At this point we have begun creating our animations using what we have learned in Krita and (speaking for myself) I have created a rough video scene for my animation with very sketchy lines and no colour to it, however thankfully this week we were taken through something that I believe would help me withContinue reading Week 10: Line Clean-Up and Colouring
This week was revolving around the concept of animatics and their importance to the production pipeline of an animation and films in general. Animatics are essentially animated storyboards which are made with the intention to figure out the timings of the scenes that will take place in the final animation. the animatics are also sometimesContinue reading Week 9: Animatic
As the title suggests, this week we were going over the topic of storyboards, not just their importance in the production pipelines for animations and movies and films, but also the various techniques animators may use when creating them along with the various do’s and don’ts. Storyboards are roughly hand-drawn key frame sequences of theContinue reading Week 8: Storyboarding
This week to get a basic grasp on how to animate, we went over the fundamentals of animating. We started off with very basic concepts like timing, spacing and frame rates, then going in depth on animating on 1s, 2s, and 3s, and the situations animators may need to do this, not only that butContinue reading Week 7: Animation Fundamentals
This week we had an in-depth look at the concept of colour theory, various terminologies surrounding it, and how it is applied in the pipeline of creating art. There was a lot of things to go over in this topic as colour is one of the most important areas of creating art, as it isContinue reading Week 4: Colour
This was a big week for me as I was one of the people in my group chosen to switch teams over to a different project, this being group 2, who had come up with a world similar to that of SpongeBob SquarePants where it is an underwater world where all of the inhabitants areContinue reading Week 3: Tone + Value
This week the team that I have been sorted into came up with five ideas for a world in which we will have our group project set in and revolve around. When it came down with narrowing our ideas down to five then to one, we had a lot of trouble figuring out what toContinue reading Week 2: Composition + Perspective
To begin this semester we went back to basics and and started to break characters down by the shapes that make up their designs. For this task we were asked to break down the underlying forms and shapes that make up our favorite animated characters to show a basic understanding of character design. The threeContinue reading Week 1: Form + Shape
With my group animation finally complete, it is now the best time for me to reflect on the journey as a whole to get to the point I and my group are at now. After spending some time in group 1 having a large part in creating a unique fictional world it was certainly aContinue reading Reflection on Group Project Animation