Films

I have also watched a film called Waltz with Bashir

It was a very moving movie with amazing animation. The style reminded me of akira and i recomend this to everyone! whatch it now!!

Okay, so recently i have created a 2D animation of my charectar cubey. I rememberd in allot of early animation that himans were intergrated within the scene. This is is what i created :

Recently i have watched coonskin (1975) this early propaganda animation is very contraversial and quite dificult to watch. I enjoyed looking into the history of animation and most of all the hand drawn techniques.

 I also watched animal farm. Another propaganda film. This was allot more 'user friendly' and easy to watch than coonskin due to the more humerous storyline. I feel this animation puts its point of view across very clearly and all imagery links stronly to soviet russia.

I feel this didnt work very well due to the timing, although i am happy with the overall attempt.

Of my two 3D balls i feel the heavey ball works better than the light. I created this on maya: a completely new software to me, so i am happy with the results.

I did this by using a light box, animation pegs and a blue pencil. I like how the animation flows and enjoy the comical effect of the ball crashing through the wall. This is a very fun way to animate and i am now looking forward to more 2D productions.

This is my morphing of a dog inot a frog. I feel it works very well, and the transition is reasonably smooth.

Okay, so this is the first time i have ever studied or done any animation. My background is largely in drawing and painting, so it has been a steep learning curve the past 2 weeks.

So far i have completed a project that included morphing a dog into a frog. The assignment was to draw a character, then find out whom is before you on the register. Then to morph their character into yours. I did this using pencil and paper. I started by drawing a half way point, for those out there who have tried morphing a dog into a frog will unfortunately know this is easier said than done. I then drew a little storyboard of how i imagined different parts would need morphing. My final product was done by using this map and frame by frame morphing the dog. We then took pictures of these drawings using a mounted camera and some software which put the images together into a movie format.

I have also had 3 3D animation classes using maya. These were very difficult as i was not only learning how to use the new software, but also all the short cuts. This was by far the most challenging so far and the most fun. In the second lecture i was animating a ball and by the third learning how to squish and manipulate the ball.

To animate the ball i selected what point on the timeline i wanted and then where i wanted the ball to be at this point. To make the actions of the ball more believable i then played with the timing and how the computer had filled in the actions between different key frames.

examples of work will be updated shortly.