Animation Blog
This weeks tasks was to focus on character design and trying to draw different poses or expressions for each. Please note that more design will be uploaded very son and are in progress. Joe – Name originating from the phrase “a cup ofContinue reading Character Design
This week, we have been focusing on adding colour to our previous ideas for our worlds. This example above is my attempt at the complimentary colour scheme. We also explored what colours look like when combined with emotions. The two emotions I chose to draw from were Fear andContinue reading Colour Theory
The task set for our third week was to create more thumbnails, but focusing more on the shading and tonality within the drawing. Then we were to pick our favourite thumbnail and draw another version of the same image with stronger tonality values but also at a larger scale. The results are seen below; Continue reading Tonality and Value
For our second week’s study, we focused on composition and perspective. We did this by sketching 12 different possible backgrounds for our animated world (which we are currently working on ideas for as groups). Our second task was to try and point out the perspective and composition the animator is trying to put acrossContinue reading Composition and Perspective
In our first week of Animation Studio, we focused on the study of breaking down the basic proportions and shapes used to build the drawings of some of our favourite animated characters. All of the following drawings were completed on Painter essentials, and drawn using a Walker Wacom, Intuos M, drawing tablet. Completing theseContinue reading Form and Shape
Welcome!
My Name is James Greer, I am a first year Animation student at Ulster University. This blog is to showcase the work I am doing as we all progress with the course!