Summative 1: Presentation of Story (Part 1)

Beginning concepts for Antagonist, Mingxia, in my story.


Since my Story is a mix of Greek and chinese characters, I decided not to give her the straight black hair, and make it look more Greek-y. Same with the clothes and color scheme.
 

Visual Communications Design: Cass and Victor

Cass and Victor was a small assignment given to us to learn how to create characters to a theme, I think. The information we were given was that Victor was a Evil old man, and that Cass was a young student.

Most of us started drawing up character design straight away, so see what they should look like. But we were told to start with shapes and Silhouettes, then add your character designs after. See, we were supposed to create very out there characters, like push them and stretch them and squash them to a breaking point. Use shapes to portray your character.

Such as very round characters tend to be jolly, cute, and friendly. Box-y square characters represent strength and confidence.  And pointy edges and triangles show a nasty, mean character.


Then we were given a theme.
It was posh zombies.


So for Cass, I tried going for a boxy look, so make her seem as confident as possible. I also tried soften a few edges, so she wouldn't seem so hard going- not that would necessarily a bad thing. That might have been an ideal thing to do as she is a zombie zombie-killer in a zombie-infested posh suburban area. I tried to get a pastel aesthetic going, same for the rest of the suburb. And I used a croquet bat for a weapon, I don't know how much fancier you can get.
















Victor was a lot harder. I struggled to get a good amount of evil and old into one man, while also making him a posh zombie. I also tried to make him very hunchbacked. He's not as exaggerated as I would like. But that's just something I have to work on with my characters.

2D Animation. Zed (part 1)

Beginning of Zed Assignment.
So for our latest assignment we have been given a character to animate. A character named Zed. We have to animate her saying "Wow! Holy smokes!"

She seems like a cool quirky character to animate. Also seems a bit difficult with her long limbs, small body, and giant head.  So to prepare for the actual animating, I've been practicing drawing her and animating her. I'm getting used to drawing and expressions,









I'm still getting the hang of animating. So far, my animations are extremely rough, but it's just to get hang of it.  So I guess if I keep animating and practicing it will look OK, and it might not even shimmy.

RockBand

So we just finished our first full animated assignment, Rockbands. Where the class was put into groups of 4 or 3. We had to chose a piece of music to last 30 seconds, and come up with a background and characters to match it.
My group pretty much immediately agreed on slow reggae music (we figured slower music would be easier to animate to) and drew up Jamaican animals in rasta clothing and beanies, they looked super awesome.
Everyone came up with their animals and instruments fairly quickly but I got a but stuck on a instrument for my snake which was originally had bongos. The song didn't have anything like that however, and guitar, bass, and piano was taken. My team helped me and a DJ set was chosen. Thus, DJ Snek was born.
I honestly loved all our quirky characters and how they played with so much personality. Once again I struggled animating the snake. I couldn't figure out how to not make it "shimmy" when it moved. Though it didn't look so bad from a distance , so I just said the shimmy was just part of the snake being a snake.....

My job in the group was to figure out composition and use the After Effects program. I think it went well for my first go, and with the help of my peers and teachers and internet. It's a bit tricky, but luckily our task wasn't too complicated.

So our finished product looked like this (I couldn't upload the video)

We got second place :D

The first few weeks.

First

So I started uni a few weeks ago, and these are a few of my very first animations. I enjoyed animating a bouncy ball, because it was simple and nice and because of the "stretch and pull" thing. 

However, the flour sack animation I struggled with a lot. I thought it was a wee bit of a jump from a circle to animating something like the Magic Carpet off Aladdin. Not that I hated it, I still enjoyed learning about it. It's just a bit difficult getting used to this drawing tablet thing, but I guess I will be prettyyy used to it after a while..

I spent a lot of time trying to draw it, and it the end I could only make it walk instead of jumping. But we have been learning a lot of stuff in life drawing and 2D on "the next moves" "anticipated movement" and all that jazz. I feel like its going to help a lot.

Overall I have enjoyed these projects

Also I have no idea how to work a blog. As you can see, I used my phone to video my animations.