After our groups were mixed up and we got into developing new ideas, our homework for this week was to create 6 more thumbnail studies and one in depth illustration, this time focusing on using tone and value. For these thumbnails, I got to explore vastly different environments to that of my previous group, rockyContinue reading Week 3: Tone & Value Homework (Design a World: Forest Society)
This week we changed groups so that we could be introduced to working on new ideas/concepts and get to know others in the class. Myself, Charlie and Charlotte were moved from Group 7 into Group 10, where their world idea was a forest society. In Group 10 we joined up with Ben Hawthorne and BenContinue reading Week 2 – Design A World – Moving from Group 7 to Group 10
On Tuesday 28th September our group got together after class to discuss more about our idea and try to narrow down and solidify some key concepts within it. Progression of our ideas on the whiteboard throughout our meeting on Tuesday: Miro board for our group’s idea made by Charlie, documents our first meeting andContinue reading Week 2 – Design A World Group 7 Meeting (28/09/2021)
Perspective Studies One point perspective used in this screenshot from the anime film Your Name. I also decided to do a trace over of the shapes used that make up the composition of this shot, to better figure out how it is used in animation and apply it to my own composition thumbnails as partContinue reading Week 2 – Composition & Perspective Homework + Character Sketches
In our first animation studio class, we were eventually split up into teams to start generating as many ideas as possible (aiming for 100 as a goal) for the Design a World assignment. Our first group was quite large with around 10-11 people, we all started writing up themes and ideas which and then startedContinue reading Week 1 – Design a World (Idea Generation + Research)
Before our first Animation Studio class, we were tasked to choose 3 of our favourite characters and draw their construction forms as homework. The full brief for the homework was the following: “Practice studying & drawing underlying forms – Take your 3 favourite animated characters and study their underlying form – Trace over and findContinue reading Week 1 – Forms & Shapes Homework + Warm-ups