University Animation Blog
This year has been really fun and interesting. I have enjoyed animating more than I thought I would, despite growing frustrated at times. Obviously, due to COVID-19, this is not the typical University experience, but I still enjoyed it and I can’t wait to continue in Year 2. Personally, I preferred 2D animating, but IContinue reading Reflection of the Year
Form and Shape Perspective Colour Plant World Submarine World Tea and Coffee Mafia Bouncing Balls and Flour Sack Animation Animatic and Storyboarding Trial Animation Rough Animation Final Animation Due to file size, the complete animation is only viewable through this Google Drive link – https://drive.google.com/file/d/149TVq9tUTm0y6ovyXdSWTci3m_kO8UyT/view
This week we started animating for our videos. My segment begins with a coin going into a slot machine. My design for the slot machine was inspired by 1920 slot machines I found on Google. Originally, I wanted it to have coffee machine parts on it however, this was difficult to do and too timeContinue reading Week 9 – Rough Animations
We redid our story boards as per the tutors’ advice. We used the same layout to make it easier to read and follow. We also did animatics using our storyboard.
This week we animated flour sacks while also creating storyboards for our upcoming animation. I found this fun and exciting to try, however, I did use a different software from last week so I took some time trying to understand it. I animated the flour sack waving at first to understand how to use theContinue reading Week 7 – Flour Sacks and storyboarding
This week we began animating. This was my first time animating and I struggled, but I find the end result was good. I drew the frames in Krita and made it into an animation in a Windows video editor. This was for us to understand the concepts of spacing and timing within animation, while alsoContinue reading Week 6 – Animating Bouncing Balls
For this week, we began designing some characters for our worlds. I had been switched around to a different group again, and was now contributing to the Tea/Coffee World, known as Nepresso Noir. I designed some characters, but there was already a lot of characters designed. I saw someone in the Google Doc the groupContinue reading Week 5 – Character Design
Our groups had once again been switched around and I found myself in the group creating the world around the “Squid God,” where a journalist found an abandoned submarine that has some disturbing passengers on board. For designs, I looked at horror references, like the queen beast from the game “Drakengard,” the Lost from “CodeContinue reading Week 4 – Colour
For week 3, we had to sketch out six thumbnails of environments of our world while also designing different aspects of our world, and then we did a more detailed drawing of our thumbnails. I chose the “Shroom Tower” I designed as I liked how the perspective and I found it challenging to try. IContinue reading Week 3 – Tone and Value, Design a World
During Week 2, we had studied different environments and their perspectives in order to see what made them look 3D, we then made thumbnails of our worlds using what we learned. (The Secret World of Arrietty) (NG: Spirit Hunter) (NieR: Automata) My group decided to do a Plant World where plants with human characteristics liveContinue reading Week 2 – Composition and Perspective, Design a World