Life Drawing
If find drawing people very difficult and this year at uni has been the first time I have done life drawing. I feel a lot of time the sizes are off in my drawings. e.g the one bellow. the legs are much shorter and smaller then the body. This something I need to work on. The more I go to life drawing the better I will get.
Motion Studies
For motion studies we got given tasks each week that we had to animate. A simple walk cylce was one. these tasks are to help us practise our animation skills. We were given feed back each week about the movement and how to improve on it.
Skipping cycle
I never really quite finished this. I wanted to add movement on the hair. I foucused most of my time working on the skip itslef. I wanted to get the movement right.
I never really quite finished this. I wanted to add movement on the hair. I foucused most of my time working on the skip itslef. I wanted to get the movement right.
Juggling cycle
Walk cycle
I always prefer to animate animals walking. A lot of the time its because I dont like moving the arms on a human when they walk. I find the extra legs easier also the position of a dogs body I find easier then that of a humans
I always prefer to animate animals walking. A lot of the time its because I dont like moving the arms on a human when they walk. I find the extra legs easier also the position of a dogs body I find easier then that of a humans
Walk cycle re-try (with a hint of sneakyness)
This was my re attempt at a human walk cylce. I gave him a bit of a sneaky walk in the end by having the toes touch the ground first.
This was my re attempt at a human walk cylce. I gave him a bit of a sneaky walk in the end by having the toes touch the ground first.
At the end of this project we got given the task to aniamte a short dance sequence. We had to use a character rig in cel action to animate it. We had to plan our dance and pick our own music.
bellow is a clip from the blues brothers movie. The moves I used for my dance where inspired by Elwood's moves in this shot.
http://youtu.be/GmiFZH98_Lw?t=16s
This is the animation I did to the music.
bellow is a clip from the blues brothers movie. The moves I used for my dance where inspired by Elwood's moves in this shot.
http://youtu.be/GmiFZH98_Lw?t=16s
This is the animation I did to the music.
Mazed
Character designs for our mazed project. We have to animate a story we have been given in groups. We all have to take on a role as director, producer, animation director, art director and editor. I took the editor role. We then all did some character designs for the stories we had "Saint Cuby". Some of my designs are below.
I drew these in Flash because we are going to be using Flash to animate this project.
We had to
get a storyboard together and make it into an animatic. Emily in my
group is the art director and she got all the drawings together and make
a storyboard. She then sent them to me and i edited them together to
create the animatic.I also found sound effects and temporary music to
add to the animatic.
This is the animatic
This link is a video from my YouTube account. It contains a lot of versions of the animatic I had to keep editing.
Every week we showed the animatic and changes had to be made a lot.
Weekly I had to change the order of some shots or add in different
drawing that had to be changed.
The link above is to the
animatic when we started putting animation in. We all got given certain
parts to animate. I did the very first bit with the character cuby
growing up and with the griffin next to him. I then also animated the
bit at the end with the famer and the ox.
I drew the griffin in flash then tried different colours to see what i was going to use.
Screen shots of parts of my animation before they were finished.
Screen shots of parts of my animation before they were finished.
In this project I took on the role of editor. But by the end of the project I felt like I had also performed as a director. I had orginised meetings with the producer and together we had made a lot of decisions concerning this project.
I also animated a lot for this project and edited it together and the end.
These are the scenes that I animated. We all animated in Flash and we tried to keep the same style throughout.
Scene 1 fading into Scene 2
Scene 4
I wasnt originally put down to do this scene but because of the time limit I ended up doing after I had finished my other scenes while the others worked on theirs.
Scene 5
Link to the final animation
http://youtu.be/JhBCCAsBDjs
Experimental Project
With this project I struggled to come up with ideas. We had to make an experimental animation and we were not able to use a computer. I had trouble at the start with ideas but then came up with a few and started to try them. A lot of them were very ambitious and turned out to be very difficult to accomplish.
First we had to practise 3 different ideas and see how they turned out. Then we had to do a final one to music.
This first one was one I really liked the way it turned out.
I imagined this idea could go well with the music. I could move the string to the beat.
This was the hardest one I chose to do. I wanted to animate with light. I cut out animation I had drawn first then I had the idea to shine light throw the cut outs and film the light showing the animation. I had many problems with this and it turned out to be very difficult.
My final animation was similar to my stone idea but I slightly changed it.
First we had to practise 3 different ideas and see how they turned out. Then we had to do a final one to music.
This first one was one I really liked the way it turned out.
I imagined this idea could go well with the music. I could move the string to the beat.
This was the hardest one I chose to do. I wanted to animate with light. I cut out animation I had drawn first then I had the idea to shine light throw the cut outs and film the light showing the animation. I had many problems with this and it turned out to be very difficult.
My final animation was similar to my stone idea but I slightly changed it.
3D Modelling
We had a 3d modelling project. I'm not very comfortable in 3d yet and we were given this task I was very worried that I wouldnt get it done. We had to make a 3d background. My strengths lie in character animation, animating emotion, editing and story telling. Modelling and creating backgrounds are not what I enojoy doing. I decided to make my model very simple and try and get something done for this project. In the end it looked like something from an old pc game.
2D Backgrounds
In this project we had to practise our drawing skills for animation backgrounds. First we did tasks each week to draw certain things. At the end of this project we had to develop a background we had drawn in a storyboard into a painted finished piece.
Animation background drawings
Perspective drawings
Tonal Drawings
My Backgrounds from Storyboards
