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For this assignment I have been given the task to create a 2 short animations using a Monty rig or the Ultimate Walker Rig. One should demonstrate weight of motion and body mechanic of a character in motion. The next one should be a study of the characters personality or convey emotion. Before jumping into theContinue reading Assignment 2 – Animation Studio
For this assignment I was asked to make a 3D model with UV unwrap, texture and a real time render of an item of my choosing. For example a : Windmill Mantel Clock Treasure chest & treasure Sci-Fi door Old Well Magic Witch / Wizard Staff I have chosen to model a magical witchContinue reading Assignment 1 – Intro to 3D Modelling
This week we were asked to make a group presentation about our progress with our animation. For each person we organised who would be working on what part of the presentation. I was picked to create the powerpoint itself. I had to make sure to make the layout clear and readable as possible. I usedContinue reading Week 12 – Presentation
Shape and Form Tone and Value Colour Bouncing Ball Flour Sack Group 1 – Tea and Coffee World Character Design Storyboards Animatic Background Rough Animation Clean up Colour and Light Animated Background Finished Line Art and Colour Finished Animation Final Animation Group 8 – Plant World Group 9 – Squid God
This week I’m still cleaning up the animation. I’ve also made fixes to end as it looked wonky in the previous week. It’s still a work progress but I’m having fun with the progress. Also when animating the bouncers I’ve had a reference design for the both of them. I can go back toContinue reading Week 11 – Animation Progress
Rough Animation This week I started to draw out my rough animation in Procreate. I quickly did messy key frames and filled them in using the animation feature and put it at 12 frames per second. When I was happy enough with the results I started to clean up the line work. Background For theContinue reading Week 10 – Progress
Homework for this week was to discuss with our groups and take advice and feedback about our storyboards to make changes. I took the advice that the begin of my storyboards didn’t make much sense so I changed it to a car driving up to the casino. It fades to a car and it drivesContinue reading Week 9 – Animatics & Secondary Actions
This weeks homework was to create storyboards for our chains we are making in our groups. We also had create final designs for characters to help design consistency. Also we had to animate a sack of flour character with different actions for example, jumping, falling and emotions. I had to try using a pose toContinue reading Week 8 – Storyboarding & Animating with Forms
This weeks was an introduction to animation. For this topic we had to make 3 animations of a bouncing ball, ping pong ball and a bowling ball. I had to look at reference videos or films for my own reference and timing. I also took a look at Richard Williams book “The Animators Survival Kit”Continue reading Week 7 – Animation Introductions