Reflective Blog & Peer Review

Unfortunately my Internet was down during class this week and I missed the peer reviews on our blogs.however I will aim to catch up on this with the members of my group or lecturers.

Animating Animals

After watching the examples on Blackboard and reading pages 327-332 of Richards Williams Animators Survival Kit, I now feel I have an excellent understand of how to animate animals. It was very interesting to learn how animating animals can be done through the bouncing ball animation skill I learned in week 7. Unfortunately, I’m not animating any animals in my part of the animatic and since the deadline is 2 weeks from now, I needed to focus on my world design animatic. I really hope to come back to this and try animating some animals when I have the time.

What I did do this week, however, was work on some background designs towards our animatic.

Image 1 and image 2 are both backgrounds I have created using Adobe Photoshop. the reason i had chosen these designs is simply because this is what were agreed on as a group. We aimed to have a background in which the centaur character appears through the clouds and we wanted another to be mountainous. An example of the colour palette I used can be found below the backgrounds as part of the image. I had also tried to use a colour palette (image 3) created by Alisa and used by the majority of the group.

This image is of the background I have design for my part (part 1) of our animatic. I plan to brighten it when it comes to animating it.