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AC2: Concept Design.

Posted on February 7, 2022June 11, 2022by alexn

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 […]

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AC 2: Generating Ideas.

Posted on January 21, 2022February 10, 2022by alexn

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 […]

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Previsualisation.

Posted on November 26, 2021February 11, 2022by alexn

Introduction. In this lesson, we learned about previsualisation. What is previsualisation? Previsualisation (shortened to previz) is the process of creating a simple, stripped down version of an animated sequence in 3D software so that you can build on it later in production. The 3D models that are used are very basic compared to the models […]

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AC2: Target Audience

Posted on November 9, 2021January 18, 2022by alexn

Introduction in this blog post, I am presenting what I have learned about target audiences – as well as creating my own target audience. The target audience is a group of people that a product is marketed to in order for the product’s creators to make the most money from that product. For example, people […]

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Pitching – pre production online lesson.

Posted on November 2, 2021by alexn

introduction in this lesson, we learned about pitching. this is useful for knowing how to present ideas in the future to potentially secure the production of our projects and show ideas. pitches pitching is important to present ideas to people thst you would potentially work with creatively. its also used to establish working relationships with […]

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synopsis, loglines and treatment

Posted on October 19, 2021January 31, 2022by alexn

Introduction In this online lesson, we were introduced to loglines and treatment so that we could generate ideas for our synopsis for our fantasy assignment. last week, we looked at the burger method for writing a synopsis. This is where the paragraph is split into roughly 50 word chunks to break down the structure of […]

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Generating ideas for my fantasy assignment. version 1

Posted on October 12, 2021October 12, 2021by alexn

Introduction. The question i tried to answer when beginning to think about my assignment was: how can i create a concept for a tv show that will fit into a 15 second intro? i think, by scaling down the concept to be short and concise. this means that in order to make my final project […]

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storyboards and synopsis research online lesson

Posted on October 12, 2021January 31, 2022by alexn

storyboards and synopsis intro. my fantasy assignment is to produce a 15 second title sequence for a fantasy tv show. hand in is 6pm on the 11th feb. to show the pre production of my fantasy assignment, i need to create 3 main blog posts: generating ideas, target audience and concept design. as part of these […]

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research and development – pre production.

Posted on September 28, 2021by alexn

pre production  pre-production is a document that is used for planning a project and both recording and structuring the development of the project.  group task – pre production document for this task, we had to analyse the pre production document of a former confetti student as a group. here individual task in this task, we […]

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VFX industry

Posted on September 7, 2021by alexn

online lesson. DNEG is one of the biggest vfx companies in the UK based in london.  R&D stands for research and development. It’s about planning and developing ideas and stories.  who produces VFX?  compositors (people who layer videos, editing greenscreens and bluescreens) people who work in offices at studios, or freelancers who work at home. […]

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