REFLECTIVE BLOG – RESEARCH AND GROUP WORK In our World of Animation class, we were assigned groups with one short film each – my group, Group 5, was given the animated short ‘Nodding Off’ by Kailey Choi. Because we spent the first three weeks of class in lectures, learning about cinematography, editing, sound and mise-en-scene, […]
This week we started out with another exercise. We were given a model to animate jumping onto a platform. I’m still not as proficient in 3D animation as I am in 2D. I find that the computer filling in the gaps between frames throws me off and makes me think I don’t need as many […]
This week we learned about 3D Pre-visualisation (3D Previs), and how it acts as an animatic, letting the workers down the pipeline know what you want to happen, and it is used in both the animation and live-action industry. Directors will often use previs to figure out how to shoot a scene. (Below is an […]
We started the class by talking about types of sound that is found in media. There are two types of sound: diegetic and non-diegetic. Diegetic sound is sound that exists within the world’s logic (car engine sounds, trees rustling, rain), while non-diegetic sound exists outside the world’s logic (internal dialogue, music, comedic sound effects etc). Sound […]
We started this week off with a presentation on how our work was going so far. Our concept, working with the given theme of ‘escape’, is to follow the story of a batch of pastries as they escape the destructive path of an evil rolling pin that chases them around the bakery Indiana-Jones-style. These are […]
In week 2, the lecture centred on mise-en-scene – cameras and lighting. There are a few different kinds of lighting that are used for a variety of reasons. For example, there’s global illumination/ambient lighting, which can effect the mood of the scene and make an animated sequence far more realistic. High and low-key lighting refers […]
On week 2, we started put with some animation exercises on blender. Our first challenge was to animate a ball bouncing onto a raised platform. This is my animation. While it’s not terrible, I honestly think I can do better – something about the timing and action seems off, though I can’t quite figure out […]
For our first class in the ‘World of Animation’ unit of semester two, we were first given a rundown of all the unit would entail. Over the course of the next twelve weeks, we will analyse animated shorts and films, reproach historical and contemporary movements and practice communicating concepts and ideas well in a variety […]
For our first homework assignment of the semester, we repeated an exercise that we’d completed in last semester’s ‘Animation Studio’ unit. This was the animating of three balls of differing weights – heavy (like a bowling ball), medium (like a basketball) and light (like a ping pong ball). This time, we animated the balls in […]
On our first day back in Uni, we started off with an intro to our new module, Animation Narratives, where we were informed that our final assignment would be a group-work 30 second long 3D animation. We were then taught about the narrative structure ‘The Hero’s Journey’. The Hero’s Journey is a self-explanatory and popular […]