I have more experience and shorthand developed for drawing human figures and shots where the main character Amka has a focus are to a higher standard than the animal scenes. Unfortunately, I’m a perfectionist so I think everything could be improved in some way. I had more fun drawing those shots than those with theContinue reading Module Reflection – 500 words +10%
Final Animation: I unfortunately didn’t have much time to add in a background for the animation. I attempted to once the all the animation was cleaned up however, it would be a time-consuming task to implement a background for all shots. I realised later on that the environment in this scene would be dark andContinue reading Final Animation
For Week 12, groups were to record a presentation showcasing the animation project’s work in progress. This was my individual segment, showing my storyboard, animatic and some early roughs: Our groups full WIP presentation:
When doing the roughs for my animation, I didn’t work on the shots in chronological order. I started off with the shots I thought would be the easiest to get out of the way first. So while I have the roughs and progress presented in their final order here, I worked on these in differentContinue reading Week 10 – Animation Roughs & Progress
Making a animatic to figure out timing of my rough storyboard. First Pass I think there’s a few cuts that don’t work very well. And some of the pacing is also a bit off. Leaving some parts of the animatic a bit jarring. Currently the animatic sits at 18 seconds. I also want to addContinue reading Week 9 – Animatics & Secondary Actions
Storyboard written plan (paper and digital) for scene 4 + walrus/seal warm up sketch The original write up/description by Charlotte of my scene: The context/description of the scenes (3 & 5) that come before and after mine: Starting my storyboard, I was able to reference Jonathan’s completed storyboards and animatic (shown below) which was extremelyContinue reading Week 8 – Storyboarding & Animating with Forms
Moved from Group 10 – Moth Cult to Group 6 – Magical Academia w/ Amy, Mark, Michael and Jasmin Infected Mushroom people caused by coming into contact with polluted soil vs Humans learning magic to defeat them Infected Mushroom People sketches: Really rough starting point, I haven’t drawn characters in a little while, started rememberingContinue reading Week 5 – Character
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)
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)