Japanese animation

Lecture notes:

Studio Ghibli is the Japanese Disney in animation, with a lot of detail in the characters and scenes of every film produced by them. The main components of Japanese animation are that they are usually from a child's perspective, innocent and fun animations are very popular in Japan, they also have ecological themes are humans are in the natural world, rather than nature invading the human space. Anime characters are usually quite unrealistic and have magical adventures.

If Tim Burton directed Disney films

During my research for my visual appendix I came across these images created by artist Andrew Tarusov. His interpretations really capture the mind and style of Tim Burton and I really love these style swaps.

Fairytale statistics

In this production workshop we used data and statistics in a fun and animated way, we created three scenes for the animation in Adobe Illustrator and used wipe transitions and text presets to create afinal animation.

My animation is based on the fairytale hansel and gretel, I decided to use this tale as it is clearly recognisable.

Collide Posters

Here are a few development poster designs I have created for my collide physical piece, I think the glitched background sets the mood for the image as it shows that the message is about the effects of the digital age.

Butterfly Development

This is a butterfly animation I created using 4 looped images, 3 of the images were traced of the same thing and I changed 1 of them to show a big movement in the wings. I found this process quite simple and effective, I rendered it out without a background so I can use it as a layer in other animations.

These are the 4 images I used to create the butterfly animation.

Objects into words 2

I decided to create the words 'addicted and 'addiction' out of tablets, this is the outcome so far.

I made a short animation of my creating the letters just in my spare time.

C4D Character Modelling

 In this Process and Production workshop we were doing character modelling in Cinema 4D.
We started out with a simple hnd draw character and imported it into C4D, we then used the Polygon tool, Point tool and Object tool to create our character. This was a difficult process and having little experience in using C4D I found it hard to figure out how to use each tool. The class focussed on character modelling for 2 seminars as it was such a new process to most of us.

 

This is a screengrab taken during the process of creating the model, it was difficult to get the shapes right without having Subdivision surfaces turned on as there were points sticking out of the wrong places.

Once Subdivision surfaces were switched on I found the process alot more rewarding as I could see what I had been creating. I am pleased with the outcome so far and feel it is a success for my first attempt at character modelling.