Body Mechanics and Lip Sync Animation Project ₍₍⚞(˶˃ ꒳ ˂˶)⚟⁾⁾
Week 1 – Body Mechanics, Research and Filming Reference Videos
Second Year First Semester – Animation Strategies ദ്ദി(｡•̀ ,<)~✩‧₊
Week 1 – Rain Rig Pose Exercise For our first exercise of this semester, we were given a pre rigged model and some poses to reference, and instructed to imitate the poses with the model. These are the three poses I decided to recreate: Pose 1: This first pose was quite easy to achieve, simplyContinue reading Second Year First Semester – Animation Strategies ദ്ദി(｡•̀ ,<)~✩‧₊
Second Year First Semester – 3D Creature Character Creation 𓃴
Week 1 – Gathering Inspiration and Character Concept: We were tasked in class to create some designs for fairy-like creatures to fit in a forest habitat backdrop filled with mushrooms and fungi, so I quickly sketched out a few different designs to fit this theme. I decided to keep the colour palette quite limited andContinue reading Second Year First Semester – 3D Creature Character Creation 𓃴
French Animation Overview + Bibliography ❀
2D+3D – Exporting to a Western Market There were few significant animated releases for tv from France between the 80s and 2000s, noted by Fred Patten, with the most successful French Animation studio at the time, Ellipse, having all of its pre-2000s productions be co productions with Nelvana Ltd, based in Toronto. This meant thatContinue reading French Animation Overview + Bibliography ❀
Intro to Rigging – Robot Arms and Waterwheel (˶°ㅁ°)
3D Group Project – Post Production, Retrospective + Peer Review ( ˶ˆᗜˆ˵ )
EDITING & SOUND As the group member most familiar with compiling clips into a final cut from my previous projects, the group assigned me to creating a timeline and editing the final cut of the short film. My software of choice was CapCut, as it is easily accessible due the fact that it is freeContinue reading 3D Group Project – Post Production, Retrospective + Peer Review ( ˶ˆᗜˆ˵ )
Short Film Analysis Peer Review ⋆˚✿˖°
Emily Cole – In terms of group work, Emily collaborated extensively well with everyone to help complete her sound analysis and worked hard with us as a team, going as far as to analyse the sheet music of the short film’s score. Lauren Connolly – Overall, Lauren contributed a decent amount of camera analysisContinue reading Short Film Analysis Peer Review ⋆˚✿˖°
“Dream” Lighting Analysis – Presentation Slides (*ᴗ͈ˬᴗ͈)ꕤ*.ﾟ
The short film opens with establishing shots of the boy’s bedroom, employing the use of low-key lighting to generate a peaceful night time atmosphere. The lighting is soft, just bright enough to illuminate the boy’s rocket ship models and astronaut posters, establishing his interest in space travel early on to the audience. As the shortContinue reading “Dream” Lighting Analysis – Presentation Slides (*ᴗ͈ˬᴗ͈)ꕤ*.ﾟ
Analysis of Short Film – Reflection ଘ(੭*ˊᵕˋ)੭* ੈ♡‧₊˚
After being assigned into our short film analysis group (we were assigned to analyse “Dream” (2021) dir. Hoang Nguyen) we began deciding which person should cover each section of the presentation, and as we were presenting as a group of five, we each chose a different aspect of film language to analyse within the shortContinue reading Analysis of Short Film – Reflection ଘ(੭*ˊᵕˋ)੭* ੈ♡‧₊˚
3D Group Project – Pre-Vis + Production ദ്ദി˶ｰ̀֊ｰ́ )
START OF PRODUCTION As our group moved into the production phase of our project, we each assigned ourselves with shots to produce based on our characters appearing in them After our pre production stage was completed, I began blocking out the plan for my character in blender, visualising the basic structure of how the characterContinue reading 3D Group Project – Pre-Vis + Production ദ്ദി˶ｰ̀֊ｰ́ )