Showing posts with label reflections. Show all posts
Showing posts with label reflections. Show all posts

Friday, 17 January 2014

Project 3: Final Animations/ Evaluation.









Here, are my two final and finished scenes from my animation. 
The aim of this project was to showcase my skills in a digital format, showing how well I could manage, produce, and eventually display my work in the from of an animation. 
I began this project a little unsure of what I wanted to produce from it, I knew I wanted something rather cute and different, but I wanted it to stick in people's minds, and this is why I added such a bizarre ending. I started off with the intention of creating everything in Cinema 4D, but soon after discovering After Effects I think I knew which one I preferred. I really enjoyed making assets and in particularly, the little walk cycles and loops of my characters, as I really saw them come to life and it gave them a lot more personality, which is what I wanted to show in my animation. 
I did encounter a few problems whilst animating my work, and one of those was finding my way round Cinema 4D: Although I have a basic knowledge of the program, and enjoy using it, I found it extremely difficult and problematic to speed up my workflow and get my way around the system without constantly needing to ask for help. 
I think if I were to do anything differently, I would have done all of my animation scenes on After Effects, as I feel I got on much better on that program and would have got slightly more work done. But I have really enjoyed this project and would like to finish off this animation later on in the year. 










Sunday, 6 October 2013

Project 1: Week 1 Reflections.

Week 1 Reflections. 


Days:
Monday 30th
Tuesday 
1st
Wednesday 2nd
Thursday 3rd
Friday 
4th
Saturday 5th
Sunday 6th
Work to Complete
Brainstorm and decide on an over all "theme" for my animation. 
Look into Disney and Dream Works - Heroes.
research- Unlikely Heroes.
Look into small but mighty heroes!

Look into small but mighty heroes!
Finish Research of characters and begin brainstorming aesthetics. 
Documentation. 
Reflection.


This week I gave myself the task of concentrating on researching well-known existing characters that could influence the designs of my own character that I need to create for my animation this year. 

Monday 30th September:  I decided on a vague storyline for my animation, which was going to be a mock up of a small Disney animation. My character would be small, fluffy and mighty!.

Tuesday 1st October: I limited my research down to "Unlikely" heroes. I looked closely at characters who also had little to no speech, and mainly used their facial expressions and small noises to communicate. These characters ended up being animals.

Wednesday 2nd & Thursday 3rd October: Looked into "Small and Mighty" heroes, these included charcters like Scooby Doo, Meeko from Pochahontas, and Scrat, the prehistoric squirrel from Ice Age.

Friday 4th October: Finished research and started to think of possible animals my character could be.