Author: Danielle Thompson

Shape and Form Perspective Colour Short Animations Group 2 – Mushroom People Group 3 – Shattered World Group 1 – Tea and Coffee Mafia Thumbnails Character Design Storyboards Animatic Backgrounds Stages of Animation Rough Sketch                                         Continue reading Portfolio – Semester 1

This week in class we all watched each other’s rough animations. This was a lot of fun and we all received feedback on the pacing, timing and what we could improve about our animations. Loop Animation Here is the loop animation so far: Animation: Katie, Danielle, Nicole, Rhys, Tori, James and Jordan Editing: Rhys Music:Continue reading Week 13

Adjusted animation This week I adjusted my animation after talking with Patricia Miller and gaining some feedback. Patricia suggested a few small this to edit that would make my animation look better, such as during the walk cycle not to dip the character as far, also to adjust the leg of the character when sheContinue reading Week 12

This week I focused on the secondary animation of the characters hair and clothing. It is important that the clothes and hair move at the right time otherwise they will look disconnected from the main actions.   Rough Animation Here is the secondary animation. I referenced coats moving to get the motion of her robeContinue reading Week 11

This week after talking with the group and agreeing that everything was correct, I went to work on backgrounds and started my animation. When designing my backgrounds I kept in mind the overall colour scheme for the rooms that we discussed were warm colours; reds, browns, yellows and oranges.   Backgrounds First I looked upContinue reading Week 10

Animatic This week I created an animatic using my storyboards, this helped me figure out the timing of my animation and see if all the shots worked well together. I really like how this looks, the timing looks right and the actions are clear, however I think the scenes where she is striking a poseContinue reading Week 9 – Animation and Secondary Action

Flour Sack This week I animated a flour sack jumping into the air and landing, I tried to animate using the pose to pose method. This task was fun to do and really helped me to understand the pose to pose method of animating. Here is the animation I think the animation turned out reallyContinue reading Week 8 – Storyboard & Animating with Forms

For this task I have to work with my group and create a looping animation, each person has to create a short animation that transitions into the next person’s animation.   Initial Storyboard Ideas To start I created some rough ideas of some transitions ideas that I had before meeting with my group. These wereContinue reading Week 7 – Design a World

This week we started animating, we were tasked with animating three balls of different weights bouncing. I started by referencing different YouTube videos of people dropping balls and them bouncing, after studying my references I started to animate. The three balls I chose were a bowling ball, a tennis ball and a ping pong ball.Continue reading Week 7 – Animation Introduction