Category: Foundation Year
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Final Project – Editing and Final Film
Finally all of the frames had been captured, all that was left was to bring it all together into the final film work. This took a full day of editing and work on it which took a lot of work, experimentation and changing around until I was satisfied with the outcome. http://vimeo.com/m/93159387
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Final Project – Drawn Animation
This section of animation was most complicated, taking the greatest level of work to produce. This is because it added up to the most amount of frames and had to be each drawn by hand. However by choosing to take on such a task I learned a lot from it and discovered that I shouldn’t…
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Final Project – Puppet Animation
Now being that I wanted my puppet animation sections to be pushed to a new skill level as I had done with my puppet making stage I had to get a good even level lighting when capturing the frames. This therefore meant I found myself focusing on how the lighting was for each scene far…
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Final Project – Cutout Animation
Now to begin the animating of my film. The first section of this mixed media piece is that of the cutout animation, to start with the simpler stage first. So taking the characters and their cut separate limbs I began the set up, working out each of the different orders and designs of every shot…
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Final Project – Making
The next stage of my work is now to make those things in which I have designed. The first step being to buy each of the materials, with planning and listing out each of those I would need this took no time at all to sort out, simply a matter of visiting the right shops…
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Final Project – Set and Prop Design
Next step within my film is to design the set and props within the scenes of the animation. To get some good ideas on what to feature within it I asked people for their own worst nightmares and greatest dreams for the research before hand. This worked really effectively as I got a wide range…
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Final Project – Character Design
The next stage of designing my animation film was to look into character designs. This is a rather extensive task as i have a lot of characters I wish to involve within my piece as I plan on filling a cafeteria for one of the scenes. And so I began contemplating on the sorts of…
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Final Project – Project Proposal
I decided to go with Idea 2 ‘Dream World’ The concept of my animation piece is looking at the world behind the dreams and nightmares we each have and a look into the fantasy that there is a world that creates it all. The aim is to create the dream world and the characters that…
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Final Project – Initial Research and Ideas
For my final project I knew the sorts of visual style of work I wanted to create from the artists research. I was looking at the styles of work from artists Angel Boligán, Shawn Coss and Zdzisław Beksiński. These iconic posters show today’s society and lifestyles in a bold and artistic way. These delicate sketches…
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Place – Week 3
For the final week of this project I had the last stage to complete; the animating and editing together of my characters into the final film. This was where I noticed the problem with my set. It simply wasn’t wide enough to film my characters standing in the landscape shots and so I had to…
Print. Sculpt. Stitch. 