This week we learnt about the long awaited topic ; Character. In class we discussed the main aspects of what makes a good design, a good design should be something that evokes an emotion from the viewer. Your character design should let the audience know what their main traits/theme is just by looking at them, […]
Month: September 2022
Colour
In this week’s class we learnt about colour theory. We learnt that there are four main colour groups that we should look at when choosing colours: Monochromatic – Colours that are all the same hue Analogous – Colours that are beside each other on the colour wheel Complementary – Colours that are opposite of each […]
Tone/Value
This week, most people moved groups but due to how few were in the demon group, I remained where I was. The topic for this week’s class was “Tone/Value”. We learnt how both tone and value can change how we perceive forms and depth in an image and how we can use these ourselves. We […]
Secondary Action Practice
For this week’s class, we mainly focussed on furthering our understanding of secondary action and continuing our animations (rough). We were given two exercises to complete; adding secondary action to our flour sacks animations and adding colour to it. After completing the exercises, I continued working on my animation part.
Composition & Perspective
This week we learnt about “Composition & Perspective” and how we can use these to improve our animations. We were then given three tasks to complete by next class, these were: 3 draw overs that involve one & two point perspective from our favourite shows 3 thumbnails of master studies 6 thumbnails of composition studies […]
Form & Shape
For this week’s class, we went “back to basics” and completed a starter exercise that would warm us up and help improve our comfortability and confidence when drawing. I did this exercise traditionally in my sketchbook first and then repeated again at home digitally to compare the difference in the stability of line work. I […]
World Building
After the Icebreaker activity, we all remained in our groups and began the next task, which was to come up with 100 ideas for a world. I unfortunately had to leave early but thankfully my group kept me up to date via Discord. While we didn’t quite reach 100, we managed to get 80 world […]
Storyboarding & Animating with forms
For this week’s class, we covered the storyboarding basics and two more animation principles; staging and anticipation. Staging is very important when animating as it is used to ensure that every action is understood and clear. There are a few different areas of staging that you need to understand when setting up a scene. The […]
Animation Introduction
In this class, we learnt all about the animation principles, but more specifically timing & spacing. Timing is affected by the amount of frames you have; if you have a lot of frames bunched up together, your animation will be slow but if you have few frames spaced out, your animation will be fast. The […]
Icebreaker
For our first activity of the semester, we were divided into small teams and tasked with completing a scavenger hunt around the area. I was placed into Team 10 with Kori, Chloë, Ellie and Abraham. For the scavenger hunt, we were given a list of prompts and 45 minutes to walk around and take photographs […]