I really enjoy making characters and including details in their designs that show off personality. I had a go in desgining all our characters from the Dark Academia animation group I’m part of. General Pinterest I created for everyone to add and use: https://www.pinterest.co.uk/feylock_/magical-horror-academia/ Designs for Fern: Fern is our protagonist, she is […]
Month: November 2021
Week 10 – Animators / Animation Library
This is just a list of animators and some rough work they created to be inspired and reference from. CT A loop of Annie using her powers. It has a lot more uses that I should illustrate sometime #ctchrysler #originalcharacters #storyboardpro pic.twitter.com/wYDgVe09HB — CT (@ctchrysler_) October 20, 2019 Prism punch in photoshop #ctchrysler #originalcharacters […]
Blog Feedback
I was paired with Eimear Doherty to review and give feeback on our blogs. As well as getting some feedback on the blogs, Eimear and I shared some artists and educational sources that we have put on each of our blog posts. I really appreciated the advice and sources they shared with me. Eimear […]
Week 9 – Animatic Development
It took me a while to get into my animatic, I was a bit scared about the transition scene but after some advice from staff I felt much better about my approach. The main inspirations are from American werewolf and Van Helsing, both feature werewolf transitions but in very different ways. As long as I […]
Week 9 – Animatic Research and Reference
Although I really enjoyed doing the sack flour animations, I really struggled with the Animatics. I took a step back when trying to create it because I could feel I was putting a lot of pressure on myself to get timings right away and keep the drawings simple. I knew I needed more practice, examples […]
Flour Sack Animations
Using Alec’s tutorials as well as Aaron Blaise’s videos and more referencing from Richard William’s Animator’s Survival Kit, I felt excited to give my first flour sack animation a try. I was torn on what action to animate and I know the jumping action is popular and a useful one to practice. Although I saw […]
Week 8 – Straight Ahead animation & Stoaryboard exercise
This week while working form home I tried out a storyboard exercise Alec had made for the class. This storyboard had descriptions already and ti was our task to draw them relating to those descriptions. I messed a couple of the frame types up, but the story and mood still came across ok. I really […]
Dark Magical Academia – Storyboards
My scene to be storyboarded was – Mushroom monster releases hold on students, students begin to turn into monsters as well. The Headmistress, Fern and the other students look on in horror, while the Headmistress tries to stop them with her magic. Her spells fail and the momsters press on. We changed the arrangement on […]
Week 7 – Animation Beginnings
During week 7, we had been given a task to create bouncing ball animations. Trying to vary the weight physics of the ball from ping pong balls to bowling balls. I had practiced this kind of exercise before and referenced the Animators Survival Kit by Richard Williams while doing so. I didn’t find this too […]
Dark Magical Academia – Week 2 – Monday Meeting
Last week we had agreed to come in to the University for a group meeting, some of the group joined from home. We focused on the storyline again, so that the stoyboards would make more sense. We had some issue with the placement of a certain scene that would act either as a quick set […]