For this week we have been tasked with creating an animatic for our personal part of the final animation.

This week we are learning about story boarding and the importance of staging and framing as well as how to show camera movement and different shot types. Our first task is to create a shot story board of a flour sack jumping. Our second task is to create another story board for a witch flourContinue reading Week 8 Story boarding

In week 7 we were taught about the basics of animating, animating on ones, twos and threes and knowing which one to use and the 12 principles of animation. Anticipation, the build for an action, staging, presenting an action in a way that it is clear to the viewer, straight ahead and pose to pose,Continue reading Week 7 Animation 101

This week we are learning about character design. Firstly we went over the importance of reference and using shapes colours and props that the audience is familiar with. We then went over shape design within characters and how that is important, for example, characters made up of squares would be reliable and safe and charactersContinue reading Week 5 Character design

This week we are learning about colour theory, more specifically the colour wheel, what colours work well together and there terminology and what emotions colour can make us feel. Our first task was to colour an image in an attempt to make it feel an emotion.  

For our first exercise we have to take a small prop from our world, sketch it out and use ton and value to show light and shadows. Similarly to the first exercise, we now have to show light and shadows using lines work. We were then tasked with gathering images from movies that reflect theContinue reading Week 3 Tone and Value

Before we begun the lecture we had to give a 5 minute presentation in our groups about the world idea that we have decided to move ahead with. My group decided to go with ‘door world’ a world littered with doors that hold the ability to travel between dimensions. We were then tasked with makingContinue reading Week 2 Composition + Perspective

As this is our first week in animation studios we are going back to the basics of form and shape. We first took three basic shapes and added depth and contour lines to make the shapes feel physical. The homework was to then take 3 of our favourite animated characters and break them down intoContinue reading Week 1 Form + Shape and groupwork