Monday, 27 March 2017

Experimental Project

I completed my experimental project and although it greatly differed from what I originally meant to do, I'm satisfied with the result. My original intention was to show a progression of my artwork, from my earliest drawings as a baby to my current art style, since it's my strong belief that you can tell a lot about an artist from the way that they create their art, and the styles they choose. However, due to time management and tests turning out badly, I was unable to create a film that satisfied me. Therefore, I went for something a little different and experimented with a video editing software I hadn't used before. It was fun incorporating myself into the film, and experimenting with typography, masking layers and flashing imagery, as well as different video effects and transitions.

Monday, 20 March 2017

2D Design For Animation - Parallax Shot

I finally completed my animation background and created a parallax shot. It took me a while to understand how to create the shot but I'm very happy with the result. Although I feel that with some more time I could have added some animation to the figure and also created the illusion of moving water or reflections, I'm still for the most part happy with how my work turned out, as I don't have much experience with drawing and painting environments and backgrounds. It was a lot of fun and has inspired me to practice drawing more background art over summer to improve.
I based the shot off of a photograph of Lake Luzern I took in Switzerland in 2016. I found it while looking through old files and thought the framing and angle of the shot was interesting, and also wanted to experiment with using a mainly blue-green colour palette, as normally I paint in warmer tones. A cooler environment was a lot of fun to paint, and I felt as though the cool temperature came across in the colours and lighting I used.



Monday, 13 March 2017

Playground Animatic

My animatic for my playground project took longer to put together than I expected, because it was my second attempt. It was my decision to change the structure of the scene entirely. The final product looks a lot different because I fixed up the timing and removed several shots.

Monday, 6 March 2017

Experimental Animation Concept Artwork

For the experimental film, the aim is to tell something about yourself. So I decided the best approach would be to show the development of my artwork through the years. If you think about it, unless you google a famous animator, all you can really guess about their personality is by looking at the way they animate, the way they draw and the way their characters interact. I would like to leave some things to the imagination after all!

For this task, I enlisted the help of my parents to dig up any old drawings they had hidden away from me in the past (since a few years ago I was hellbent on destroying any 'bad' artwork from my past that I could find). Then the key would be to draw them. I relied on workbooks from my nursery years, notebooks where I had drawn hideous comics, and finally some embarrassing digital fan art I have created in the past five or six years, in order to tell my story.