O’Donnell Tiernan’s Animation Blog
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Below are some lighting practices I had drawn digitally during our week 3 lecture on Tone & Value in our Animation Studio module, the first being a shading test on an old diver’s helmet with some underwater flourishes, whilst the second one heavily utilizes both one point perspective and tone and value to understand how lighting worksContinue reading Week 3- Tone & Value Workshop Task
Below are the Tone & Value studies I had created for Week 3 in our Animation Studio module when working with our world building concepts. At this stage I have been moved to another group in the class to be able to get to know and work with different students in the courseContinue reading Week 3- Tone and Value Homework
In Week Two of our Animated Studio module, we were tasked with studying perspective and composition through observing drawings and backgrounds from our favourite animations, artists and other media such as video games. Below are the draw over perspective practices I did. The backgrounds used are from The Owl House, Kid Cosmic and The Simpsons. Continue reading Week 2- Perspective and Composition Homework
In Week One of our 3D Digital Literacy module, we were introduced to Blender as the main software we will be learning and using throughout the year. We were given a tutorial on the basics of using the software and were then tasked with creating a few simple models of a table and some chairsContinue reading Week 1- Intro to Blender and Workshop Task
In week one of our Animated Studio module, we were given several video tutorials about basic drawing exercises to help us warm up and practice, along with exercises on drawing different shapes and their contour lines in order to practice our muscle memory and to understand shapes in a 3D space. Below are the practicesContinue reading Week 1 Lecture Work- Form and shape studies
In Week One of our Animation Studio module, our homework task was to choose three of our favourite animated characters from shows or videos and study their underlying forms by tracing and simplifying their designs into their main components. The three characters I ended up choosing were Raphael from Rise of the Teenage Mutant NinjaContinue reading Week 1- Form and Shape Homework