Reflection on the Animation Studio Module

My Experience during the Animation Studio Module Overall, I have had a great experience during this module, especially with the learning about the basic principles of animations and having free range when it came to our assignments and how we tackled our tasks. This module was mostly the art I would do in my own… Continue Reading Reflection on the Animation Studio Module

Animation Studio – Week 11 Starting my Animation

As the animation deadline is coming in fast, this week I focused only on the animation and will continue working on my animation until its finished. Using Krita, I began drawing the background screen on a separate layer which would allow me to easily change the post man poses when I began to animate him.… Continue Reading Animation Studio – Week 11 Starting my Animation

Animation Studio – Week 10 Animatics

Before this week’s class I began and completed my sections of the animation for our group animatic that was due before class. I had little to no idea how I was going to lengthen my short draft of the storyboard into an animatic and quickly began to overthink the process but with a short step… Continue Reading Animation Studio – Week 10 Animatics

Animation Studio – Week 8 Homework

As Week 8 class came to an end, we had completed a general idea of how our dimensions would form together which would make the most sense for the story while also brainstorming details that would be included in the dimensions.  The Idea “An old postman is doing his normal day to day job of… Continue Reading Animation Studio – Week 8 Homework

Animation Studio – Week 8

As our group’s animation ideas are becoming final, we began to learn about story boarding which will help us correctly layout our visions for our animation pieces. During our teaching section of the class, we went through how to effectively stage characters and layout landscapes, this included the silhouette test, camera movements, framing and storytelling. To… Continue Reading Animation Studio – Week 8

Animation Studio – Week 7 Introduction to Animating

Week 7 was the beginning of learning animation, not surprisingly I was feeling overwhelmed due to me having no animation experience before or no concrete knowledge of how the animation process happens. We began the class with the 12 principles of animation. Which broke down the basic concepts of each principle to broaden our understanding of how… Continue Reading Animation Studio – Week 7 Introduction to Animating

Animation Studio – Week 6 Further World Building

after eliminating different  dimensions and focusing on a top 3, I decided I wanted to expand my ideas through Pinterest boards and concept art. at this point we are haven’t decided who will animate which section or dimension so I wanted to get as many ideas as possible for each dimension giving me alternative views… Continue Reading Animation Studio – Week 6 Further World Building

Animation Studio – Week 5 Storyboards

This week we, started to discuss storyboards and reducing the number of dimensions that we needed because I thought that each member having a different dimension would be a lot of unmanageable work which could result in our animation being incomplete or complete but messy looking. So, we began discussing 3 dimensions, that would be… Continue Reading Animation Studio – Week 5 Storyboards

Animation Studio – Week 4 Character Design

Week 4 focused on colour theory!! Yay!! We began with a group exercise involving taking photos of objects we find around the school that express distinct types of colour theory. This included complementary, analogous, and triadic.   After taking the photos, we used them as references for colour palettes created with adobe colour wheel. After experimenting… Continue Reading Animation Studio – Week 4 Character Design

Animation Studio-Week 3 Homework

For homework I drew a rough story board idea for my section of the animation along with added characters that will interact with our delivery man. This includes a nightmare creature and a schoolgirl who will be running from the creature. These designs are only rough ideas so they will most likely change in the future.   I… Continue Reading Animation Studio-Week 3 Homework