I referenced and was inspired by many pieces of media, from movies to video games (Ref Blog post). So some of the shots are inspired by them and some are my own ideas I tried to visualise with some references. Backgrounds and environments are my biggest challenge but I tried to create some images that […]
Tag: Animation
Week 10-12 – Animation Process and Development
This may be the toughest part of the year work wise. During this part I often had moments of self doubt and lack of confidence, which really hindered my ability to focus on animating. I had watched over and over some of the inspirations and references for my segment to get more comfortable with the […]
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 […]
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 […]