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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
The third animation we were tasked with doing for our second assignment was a lip sync using roughly 8 to 10 seconds of dialogue of our choosing. We were told before that out of the three animations we were assigned, lip syncs take the longest to to make, so going in I knew I wouldContinue reading Animation Strategies: Assignment 2- Lip Sync
Development of the Opinicorvus Inspiration Collage- -I had created a quick collage image with many of the references I had gathered that inspired the creation of the Opinicorvus character. This was mainly used for the early stages of generating ideas for the character. Anatomy References These are the main references I used for my character’sContinue reading Character Design- Development of the Opinicorvus: Pre-Production
Over the summer of 2023, between my first and second years of the Animation Course, I set myself the goal of improving my creative skills over the break by planning out different projects and ideas to work on before proceeding into year 2. These included personal projects for myself such as character designs and conceptContinue reading Summer 2023- Independent Studies
During Week 7 of our Animated Narratives module, I had decided to make a quick colour reference for our animation’s staging as our group had forgotten to create a palette earlier in the pre-production phase. My idea for the film’s palette is to use lighter toned colours that follow the primary colours of red, blueContinue reading Week 7- Dust Bunnies Staging Update + Background Colour Scheme Reference
During Week 3 of our Animated Narratives module, we had continued on work to develop our character designs for our 3D animated shorts. Over time, my group had been steadily working on our characters with 4 people modelling Dust Bunnies and one modelling a vacuum. This week, I wanted to lock in the design conventionsContinue reading Week 3- Dust bunny Character Design Turn Around and Blocking
For Week 3 in our Animated Narratives module, we are to give a pitch presentation for our Animation idea that we have been building up over the past three weeks to the class. This is necessary as it is meant to teach us the process of pitching an animation idea to a company or studioContinue reading Week 3- Pitch Presentation Slides
For our Animated Narratives module in our Animation course, our main assignment that we are going to be working on is a 30 second 3D animation done in groups of around 5 people. The purpose of this module is to further improve our teamwork skills, our 3D animation skills, our abilities to work under certainContinue reading Group Animation Project- Dust Bunnies Progress Post 1
In Week 8 for our Animation Studio Module, we were given two tasks during our lecture for both furthering our understanding of the 12 principles of Animation, and for our group worldbuilding project as we are now entering the main production of the animation. The first task we were given was to animate a flourContinue reading Week 8- Workshop Tasks- Timing and Storyboards
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