Category: Animation Studio

We began this week’s course with a lecture discussing perspective. and composition in animation when creating storyboards. We were also given quick exercises to complete during Sarah’s lecture to help us understand perspective and composition in various kinds of animation situations. Among the compositions we mostly studied were the Rule of Thirds and the Golden Ratio. The first task involved creating two thumbnail sketches of the scenes that I would see occurring in my world for each composition. The second task involved building cubes using both one- and two-point perspectives. I think I need to practice more to fully understand perspectives because I found this exercise to be very difficult to do correctly. The third task included choosing and identifying three composition scenes from three separate animations.

Our group discussed about our story narratives more this week, and we came up with a place that we felt would be useful for making the storyboard. According to our basic plot, a teenage girl was in the library when she opened a storybook and found herself inside. The storybook presented a story of a house haunted by eerie dolls. When the teenage girl tries to escape the haunted house, the dolls chase and attack her. She also gradually begins to transform into a doll throughout the escape. This week’s homework was sketch out six thumbnail drawings of the setting scenes and some backgrounds of our world.

 

We began the first Animation Studio module workshop. with a quick talk regarding the module and mark schemes, as well as the workshop’s focus, shapes and forms. To fully understand the basic concepts and development of shapes and forms, we completed a few quick workshop exercises during the lecture. The warm-up came first. To get ourselves back into the habit of drawing, we drew some rough lines and shading. Sketching the side faces of some simple 2D forms and then shading them to convey depth was the second task. Playing around with the contour lines of basic shapes to generate 3D shapes was the third task. After completing the tasks, we had to combine various shapes to make a few basic characters.

After lunch, we were separated into different groups of 12. I was in group 10, along with Jameila, Katie, Hannah, and Gio. To start the group tasks, we completed an icebreaker exercise where we were given 10 sentences of prompts, and then we went around taking images that we thought best suited each of the prompts and uploaded them to the group chat on Discord. After finishing the icebreaker exercise as a warm-up, we begin to develop our views on the world. The creation approach begins with a 100-word list of several concepts that we believe the world should have. Then, among the 100 words, each of us selected one word that reflected our individual visions of the world. Storybook was Jameila’s pick, Little Nightmares was Katie’s, Hunted House was Hannah’s, Void was Gio’s, and Barbie was mine. We came up with two short descriptions of our world based on these five components. The first rough description was a Barbie doll got sucked into a haunted house inside a void storybook and setting is in the style of little nightmare. The second idea was Barbie as the main character and meets a bunch of creepy dolls in a hunted haunted.

The homework task for this week was to Investigate the underlying forms of three of my favourite animation characters. Shoyo Hinata from Haikyu was the character I first picked. Ovals that matched His muscle lines made up most of his body. He also has a square chest. with rounded sides. I think that the blocky, smooth contours of Shoyo’s arms and legs demonstrate his flexibility. Lucia Nanami from Mermaid Melody is the second choice. She had an extremely toned and slender figure, with rounded features. that had straight contour lines, such as her arms and legs. To give her a less muscular appearance. Conan from Case Closed/Detective Conan was chosen as the third character. Conan’s body, in my opinion, was more like a combination of Lucia and Shoyo. His body shape was blocky for a male. and his arms and legs were all very straight as a child to avoid having too many muscles.