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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
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
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
This blog post is the beginning of my work on our Major Project module during our final year of our Undergraduate Animation Course, with the assignment being a short animated film defined by the student(s), which can be within the medium of our choice. Once we properly got started with the module during our introductoryContinue reading DES 525 Major Project- Idea Generation
During Week 13, I worked on original assets for our minigames before our deadline. I split the work with another group member, and created assets for the Vent and Crane Minigames, exporting everything separately so the images can easily replace the placeholders in Unreal. Below are the assets I had drawn in Clip Studio Paint,Continue reading DES 336 Vertical Slice Project- Original Minigame Asset Creation
During our Easter Break, I decided to finish up my Sea Bunny’s animations for the game’s HUD Focusing on colour, lineart and keyframes for the background scanlines. Currently, the version of Toon Boom Harmony I’m using is Essentials, so I realised I needed to find away around restraints I had, which led me to usingContinue reading DES 336 Vertical Slice Project- Final Sea Bunny Animations
I began working on animating our Sea Bunny guide character for the player as we were advised to start properly developing our assets. I started out with animating the hologram pop up that the Sea Bunny character appears in, deciding to use a boiling technique on the lineart to connote that digital aspect of theContinue reading DES 336 Vertical Slice Project- Sea Bunny Animations
During this week, we started concentrating more of our focus on researching the Saturday Morning Cartoon style we were advised to use for our Submarine game in our vertical slice project. We divided up the tasks we would be doing whilst working towards our art style guide assignment. I collected references for art style inspirationContinue reading DES 336 Vertical Slice Project- Saturday Morning Cartoon Design Research, Mascot Design & Art Style Guide Slides
We were tasked with creating an art style guide for our game project. We chose three to work on individually which we would then develop and decide on the next week. I chose to research a Clean Sci-Fi art style, and began my research and development of the style. I collected references for different modelsContinue reading DES 336 Vertical Slice Project- Clean Sci-Fi Research for Art Style Guide