20 Glorious years of age, studying Animation at the University College Falmouth. This blog is intended to be a virtual scrap book, because i real one wouldn't be big enough...
So, just under 24 hours and a lot calmer i have re-shot my Paper crane test animation with a new, much sturdier slightly less poor mans's line tester that i created. It's worked much better for me and stayed a lot stiller during the photographing. Here is the next generation animation test for you.
This is my first animation test, and it caused me large amounts of frustration, mainly because i had to make a tripod out of cardboard and towers of boxes and books because i am currently without one. In theory it's sort of a poor man's line tester. It is mainly for this reason that the bottom of the crane dissipear out of shot I plan to re-shoot this tomorrow if i have the time with a new line tester support i have made out of a piece of wood, which should be a lot more sturdy and allow me to see the screen easier while i shoot capture the images.
Secondly on my first (out of 4) attempts at shooting this my mind went blank on how to actually fold the crane, this caused me great amounts of annoyances considering i had to fold 50 of them last year for a wedding. After a certain amount of panicking at the prospect of losing my mind it came back to me during a leisurely episode of come dine with me.
Lasty i am still unsure of how i feel about the timing, but there isn't too much i can do about this until i have installed premier onto my computer for Windows Movie maker is currently all i have access to which isn't ideal.
Anyway, here is the actual thing i've just written an essay about.
Over the Easter break i've been working one some Character designs for our Sea Project animation, here are some of my ideas and progression towards ideas that are nearly ready to submit as a possible final idea. It's been fun doing this it's sort of been my first taste of designing a character to fit into a story and we have agreed that we all like the style of the final image here so that shall be what i work with.
In our animation practice lectures this week we were asked to animate a little fellow picking up a heavy object. Here is my big nosed fellow doing this.
I'm not satisfied with the begining but this is only a work in progress. I'll get there.
Hello world, we have just returned to proper lectures after our deadlines from before Christmas and here is the result of one of our latest tasks. We are yet to be completely briefed but our next project is mainly based around the sea. (Don't quote me, but i think this might have something to do with the fact we live in Cornwall...) We were asked to create a small test animation of the sea in a way we wanted. I chose to have a whack at flash because it's the program i have undoubtedly spent the least time on. So here is my first real animation on flash. I present to you, a crashing wave.
First ever touch of flash - I quite liked the program to be honest, i obviously didn't use it to all that it is capable of but feel that prolongnig i was in the right mood and right setting i could spend a lot of time on here getting very particular about how things looked. It's something i will certainly use more often!
Today i had a lovely workshop on Adobe After Effects, with the footage we were given to use this is what i created, I personally think its a serious matter that should be addressed.
