Through-out the time I spent on the course, I found this module quite informative and enjoyable to complete. I had previous experience with animation in a previous course but I feel as though I only began understanding things better through the exercises we completed on this module.  I am overall not very happy with the […]

For this week’s class, we focussed on creating animatics. We were first shown an animatic from a previous year’s assignment to show us what we were expected to produce. I found this extremely helpful as I was unsure how much animation was needed for the animatic, watching this previous animatic helped me plan out how […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]