𝕃𝕒𝕦𝕣𝕖𝕟_𝕄𝕒𝕩𝕨𝕖𝕝𝕝 𝔹𝕝𝕠𝕘

For this week’s class, I have practised and made an animation of a Flour Sack jumping  similar to the ball animation from the previous week using Krita.

I also worked on a storyboard for one particular scene from our space zoo idea sequence from my sketchbook. I also added sketches of new characters with old ones that I think would be perfect for the Space Zoo idea.

Exercise 1

Exercise 2

This week we had learned about the Animation, the principles and ball animation. I have read and watched the tutorials online blackboard and read Advancing backwards to 1940’s by Richard Williams animator survival guide. I looked at the 12 principles of animation and tell the difference between 1’s,2’s and 3’s of animation and budget.

This week I had done three ball animations using adobe animate and krita. Using adobe animate was difficult as it was frame by frame. Using krita was a breeze for the other two animations and watched a YouTuber called BoroCG for help.

ANIMATION IN KRITA 3 – Let’s Animate The Ball – YouTube

For our 6th week in animation studio it was out studies week to catch up on anything I had missed or needed to fix. I had a one to one session with Alec Parkin at 10:20am where he had asked me questions about the lecture and if I had any problems or questions on my mind. It went well and there was no problems whatsoever.

I took this day to do research for Tuesday’s class on the group presentation on American animation on Stop-motion styles throughout the decades from the late 1980’s. I later drawn more creatures for the Space Zoo idea for Thursdays class. I had just started reading the homework on Week 7’s ball animation and videos using photoshop or adobe animate.

For week 5, I had remained in the same group from the past week which involves the Space Zoo idea. It was fun coming up with new ideas and the backgrounds with the others in the group. This week we had focused colour, now it is character design where we had to design character designs for our chosen characters, do expressions, colour scheme and their descriptions. I watched week 5’s video and viewed the PowerPoint on the different expressions, shapes and descriptions of characters.

Design Characters 1st Character and references

Alexandra

Alexandra is a fun loving character who is the main protagonist. She is brave, loyal and loves being curious. She is an extrovert and wants to travel outside her world which she does but soon discovers the truth and wonder from her world.

Age: 22

Alias: 1284

Sex: Female

Race: Mixed Native American/ Brazilian

Eye Colour: Chestnut

Hair Colour: Blackish Brown

Skin Colour: Brown

Habits: Likes to flick her hair

Health: Fully healthy

Hobbies:  Exercises, hunts, likes helping others and exploring

Greatest Flaw: Rushes into things without thinking

Best Quality: Has the biggest heart on emphasizing with others

Phobia: Afraid of losing others and crab/spider like creatures

Talent/Skills: Strong when lifting others/Team Player/leader and Hunt

Character’s Goals in Life:

To escape her fake world and go back to her ascendants origin known as earth.

To help her newfound friends and family revolt against their captors.

How confident is the character?

Fully confident in herself and others.

Does the character seem ruled by emotions?

Yes, as she uses her heart other than her brain.

2nd Character and reference

Maka

Maka is Alexandra’s older brother who loves to stay within their hometown and doesn’t want to leave. He is an introvert and always overthinks situations where he is often placed as the leader. He is smart and caring for his sister when trying to protect her from dangers outside their world. He follows her wherever she goes when she needs his help and crave and create objects with his bare hands.

Age: 24

Alias: 1283

Sex: Male

Race: Mixed Native American/Brazilian

Eye Colour: Chestnut

Hair Colour: Blackish Brown

Skin Colour: Brown

Habits: Likes to fidget with his weapons

Health: Fully healthy

Hobbies: Likes craving into wood, cooking, exercises and helping others

Greatest Flaw: Thinks too much but doesn’t act in time

Best Quality: Is quite smarter than the people at his home

Phobia: Afraid of losing others and hurting himself unlike his sister

Talent/Skills:

Can make a plan

Be a team leader

Make wood stuff and fire

Character’s Goals in Life:

To stay home and look after his sister

To help his newfound friends and family revolt against their captors.

How confident is the character?

Self- confident in himself as he is able to doubt himself and his thoughts

Does the character seem ruled by emotions?

When facing anxiety but other times no.

