Y2 Semester 1 – Animation Studies

✨ Idea Generation ✨   For this assignment, we were tasked with creating three animations, a walk cycle, a run cycle and an animation showcasing body mechanics. (e.g. lifting a heavy box, jumping a gap, etc.) I was really excited to get started as I’d never done a proper walk or run cycle before, andContinue reading Y2 Semester 1 – Animation Studies

Y2 Semester 1 – 3D Observatory Environment

✨ Portfolio ✨ You can see all my assets by themselves here! ⚝──⭒─⭑─⭒─⭑─ 💫 ─⭑─⭒─⭑─⭒──⚝ ✨ Idea Generation & Concept Art ✨   As a group, we all decided that we really wanted to create an observatory and off the bat everyone had dozens of really different and unique takes on it, the more weContinue reading Y2 Semester 1 – 3D Observatory Environment

Semester 1 Week 13 – Final Animation!

✨ Animation! ✨   Drum roll!!! Here’s my animation so far! Unfortunately I didn’t get it finished, I’m honestly pretty disappointed, but I’m proud of how far I got! I’ve never animated something on this scale before, and I’ve never used backgrounds and colours and this much moving parts so I’m really impressed with myself!Continue reading Semester 1 Week 13 – Final Animation!

Semester 1 Week 12 – Animation progress!

✨ Animation Progress ✨   Woo! I finally got lining my animation! Unfortunately, I ran into a BUNCH of complications and I had to start over a looooot. At first I was trying to use the paint brush tool on adobe animate to give my lines a really cool pencil bumpy texture, and it wasContinue reading Semester 1 Week 12 – Animation progress!

Semester 1 Week 10 – Backgrounds ~ Rough Animation

✨ Backgrounds ✨   This week I focused hard on getting my backgrounds done and out of the way, I don’t generally enjoy doing backgrounds so I spent an awful long time on these trying to get them just right! I was working from the inspiration board me and Joseph made in prior weeks forContinue reading Semester 1 Week 10 – Backgrounds ~ Rough Animation

Semester 1 Week 9 – Animatics & Secondary Actions

✨ Animatic Prep ✨   I coloured and lined my turnarounds for Aqua, I’m the only one who really needs them but they were super useful to keep everything consistent when I began sketching out my storyboards a little cleaner for the animatic.   A piece of advice I recieved during class was to helpContinue reading Semester 1 Week 9 – Animatics & Secondary Actions

Semester 1 Week 8 – Animating with forms ~ Storyboarding

✨ Flour Sack Animation ✨ In week 1 I added a little face and ears to my flour sack form drawings, I decided to keep it when I created my animation to give it a bit more character and make it cute and fun. I think in the final version I gave it more ofContinue reading Semester 1 Week 8 – Animating with forms ~ Storyboarding

Semester 1 Week 6/7 – Tutorials ~ Animation Introduction

✨ One-to-one Tutorials ✨   On week 6 I had a meeting with Alec to discuss my work and how I’ve been finding things so far. To me I feel that I’m on track and I’ve been really enjoying all my lesson content! My only big issue was that my PC was kind of slowingContinue reading Semester 1 Week 6/7 – Tutorials ~ Animation Introduction