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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]