Windmill Design Day   In this assignment I decided that I will be modeling the windmill. I looked up some reference images to decide what style of windmill I was looking to make. Reference   Designs I like the look of the more old fashioned windmills but from here I wasn’t sure if I wanted…Continue Reading 3D Digital Literacy – Windmill (Desiging)

Self Reflection In my opinion this module was very beneficial for me during first semester. It was packed full of helpful resources that I can look back at for help in the future if I get confused in an area of animation. I think having all my blog post to look back on is really…Continue Reading Animation Studio – 500 Word Self Reflection – Charley Flint

Animated Pieces   Sadly after my hard drive corruption I had lost most my animation work in progress files. I worked hard to recreated my animation where I could but still only managed to redo one of my scenes. The other two scene used that are mine are still simply the animatic version….Continue Reading Animation Studio – Week 10 Final Animation – Charley Flint

Improved Storyboards This week I improved my storyboards as shown below. I used the same placement of the characters as I have in the former version of my storyboarding. I redrew the storyboards also adding more detail some action lines and short descriptors of what is happening in each scene below the individual frames. Animatics…Continue Reading Animation Studio – Week 9 Animatics & Improved Storyboards – Charley Flint

FlourSack Animation This week we did some more animation practice. We did the flour sack animation. I found this quite difficult as trying to animating the whole form while making it all look like it was moving together and at the same speed was difficult. I not very happy with this animation but will continue…Continue Reading Animation Studio – Week 8.2 Animating with forms – Charley Flint

Initial Storyboarding For my scene in the animation it follows the antagonist finding and bring the protagonist to the demon world. I decided to may my establishing shot to be “Jenkins” (Our Antagonist) in his shop about to capture “Eden” (Our Protagonist). I many different edits to my storyboard originally I had the camera pan…Continue Reading Animation Studio – Week 8.1 Storyboarding – Charley Flint

Bouncing Ball Animation Practice This week we looked at an introduction into animation. In doing so we practiced the bouncing ball animation, this was a way to teach us of timing in our animations and spacing between frames. I wanted to show the difference between having no in-betweens in an animation and also what a…Continue Reading Animation Studio – Week 7 Animation Introduction – Charley Flint

Decision Time   Finally it came the week that we had to choose which world we would stay in permanently and devote all of our energy towards this world. I ended up choosing the “Demon Portal” World. I had quite a few reasons for choosing this world. The main reason I was so interested in…Continue Reading Animation Studio – Week 6 Decision Time – Charley Flint

Character Design   This week we looked at character designing. We looked at how different shapes give characters a certain vibe. For example: Characters made using rounder shapes may seem friendly and childish. Such as Jigglypuff from Pokemon displays more child like characteristics.   Square Characters Seem to appear more structured. Such as Carl from…Continue Reading Animation Studio – Week 5 Character Design – Charley Flint

This week we took a look into colour theory. We created colour swatch sheets to use for our world. I made some swatch sheets for my characters that I was designing for this world. For one of the swatches I tested using different levels of saturation to see if I could depict the mood of…Continue Reading Animation Studio – Week 4 – Colour Theory – Charley Flint