Author: Danielle Thompson

This week I chose my final group, I decided to go with group 1 the tea and coffee mafia. The other group members are Nicole, Jordan, Tori, Katie, James and Rhys. I am excited to work with them, we planned to meet and talk about our world and shorten down the amount of characters thatContinue reading Week 6

This week I was moved to group 3, their story is about a world that is cracked and dived with people that have mutated to suit their new environments. We looked at character design. This involved looking at character’s shapes and how this make the character appear to the audience. We also looked at silhouettesContinue reading Week 5 – Character Design

Character Design This week I drew up another character for the mushroom world and sketched the main character in different poses. When drawing Rose I used these references from the internet, I looked at different types and colours of roses as well as looking at the movie ‘Epic’ the characters in the movie wear armourContinue reading Week 4 – Design a World Project

Colour Scripts The scenes I chose all come from the film ‘Coraline’. The first scene is in the other world and uses analogous colours, it uses reds, browns and oranges, and this creates a warm and happy feeling to the scene. It looks fun and exciting as there is a light lighting up Coraline’s faceContinue reading Week 4 – Colour Scripts

The Thumbnails The first task was to take thumbnails that I had already done and colour them in different ways. I am quite proud of them however the monochrome study is my favourite as I love the mysterious feeling it gives with the deep purples in the background and the glowing mushrooms in the front.Continue reading Week 4 – Colour

During week 3 the design a world groups were shuffled, I moved from group 1 to group 2, their idea is a world with mushroom people falling into a crystal dimension. I enjoyed the change of pace that this new world gave. We were tasked with designing 6 new thumbnails and to choose one toContinue reading Week 3 – Tone and Value

During class we were told about the design a world project and were split into groups of 4 and 5, I was put into a group of 5. We were all told to think of 100 ideas, after brainstorming in my group we had to narrow down our ideas to one; we chose to doContinue reading Week 2 – Design a World Project

During week 2 we were tasked with picking three scenes from our favourite animated cartoons and adding perspective lines to the scene, which consisted of one point perspective, two point perspectives and three point perspectives if we could find them. I chose a kitchen from the show ‘Adventure Time’, Marceline room from the show ‘AdventureContinue reading Week 2 – Composition and Perspective

To start off week 1 we had to pick three of our favourite animated cartoon characters and break them down into their simple shapes, this was done to help us understand their forms. To do this we had to trace the characters and use simple shapes like cylinders and rectangles to show their form. IContinue reading Week 1 – From and Shape