Week two’s assignment was to then to use the principles learned to create six thumbnails, in 16:9 aspect ratio, for our selected world. Despite several rounds of voting, without an exact theme having been agreed, I based my thumbnails on the original ‘Halloween Bar’ theme, showing different bar interiors, including Jazz bars and Halloween pop-ups;Continue reading Groupwork and Assignment: Week 2 ‘Build a World’
This week we were introduced to the fundamentals of composition, layout and perspective. Composition Composition: the arrangements of objects and characters in the frame, is used to manipulate the viewer into looking where you want them to, with each layout needing at least one focal point to draw their eye to. Here, principles to useContinue reading Animation Studio Workshops: Week 2 ‘Layout & Composition’
This week’s assignment was to create and animate a TIE Interceptor, first seen in Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi. Not being a huge Star Wars fan, and not having watched the original trilogy for many years, after looking at reference materials online, my first impression was that this was going to beContinue reading Week 2 Assignment: TIE Interceptor
Moving on to week two, it was time to up my game by making some more challenging, and realistic objects in Blender, with the first object I modelled using these newly acquired skills, a skateboard. Every model still starts with basic mesh shapes, and as before the goal is to figure out the simplest pathContinue reading Week 2 Workshop: Using the Edit Mode in Blender
Thrilled to be creating a group animation from inception to completion for the first time, the afternoon saw us split into groups, with me alongside Max, Orlaigh, Leah, Ellie and Aimee in Group 2. To help us gel, and learn more about each other, our first, fun task was to go on a picture scavengerContinue reading Groupwork: Week 1 ‘Build a World’
My Animation Studio journey began by completing simple warm up exercises – drawing long, confident lines, circles, and curved ‘S’ shaped lines which, if practiced daily, will also help improve muscle memory and build confidence in my line work. Once warmed up, our first task was to study the basic shapes and forms that makeContinue reading Animation Studio Workshops and Assignments: Week 1 ‘Shape & Form’
For my first assignment I was asked to create and animate a snowman in Blender, with extra credit (yes please!) given for adding a simple background. So, armed with the information from my Blender tutorials to date, and the image of the snowman firmly fixed in my head, I set about creating my version fromContinue reading Week 1 Assignment: Animated Snowman
