Drawing (December 13th)

In this weeks drawing lesson we focused on scaling the model, each drawing got smaller and the time we got to draw got shorter, starting off with 30 minutes and finishing with 5 minutes. In my opinion my best drawing was my 5th (second picture, in the middle)

Stop motion video

The video we made using the stop motion puppets we made last week. Due to the size of the woman and bee models we had to use a green screen, otherwise the bee would have been huge.

The story board for the video

Drawing (November 22nd)

In this lesson we had to make a story board from all the pictures we drew during the lesson. Chairs were spread out all around the room and we had to draw what we could see from the chair we where sitting on, then we would change which seat we where on and start a new drawing. although with each drawing different things where made visible, such as props, the model (who changed his position after each drawing) and even other students. after we got 20 images we were told to re arrange them so that they told a story.

stop-motion models

In this weeks animation practise, Emma Calder came in to show us how to make stop motion models using wire and various other materials. the models we made were based on random, we got words from a hat and put them together, in this case a greedy woman and a thirsty bee. next week we will be animating them.

Drawing character rotation task

character drawn from 6 different angles

Hand Drawn Animation

This weeks animation practise was all about Hand drawn animation, all frames drawn by hand and then scanned and put together on film or computer, one of the most famous examples of these would be the Mickey Mouse original Steam Boat Willy. To do this we used light boxes to see what was on the frame beneath the top paper and started off by making the key frames then just simply filled in the gaps. For the weeks task in animation practise, this animation is of a person catching a ball and throwing it elsewhere.

Drawing (15th November)

for the first task, seats were put around a room in a strange way. the objective was to draw the person sitting in front of you and then change places. this meant that we would get different people at different angles.

 the second task was to draw six drawings of the same person as they faced in different directions, although for drawing three and four you couldn't use the person as a reference as you yourself was also turning around and facing different directions

Drawing (November 8th)

Illustrated model using ink. we also had to use the rooms lighting to catch the shadows. on the 5th drawing onwards we did a negative lighting,
we shaded in the light parts and left the dark parts.

in drawing 10 and 11 we focused on drawing the space around the model. the last drawing was done in dark based on memory.












In the next task, the model did different poses in different locations and drew each pose into the same image.

light and sound

Light animation is animation involving the use of light, be it stop motion, time lapses or extended shutter time. there are many ways to play with light animation in order to get an effect that would usually be invisible to the human eye or will just be unnoticeable, an example of this would be "Light goes on" a light animation that uses time lapse and stop motion to create a skateboarding skeleton. For this weeks task I made a time lapse video of ice melting made for light animation task. Part of the task was to incorporate sound in order to show things when and where the animation took place

Drawing (November 1st)

 In this session we learned about how to measure what we are drawing, hold pen out and move thumb down so that the top is aligned with the head and the thumb is aligned with the chin. then count how many times this fits into the model and use these measurements as a guide. the picture to the left has illustrations were I used this technique (the drawing in the top left was done without this technique)

The last task (pic 3) was to draw the model as simple stick men.

cut out animation

Cut out technique is a table top animation that uses 2D puppets.This Cut outs can be pretty much anything from hand drawn images, cut up already existing images or even just random materials. This technique is sometimes combined with a light box to get the silhouette effect, as seen in the film The Adventures of Prince Achmed. This weeks task had us make an animation of either a fairy tale or a fable, this one being of the Boy Who Cried Wolf.

The pictures below are the character from the video above, before being printed, glued to cardboard and cut out.

pixilation

Pixilation animation is where people or objects are animated in a way that seems unnatural or impossible for real life, for example T-shirt wars in which the items on people shirts seem to affect the real world. For the weeks task. The animation also had to be based on a recent news event, so i chose the incident in which a clerk fended off a gun wielding robber with a machete. UPDATE: technically this doesn't count as pixilation as it uses puppets and not people or objects

Drawing Ink blotches

Ink randomly spread on paper. Its supposed to help you with coming up with ideas as you try to interpret images from them.

B.REX

The unfinished animation I made to show at the interview for the leeds met animation course.