O’Donnell Tiernan’s Animation Blog
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Below are the slides I had created for my Progress Presentation when we came back to classes on the 28th of January, which covered all of the work I had done since the Pre-Production Presentation. The two main pieces of advice I had been given were cutting down my animation from 27 shots to 16Continue reading DES 525 Major Project- Progress Presentation
Before taking off time to rest over Christmas break, the last piece of work that I wanted to get finished was the backgrounds for my short film. Due to conditions such as being slightly behind on schedule and having our dissertation project to complete for the 20th, I decided to expedite my time by insteadContinue reading DES 525 Major Project- Backgrounds
As I’m coming up to the point where I can start animating for Snatch and Screech, I decided to put a plan in place to how I’m going to organise my animation schedule. Considering the time frame I have of five months between January and May, I know I’m not going to get this shortContinue reading DES 525 Major Project- Animation Planning Sheet
After finishing my storyboards for Snatch and Screech and moving on to updating my character designs, I also decided to test out updating my sound effects that’ll be used in the final edit. Some sound effects from the previous sound edit post are permanent, whilst new ones that have been added are from the websiteContinue reading DES 525 Major Project- Sound Edit Test
After completing my storyboards, the next section of feedback I was given after my Pre-Production presentation was to adjust my character designs. The main points that I was advised to touch up were varying the pink in Screech’s design so it was easier to read, changing Snatch’s tail design as the stripes would be difficultContinue reading DES 525 Major Project- Updated Character and Prop Designs
At this point in time, I have given my pre-production presentation on the work done over the three weeks since our Pitch Presentation, my slides being seen below. The most notable being the Updated Schedule slide as I have changed my week plans in order to better suit my work load and time at thisContinue reading DES 525 Major Project- Pre-Production Presentation Slides and Feedback
After giving my Pitch Presentation, I got to work on making improvements on my work based on the critiques I was given, one of which being that I’m getting there with my art style, however I need more time and practice with it. Below are further sketch practices I had done to practice the 1940sContinue reading DES 525 Major Project- Updated Character Designs
For week 3 of our Major Project, we were to give a Pitch Presentation on the short film ideas we had been building up over the first few weeks of the semester. I took it as a last opportunity to either find a group I was interested in working with, or find people who wouldContinue reading DES 525 Major Project- Pitch Presentation
As an extra part of my research, I decided to buy an copy of old Tom & Jerry cartoons that I used to watch when I was younger as reference material for the style I wanted to go for. My plan being to study part of each episode and take down notes on the animation,Continue reading DES 525 Major Project- Tom & Jerry DVD Studies
During Week 1, I had decided to go ahead with working independently on my project ideas for the Pitch Presentation on Week 3, as I felt the most confident in the art style ideas that I had put out into the course’s Discord server. After mulling over my three main ideas, I decided to goContinue reading DES 525 Major Project- Idea Development, Style Study & Character Concepts