Ahhh, how good it is to be back in Uni again. For the induction week at the year’s start, the lecturers decided to give us a very fun and active activity to get us started. The activity set for us was in our groups, we would each get a set of paper plates (Which…Continue Reading Year 2!! Inductions
Models The Desk model The photo Frames Bean the Bunny Model Animations Scenes 1 + 2 Scenes 4 + 5 Final Piece + Animatic Run Bunny Run – full production (Version 1) Run Bunny Run – Animatic Run Bunny…Continue Reading Portfolio
On reflection over this module for our course I enjoyed creating my character and watching him come to life throughout the animation. I feel like I was able to successfully build him into blender so well that he looks unbelievably similar to how I drew him that I am actually proud of how he came…Continue Reading Reflection Blog
When our environment was ready and all of our models for our 4 bunnies and fox had been finished we then started to split our shots between the group as equally as we could. The shots I got given to do was shots 1 +2 as well as shots 4 + 5 as I needed…Continue Reading Production Blog: #3 (Animating)
When it came time to actually create the room/environment for our production we each went over what props we would need to add into the room as we had fully committed to the idea of our room being a home office as opposed to the earlier idea of making it a living room and…Continue Reading Production Blog: #2 (Room Construction + Prop Modelling)
When it came to actually starting to model my bunny for the production of our animated short I reference the main shapes I seemed to utilize in the concept art for him and proceeded to use these shapes to set out the basis for Bean’s blender model. For his ears and snout areas I…Continue Reading Production Blog: #1 (Character Modelling)
When we were given our topics to choose from I knew that I wanted to focus on the topic of British animation the most. This is what resulted in me finding a group of like minded students which were also interested in researching British animation and this was what started my journey into research. …Continue Reading Reflection on our British Animation (+ Bibliography)
When it came time to start storyboarding our animation, we were at first convinced that the set would be a living room- as stated in blog #3. As such we originally had all of our storyboards set in a living room. We originally had a plan for our animation to follow the typical Hero’s Journey…Continue Reading Pre-production Blogs: #4 (Storyboarding + Previs)
For our initial idea of the room we were originally thinking about going with a living room type of area for the bunnies with the carpet being in the middle of the room and a sofa being near the top of the room. We knew right from the very start that we wanted to have…Continue Reading Pre-production Blogs: #3 (Room concept + Size adjusting)
After we decided on doing the Dust-bunny concept for our animated short we began to generate more ideas on what our environment would be, how our bunnies would look and what real life bunnies we would take inspiration from for our designs, what our fox/hoover would look like and how we would make it easier…Continue Reading Pre-Production Blogs: #2 (Character concept + creation)