LEAVE A PRINT – A COMPARISON

Originally posted on the MA Character animation course blog, published June 10th 2016. ere is a comparison from the first animatic I made, which was 1 minute and 30 seconds! Pay attention, it’s so quick it’s making me dizzy! https://vimeo.com/170166079 Password: Animatic And the movie I handed in today. Thank goodness it’s been some major …

LEAVE A PRINT – RESEARCH

Originally posted on the MA Character animation course blog, published June 10th 2016. So then it’s over. Although the film is not finished. After a very unfortunate experience with an evil computer yesterday the film I intended to hand in was gone in the matter of minutes. I do have everything backed up, so that’s …

KEYFRAMING IS DONE!

Originally posted on the MA Character animation course blog, published April 16th 2016. Last shot  of the movie was finished today

SOON FINISHED ANIMATING!

Originally posted on the MA Character animation course blog, published April 8th 2016. Just a quick update on the project, about 60% of all the backgrounds are done and I’m starting to see the end of animating! I almost can’t believe it myself, it looks like I’m actually is going to finish on schedule! I’ve …

IT’S SLOWLY COMING TOGETHER

Originally posted on the MA Character animation course blog, published March 6th 2016. Originally I was planing on keyframing this week, but since I still had no clear idea of how the movie should look, that became what I worked out instead. I’ve made model sheets for the heads of the different characters and have …

FINALLY SOME PROGRESSION!

Originally posted on the MA Character animation course blog, published February 28th 2016. Thankfully, this week was much, much more productive than the last. First of all, my film now has a new title: Philip Hunt from Studio AKA where in on Wednesday and Friday this week to give individual tutorials on our animatics before …

MORE CHARACTER DESIGN

Originally posted on the MA Character animation course blog, published February 9th 2016. After my tutorial last week I didn’t get too much feedback on my animatic other than keeping it consistent and giving my characters a better design to distinguish them from each other. So this weekend I’ve been working on the different age …

NEW CHARACTER DESIGNS

Originally posted on the MA Character animation course blog, published January 26th 2016. After having a look around to find inspiration for my designs I started drawing realistic foxes and then stylising them gradually to find my design rather than trying to draw a design on what I imagined what they should look like. This worked great and …

CHARACTER DESIGNS – INSPIRATIONS

Originally posted on the MA Character animation course blog, published January 20th 2016. One of my biggest challenges at the moment is finding the right design for the characters. Because of the story having such a serious tone to it I don’t want the animals to look too cute. Which is hard for me as my own style …

FIRST FINAL PROJECT PITCH

Originally posted on the MA Character animation course blog, published January 15th 2016. First week back and first week of working on the final film. We had one day where we pitched our films to Pete Bishop and Steve and one more day with Clare Murphy to work out our ideas. The pitch went well as I …