As the next two weeks had no more tutorials (aside from production steps that would be relevant for when I actually finish my animation e.g. compositing), it was just working on our animations for the screening on the 10th. From this, I didn’t actually keep track of when I moved to the next stages of…

22.04.24 – ToonBoom Harmony Introduction, shortcuts, tools, and keys We went over Toon Boom Harmony and basic functions to help us for Wednesday. 24.04.24 – Character acting, the principles (as a language not rules), and timing charts For today, we had to prepare our keyframe sketches drawn in Harmony. I tried yesterday, but I haven’t…

15.04.24 – Layout and background painting and design, colour theory, value paintings Today’s workshop focused on backgrounds. At the end, we were given an exercise to colour one of two provided linearts using only tonal values to set lighting. I didn’t finish, but below is still an attachment of what I was going for. 17.04.24…

08.04.24 – Introduction to Lip Sync, including choosing your audio, and moodboards We were introduced to the second elective, Lip Sync. By the end of today’s workshop, we had to pick an 10-15 second audio that we would animate to. I was stuck between audios from Coffee or Peppermint by Jack Stauber, or the bathroom…

11.03.24 – studio practice exploration & testing Today, I began working on my film. For the first section, I’m going to use traditional animation using a light box. In my draft animation from the weekend, I wanted the transition from this section be the circle jumping outside of the box into the book with the…

04.03.24 – psycho-geographical maps We spent today’s workshop walking from the university to around South Bank whilst learning about various buildings throughout the route from Chris. Afterwards when we had made our way back to campus, we made a ‘map’ of the walk. Chris asked us to avoid making a conventional map, and instead do…

26.02.24 – studio practice exploration & testing I once again focused on charcoal for today. I expanded into the transformation aspect that I wanted to try and explore, and so I spent the workshop working under a rostrum camera and using straight ahead animation to create the sequence below. I only used one piece of…

19.02.24 – Things that talk and paper-based animation (fin.) During today’s workshop, we looked into the materials around us and their potential when animating. We were prompted to create a short test based on this, where we weren’t allowed to animate through drawings. I was going to try animating a piece of paper folding and…

12.02.24 – Markmaking Pattern and Movement Rule 8 – Don’t try to create and analyse at the same time. They’re different processes. Sister Corita Kent: Immaculate Heart College Art Department Rules My first elective is Monochrome with Chris. Our first activity was observational drawing using a terminal strip. For all attempts, we had to draw whilst…