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
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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 the Pre-Production Presentation given on the 5th of November, I immediately went on to finish the rest of my storyboards as the version in my presentation was only 2/3s finished. So over the next week I had worked on shots 17 to 28, and then edited them into the final version of the storyboards.Continue reading DES 525 Major Project- Completed Animatic
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 getting my second script draft done, I had now started storyboarding Snatch and Screech two weeks before our pre-production presentation. I had decided to start on the second shot instead of the first as it is merely an establishing shot of the Patty Prince restaurant setting. Furthermore, I had initially gone more detailed andContinue reading DES 525 Major Project- Storyboard / Animatic Progress and Placeholder Sound Design
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