2D Background Project

Another project we were given was to draw and paint up some 2D backgrounds focusing on perspective, layouts and tonal drawings. These backgrounds also had to be taken from my storyboards on previous projects, which I thought was nice to be able to expand more those storyboards.

Perspective :

Atmospheric Perspective:

Layouts:

Tonal:

Maya - Environment Project

Our brief in Maya was to find a picture of an environment and then to build it in Maya, with textures, lighting and a camera move. I had a few problems with this project, mostly on rendering as it wasn't rendering parts of the camera animation so it cut my camera move short. But I did enjoy modelling up the environment and I am very happy with it.

So here is a showreel to display the various stages of this project.

Mazed Ident

For this project we had to create a short animation of about 6-10 seconds as an ident for 'Mazed'. I was allowed to use material from the actual Mazed project itself. The key aspect was to think of Mazed as a brand and think what their key values are and how this can be communicated in my animation.

These are my moodboards that showed what I thought the brand values for Mazed are.

This shows my initial ideas for my ident that included the main characters from my group project for Mazed. The brand values that I took to work with were magical and storytelling as this fits well with my groups animation.

This is my storyboard of my final idea. I wanted to keep it simple and clean and make the brand values clear.

This is my final animation for the Mazed ident. I am pleased with this. I stuck with the brand values wholly and kept it simple and I think it looks good.

Motion Studies

I haven't uploaded my weekly tasks for my Motion Studies class but I did have to make a showreel and that includes all my assignments in. Given the time I would like to fix a few things, but nevertheless enjoy!

Mazed Project - Finished Film

This is the finished animation for my groups Mazed project. There are a few things that need to be fixed but in general we are all satisfied with it.

Experimental Project

The experimental project is our chance for us to make animation without the use of a computer, only for putting the film together; no effects. And that was our brief. The first part of the project was to make three short films about 20 seconds long exploring with different techniques and choosing music from a list we were given.

This was the first one I made and I think the music fits well with the style of the animation. This being the first I just wanted to have some fun with it.




For this one I wanted this to be based purely on the music and have the animation match this on timing. This then meant that editing it together was tedious but it paid off.




To match the music I wanted to make something amusing. In hindsight I should have bought some playdough because shaping and reshaping the blu-tak was difficult because the material itself is hard.




The second part is then to make a 1 minute animation, using any of the first three experiments or something completely different. I decided on expanding the flower animation piece, as this was the one I was most pleased with.