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Animation Studio Workshops: Week 7 ‘Introduction to the ‘Twelve Principles of Animation’

Today’s lecture saw us introduced to the ‘Twelve Principles of Animation,’ published in the ‘bible’ for animation enthusiasts; Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston’s 1981 book, ‘The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation,’ that teaches the framework used by Disney animators since the 1930’s to add realism and believability to their work. These twelve principles are shownContinue reading Animation Studio Workshops: Week 7 ‘Introduction to the ‘Twelve Principles of Animation’

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Week 7 Assignment: Researching Genndy Tartakovsky’s Art Style

Source: Esquire, 2023   For this week’s assignment, I was asked to research the art style of Genndy Tartakovsky, and to begin creating concept art designs in his signature style, for a potential character from his Hotel Transylvania film franchise. A man of many talents, Genndy Tartakovsky is a 53 year-old multi award winning Russian-AmericanContinue reading Week 7 Assignment: Researching Genndy Tartakovsky’s Art Style

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Week 7: Introduction to Assignment 2 and Sculpting in Blender

Assignment Brief In week seven we began our second 3D Literacy assignment, which was to design, model, texture, pose, and present both a character of our own design, and a prop for that character in Sketchfab, within the set brief that we must use under 50K polygons in our scene, the character cannot have proceduralContinue reading Week 7: Introduction to Assignment 2 and Sculpting in Blender

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Assignment 1 Reflection

Although I started this assignment having never even opened 3D modelling software before, and have definitely made mistakes along the way, I can now create composite pieces using a variety of skills, and growing in confidence week by week, I’ve shown progression; my work becoming more detailed and complex as time went on.  I didContinue reading Assignment 1 Reflection

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Week 5 Assignment: Creating a Helmet

For this final assignment, I was tasked to model and UV map a helmet of my choosing in Blender, before then adding textures to it in Substance 3D Painter. As Adobe Substance Painter is a programme I’m unfamiliar with and hadn’t known existed before now, I was honestly quite hesitant at first to start theContinue reading Week 5 Assignment: Creating a Helmet