Week 8 saw us introduced the discipline of storyboarding, which incorporates the elements of staging, character, background, framing and storytelling, which I will cover in more detail when discussing the making of my own animation. The storyboard is the first visual version of the project, which tells the story in a series of key drawings,Continue reading Animation Studio Workshops: Week 8 ‘Storyboarding’
In this week’s workshop, we learned the fundamentals of blocking out a character, with the take home message that we shouldn’t think of the body as a single shape, but as a series of forms that can be sculpted to achieve the desired effect, and instead of working on an impromptu basis, that this typeContinue reading Week 8: Blocking a Character
Between weeks five and seven, from the basic doodles of potential side characters I’d suggested might be used throughout the bar; somehow, in addition to my own bouncer scene set inside the building, I also inherited the still unallocated exterior establishing shot of the bar, and with my team eager for this to now beContinue reading Groupwork: Week 7 ‘Build a World’
Having researched Genndy Tartakovsky’s art style, and rewatched several movies from the Hotel Transylvania franchise, it was time to start designing my character. With expressiveness, energy and personality key elements of the design, my initial thoughts were to create a bat-like character; possibly along the lines of an eccentric, distant relative, and after searching forContinue reading Week 7 Assignment: Character Development
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’
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
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
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
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
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’
