HOMEWORK: This week’s homework was to start coming up with some character ideas and rough designs for our world, and start getting serious about who goes where in our world. Our group wanted to create a main character that was simple so everyone could keep the style, so I came up with some character sketches […]

CLASS: This week was the week I was looking forward to the most due to me being very interested in character designing and concept art. Out of all the elements of Animation, character design is the bit I like the most. Learning about the basics of designing a character from scratch has been very interesting […]

HOMEWORK: In comparison to the last few weeks, this week’s homework was very much the start of our proper planning for the world me and my group are designing. Since it is still early, I’ve started having bought about more definite ideas regarding the characters, props and much more. This week I made an early […]

CLASS EXERCISES: This week was a more of a creative week, in comparison to last week. This week, our lecturer introduced us to the concept of color theory, and how it is adapted into a scene to express emotion. We were given the task of creating two color palettes to portray different feelings, and using […]

HOMEWORK: This week, our lecturer moved around the groups and I got a chance to wok with another group and a very different idea. I was excited to try a new concept, and was almost refreshing taking a break from the current world I was working on. As we discussed the world, many of us […]

CLASS: This week was almost back to the basics in traditional art, where we took a look at tone and value. To me this is always a topic I’ve wanted to properly take a look at, so this week was ideal. Our first task was a warm up, tonal study of a prop from our […]

This week’s homework so far has been my favorite out of the two. Although I had fun doing the form and shape breakdowns, creating these thumbnails was a fun challenge and tested my creativity. We were asked to design six thumbnails for our current world we’re on right now, using the composition and perspective techniques […]

CLASS EXERCISES: This week was a bit of a step up from form and shape, where looked into composition and different types of perspective. We started off with composition, where the lecturer taught and explained why we use different compositions in film. After we took a look at a few examples, we were asked to […]

Week 1 was the beginning of our module, where we dove into form and shape. CLASS EXERCISE: As our first exercise, we were given a quick warm up task, involving sketching out lines, circles and S shapes to warm up. We then combined shapes in order to create life-like characters using very primitive shapes, proving […]