Sarah pointed out it didn’t add much to the story, and since I have a lot to do it might be best to rid myself of it….Continue Reading Final Storyboard & Backgrounds

After receiving feedback from Aodhan on my animatic, I have changed it and updated my storyboard. Eden is no longer half demon because it seemed clunky and didn’t appear at all in the rest of the story. I’ve also been more conscious of where the characters are perceived to be in the segment, making it…Continue Reading Animatic update

Using After Effects and Premiere Pro, I turned my storyboard into an animatic. At the moment I’m worried it’s too long and the animation would be too limited, and regardless of length, I worry about the timing; I think certain shots ought to last longer but I don’t see how I could cut it down…Continue Reading Week 9- Animatic

This week we had to animate a flour sack jumping to practise our ability to keep the form and volume of an object in animating it. I’m pleased with the results of this little test. It mightn’t be the smoothest thing, but I’m slowly getting more used to working in Krita, and to the idea…Continue Reading Week 8- Animation Practice and Storyboards

We’ve picked our final groups for this semester, and having spent a few weeks settling in already I decided to stick with Group 9- the Demon Portal world. I have progressed the personality of my clown mask monster. His name is Piccolo, he wants to give you flowers….Continue Reading Build A World progress