✨ 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!
✨ Rough Animation pass 2 ✨ I didn’t get a lot done this week as I was focussing on my essay and backgrounds, but I did add a few more frames and some animation of Aqua’s ear twitching that I think turned out super awesome!! I still have to add some tweens to makeContinue reading Semester 1 Week 11 – More 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
✨ 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
✨ 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
✨ 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
✨ Character Design ✨ Week 5 was all about character design! I was finally swapped into a new group, this one was to do with a cyberpunk video game theme. I noticed that there were already a few main characters, so I was a little stumped on what I could design. I went throughContinue reading Semester 1 Week 5 – Character design
✨ Worldbuilding Concept Art ✨ As we began to focus more onto characters, I started designing some of the human/animal mutants that make up small colonies on our bioluminescent world. I’m most happy with the design of my little angler fish girl, I wanted her to look very innocent and childish which would contrastContinue reading Semester 1 Week 4 – Worldbuilding Concept Art ~ Colour
✨ Worldbuilding Concept Art ✨ During class, our lecturers suggested that we shift focus and focus onto the story elements and characters as we all had pretty strong idea of what the aesthetic of the world was. After a bit of discussion we decided an alien main character would be really cute andContinue reading Semester 1 Week 3 – Worldbuilding Concept Art ~ Tone and Value
✨ Worldbuilding Concept Art ✨ During class on thursday, we were split into breakout groups and began brainstorming ideas for our worldbuilding project. We did a lot of brainstorming on Miro, before taking our favourite ideas and compiling them all together in the mindmap below! We settled on a world themed around bioluminescence,Continue reading Semester 1 Week 2 – Worldbuilding Concept Art ~ Composition and Perspective
