Animation Blog
Week 1 During the first week back at at class we were assigned the task of making a 3D vase in Maya. For this I went onto a site called pixabay in order to find a good reference to model my vase from. (Wip will finish later) P3D Link for Model: https://p3d.in/6t5MQ
Week 1 / Form and Shape: Week 2 / Composition and Perspective: Week 3 / Tone and Value: Week 4 / Colour: Week 2-5 Character Design: Week 7/8 Animation: Week 7 Movement Practice: Week 8 Movement Practice: Week 8/ 9 Storyboards / Animatic:Continue reading Semester 1 – Portfolio
Week 12 – Final Animation After fixing up my rough animation from last week with the feedback I got from Aodhan I got to work making any final changes I needed to make and being doing the clean-up animation and backgrounds. For the clean-up. For the clean-up I looked up a Ross O’Donovan’s tutorials onContinue reading Week 12 – Finished Animation
Week 11 – One on One feedback This week I had my second. one on one feedback session with Aodhan. During this he suggested I make a few minor changes to my animation to help try and sell the movement of the characters more. With this he suggested with Joe that he should have aContinue reading Week 11 – One on One feedback
Week 9 – Animatic / Storyboard Feedback This week during class we were given feedback some feedback on our storyboards and suggested changes to help make the narrative more understandable or to make the transitions between the animations better. We were also tasked with taking on storyboards and turning them into an animatic. First Storyboard:Continue reading Week 9 – Animatic / Storyboard Feedback
Week 8 Animation Homework: For this weeks homework we were tasked with creating a short animation with a flour bag to help learn about the use of Key-frames and inbetweens. By the end of the week I created 3 different animations using a flour bag, the first just making an animation by myself, for theContinue reading Week 8 – Storyboarding & Animating with forms
Week 5 – Character design homework For week five’s homework we were tasked with creating some new characters or develop further on some pre-established characters used within our worlds. I was kept in group 1 for the fifth week meaning that I was working with the Nespresso Noir word, working on the mobster cups, pastriesContinue reading Week 5 – Character Design
Exercise 1: For the first exercise I was inspired by Ruiner’s colour pallet with their their use of mostly saturated red’s contrasted with the use of black. Although the game itself is based in the distant future I felt that the pallet could convey a sense of danger and I wanted to try to tryContinue reading Week 4 Homework – Colour
Tone and Value Scenes: Part 1: For my first 6 initial thumbnail scenes I wanted to make sure I had at least one strong light source to allow for me to try and apply more dynamic tones to each scene, in the beginning it started of with simple light sources such as light coming fromContinue reading Week 3 Homework – Tone and Value
Week 2 Homework Part1: For the prescriptive homework I wanted to try and find a good mix of indoor and ourdoor environments with both 1 and 2 point perspective, as for the cartoons I referenced, I wanted to look at cartoons such as the Owl house, gravity falls and Steven Universe which all have veryContinue reading Week 2 Homework – Composition and Perspective