Animation Blog
I learned so much during this coursework and module about the fundamentals of animation: timing, spacing, and frame rate as well. I learned the different paces of animation: ones, twos, and threes. I learned how to apply these principles in animating a bouncing ball. I learned about storyboarding – breaking up a complex scene orContinue reading Coursework 2 – 500 Word Reflection
I have nothing to put here as there was no extra work done in this week. Simply a review of what we had done. 🙂
SUMMARY: Overall, a fairly productive day with some minor hiccups. FINALISED CHARACTER DESIGN FOR MY FOOD RULER: (President Jellius) Character Description: “President Jellius is a respectable politician from the land of Sugarvale. He worked his way up from the bottom and now he is giving back to poorest in his society. He maintains a steadyContinue reading AS: Week 9 – New Animatic
SUMMARY: Overall, a very productive day. TASKS: STORYBOARD – FLOUR SACK STORYBOARD – FLOUR SACK WIZARD CAULDRON HOMEWORK: (SCREENSHOTS) Below is the finalised map for our world “Savouryth”. Below you can see all the various countries and place names – “Crustoria”, “Vitanor”, “Carnagard” – all of which involve some kind of food-based pun. TheContinue reading AS: Week 8 – Storyboarding
BOUNCING BALL ANIMATIONS: I understand these are not exactly what was expected of me for this task – however, this is the best I was able to animate under my current circumstances. Thank you for understanding
GROUP CHANGE: CHANGED FROM “DOOR” WORLD TO “THE BREAKFAST CLUB” WORLD SUMMARY: Various tasks done today – very productive! TASK 1: Random Shapes: New Designs It was very fun to use these random shapes to guide the forms of my characters. Some were very obvious in my head (Cat [BOTTOM-LEFT] and Hooked Nose Figure [TOP-RIGHT])Continue reading AS: Week 5 – Character Design
Summary: Overall, quite a good day today. TASK 1: Use colour to portray the following landscape in two different emotions(hope, fury, sadness, happiness) EXPERIMENT 1: (FURY) COLOUR PALETTE: For the above piece, I wanted to use an analogous colour scheme (Red, Orange, Yellow) in varying hues and at varying values (sometimes all the way downContinue reading AS: Week 4 – Colour
Summary: We had an informative lecture on understanding, simplifying and implementing colour theory (specifically tone and value) into our work. TASK 1: Warm-Up Tonal Study TASK 2: Explore Lines TASK 3: Film Scene Study TASK 4: Tonal Scene Study (3 Examples) I have taken my thumbnails from last week and expanded upon them. Above isContinue reading AS: Week 3 – Tone & Value
Summary: Class Task 1 – TEAM RECAP about the process of selecting our world (presented in front of class) Presenting in front of the class was intimidating but also very fun. I was made group speaker and I think I handled it competently and confidently. Below are the questions and our answers: POWERPOINT NOTES: WeContinue reading AS: Week 2 – Composition & Perspective
Summary: I was initially very anxious today because it’s relatively unknown territory for me. I’ve loved animation all my life but I was worried that when it came time to actually start the PROCESS of animating – it would overwhelm me. I was very happy to be proven completely wrong! 😅 Our Advisor, Sarah Dargie,Continue reading AS: Week 1 – Form & Shape