Jocasta Chu – Animation 23/24

Izzy had us choose freeze frames from old black and white movies to spend 3-5 minutes drawing using only monotones and focus on creating positive/negative space. I particularly struggled with this task as I’m not confident in shading or distinguishing contrast/values in an image. If I were to try something like this again, I think…

Our final rotation was storyboard, and had the first workshop going through shot compositions before our task of drawing from the prompts given. We only had 20 minutes to complete this task; I’m not great at working quickly or under pressure with a time limit, so it came out slightly scuffed. I also spent a…

I ended up being the person to animate the final sequence. As Saf began on their animatic (on Procreate) of the beginning on Wednesday, and Clara presented one (also on Procreate) to us of the middle on Friday, I made one yesterday on Flipaclip. I loosely based how many e.g. fishes I needed to make…

I grouped with Saf (Choukah) and Clara again for the next animation. For this, we needed to pick one of four available audios. When listening to all the audio, we wrote notes/drew sketches of what the audios sounded like to us. I didn’t get much from both Sound 3 and Sound 4, as they were…

In our first workshop for this second rotation, we needed to have made a stop motion animation sequence of three shapes transforming into one another. I was with Clara (Chen) and Rea (Bremer), and I needed to have a circle morph into a square as the last section. My idea was to have the circle…

This is the ‘final’ animation I finished. I have final in quotes, as I’m not entirely happy with what I made. Whilst I don’t believe it is terrible for my first attempt at something in Adobe AE, it’s not what I was aiming for in a sense? I may create another one in my free…

Jess shared a document a few days prior with sections showing us Adobe AE basics, including one where we could animate a heavy ball. I’m not 100% happy with it, although I’m not too bothered at the same time as I mainly wanted to get used to Adobe AE. I struggled with the speed graphs…

These are the shapes I prepared. The general idea is to have the red trapezium move down and squash the green circle, which would then bounce up and send the trapezium in the air after enough pressure.

In our first workshop, we were briefly introduced to the 12 principles of animation, followed by After Effects (Adobe AE). Jess explained the aim for the end of this rotation, which was to create a 5-second animated self-portrait. To begin, we were prompted to sketch initial ideas. As this was a simple animation, we were…