O’Donnell Tiernan’s Animation Blog
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We have now started work on our second assignment in our 3D Digital Literacy module, our task is to study the art style from famous animation director Genndy Tartakovsky and create a character design that fits into the “Hotel Transylvania” film, in both art style and in character design which we shall then create aContinue reading Week 7- Genndy Tartakovsky & Character development
At this point in our Animation Studio module, we have decided on which groups we are permanently staying in for the Animation portion of the project. I had decided on joining Group 7, who’s worldbuilding concept is: a cowboy stealing an egg from a dragon. With that prompt, I had drawn a few concept artContinue reading Group 7- Concept artworks and Character Design Drafts
This is a post to document the indepedent drawing practices i have done over the past couple of weeks. These were all done in a sketchbook and I had used pages in a cartoon animation book as reference as part of my independent study. These included drawing different poses, characters and body types. I foundContinue reading Drawing Practice and Research Sketches
The homework task for Week 5 in our 3D Digital Literacy module involved us modelling a helmet using a reference from history or fiction of our choice and exporting it to Substance 3D Painter to fully texture it. I personally found this homework task to be the most challenging due to mistakes I had madeContinue reading Week 5- Substance 3D Painter Homework
In Week 5 for our 3D Digital Literacy, we have started work on learning about the program Substance 3D Painter and how we can use it to add textures to our Blender models as opposed to UV texturing. Substance 3D Painter is a program that allows for much more detail to be added to models,Continue reading Week 5- Workshop Task
During our Animation Studio lecture for Character Design, we were given a few workshop tasks to practice our shape language and character design skills. For Task 1, we were shown a number of random shapes and forms that we were to create simple character designs from based on whatever we saw in them. Below areContinue reading Week 5- Character Design Workshop Task
During Week 5 of our Animation Studio module when we were focusing on character design, I decided to create two new character concepts based on the designs Group 3 had decided on during a meeting together to discuss the project and to get all of the members on the same track. Below are the designsContinue reading Week 5- Group 3 Character Concept Designs
In Week 5 for our Animation Studio module, we have started to work on characters and their designs for our group worldbuilding projects. For the homework task we were given a character design profile template that we are meant to fill out with details of our character, acting as an overview for parts of theirContinue reading Week 5- Character Design Homework
For our lecture on Colour in our Animation Studio lecture, we were given three separate tasks to work on in class to help give us a better understanding of the use of colour in environments and characters. Exercise 1 had us creating colour palettes to be used in our worldbuilding and characters.Continue reading Week 4- Colour Workshop Task
In Week 4 of out Animation Studio module, we began working with Colour by both incorporating them into our previous Tone and Value studies for Exercise 1, and by using different colour palettes to connote different tones using the same background in Exercise 2. Below are the Exercise 1 practices I did of adding colourContinue reading Week 4- Colour Homework