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
Exercise 1: Using one of your thumbnails from previous weeks use one of the four colour schemes outlined to colour a simple environment MONOCHROMATIC (No cheating – No B+W) ANALOGOUS COMPLEMENTARY TRIADIC Monochromatic I felt going for a monochromatic palette would be the easiest and quickest to get started with. I chose my favourite thumbnailContinue reading Week 4 – Colour Theory
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)
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