Category: Animation Studio

Week 5 saw us complete a number of individual and group tasks in relation to character development. Our first was to create detail in our chosen character, such as facial expressions or how the character moves, and to relay our reason for choosing these particular details. Bouncer Facial Expression Eyes large to anthropomorphise character, becomingContinue reading Animation Studio Workshops and Groupwork: Week 5 ‘Character Design’

This week, to enhance group communication skills, and allow us to better decide our final ‘world’ choice, the groups were shuffled, with two members, Max and Ellie leaving, and our group joined by Gabriel and Owen. Our task was to think about the genre, atmosphere, colours, mood and emotion we would like our ‘world’ toContinue reading Groupwork and Assignment: Week 3 ‘Build a World’

This week’s lecture provided an understanding of tone/value; essential in creating good artwork and animation, as without these, work can appear flat and lifeless. Often used interchangeably, and also referred to as tonal value, tone/value simply refers to the degree of lightness or darkness of an area. More important than colour (Cearley, 2017), if usedContinue reading Animation Studio Workshops: Week 3 ‘Tone/Value’

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’

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’