Category: Animation Studio

During the Easter Holidays I worked on a research document on the history of the Irish animation industry, looking at their early days of  working for commercial work and the Irish animation studio called Cartoon Saloon. My peers were impressed with my work, so much so that I could simply rest while they processed theContinue reading Irish Animation Research Poster- Reflection and Assessment

I had already inherited some knowledge of Mise-en-scene, J and L-cuts and other parts of cinematography having studied Film Studies, at the Belfast Met, so It was nice to get a refresher on those things. However, I also learned a lot of new stuff in this module, such as an in depth look at theContinue reading Self-Evaluation

Watching the animated short CG film Safari Swift, I noticed that the short parodies National Geo Graphic in the intro logo animation, that indicated the kind of genre that this short wants to convey, that it is a parody of nature documentaries. The scene then cuts to the Savannah on a warm morning, with theContinue reading Savannah Swift- General Analysis

Working on my project in Sarah’s module had a lot of really interesting topics on offer for me to learn from, and overall I had a lot of fun with it. It was fun planning out my storyboard and then creating an animatic out of the shots I created for it, and it was alsoContinue reading Animation Studio- Reflection

Today we had a quest who actually did his course at Ulster back in 2014, Paul McGra, who works in 16 south studios and actually worked on his own show, Bee and Ladybird. and actually also worked on Happy the Hedgehog, a property by Paper Owl Studios which I actually tried to apply for asContinue reading Week 11- Duik in After Efects, Cel Action and Others

We did more exercises on flour bags with secondary animation today. Alec asked us to animate a secondary animation on a premade animation of a flour bag. I drew some hair on my own flour bag and animated it being pulled by inertia and gravity as the bag jumped in the air in the exercise.Continue reading Week 10- Seconday animation test and Animatic Work

With the strike that Alec, my tutor participated in going on today, I worked from home, like yesterday. When it comes to making an animatic, I have to think about the layout of the shot Secondary actions rely on timing and must be independently animated from the main action. If a secondary action dominates overContinue reading Week 9- Animatics and Secondary action.

We learned about storyboarding in Sarah’s module. One of the techniques in storyboarding we learned about was to make camera shots as dynamic as possible, but we also have to take caution to avoid shots that are too complicated for 2D animations, as they can take focus away from the story. A good story willContinue reading Week 8- Storyboarding and Flour Bag Animation Test

For our homework in Sarah’s module we animated balls of different sizes and weights in Krita. I found Krita rather easy to use, owing it to my prior knowledge in Adobe Animate. Learning about timing and spacing our key frames, I learned that spacing out the keyframes can make an animation go slower, and keepingContinue reading Week 7- Ball animations

I discussed with my group members about what we were to do with our project. Each of us were to do 8 seconds of an animation that was to be at least a minute long. Scott was to direct and animate the opening, Luca, Cate, Matt, Emma and I were to do the middle parts,Continue reading Week 7- Character Development