The last time I did rotoscoping, the result was very messy and I didn’t feel like I understood the technique, which is why I’m quite pleased that we had another lesson on it! We recapped what it is is and why it is used as well as getting introduced to roto work in After Effects. […]
B2 – FMP
Thumbnailing & Storyboarding
Our outcomes this time were to explore current practices for effective thumbnailing and apply them to our work through storyboarding or concept art. I wasn’t expecting to learn a new technique today, but that’s exactly what we did! We were introduced to a handy acronym to remember when creating thumbnail sketches. Before that though, we […]
Audience [Recap]
This is a recap of the final letter remaining out of what we have covered from MIGRAINE and is the last theory and industry lesson on that very acronym. Having done it last year and most of this year, we will now be using and applying the knowledge from our collection of studies in order […]
Production Management
As with both of my previous projects, scheduling and planning have been an extremely important part of production management and organisation as a whole. Self-assessment and progress tracking also proved useful and have impacted my work simply by being there for me to reference and think about. In order for everything to run as smoothly […]
Compositing: Scribble-On
In this lesson, we learned about scribble-on and how it can be used, as well as improved our artistic abilities by challenging ourselves to draw in limited time slots. Initially, I didn’t have a good idea of what ‘scribble-on’ could mean, but the fact that it included the word ‘scribble’ gave me a clue. It […]
Client Research
Here I will be conducting all of the client research required for my creative project. As specified in the brief, the client is a company by the name of Passion Pictures and would like their next big idea to come to life through the application of research, pre-production and production for a final product of […]
Reflective Writing
In this lesson, we discussed why we use reflective writing and identified reflective writing within a given example. We also applied a reflective writing method to our own work by practising with the attached skills session from this week. First, we were asked about our opinion on what it means to be reflective. I struggled […]
Economics, Politics & Social [Recap]
The ‘E’ of MIGRAINE is to do with context. It refers to economics, politics and the social aspects of a media product. When analysing one, it is important to think about what time period it refers to (for a film this would be when it is set), when it was made and how this might […]
Intro to NURBS – Maya
The title of this lesson was somewhat bizarre to me since I had never before heard of NURBS and didn’t know what to expect. We were, thankfully, immediately given a definition – and I was surprised even though I shouldn’t have been. NURBS stands for Non-Uniform Rational B-Spline. They are one geometry type that you […]
Concept Design [In Progress]
In this post, I’ll be going through concept art, sketches and general pre-production such as storyboards for my creative project, as well as the accompanying research. ┌────── ⋆⋅✦⋅⋆ ──────┐ Concept Art └────── ⋆⋅✦⋅⋆ ──────┘ What is Concept Art? Many people have the misconception that concept art is finalized, polished illustrations used to […]