'MAN' Animation

This animation called 'MAN' by Steve Cutts really represents the issue of how humans have used the earth for their own selfish gain, it also expresses the issue of how we destroy everything else with no real purpose. At the end of the animation you see the man sit in his throne, with a crown on his head, thinking he is the king of the world, this is a true representation of humans as a whole, as we believe we are the rulers of earth and can destroy it as we please. I find this animation particularly inspiring as I am strongly against pollution and try not to do damage to the earth, we live in a society where taking the earth's resources and destroying it for our own gain is a big part of everyday life, it is almost impossible to live in the west and not take part in any of these earth killing practices.

MAN from Steve Cutts on Vimeo.

Loop and Boiling

In this process and production workshop we had to draw 3-5 images of the same thing, once scanned in we put the images into layers on illustrator and cropped them to the same size so they overlapped perfectly. We drew over the image using the pen tool to create a boiling technique so that the image draws onto the page itself and give's the hand drawn effect. We then added some lines onto the image to move and dance around the page to add to the scribble effect, I decided to maximise the power of my lines and I feel it created a really cool effect. I found an instrumental soundrack qhich I feel fits perfectly with the animation and gives it a strange feel. During my rending of the video from After Effects, the file must have had an error as you can see various glitch marks on the video, I ecided to keep these in as it adds a completely random and new effect which works well with the music.

I drew a dolphin to use as my drawing first but I felt it was too boring and drew out 3 frames of a tree.

This is the tree which I drew out 3 times to use in my final piece.

This is my final animation.

Lip Sync animation

In this Process and production workshop we created facial animation to fit an audio clip, we were given a few clips to choose from and had to create our own facial features for each sound. 

We first created phoneme sheet where we drew out the different shapes of the eyes and mouth.

This is the final animation I created, I feel it fits well to the audio clip and is a good piece for my first attempt at lip sync animation.