Drawing- 27th February

White chalk was the main tool we used for drawing this lesson. Our first task was to split into two groups, one half would pose and the other half would draw for half an hour. In the drawing below we had two people sharing a chair, one person kneeling on a chair that can't be seen and one person lying beneath the chair. I think I did the shading pretty well on the person sitting at the right side of the chair, as it gets across the folds in the jacket pretty well.

for the second task we created on long line of drawings along the floor to make up a run cycle. we had people run across the room as a reference. In the picture below, mine are the three in the middle.

Walk cycle

Walk cycle made in Ged's walk cycle workshop, the skeleton was animated in after effects using the duik plug in.

Experimental- Deciding what to do.

As a  group, we decided that we would all meet up during the three hour break we in-between mondays lessons to present ideas we had for the experimental film. The people who had ideas took turns writing them on a white board and explaining them.

Kaya's ideas

 Michelle's ideas

 My ideas

 Mimi's ideas

After that we merged the similar ideas together, such as Kaya's daydream idea with my animate over things idea and Mimi's object shadows with Michelle's invisible man idea. We then started to eliminate the weaker ideas, The  two finalist were The invisible man and the Dracula time laspe. We decided to go with the invisible man idea as it would give a wider amount a jobs to do.

we also labeled what techniques we would be using, these being Green screen, Live action, 2D Hand drawn animation and pixelation.

Drawing- 20th feb

This session had us paired into groups of twos, so that two people would have to work on one drawing at the same time. This turned out to be a bit difficult as I was looking at the model from a different perspective from the person I was working with, this is because of where we stood and our difference in height size.

In the first drawing we just drew half of the model each, top to bottom, I did the right side.

The second drawing had us alternate which side we were on after drawing a segment of head mesurment.

For the third drawing  we did something similar to the first, except we started from the toes and finished at the head. This wasn't the best drawing, as the torso is very elongated.

Duik Test

Had a go at using Duik, an After Effects plugin for animating. It works very similarly to the bone tool in Toon Boom. I may use this technique for my self initiated project.

Drawing- 13th February

Todays class had us split into groups of 6 each with one model, of which we drew three poses of, each 15 minutes. on the fourth drawing the groups switched models

The first drawing after a long break, not the best of the bunch

after the second drawing we all went around to other peoples drawing and left a comment for an area of improvement, for me it was mostly the head size

switched models for this one

after the break we did one more drawing of both models at once, using chalk on black paper

Tom also asked us to look up the work of Michelangelo, mainly looking at the twist in the bodies of the people in his work.

In this one we can tell whats about to happen next as the man twists back the side of the body holding a sword

The man in the bottom left corner looks to have died, his body position doesn't imply that the death wasn't natural, usually when people know they are about to die they will be layer down in a more comfortable position

The twist in this picture adds more chaos to the falling action