Second Year Showreel

In the last production workshop we created show reels of all our work from production classes in second year.

Life drawing

During workshop week I took a life drawing class, I enjoyed this experience as I had never done life drawing before. We looked at Joanna Quinn's animation techniques and tried to copy her fast paced style of working, using our model.

We started by drawing quickly 1 minute for each pose, I found this pace hard to keep up with as I was focusing too much on detail rather than the movement. I started to get better at creating the movement and drawing the model once I got used to the pace, here are my outcomes.

Cartoon characters in real life scenes

My visual appendix work is based around creating different characters in anime styles, during my personal research I found these images of well-known characters in real life scenes in Russia. 

I feel that these types of images could create inspiration for a change in the future of animation, we could be using more of the real life world around us and adding characters into it.

Origami butterflies

For my physical collide piece I wanted to create an object which represented hope, I chose to create an origami butterfly and in my spare time, watched tutorials on how to create them.

I tried using A4 paper but realised my final piece would be too small, the paper also ripped and was too fiddly to use. I worried about the colours as I wanted blue but didn't have any A3 blue paper.

These are the test origami butterflies I created, I decided to paint them using watercolors and try to get my desired look. I found this task extremely complicated and fiddly and so I used plain white A3 paper to create my butterfly, I then painted it using black and shades of blue. I am pleased with my outcome and I feel it is something different from the other final pieces the assessors will be seeing for collide.

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.