As homework for this week, we had to practice and help our understanding of timing and spacing by animating three balls of different weights. For this I used Krita, which I had never used before, but once I’d made use of some tutorials I started to get the hang of it. Middling weight (tennis ball),…Continue Reading Week 7- Animation Workshop
This week we focused on character design, and for the second week in a row I’m working on the ‘Demon Portal’ world. To begin my foray into this topic, I tried a caricature exercise, choosing to stylise Judy Garland, Jackie Onassis and Peter Capaldi as Doctor Who. I had already jotted some ideas down for…Continue Reading Week 5-Character Design
As an activity to generate ideas by way of colour for our world, we were asked to use Adobe Colour to generate five palettes that might work nicely in that context We were also asked to scour the campus for live examples of a monochromatic, analogous, and a complimentary colour palette…Continue Reading Colour swatching activity
This week our lecture content was on colour theory. I was looking forward to the work this week since I’m generally uncomfortable in using colour. The results of my subsequent experiments are perhaps not where I want to be in my understanding of colour and its application, but I enjoyed looking finding references and taking…Continue Reading Week 4- Colour
This week we focused on tone and value. To start the week, our groups were changed, so some of us got to start work on a new world. The new world I’ve been working on is themed around ‘Magical Academia’, which was explained to me as a cross between Animal Crossing and Harry Potter. Having…Continue Reading Week 3- Tone and Value
Alongside our ‘Build a World’ group task, we were asked to trace three backgrounds from animated media to help us identify one and two point perspective: The first background I chose to analyse is from 101 Dalmatians, one of my favourite films by way of style. Because of the leading lines on the buildings down…Continue Reading Week 2- Composition and Perspective