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 […]
Week 6 – Final Group Choice- Magical Academia Dark Fungi
For the final group animation project we had the opportunity to chose from the remaining developed world ideas. I was mainly interested in stories and worlds that included magic and fantasy. The two groups I was thinking about joing was the Spirit Sky Fish and the Dark Academia groups, I liked both current storylines and […]
World of Animation segment – French Animation
For my segment of the French animation group, I decided to pick the movie Kirikou and the Sorceress. I mainly chose this because it’s one of my favourite french animations, I loved seeing difference in cultures and I was obsessed with the book/film whenever visiting my family in France. First I gathered some information to […]
Character Design Guest Workshop – SorchaCartoons
Last week we were able to gain some insight from Sorcha on the topic of Character design, and the many indepth details that make a character interesting. We went through many topics, from anatomy to character dynamics. Sorcha mentioned the four fundamentals that help majorly in character design: Shape Silhouette Rythm Construction Shape […]
Animation Study – Procreate
Throughout the year I have made my own attempts to practice animation, mostly using a ball to understand weight and bounce. Within the last couple weeks with some aid from The Animator’s survival kit by Richard Williams, I have made some more studies to understand spacing and bounce further. I have a vimeo that I […]
Week 5 – Character Design
This week we focused on the character designs for our World – Sugar Prohibition. In previous weeks group members have compiled various references to help build the world and the characters that live in it, and the newer members have since added their own ideas and references. I find character design incredibly tricky but the […]
Group 4 Colour palette task
Sugar Prohibition – Group 4 We searched around the building on multiple floors, but the best colour palettes were the ones found in posters and banners. Most have vibrant and interesting colour palettes. Complementary Isaiah’s – Analogous Isaiah’s – Monochromatic Isaiah’s –