The most anticipated week by far, there wasn’t anything in this class that I hadn’t already seen mentioned in art books, online tutorials or behind the scenes documentaries. Still – it was really exciting getting to learn about it properly and getting to really apply my skills. As a nice warm-up for learning shape language…

I was excited to work on colour theory this week – I adore seeing colour scripts in art books! We were lectured on different colour systems, terminology and the meaning of certain colours before using a template landscape to portray different emotions entirely through colour. With the first I went for a very muted palette…

This was an interesting week as we studied the importance of tone and value in our composition as well as our character design. I was already familiar with the importance of contrasting colours in design work as I often check the greyscale of the colours I’m using in a piece to ensure everything is readable,…

This week we covered the importance of good composition, cinematography and use of perspective in animation. I’ve always admired layout artists and have always wanted to improve my composition and landscape drawing skills, so this was a fun challenge to do. In class we had to draw multiple rough thumbnails of the world our group…

 Form & Shape   On week 1 we were asked to draw straight lines, circles, squiggles and other primitive shapes as a warm-up for our main task: drawing wireframes of 3 cartoon characters. I found the warm-up beneficial as it got me thinking in 3d forms. It was also really fun to create a character…