Here is the embedded YouTube video for my fantasy tv show intro – The animation is unfinished and I will need to finish it after feedback has been given.
A1 Fantasy
AC2: Concept Design.
Introduction. In this blog post, I will show the process of designing my animation for the A1 fantasy brief. This includes the concept art, storyboards and animatic as well as design justifications to explain how my deisgns tie into the story, theme and brief. Concept Art. Here are the pieces of concept art i […]
Production Post Mortem.
Introduction. A production post mortem is used to reflect on a production, and what went well about it, and anything that you could improve upon in the next production. STAR method The star method is a way of reflecting on a production – answering all the necessary questions to make sure that every detail of […]
animation 2
Introduction. Straight ahead. Straight ahead animation is where an animator will draw each frame in chronological order, with one following another. Rotoscoping and flip books are examples of straight ahead animation. Pose to pose. Pose to pose animation is where the keyframes are drawn first, and then in between frames are added in later to […]
Animation.
Introduction. In this lesson, we started to look at animation. The 12 principles of animation. The 12 principles of animation are a set of ideas behind creating realistic looking animations that were proposed by Ollie Johnston and Frank Thomas – two disney animators who worked on Disney’s films in the 20th century and tried to […]
AC 2: Generating Ideas.
Introduction. In this blog post, I will be showing my process of idea generation for my fantasy assignment by writing a synopsis for my fantasy show idea, as well as posting my moodboards that i created for the characters and environments that will be in my intro. Synopsis. In my blog post titled ‘Synopsis, loglines […]
Animating Along a Path in After Effects.
Introduction. In today’s lesson we learned about animating along a path in Adobe After Effects by following a demonstration given by our tutor. Animating Along a Path. I started by creating a new composition in after effects. Then, i made sure that my fill and stroke were both empty by clicking on the words fill […]
Photoshop Intro – Skin Ball.
Introduction In this lesson, we followed a teacher’s demonstration in photoshop to create a skin ball. This helped us to practise photoshop tools and shading. I can see this method being useful for our character desgin for the A1 fantasy brief. here is the skin ball i created. And then i created a horiffic creature […]
Environments
Introduction. Today in the lesson, we will be creating environment concept art, and exploring methods and theories of designing landscapes. This will be useful for the pre-production of my fantasy brief by creating concept art. Linear Perspective. Linear perspective is the use of horizon lines and vanishing points in a composition to create the illusion […]
Concept Art – Character Silhouettes.
Introduction In this lesson, we looked into the silhouettes of characters in order to develop our own character designs for the A1 Fantasy brief.