3rd Character and reference

Zadra

Zadra is the main antagonist of the space zoo who is in control of the entire system and would destroy anyone in her way and complete her collection of taking lesser species to fill her zoo. She is an introvert but can become very aggressive when things don’t go her way in the zoo.

Age: Unknown

Alias: High Security/Mistress/ Co- manager/highness

Sex: Female

Race: Abreithon

Eye Colour: Purple and blue

Hair Colour: Grey

Skin Colour: White and blue lines

Habits: Tapping with her fingers

Health: Fully healthy

Hobbies: Likes to watch, observe, destroy and take from other planets.

Greatest Flaw: Too arrogant and thinks everything should be perfect like her

Best Quality: Likes to style

Phobia: Losing her clients/ humans and other species revolting back and destroying her zoo.

Talent/Skills:

Telekinesis/ Hair moves for a defensive tactic/leader/ uses her mouth to tear her enemies apart

Character’s Goals in Life: Run the space zoo forever/ not let one human or other species from leaving or causing a revolution.

How confident is the character? Fully confident in herself

Does the character seem ruled by emotions? Not much as she doesn’t want to look like a mess.

I have remained in the space zoo idea from last week with members Aveen, Joe, Odhran and Anna. For our first activity we had selected our colour palettes for our space zoo world idea based on our backgrounds and characters we have created.

It was fun discussing ideas on what the worlds would look like and what colour and tone would be used.

For activity 2 we had taken photos which included monochronic, analogous and complementary colours outside the university. We had fun discussing which photos to take for this activity with no difficulties.

Here is the colour palettes we extracted from each image.

This week I was switched into a new group, leaving my Sugar Prohibition idea to a Space Zoo which involved Sci Fi themes. It features human beings taken from earth and living in a intergalactic zoo for many generations trying to escape with other species that are also treated like animals. It was a great idea to work on with new members, which included colour and new ideas to work on which evolved colours, the plot and characters from different planets.

Colour Theory

This week I had learnt on blackboard was the use of colours and tones that artists have used for landscapes and portraits. They taught us about Hue, Saturation and value of colours including the RGB and CMYK.

The lesson also taught me about Monochromic, Analogous, Complementary and Triadic. It also expressed the meaning of colours and what they are used for when a specific scene pops up.

Homework

Here I have two coloured portraits from the concept art above using yellow and brightness to show joy and happiness, for the other I used different shades of blue to show the night and glow. It was a interesting homework to do for this part.

For the second part I chose one thumbnail from the Space Zoo and used RGB/Triadic theme while using a reference.

I mainly focused on the background and where the colours would go. It was a fun piece to work on.

I had taken shots from a movie and animated series for colour palette practise.

A Monster in Paris

Avatar the last airbender

For week 3, we had focused on Tone and value.

Our groups had mixed but me and one other had continued on our work on 30-40s Noir sugar prohibition. I had used grayscale for my thumbnails to do over the week by taking my old ones and adding new ones from the colours black, grey and white. I also watched Alec’s videos on tone and atmosphere throughout the week.

Here is one thumbnail I had taken from the six and drawn it by hand in my sketchbook. I used the grayscale to darken the font and light the background buildings.

Here is the six thumbnails I had done over the week. I had taken three of my old shots from week 2’s homework and added three new shots. It was easy enough since the world itself is in black and white. For shot 5 I tried to do atmospheric perspective which was very easy to do for this project

I had enjoyed this weeks lesson and doing the project with the others with no difficulties of any kind this week.

In my group, we had listed 100 ideas that we narrowed down to 5 in week 2 of composition and perspective. Our five ideas were:

1. Nature vs Technology
2. 30s- 40s Noir where sugar was illegal
3. Demon sitcom
4. Medieval witch couple
5. Art coming to life (horror themed)

On Monday 27th, we had a group hangout on discord and discussed which idea we would go for and why. So we went through the cons and pros of each idea and finally voted on the 30s – 40s noir where sugar was illegal.

Two men in an empty park, one at far distance.

I had used references from the movie ‘Noir’ by using these photographs for my thumbnails and how I would view the world in black, grey and white where sweets were the only colour that stood out. I didn’t put much into each WIP but I just drew what I had imagined.

It was a very fun homework to do with my group. My favourite thumbnails was the detective in the tunnel and the sewer when it came to the lighting and composition. My least favourite was the details in a specific room for frame 3 and 11.