TASK 1

6 thumbnail value studies in your world. Pick your favourite thumbnail study and illustrate a larger / longer focus study combining composition & tonality.

Here are some thumbnails I have created in the theme of our ‘enchanted forest’ world. I tried to incorporate everything my group and I talked about e.g. mushrooms, tree houses and bridges. I created each of these through Adobe Photoshop and honestly they took a whole lot longer than I thought. I decided to use colour in these thumbnails compared to the previous one in week 2 as I thought it would be easier to portray the whimsical and fairy tale theme that we want in our animation.

I also experimented and played around with different gradients and colour for the background/sky and i think they turned out pretty well.

My favourite of all 6 thumbnails was the fifth one, which is why I chose it to illustrate it larger and in more detail and I had a lot of fun drawing this scene, I hope my group will consider using it for our final edit.

TASK 2

Continue to design, sketch, and iterate on characters/creatures/props/landscapes within your world.
Continue to gather visual references for your worlds to help assist your designs.

Here I have included photos of some of the character designs I had cretaed based off what my group and I have been discussing in the last week.

Image 1 is my version of our ‘mushroom’ character, an example of what we want one of our main characters to look like.

In image 2, I was experimenting with our idea of plant people and how i think they would look.

Image 3 is a rough example of an “enchanted forest” eniroment.

Finally, image 4 is a drawing of our ‘candle man’ with an example of what he would look like normally and what he would look like when the wax he is made of has melted. I personally really like this idea and I think it wouold be an interesting charcter to animate, however this idea was cut as it didnt really fit in with our desired theme.

I have also included some reference photos my group and I were able to discover and they perfectly capture what we are aiming for, in my opinion.

TASK 1

Trace 3 – one & two-point perspective draw overs from your favorite animations.

For this task, I had to watch through some of my favorite animations and pick out some of the scenes to study their perspective points.

Before I began studying and drawing over them, however, I had to do some research on how to find the different perspective points. For my research, I used the videos from my lecturer, provided on the blackboard.

The images I used have come from 3 separate animations, image 1 is from ‘The Amazing World of Gumball’ (2011), image 2 and 3 are from ‘Adventure Time’ (2010) and I chose ‘Spongebob’ (1999) for images 4, 5 and 6. When it came to placing the lines to present the perspective points of each scene, I used Adobe Photoshop.

You may have noticed that image 6 differentiates from the others as it has 4 perspective points rather than 1 or 2, that’s because I decided to experiment and see could I find the points within a four-point perspective scene, however, I think my example is incorrect.

Overall, this task was tough but after research and practice, I was able to get the hang of one and two-point perspectives.

TASK 2

12 thumbnail drawings of composition studies based on your world theme. 

Here I have attached 12 monochromatic thumbnail drawings I drew based on the theme of our group’s animated world, that theme being ‘forest world’. My group and I had decided we wanted our world to look like a forest/rainforest so I tried my best to visualize some of our ideas.

I created these thumbnails using Adobe Photoshop and I decided not to use colour as I wanted to keep them simple yet detailed enough to present what we were going for.

I’m pleased with the outcome of each of these thumbnails. The only thing I found difficult was coming up with 12 different scenes, without making it look like I was repeating any.

TASK 3

Start to concept and ideate your world theme.

This week was our first week as a group so, apart from the thumbnails shown in task 2, we were just discussing ideas and creating rough mind maps of what we wanted to achieve. we knew we wanted to set our animatic in a rainforest type world and we had also discussed what animals/creatures we wanted to create. we agreed on including rainforest animals, mushrooms, and plants as the main attributes to our animatic.

I’m really excited to work with my group and I cant wait to see what we can come up with together.

Practicing studying and drawing underlying forms.

Taking my 3 favorite animated characters to study and re-pose their character forms.

(The three hand-drawn photos are photos of original work. I decided to re-draw them digitally as the photos were bad quality.)

This homework was very straight forward and so fun. As you can see in the pictures attached I chose to study the shapes and forms of “Mike Wazowski” from Monsters Inc. (2001), “Buttercup” from the Power Puff Girls (1998-2005), and “Baymax” from Big Hero Six (2014).

I had a lot of fun with this activity. It has definitely given me a better insight into how easy it is to develop characters from simple shapes e.g. cylinders and cubes, and I can confidently say that this will help me with designing characters in the future.

Welcome week mini project. 

Creating a short stop-motion animation or video about myself.

For this assignment, I had to create a stop-motion animation about myself. I began by planning and writing out what I was going to say in the voice-over, that way it was easier for me to follow a basic structure when creating my video.

Next I had done some drawings of what I was going to be talking about in the video e.g. me, my car, my cats etc.

Whenever my drawings were all colored in and cut out it was time to start shooting.

Throughout filming (aka taking many, many pictures) I had been moving my phone and the drawings to maintain continuity/story line flow.

Overall, I had a really fun first time experimenting with stop motion. I definitely learned a few things from this activity and it was a great way to start off the course 🙂

(p.s. I have only included a small clip from the full film)