Animation progress blog
Author: zachary-iOut of all the options that were presented for this assignment modelling a Sci-Fi helmet appealed to me the most, in the ideation phase I went out looking for reference for inspiration; the first thing that popped to mind were Jin Roh and the Wolf Bridgade so I started gathering reference from that. Whilst lookingContinue reading Assignment 1 Intro to 3D Modelling
I have enjoyed the process of building a world, especially in the earlier weeks when it came to designing and worldbuilding. I think the elements of world building were more familiar to the skillset I already have as I am familiar to drawing and painting digitally, it was really enjoyable to sit in a groupContinue reading Relfection
This week we had a group presentation, where we all reflected on our progress so far and what our next steps for progression are.
This week was a real challenge for me and it took me way longer than it should have to do the animatic, I tried doing the animatic through the straight ahead method and it didn’t work out to well for me. I really struggled to get the timing right and the straight ahead method didn’tContinue reading Animatic
This week was another opportunity for me to build on the skills from previous weeks, especially those of form, the animation skills and composition. When it came to animating with rough forms I had a good fun animating a flour sack jumping and then falling; especially as I felt free to add some expression andContinue reading Storyboarding and Animating with form
I was both excited and nervous for this week of the course, as I have no prior experience with animation. At first and still somewhat now I found it very difficult, but with practice I got better. Initially my major problem with animation was that I found it unintuitive that the more drawings an actionContinue reading Animation Introduction
Value and Tone was a really interesting week to study as it showed how much storytelling was available through very limited visual means. I found the exercise especially fun an interesting because it of the element of the glowing skyfish my group had come up with. I was struggling to make them as luminescent asContinue reading Value and Tone
During this week we looked at Form and Shape and how these influence and produce both appealing character designs but also a sense of solid form. In terms of design the primary shapes circle, triangle and square can all be used to create different feelings for a character. For example more triangular characters are seenContinue reading Week 1 Form and Shape
Due to hearing that Value is more important than colour in the hierarchy of a painting (not wrong) and my own lack of experience I’ve never developed my understanding of colour, which is regrettable. I was excited to go through this weeks slides and homework to address this weakness of mine, I found it veryContinue reading Week 3 Colour Homework